Re: [MMM] Hard drive this

On 7/23/02 1:30 AM, X. J. Scott at xjscott@... wrote:

> * How big is the drive? The ideal scenario is that you have
> created multiple partitions and you have one partitions ONLY
> FOR AUDIO FILES. Actully, if you do this you don't need to do
> the defrag. Just backup your audio files for each song and
> keep that partition fresh. Having a smaller partition will
> also seriously reduce your seek time on the disk which is a
> big help for audio.

How do you partition a drive on a Mac?

Clueless in Cambridge

Thanks for the info. This all sounds WAYYY to risky for me.

Stan

The rider to the fact that the tuning is sort-of strinct 1/4 comma, is
that the instrument is a clavichord. Yes, I tune it exactly. But the
Partita about being attacked by thugs in Flanders has a-flats in it,
in prominent positions; there is no a-flat on my keyboard, but if I
whack the g# really hard, it gives a twangy sort of approximation,
which sounds more approriate to the moment than to just play the
g#.

Cookout afterwards, my back yard
-----
Emperors, Duchesses and Pirates:
Music of
Johann Jacob Froberger

Judith Conrad, Clavichordist

an informal recital

Sunday July 28, 2002
2:00

The Lafayette-Durfee House
94 Cherry Street, Fall River

Admission free – Donations accepted
'

Froberger was born in 1616 in Stuttgart, Germany, and died in
1667 at the castle and in the presence of Sibilla, Duchess of
Wuerttemberg, widow of the ruler of the region. In between, he
spent much time at the Imperial court in Vienna, in Rome, initially
studying with Frescobaldi, the organist at St. Peter’s, and all over
the rest of Europe including Paris, Amsterdam and London. In fact,
an early 18th century biography says he arrived in England without
his letters of introduction having been hijacked by pirates while
crossing the channel. He was not only chief musician to the Holy
Roman Emperor Ferdinand, he was apparently also his private
secretary, and carried out important missions of secret diplomacy
for him, under the guise of concert tours. His importance to
keyboard music of the 17th century is matched only by that of
Chopin or Liszt to piano music of the 19th century – he
revolutionized the possibilities of the instrument. The instrument,
the major at-home keyboard instrument of central Europe at the
time, being the fretted clavichord, that soft, small- parlor-sized,
gentle instrument that is the most expressive keyboard ever
invented. Duchess Sibilla commented in a letter after his death that
no one could possibly play his music with the proper discretion
with which he played it himself, and added, ‘The Lord grant that we
lovers of music will all be able to take delight with him in the
heavenly choir of the Muses.’

the instrument is a copy of a late-seventeenth century small triple-
fretted clavichord once thought to have been owned by the King of
Sweden;

the tuning is strict quarter-comma meantone

Program:

Toccata IV
Partita “Mayrin” (FbWV 606a)
Gigue (FbWV 607c)
Two Canzonas from Libro Secondo 1649
Partita, “Lamentation on my being robbed, to be played at pleasure
and better than the soldiers who mistreated me”
Gigue: "to be played slowly in the manner of Cardinal Mazarin’s
return to Paris”
Partita in F (FbWV 604f)
Fantasia sopra ‘Sollare’ from Libro Secondo
Partita, Lamentation on the death of Ferdinand, Holy Roman
Emperor, in 1654
Capriccio VII

The Lafayette-Durfee House, built around 1750 and open to the
public as a museum of Early American Life, is located two blocks
west of North Main Street, four blocks north of City Hall.

for further information, call 508-675-4172

or e-mail judithconrad@mindspring.com

Judith Conrad, clavichordist
Music Director, Calvary Baptist Church
747 Broad Street, Providence RI 02907

Hi Judith,

All the best for Sunday. I'd go if I was anywhere in the region.
Wonderful instrument, the clavichord.

"
Partita, "Lamentation on my being robbed, to be played at pleasure
and better than the soldiers who mistreated me"
"

Are you recording the concert by any chance?

Robert

On 27 Jul 2002, at 6:51, Robert Walker wrote:

> All the best for Sunday. I'd go if I was anywhere in the region.
> Wonderful instrument, the clavichord.

Someone else asked me off-list if I was going to amplify, since it's
such a soft instrument. No, this is serious historical recreation, I'm
playing in a colonial period house with a colonial period sound
system -- concert in the kitchen which is the largest room in the
house, clavichord placed in the fireplace with the mantel acting as
an acoustic reflector, audience sitting as close as they want.
Sound waves from the neighborhood Harleys and the rock concert
going on simultaeously 4 blocks away on the waterfront are strictly
ordered to stay outside. Possibly it will stay cool enough we can
close the windows.

> Partita, "Lamentation on my being robbed, to be played at pleasure
> and better than the soldiers who mistreated me"
> "

They were, in fact, Belgian soldiers. That's the oine with the
prominent a flats in the piece, which I am only able to approximate
with a very rude twang. In their honor, I have made Pickled
Brussels Sprouts for the reception.

> Are you recording the concert by any chance?

I'm the performer, the instrument tech, the publicist, the usher, the
cook, the bottle washer.... It's enough. No, I'm not recording it.
When I get my proper copy of a spectacular professional's 17th
century meantone clavichord, I intend to do some studio recording.

Judy

Judith Conrad clavichordist
http://home.mindspring.com/~judithconrad/index.html

Hi Judy,

I agree, you don't want to amplify it certainly! Let the audience be a bit
quiet and listen quietly - we don't have enough of that...

Maybe after listening to a concert of quiet music one may begin to hear other
quiet sounds when in quiet places, such as rustling leaves or leaves falling
as they hit the ground, or the sound of bird's wings as they fly.

> I'm playing in a colonial period house with a colonial period sound
> system -- concert in the kitchen which is the largest room in the
> house, clavichord placed in the fireplace with the mantel acting as
> an acoustic reflector, audience sitting as close as they want.

Sounds great. If anyone is a little hard of hearing they can sit near the
front :-).

> They were, in fact, Belgian soldiers. That's the oine with the
> prominent a flats in the piece, which I am only able to approximate
> with a very rude twang. In their honor, I have made Pickled
> Brussels Sprouts for the reception.

Very appropriate I'm sure.

> I'm the performer, the instrument tech, the publicist, the usher, the
> cook, the bottle washer.... It's enough. No, I'm not recording it.
> When I get my proper copy of a spectacular professional's 17th
> century meantone clavichord, I intend to do some studio recording.

Sure ! You wouldn't want to be thinking about recording levels
and such like while performing.

Robert