Piano Score Stella By Starlight

Hi,

This is a piano chart I wrote 18 years ago as a piano lesson assignment ( Yep, still doing homework at age 50 ). You won't recognize the chords as they were written by Victor Young. The assignment was to use the chord substitution rules I learned over the previous months. It doesn't contain my usual overuse of rubato. It was entered directly from the manuscript, so it will be a little "straight" (except for a few tempo adjustments). But it is an easy piece to read if anyone would like to play it. The chord changes are beautiful ( I got my very first "A" on this one )

Cheers,
Fred
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It was done in 2.0, so here's the midi file in case you can't read the .not file

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Here is another "Homework assignment". I didn't add any dynamics so feel free to do your own thing. You will be the only one playing these chord changes, however. When I have the time, I'll add strings, etc. and work on the dynamics and post it in another area. My time has become somewhat limited lately, so that will have to wait a bit. Enjoy!

P.S. David Raksin wrote the music and Johnny Mercer the lyrics, I think in 1944.

Cheers,
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Hi Fred,

I like the harmonic sound of both Stella and Laura, though miss the ambience of Spring...which is a great lesson in the sound that can be got out of midi with work at it.

As I was listening to Stella yesterday, I found myself chuckling as I remembered my theory lessons and all the rules regarding chord progressions. My teacher was classically trained and followed the text book (which one of these days I'm going to dig out of the box it's been stored in for years, just for fun) strictly. He was also a wonderful cocktail pianist who, with Deep Purple, Warsaw Concerto, Rhapsody in Blue thrown in now and again, favored the heavily arpeggiated style that R. Williams later made famous (his Tenderly was absolutely beautiful). As a reward for a lesson well done, he would loan me pages, to play for fun, out of his big fat fake book in which I would find chord progressions that broke all the rules we'd studied during the theory part of the lesson. It was all very helpful in working out the attitude toward harmony I later came to.

That thunderbird really got around in those days, didn't he?

all best,
mgj

Hi MG,

Thank you!

quote: "I like the harmonic sound of both Stella and Laura, though miss the ambience of Spring...which is a great lesson in the sound that can be got out of midi with work at it."

Here's the problem. I am an ink freak. I don't even work a crossword puzzle with pencil. When I make a mistake, I just write over everything instead of erasing it. These manuscripts ( I have about a dozen or so ) were homework assignments. Since I didn't play piano professionally, I just did them, turned them in, and forgot them. I didn't protect the manuscripts and they really got terrible looking over the years. They are almost impossible to read with all the ink blots, rips and tears, and corrections, etc. I have to figure out all the notes because they look like they were written 400 years ago. So, sight reading them is not an easy option. "Spring" was written for me by my teacher ( he tried for 5 years to get me to use a pencil ).

quote: "That thunderbird really got around in those days, didn't he?"

I'm not so sure that, if we had about $1.50, we couldn't find him again.

P.S. I also did one on "Tenderly" but I have only found page 2 at the moment, and I can't read that too well either.

Cheers,
Fred

Hi Fred,

The ambience of You Must Believe in Spring from what you've done with the performance, not the manuscript. My point was that it sounds like a recording of a live performance.

A pencil did me little good. I found out by the time I was sixteen that enough erasures make reading almost impossible, and that lines with arrows to circles around other places on the page where corrections were put in makes follows following the lines way too confusing...in short, I found out that by the time I had copied and re-copied enough, I was using a ton of paper to get a readable couple of pages (and I only tried writing for the piano back then). When I steeled myself to write a couple of things I was asked to (many years later), things hadn't changed, other than that I had several instruments to deal with. It took over a week, using all my free time, to get a readable manuscript of a short duo for flute and cello that we played at a wedding. If I had had Composer, the writing, the editing, and printing of scores for both instruments could have been completed in one evening and left me time to watch the late movie.

Does the thunderbird still fly? After that night of Shakespeare and Oscar Brand, I never looked for him again. I don't think he would compete very well with my glass of Pinot Noir with dinner. What a gross thought...

all best,
mgj

Hi MG,

quote: "Does the thunderbird still fly?"

I'm not sure, but I thought I saw him last year. But, then again, I also saw Elvis the same day.
My, how far we've come! From Thunderbird to Pinot Noir.

Cheers,
Fred

Fred said:
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My, how far we've come! From Thunderbird to Pinot Noir.
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Progress is a good thing ;)

ttfn,
Sherry 'also enjoys Pinor Noir'

HI there, I would be FOREVER GRATEFUL if someone can explain 2 things.

1. No one I have talked to knows how to convert mp3 format to MIDI format, and then print the sheet music. There's all sorts of programs on the net but NONE work. Can anyone PLEASE guide me on how to do this properly step by step???

2 I'm trying to get the sheet music for a song called Forgiveness by Joseph Bradley (piano instrumental) and apparantely not even his record label makes the sheet music. I wanted to play that song as a personal favor to a friend in the hospital with cancer.

This would mean the world to me. Thank you very much for any replies. :-) My email is deepeyes753@yahoo.com

Austin

Howdy Austin,

Converting audio to MIDI is sort of a "holy grail" of audio computer programmers. Please see our page http://www.notation.com/SpecialInter...SheetMusic.htm for more information on that. You've stated it in short: it's a noble cause, but so far no one can get it to work decently. I hope they keep trying, though!

To find a MIDI file for a particular song, and then use Musician or Composer to transcribe it to sheet music, you can use one of the special MIDI search engines we list at http://www.notation.com/MIDI-Search.php I did a quickie at two of them, and came up with the following two pages of results for "forgiveness":
http://www.inter-search.co.uk/midi/s...p;m=0&amp;x=10
http://www.midisite.co.uk/cgi-bin/midi/search.pl?t=forgiveness&amp;search=MIDI+Search&amp ;m=0&amp;x=10

Not being familiar with the tune you're looking for, I can't direct you to a specific one, but you can take a listen to the ones that turn up and go from there. If you need any help once you've found a file, in converting it to something legible, do give us a holler here on the forum. I certainly hope you can find it and play your gift for your friend.

ttfn,
Sherry

Hi Austin,

Here is a clear answer to your question.

To 1. You will not find any software that will produce useful music scores from mp3 or from any other sound file. Nothing is impossible as they say, but this is very close to being totally impossible right now and for a long time.

To 2. Contact the composer of your music selection for a copy, or even a photocopy of the music score. Try to find a midi file as Sherry suggests.

The analytic properties of human hearing are amazing. Listen carefully to a recording of your music selection and then try to transcribe it. This is what some Composer users do.

I wish you success,

Herbert