Ludwig van Beethoven's Fifth Symphony 5, first movement, with a graphical score.
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Q: Where can I get free sheet music for this piece?
A: Here:
tinyurl.com/beetop67
Q: What do the colors in the bar-graph score mean?
A: The colors show which instruments are playing. Here's a chart:
www.musanim.com/pdf/Instrument...
Q: How did you make this video?
A: There were a lot of steps; here's a short summary. I found a recording I could license and made the arrangements to use it. I found a MIDI file that was fairly complete, and imported that into the notation program Sibelius. I compared it to a printed copy of the score from my library and fixed things that were wrong (b5_fullscore.pdf is a snapshot taken during this process; note that there was a piano part in the MIDI file --- not something in the real score). Then, I listened to the recording and compared that to the score, and modified the score so that the timings were more like what the orchestra was actually playing (see b5_timings_adjusted.pdf). I exported this as a MIDI file and ran it through my custom frame-rendering software. Then, I made a "reduction" of the score (b5_reduction.pdf) and colored it to match the colors I was planning to use in the bar-graph score (b5_reduction_color.pdf). Unfortunately, when I squished the bar-graph score enough to make room for the notation score, too much detail was lost, so I ended up deciding not to use the notation. Then I put all the pieces (rendered frames, audio, titles) together in Adobe Premiere and exported the movie as a QuickTime file. Then, I used On2 Flix to convert the final file into Flash format (so that RU-vid's conversion to their Flash format wouldn't change it in unpredictable ways), and uploaded the result. The PDFs mentioned in this description are in this ZIP file:
www.musanim.com/pdf/b5_scores.zip
Q: You seem to have uploaded many versions of this piece ... what's going on?
A: I started out with this one in 2009:
• Beethoven, Symphony 5,...
When RU-vid supported higher resolution videos, I did a remake:
• Video
Then, I started experimenting with other graphics; this one uses a fisheye effect:
• Beethoven, 5th Symphon...
This one shows dynamics, using an "egg" design:
• Beethoven, 5th Symphon...
This one shows dynamics, using a "triangle" (rhombus) design:
• Beethoven, Symphony 5,...
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14 июл 2009
