Odds and Ends

Here are a few midi sequences that don't fit the themes of any of the other pages.

• A March by Friedrich Kunzen (1761-1817). An easy piece for fortepiano from his gothic melodrama 'Leonore'.

• This Toccata by Claudio Merulo (1533-1604) is an organ piece, but I've treated it here the way it might have been rehearsed on a harpsichord.

• Canon in Epidiatesseron by Johannes Ockeghem (c.1430-1495) Epidiatesseron means that the second voice enters at the interval of a fourth above the first voice.

• The hymn tune Melita by J.B. Dykes. In Australia the words of Rudyard Kipling's poem 'Recessional' are sung to this tune at World War 1 commemorations on Anzac Day; hence this brass sextet arrangement.

• An aria from Iolanthe, 'He loves! If, in the bygone years ...' by Sir Arthur Sullivan.

• Kalenda Maya by Raimbaut de Vaiqueras, a 13th century troubadour. No one knows what scales mediaeval musicians used; but I've sequenced this one on the guess that singers and bowed string instruments would 'default' to just intonation with the notes of the melody reinforced by an underlying drone.

• The Yeoman's Carol

• The Gallery Carol

• Then the quire are joined by farmer Gabriel Oak on flute for a late 18th century country dance tune, The Comical Fellow

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