[Dixielandjazz] Music is ?

[Arnold Day]

Dear John,
If I may change the subject I am having a problem playing and or 
downloading some of your midi files. I tried to send you an email via 
your site but was unsuccessful.

I am finding, (on two separate computers) that the following files play 
only part way through, and then fade out. Files 77, 80, 84, 85, 86, 88, 
89, 90....and then all others through 111. Has anyone else mentioned 
this to you or is it a problem at my end.
Sincerely,
Arnie
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John Farrell wrote:

>Music which describes, evokes or otherwise alludes to a non-musical source
>e.g. a poem, novel, play, picture, landscape, or an explicit emotional
>experience is referred to as "illustrative music" or "programme music".
>Joplin's Crush Collision March is a good example, written to describe the
>1896 occasion when a deliberate head-on collision between two locomotives
>was staged, the engines blew up killing three spectators and injuring many
>others.
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>One of my sources says : "In its crudest form programme music is purely
>imitative; many sounds - bird song, thunder and the like - are readily
>imitated.".
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>On the other hand "absolute music" does not depend for its full appreciation
>on any association with a story or mood or other fact of life.
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>So now you know.
>
>John Farrell
>http://homepages.tesco.net/~stridepiano/midifiles.htm
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>[mailto:dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com]On Behalf Of Fr M J
>(Mike) Logsdon
>Sent: 23 April 2005 06:54
>To: m - DJML
>Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Music is ?
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>>One literal example is Respighi's "Pines of Rome" wherein he has recorded
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>bird calls noted in the score to be played in concert.
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>>In another more figurative context, Beethoven in the second movement of
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>the Pastoral Symphony has scored the flutes and piccolos to play cuckoos and
>bird calls.
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>>I'm sure there are more but those two immediately spring to mind.
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>Handel's *Israel in Egypt* has an entire section where the music totally
>represents the plagues Moses inflicted, the plague of the flies being
>the most eerie, particularly for the 18th century listening public!,
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>Fr M J "Mike" Logsdon
>Special Assistant to the Presiding Archbishop
>North American Old Roman Catholic Church (Utrecht Succession)
>www.naorc.org
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