Moonlight Sonata Plus
| Title | Moonlight Sonata, First Movement |
| Composer | Ludwig van Beethoven |
| Genre | Classical |
| Instrument | Purchased samples of a Malmsjo 275 cm (9 foot) Grand Piano, and LinuxSampler |
| Website | https://www.glassray.com |
| Comment | Eons ago, when I was in college, thanks to one of my sisters, our
family was able to retrieve Mom's upright piano (a long story). At
the time I had also seen a commercial on TV featuring a girl playing
Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. I liked the piece enough that I learned
it. So I memorized it by finding each note from the score and playing
each measure repeatedly, really upsetting at least one of my sisters.
Though I thought it sounded nice, when I did finally take lessons, my teacher didn't think I was ready for the piece, so wouldn't include it in my lessons. Decades later, I got back to the piano, trying to learn sight reading. This is what I came up with. It was recorded with a keyboard and sampler on the computer. Just the samples require about 5GB of storage. Lest you think I just played this through, let me say that I've had to make numerous edits to the performance at the midi level, when I turned pages for example, in order to make it sound OK. |
| Wikipedia | Moonlight Sonata |
| Copyright | Public Domain. Performance: (P) 2014 Scott Williams. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA. |
| Artist | Scott Williams |
| Performance-Date | 13-Apr-2014 |
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| Title | Moon |
| Composer | Of course Ludwig van Beethoven gets full credit for the first movement of his Moonlight Sonata, but none of the blame for my additions. |
| Genre | Classical |
| Instrument | Purchased samples of a Malmsjo 275 cm (9 foot) Grand Piano, and LinuxSampler, as well as a Yamaha MOX6 |
| URL | https://www.glassray.com |
| Comment | Now, back in college when I could play this by memory, one of our
neighbors who was a singer came over to a party we were throwing.
When she heard me playing it, she sang along, improvising some of the
melody. It was amazing. I've tried here to recreate that experience,
using a keyboard with oboe and choir sounds. It really surprised me
what resulted, although you classical puritans may not enjoy it as
much as me. It still has a couple mistakes that I couldn't correct,
but I'm posting it anyway.
Oh yeah, the other reason I did this was to try to convince an actual singer, say Hayley Westenra to produce something similar. Can't say I've had success on that front, although I did email her about it once. |
| Copyright | Moonlight Sonata is in the Public Domain. Performance & original composition: Copyright (C) & (P) 2014 Scott Williams. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA. |
| Artist | Scott Williams |
| Performance-Date | 13-Apr-2014 |
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