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Author: dennis
Date: 2001-10-11 07:17
does anyone know who the clarinetist is that plays the intro music to the TV show Law & Order ?
and, is that little piece of music available ?
thank you
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2001-10-11 13:58
Mr. MIDI. Law and Order is (IMHO) the best sequenced and sounding MIDI I've ever encountered.
The question might be better phrased "who did they sample to create that great clarinet sound on Law and Order", and unfortunately I don't know.
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2001-10-11 15:13
I forgot to mention:
The theme is composed by Mike Post, who arguably has written the most memorable themes on TV:
The Rockford Files
The Six-Million Dollar man
The A-Team
LA Law
Hill Street Blues
NYPD Blue
The Black Sheep Squadron
The White Shadow
Tenspeed and Brownshoe
Doogie Howser, MD
and a hundred or so less memorable ones.
He won a Grammy at age 22 (1967) for Best Instrumental Arrangement on Mason Williams' "Classical Gas" and musical director of The Andy Williams show at GE 24.
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Author: ~ jerry
Date: 2001-10-11 22:39
Okay! Who wrote the theme for "Diagnoses Murder" with Dick VanDyke? Is the written music available? This is the one that told me, "You've just got to learn how to play that." So I bought a clarinet and here I am -- waiting to learn to play it.
BTW -- has anyone noticed ATT's new commercial with a part of Dvorak's 9th (Largo, I think) being hummed by a chorus? Just think, a year ago I had never heard of the guy, and now this piece is my favorite.
~ jerry
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Author: dan powell
Date: 2001-10-11 23:45
is that really a midi sequence? its hard to believe it .that is the purest clarinet tone i have ever heard.
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Author: Bob Arney
Date: 2001-10-11 23:57
Jerry mentioned (in part) "ATT's new commercial with a part of Dvorak's 9th (Largo, I think) being hummed by a chorus?" This was a clip from a movie (based on true incidents) of American/Dutch/British women prisoners of the Japanese in WWII who stayed sane by using music as therapy--eventually gaining better treatment from their captors. They "orchestrated" several Hymn's, classical excerpts etc and gave concerts for themselves--and eventually some of their captors.Once you have seen that movie some things will always remain fresh memories. It's odd I can't remember the name.
Bob A
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2001-10-12 00:15
Yes. Most probably sampled clarinet. I'm watching L & O right now - and I think it's not all that realistic of a clarinet ...
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Author: Peter
Date: 2001-10-12 00:16
Those "purest" clarinet or other instrument tones are exactly what has generally told me that something being played was being done so by a synthesizer.
There are some amazing electronics out there today that would fool even "mother nature." (Even though some of us oldies know it isn't nice to do so.)
If nothing else, those "purest" tones make me very suspicious.
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Author: Jim (E)
Date: 2001-10-12 04:18
Bob, what is the title of the movie?
Jerry, That theme from the Dvorak 9th ("New World Symphony," or "From the New World") is, I believe, a folksong or hymn called "Coming Home." The symphony was written in New York City. (I wonder if whomever at AT&Ts ad agency knew any of this when it was selected.)
(A quick look up in the HARVARD Dictionary gives the date as 1893 and says "incorporates themes modeled after the songs of American Negros (old version of the Harvard) and Indians.")
I too number that work among my favorites (a very long list.) The commercial struck me not just for the music, but also for its striking simplicity. (Once upon a time I worked in advertising.) Rarely does the ad biz realize that less can be more!
Jim E. (I'd better start using the last initial, too many Jims on the board!)
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Author: ~ jerry
Date: 2001-10-12 11:25
Jim E.
The jacket on my CD explains the (one version anyway) the reason for writing "The New World Symphony" -- I don't have it on hand at the moment but you're right, he was give the challenge by the music community of NY City when he came to America.
I also agree that less can be more -- wish I could get that through to some of the new interns coming into the field of architecture. They are always saying things like, "Let's give the client some Fluff." -- What in the &^$&* is that?
I don't know what a MIDI is but do you suppose I could play the clarinet sound on one of those without sweating the embouchure & breathe control?
~ jerry
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Author: jenna
Date: 2001-10-12 20:41
Jerry -
MIDI is like a computer generated sound. Synthesized stuff. It isn't hard to find, or if you have a program like Noteworthy Composer you can write musical pieces yourself, and they will play back as MIDI. I've heard MIDI sound great, but also terrible.. I think a lot depends on the programs running it, and the soundcard/system it is played through. You can get MIDI songs and whatnot online.
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Author: Jim M.
Date: 2001-10-13 00:00
I am pretty sure that the clarinet intro track used in the first one or two seasons was not synthesized, although the current track certainly is.
Jim M.
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2001-10-13 00:28
A little nit:
MIDI is really a protocol (a way of talking or transmitting instructions) used to control a device (normally a synthesizer, but it could be well-nigh anything). A MIDI file is a set of those instructions. You use a sequencer to create the set of instructions. The mapping of an instruction to a (most usually) sound is called a patch.
The MIDI instructions are actually independent of the sounds produced. It's the patches that control the sound we hear. There is a "standard" set of patches so people can exchange base level MIDI files (and that's what you normally find floating around the Internet), but patches can contain just about any sound - as Stevie Wonder and Mannheim Steamroller have put to good use over the years.
Confused now?
mark C., who still yearns for a restored mellotron.
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Author: jenna
Date: 2001-10-13 03:25
I figured someone could explain it better than me, Mark. =)
Speaking of the Steamroller, I get to meet Jackson Berkey and his wife Almeda in a couple weeks. He wrote the commisioned piece for the dedication of our "new" school (renovations, new wings, auditorium, etc.). I'm the music dept. office aide, so I get all the inside information, maybe I'll get to give a tour or something. =)
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Author: Jim (E)
Date: 2001-10-13 04:58
OK Mark... I'll bite! What's a Mellotron? Anything like a Theramin?
For those interested in some of the origins of electronic music, Wendy Carlos has an interesting if rather technical web site at http://www.wendycarlos.com In 1968 (under the name Walter Carlos) she released the first popular electronic recording, "Switched-on Bach."
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Author: Micaela
Date: 2001-10-13 14:44
About the Dvorak Largo- I've read that Dvorak actually composed it and a student made up some words and called it "Comin' Home."
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Author: Sneakers
Date: 2001-10-14 06:12
What about Dennis's other question? Does anyone know if the music to Law and Order is available?
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