Hugh Emerson's Songs and Arrangements
the human behind PowerMac
Did one of Hugh Emerson's songs at MP3.com appeal so much to you that you'd like to sing it yourself?
Or perhaps one of PowerMac's offbeat arrangements is just the kind of thing that you'd like to do with your quartet/chorus.
Sheet music is currently available for the following Hugh Emerson songs:
Sheet music is currently available for the following PowerMac songs:
- Maple Leaf Rag
- Engelskanon
- He Was Born
- Sing With Me
The format in each case is a jpeg version of the printed pages. They will all be redone in PDF someday.
How to get the sheet music
Send an e-mail to Hugh (hsemerson @ yahoo.com) and request the piece that you want. Terms: you must agree to send an electronic reproduction of your performance (MP3, videotape, audio tape, WAV, whatever) to Hugh after you have performed the piece you requested. Hugh will then e-mail the URL of the piece requested.
Fall 2002 Update: No one who received sheet music since fall of 2001 has ever sent a tape back. Unless that starts happening, there will be no more live performances of PowerMac's songs. :-(
How were the music files at MP3.com made?
First, the notes are entered a part at a time into a Macintosh Classic running "Deluxe Music Construction Set" with a Casio MIDI keyboard. The resulting file is then translated into other formats with "EZ Vision". A MIDI format file is created which is uploaded via phone modem to the internet, and another program handles the creation of the sheet music on the Macintosh Classic. Switch computers now: the blueberry iMac retrieves the MIDI file via "Fetch", and the singing file is created on the iMac with a program called "VocalWriter". All that is necessary is typing the lyrics (and tweaking the phonemes a bit), and VocalWriter creates AIFF files which are then compressed by another program to MP3s. E-mail me with any technical questions you may have. (Most frequently asked question: is there a version of VocalWriter for the PC? Answer = no.)
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