Life update and dressing-up wibble
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taimatsuHave just finished yummy pasta. Have more pasta ready to be tomorrow's lunch, which is Good. Have been preparing for Peter Pan play-reading this weekend, am playing flute in it. Have found midi of the only tune i haven't music for, but am unable to make it stick in head and might have to write it down, chiz.
Must decide on costume. Lost Boy would be easiest but I have too much GIRL BODY to be very convincing. Mrs Darling (my main part) would be nice, but is not really very possible. The play was first performed in 1908, so the evening dress she wears would be something like this *sigh*. I could throw something odd together out of assorted clothes, fabric and pins, if black velvet and long sleeves were acceptable, but they ain't. (Yes, I am a bit of a perfectionist, and would rather not wear something if I can't get it at least half-right.)
So, given my GIRL BITS I rather ought to be a female character, but that leaves me with Wendy (no nightie), the Indian heroine (someone else is being her and I'm not playing her anyway) and Tinkerbell (someone else's part, and anyway no WINGS and no time to make 'em.) So I might be left with being a lost boy or pirate despite my girlishness, or perhaps Nana if I buy a rug.
Then again, the site I referenced above has some patterns. I could conceivably make a period-ish skirt and find something for the top half... But I'd have to curl my hair...
I guess I'll go and look at my fabric stash and keep thinking. Ideas welcome.
(oh yes - see my nre LJ pic too!)
Must decide on costume. Lost Boy would be easiest but I have too much GIRL BODY to be very convincing. Mrs Darling (my main part) would be nice, but is not really very possible. The play was first performed in 1908, so the evening dress she wears would be something like this *sigh*. I could throw something odd together out of assorted clothes, fabric and pins, if black velvet and long sleeves were acceptable, but they ain't. (Yes, I am a bit of a perfectionist, and would rather not wear something if I can't get it at least half-right.)
So, given my GIRL BITS I rather ought to be a female character, but that leaves me with Wendy (no nightie), the Indian heroine (someone else is being her and I'm not playing her anyway) and Tinkerbell (someone else's part, and anyway no WINGS and no time to make 'em.) So I might be left with being a lost boy or pirate despite my girlishness, or perhaps Nana if I buy a rug.
Then again, the site I referenced above has some patterns. I could conceivably make a period-ish skirt and find something for the top half... But I'd have to curl my hair...
I guess I'll go and look at my fabric stash and keep thinking. Ideas welcome.
(oh yes - see my nre LJ pic too!)
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Date: Tuesday, 17 February 2004 03:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Tuesday, 17 February 2004 09:55 pm (UTC)What I do is to import the MIDI file into HA (it takes care of all the fiddly stuff like dynamics, grace notes, triplets and so on, by default, but you can control if if you please), which gives me a basic score. I then use the score tools to neaten it up, and then, when I'm happy with the layout, export it page by page as PostScript (.ps) files. Then it's just a matter of using Adobe Distiller and Acrobat to convert the pages into an EPS file, ready for printing and binding. I already had the Adobe tools, but there are freeware tools out there that will do the same.
I keep nudging the Guillon brothers (who are the authors of the Harmony and Melody tools) to write a 'dump the score as EPS' tool, but they have plenty of other things to work on, and I don't mind doing the step-by-step approach for smallish scores.
At fifteen Euros for Melody Assistant - Harmony Assistant without some of the bells and whistles, which to be honest I don't use much, and I really only paid for Harmony to give the team some more money :) - it's an amazing bargain, and Harmony itself's only 65 Euros.
The best toy they make, I think, is Virtual Singer (15 Euros). Put a score into Harmony or Melody, type in the lyrics, select the language and the type of voice... and it sings. I did a pretty splendid version of Tallis' Spem in Alium with it - software that can sing a 40-part motet, wow!
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Date: Wednesday, 18 February 2004 11:37 am (UTC)Computerised singing of Spem in Alium - now that sounds bizarre. :-)
BTW, presumably this program can print the whole score at once, so you just need to get a PostScript printer driver - Adobe has a free one somewhere on their site.
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Date: Wednesday, 18 February 2004 11:48 am (UTC)The singing's actually rather good, considering. I'm using it to gradually build up a performance of the complete works of John Dunstable, since there aren't many available on CD. SinA is a bit big to mail around the place, but I could mail you something smaller.
Oh - yes - I suppose I could do 'Print to file'! I hadn't actually thought of using that trick. I must give it a try. Thanks for suggesting it!