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MIDI Music: Making Your Computer Sing
Edition: July 9, 2004

      The perceptive reader will have noticed that most of my web site deals with communication in various forms: its techniques and practice. It has to do with the exchange of ideas. It is a feast for the human consciousness (a small one; but when you need more, the Internet runs both wide and deep!).
      But the human consciousness has multiple segments, each with its own character, shape, depth and width, and each capable of doing its thing irrespective of what the others are doing. This page is dedicated to one of the alternatives: music.
      Music "speaks" to us just as definitely as a finely crafted poem or essay. However, its language -- and the channels it uses in our consciousness -- are quite separate and different from artwork created with words. To interpret word-art requires the concentrated attention of the frontal consciousness. Although this faculty can be applied to the experience of music, it is not required for full enjoyment: competition for attention-resources is minimal between music and words, which means that both can be enjoyed in considerable depth simultaneously.
      Here then is a smattering of pieces that appeal to me. Anyone familiar will immediately notice my taste: tending strongly toward classical that's as new as possible short of becoming positively atonal, though considerable deviation from this median is tolerated and even -- at times -- eagerly welcomed.

• Friedrich Burgmuller: 25 Easy and Progressive Studies for the Piano, Op. 100
• Ben Yarmolinsky: Four Pieces for Piano (1992):
  • 1. Pastorale
  • 2. Nocturne
  • 3. Dance
  • 4. Finale
  • Download all four as a ZIP file
• Miscellany -- except as noted, all are for piano:
  • Ellmenreich: Spinning Song
  • Gould: Pavane
  • Rubinstein: Kammenoi-Ostrow
  • Gordon Young: Prelude in Classic Style (for organ)

Watch for this site to grow!