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page has succeeded, and we
wish to offer the beautiful MIDI music below (new music in classical styles)
to thank the anonymous people who early-on made a hardcopy publication
of the Neanderthal Flute essay possible.
This essay is available
in a numbered limited edition, acid free, for $19.oo (U.S.), 34pp.
[Composed in classical,
baroque or other old or "counterpoint" styles]
NOTE: COUNTERPOINT
includes performing two or more melodies at the same time. Stereo makes
this easier to hear when one melody is heard by the left ear; another by
the right (and others placed at other locations between). Learning to hear
separately with both ears music from different locations can be more fun
than juggling, and also includes listening for the harmony progressions
made by the melodies. It is the "3-D" or the "Chess"
of music, emotionally and mentally.
This piece imitates the ringing of steeple bells, beginning with music moving from left to right (like the clapper of a bell). The fugue or musical "round" in the middle grows as more bells ring out, as in an infectious celebration of newly-won freedom, culminating in reverberating & accumulated sound, cascading down the walls of a huge bell tower.
Words at start: "There you are. It's a bright new morning. The crisp air has a nip in it. The dew hangs like crystal. All along the entrance are lined the trumpeters, the sun glinting off their horns. And then, like the cut of a gleaming knife, the sound splits the clear air. You step out into the morning, and on your arms are Robert Redford and Richard Gere."
* VerySuite By Bob Fink, Dedicated to Prof. Anne Kilmer (4 minute Stereo MP3 --$5 for sheetmusic -- Order: address below.)
* Serendipity #357a (Composed by Serendipity computer program -- 20 second Stereo --1996--$1.5o Order: address below.)
* Serendipity #8a (Counterpoint) (Based on melody composed by Serendipity computer program -- 20 second Stereo --1996--$1.5o Order: address below.)
* Finale to Lysistrata & the War By Bob Fink (5 minute Stereo -- from Opera based on Lysistrata by Aristophanes --1960--$10 sheetmusic. Flute extravaganza. Order: address below.)
* Concert & Commentary. By Bob Fink -- (Note: This is a 33-minute MP3.) Stereo -- All reviews were excellent, such as: "Victor Borge step aside" [Briar Patch]; "fantastic ... inspired" [CFMC ]; "quite lovely" [Ed., Performing Arts in Canada]; "Knows his stuff" [Dept of Youth & Culture]; "A Fine...composer" [Sheaf] & more.
This concert features several more compositions performed by Bob Fink (piano), pieces not listed above or below. It contains Fink's commentary and wit on music in general (he has a degree in musicology), as well as insights into his music compositions.
* Lennon & McCartney: Yesterday--4 minute Stereo mp3 (No sheetmusic available here)
A 72pp hardcopy book of sheetmusic containing most MP3s is also available to order: $20.oo.
--------- MIDIs ----------
IMPORTANT NOTE Re MIDIs: Do NOT use "Beatnik player."
The midis were made using using Windows 3.1 "mplayer.exe," w/Soundblaster. Other or later versions or platforms may terribly distort the loudness or balance of the MIDI's separate tracks -- and often change the instruments intended.
[There will be no such problems using the new MP3s provided or with the stereo tape cassette or CD of this music, which can be ordered by mail.]
If the music seems out of balance, choppy, et al, please note there is now an included link to an MP3 version offered to hear the music as originally intended [but slower loading].
*The Joy of Counterpoint By
Bob Fink (5 min. MP3 Stereo -- 2 flutes (& other instr) -- different
melodies interweaving within an architecture of sound & harmony --
$5/sheetmusic -- Order: address below.).
MIDI
version.
.(Order/Info:
Click for credit card, rush mail. ALSO AVAILABLE:
90" Stereo cassette/CD of many more
non-midi new works written in classical
style;or 30" cassette ($12)
of some midis above. Each 90" CD or tape, $19 postpd.)
THESE COMPOSITIONS,
AVAILABLE ON STEREO CD or CASSETTE, MAKE A WONDERFUL BIRTHDAY, HOLIDAY OR CELEBRATION
GIFT FOR CLASSICAL-MUSIC-LOVING FRIENDS OR FAMILY.
SOME REVIEWS
of Bob Fink's "Some New 'Olde-Musicke'"
* "Just
fantastic...unique...inspired" -- CFMC FM Stereo Radio
*"...no
less than entertaining and at best quite lovely. Thank you...."
-- M. Schulman, music editor, Performing Arts in
Canada magazine.
* "Some
New 'Olde-Musicke' is well worth listening to."
-- Terry Pugh, Briar Patch magazine
*"Audience
took to his (concert) humour immediately ...great way to teach music appreciation!...
Obviously knows his stuff. 5 minutes is too short a time to enjoy his talent."
-- E. Pearson, jurist, Sask Dept of Culture &
Youth.
* "Better
than Victor Borge!" -- W. Simmonds, CBC
* "...enjoyed
playing through the pieces and thought the Greensleeves arrangement especially
pleasing...." -- R. P. Broughton, Toronto
* "...very
beautiful..." -- Elizabeth Smillie, The Sheaf newspaper.
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