"g string quartet #1" a Geir original

[Ted]

Very cool. Sounds like teaser for a much longer work to be forthcoming. Right?

[Flash Harry]

G minor? but with so many incidentals, it's a bit difficult to work out.

Never seen the second clef mark, what's the notes on the stave for the Viola?

very interesting and very different. Where's my iPad......?

[64Guitars]

Never seen the second clef mark

It's called the Boob Clef.  

[Redler]

Real cool piece of classic music! Well done - you surprised me again! Sounds a lost Edward Grieg track to me:)

[bruno]

Nicely done Geir - sounds more like modern classical, than a traditional composition, free from the classical rules - and all the more interesting for that
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[Oldrottenhead]

when i was a kid i used to be able to read music, but now it's gobbledygook to me. so if i got this right. you write the music and the app plays it? if so that is cool.

i always had fantasies of writing scores but using numbers and letters to have a hidden meaning. some sort of code if you like. in my head i know what i mean. but explaining is difficult.

FMGWABP

[pjd1]

Amazing stuff geir I am impressed

[henwrench]

Mental.....

[64Guitars]

i always had fantasies of writing scores but using numbers and letters to have a hidden meaning. some sort of code if you like. in my head i know what i mean. but explaining is difficult.

There are several programs available that let you do just that. They've been available for years.

Probably the easiest one is called ABC.

http://abc.sourceforge.net/

Here's a basic introduction to it:

http://abcnotation.com/blog/2010/01/31/how-to-understand-abc-the-basics/

You can print the result of your ABC composition in standard music notation, or convert it to a MIDI file which you can then play back on your computer or synth.

Then there's LilyPond which is a more powerful system that, like ABC, uses text-based input to create standard music notation. It's available for Linux, Mac, and Windows. The Rosegarden program (Linux only) which I've sometimes used has LilyPond built-in. It uses it to produce beautiful printed music notation from MIDI data.

[kenny mac]

Wow nice