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Recuerdos de la Alhambra

by Andy Knight

Composed by: Francisco Tarrega

This is a tremolo study for classical guitar. The melody note is played three times by the first three fingers although here it is played four times for smoothness. Very difficult to play unless you are Segovia. It is particularly pleasing when changing from the minor to the major key. It's a pity there isn't a decent classical guitar sound on the Music 5000.

Regards, Andy Knight

Source: AMPLINEX 018 disk, file $.ALHAMBR

Published in AMPLINEX 018, July 1990

Playing the Railings

by Ted Kirk

Source: AMPLINEX 018 disk, file $.RAILING

Published in AMPLINEX 018, July 1990

Mood Sketches Number 5

by Lol Taylor

Composed by: Vladimir Rebikov

Striving after an unobtainable ideal

Rebikov was born in Krasnorjarsk, Siberia, in 1866 and died in the Crimea in 1920.

He experimented with "musical psychological sketches", that is, emotive music.

This piece brings out the endless restlessness of striving until we give up exhausted.

I bought the music copy in Hull in 1941 from a second-hand stall between the air-raids. It contains eleven Mood Sketches.

Source: AMPLINEX 018 disk, file $.MOOD5

Published in AMPLINEX 018, July 1990

Idiosyncrasy

by The Awfully Nice Software Co

Source: AMPLINEX 018 disk, file $.IDIOSYN

Published in AMPLINEX 018, July 1990

Homeless

by Paul Nuttall

Composed by: Paul Simon & Joseph Shabalala

An adaptation of 'Homeless'

Those of you who know this piece will appreciate that it is 100% vocal in its original form. My difficulty has been putting it into an instrumental form which in no way can really capture the true feeling of it. However, I hope that this version is not too hard on your ears!

Paul Nuttall April 1989

Source: AMPLINEX 018 disk, file $.HOMELSS

Published in AMPLINEX 018, July 1990

A Glimpse…

by Jim Redfarn

A glimpse into the mysterious East

Well, you know what I mean: 'In a Persian Garden', old Valentino films, Turkish Delight, etc. The out-of-tune voice (yes, it's on purpose) was made by changing just one parameter on good old Slapbass: 'flat' was changed to 'bend'. You can see the 'new' instrument on part 1. I've called it 'weird'. I suppose the whole tune is really! Music 2000 users could try adding a salsa rhythm. I usually do with my Yamaha PSR90 keyboard using MIDIRT.

Source: AMPLINEX 018 disk, file $.GLIMPSE

Published in AMPLINEX 018, July 1990

Floor 6 Sunday

by Bill Buckley

A Baroque motif repeater after the style of JSB

This music is written so that it plays forever and so this recording is just a sample of the music that it could produce.

Source: AMPLINEX 018 disk, file $.FLOOR6

Published in AMPLINEX 018, July 1990

Danza

by Dave Hall

Composed by: R Pipo

Recorded by Sky

I entered this tune from the song book. I was quite pleased and I have since been playing with echo and note length. I started going through the parts putting in 'gap' (i.e. -4 Len) and 4 2 Echo. Having done this for parts 1 and 4 I then realised that I could put them together in one word 'q'. I then put 'q' in all of parts 2 and 3. In part2j and in 2n and 3n it cocks up the whole piece so I have removed it. You can put 'q' in parts 'n' to hear it but part2j is too long unless you have the AMPLE ToolBox.

Source: AMPLINEX 018 disk, file $.DANZA

Published in AMPLINEX 018, July 1990

Crossing the Minch

by Hazel Thompson

Composed by: Donald MacLeod

This hornpipe was written for the 'Great Highland Bagpipe'. Of course, it sounds better on the noble instrument. I am dedicating this arrangement to John Bartlett, with thanks for his advice.

Source: AMPLINEX 018 disk, file $.CROSS

Published in AMPLINEX 018, July 1990

Coolicks

by P W Scott

Source: AMPLINEX 018 disk, file $.COOLICK

Published in AMPLINEX 018, July 1990