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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2015-03-15 21:48
Is Oliver Seeley still around? Are his Offerings still available?
I tried to get the Beethoven Trio for 2 Oboes and English Horn in his 3-clarinet arrangement on IMSLP, but the links there are bad.
Ken Shaw
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Author: Roxann
Date: 2015-03-16 16:43
Hi Jack, I went to this website and downloaded a few of the .MUS and MIDI files. My Mac won't open either type. Are the listings on this site copies of the actual music? If so, I'll try to save and open them with a PC and see what happens. Thanks!
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Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2015-03-16 17:02
Roxann wrote:
> Hi Jack, I went to this website and downloaded a few of the
> .MUS and MIDI files. My Mac won't open either type. Are the
> listings on this site copies of the actual music? If so, I'll
> try to save and open them with a PC and see what happens.
.MUS files will only open in Finale or, maybe, one of the step-down versions MakeMusic markets. They open on both Macs and PCs but only if Finale is on the machine.
MIDI files are sound files - they should open in a program/utility that plays audio files. But you can't read MIDI files in notation without having some other program - a notation program or music synthesizer software - to translate it.
I haven't been to Oliver's site in awhile, but AFAIK he posted recreations done with Finale of PD clarinet music. Some of the transcription was his, some was donated by other people. I think he tried to stay with older versions of Finale to avoid the problem that Finale, until Music XML became available, wouldn't read files created in newer editions of itself.
Karl
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Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2015-03-16 17:08
Ken, the website is at http://www.csudh.edu/oliver/clarmusi/clarmusi.htm and the Beethoven trio I think you're looking for is there - the pieces are listed alphabetically by composer. If the Finale format is a problem for you, let me know. I can (I don't think there's any legal problem?) send you PDF versions. They open in my newer version of Finale with no problems.
The intro at the top of his page was last revised 1/24/15, so he's apparently still maintaining it.
Karl
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Author: Jack Kissinger
Date: 2015-03-16 19:43
Roxann,
As Karl said, the files on Oliver's site are not copies of the original publications. They are files he created with (a very old version of) Finale. To add to what Karl said, I think Sibelius now opens Finale MUS files, too. If you don't have Finale or Sibelius, you can google "finale notepad" without the quotes, and you will get a link that lets you download MakeMusic's free version. I haven't used it in a long time, but I think it may open Oliver's MUS files. Unless it's changed recently, it doesn't open midi files, though. You need at least their Print Music for that. There are other free notation packages that will import midi files but midi files only have the notes -- no articulation or dynamics markings. Those markings are also absent in many of Oliver's Finale files though those marked NAD (notes, articulation, dynamics) will have them.
Best regards,
jnk
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