Musescore and the "Santa Fe" style
As I mentioned in a previous post, I'm always looking for examples to show off Musescore and to give a plug to some almost forgotten musician. My latest contribution is a tune by Rob Cooper, a black Houston pianist of the 1930s who played in the "Santa Fe style." This type of music was played in the dance halls and beer parlors of rural Texas and New Mexico. It combined the (rather refined) technique of the eastern stride pianists with the boisterous "barrelhouse" sound needed to attract the attention of a noisy audience.
Here is the link to the Musescore rendition or Rob Cooper's West Dallas Drag:
http://ormusic.home.comcast.net/WestDallasDrag.mp3
And here is a link to more information about the Santa Fe musicians:
http://sundayblues.org/archives/24
Check out the other new tunes I have at
http://ormusic.home.comcast.net/
Comments
Wow! I was impressed by your piece, and how good it sounds coming from MuseScore. Keep up the good work.
In reply to Impressed! by newsome
Yes, it is very impressive -- to listen to. But wouldn't msc files be a bit more effective for highlighting the capabilities of MuseScore than mp3's?
In reply to Showcase? by kartania
Unfortunately, Musescore does not yet have the ability to produce "conventional" notation for the music I write. I explained this in detail in the post http://musescore.org/en/node/6707. In that post you will see that I propose using other software, such as Notation Player, to overcome this shortcoming by processing a midi file exported by Musescore to produce a conventional score. In post 6707 I gave an example of the Musescore mscz file for one of my pieces, plus the score from Notation Player of what Musescore should be able to produce.
In reply to Why the msc isn't posted by EdwardsRG
Thanks for the reference to your LockAndKey posting and the sundayblues site. You are doing an incredible service by faithfully capturing these old recordings and preserving their style in a form that can be studied using today's tools. Listening and watching them being played in MuseScore (even in new notation, which looks pretty cool even if it isn't standard) is a total joy. I'm speechless, so all I can stutter is Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!
In reply to Wow by kartania
As I mentioned in my post http://musescore.org/en/node/6268, all of my examples assume, and are optimized for, the (free) "Splendid Piano" sound font. Using the Musescore default sound font will make the bass a little too light, and the notes will not have the proper duration (the Splendid Piano sound font has a little built in reverb).