Posts Tagged ‘polyphony’

Byrd, The Leaves be Green (sound broken by YouTube, sorry)

December 20, 2009 - 4:32 pm 23 Comments

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William Byrd’s setting of a popular tune of the time (around 1600). The melody is always shown in orange (and the rest is in shades of green and brown). This type of display can be generated from any MIDI file with this tool: http://www.musanim.com/player/

Note: If you have trouble with sync or audio quality, go to www.vimeo.com/user=musanim/clips and download the original (m4v) version.

Duration : 0:5:13

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