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See also my shaving blog at http://mantic59.blogspot.com ! UPDATE: Target no longer sells Proraso. Palmolive no longer produces lather shaving cream (red tube).
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New traditional wet shavers are sometimes frustrated with the time it can take to shave. With some practice and shortcuts it can be done in 10 min...
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New traditional wet shavers are sometimes frustrated with the time it can take to shave. With some practice and shortcuts it can be done in 10 minutes. Van Der Hagen shave soap, Emsplace pure badget brush, Weishi razor, Derby blade. Distributed by Tubemogul.
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Video from ONBC. Stop motion.
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The first movement of Bach's third Brandenburg Concerto, BWV 1048, accompanied by a scrolling, bar-graph score. This concerto is unusual in tha...
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The first movement of Bach's third Brandenburg Concerto, BWV 1048, accompanied by a scrolling, bar-graph score. This concerto is unusual in that each of the three violins, three violas, and three violoncellos have solo parts.
Q: Where can I see the score for this piece?
A: The score that the bar-graph score is based on is here:
http://www.musanim.com/pdf/brand3mvt1...
Q: Who is playing this piece?
A: The Advent Chamber Orchestra. I got this recording from the Wikimedia Commons:
http://tinyurl.com/brand3m1
This recording is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0 License:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...
Q: What do the colors means?
A: When the instruments in each section play in unison, there is a single fat (tall) note for all three; when they have solos, the notes are thinner (about half as high). The violins are shades of red, the violas are shades of green, and the violoncellos are shades of blue. The contrabass is sort of a brownish-gray, and is always wide, since it doesn't have solos. When two instruments play the same note, the colors blend (e.g. red + green = yellow).
Q: Is there a way I could make bar-graph scores like this myself?
A: The Music Animation Machine MIDI file player will generate a display like this (though not with the different note heights); you can get the (Windows) software here:
http://www.musanim.com/player/
There are lots of places on the web where you can get MIDI files; I usually go to the Classical Archives site first:
http://www.classicalarchives.com/
Q: Could you please do a MAM video of _________?
A: First, check my "to do" list:
http://www.musanim.com/all/MAMToDoLis... ...
If the piece isn't listed, read the "Could you please do a MAM video of _________?" item on my main FAQ:
http://www.musanim.com/mam/mamfaq.htm... ...
and if you think I'd consider doing it, email me (stephen at musanim dot com).
Q: Can I get a DVD with pieces like this?
A: Yes:
http://www.musanim.com/mam/video.html
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kiskeke favorited a video
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Beethoven 5th Symphony 5 (graphical score animation)
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Q: What do the colors in the bar-graph score mean?
A: The colors show which instruments are p...
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Beethoven 5th Symphony 5 (graphical score animation)
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Q: What do the colors in the bar-graph score mean?
A: The colors show which instruments are playing. Here's a chart:
http://www.musanim.com/pdf/Instrument...
Q: Please tell me more about the composer.
A: You can read about Beethoven here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beethoven
Q: Who is playing this?
A: I licensed this recording from
http://www.royalty-free-classical-mus...
It is performed by the Royalty Free Classical Music Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Dr. Keith J. Salmon. I don't know anything beyond that about the recording (like, whether it is a real orchestra or synthetic, who are its members, when and where was the recording made, etc.)
Q: Is there a way I could make bar-graph scores like this myself?
A: The Music Animation Machine MIDI file player will generate this display; you can get the (Windows) software here:
http://www.musanim.com/player/
There are lots of places on the web where you can get MIDI files; I usually go to the Classical Archives site first:
http://www.classicalarchives.com/
Q: Could you please do a MAM video of _________?
A: First, check my "to do" list:
http://www.musanim.com/all/MAMToDoLis... ...
If the piece isn't listed, read the "Could you please do a MAM video of _________?" item on my main FAQ:
http://www.musanim.com/mam/mamfaq.htm... ...
and if you think I'd consider doing it, email me (stephen at musanim dot com).
Q: How did you make this video?
A: There were a lot of steps; here's a short summary. I found a recording I could license and made the arrangements to use it. I found a MIDI file that was fairly complete, and imported that into the notation program Sibelius. I compared it to a printed copy of the score from my library and fixed things that were wrong (b5_fullscore.pdf is a snapshot taken during this process; note that there was a piano part in the MIDI file --- not something in the real score). Then, I listened to the recording and compared that to the score, and modified the score so that the timings were more like what the orchestra was actually playing (see b5_timings_adjusted.pdf). I exported this as a MIDI file and ran it through my custom frame-rendering software. Then, I made a "reduction" of the score (b5_reduction.pdf) and colored it to match the colors I was planning to use in the bar-graph score (b5_reduction_color.pdf). Unfortunately, when I squished the bar-graph score enough to make room for the notation score, too much detail was lost, so I ended up deciding not to use the notation. Then I put all the pieces (rendered frames, audio, titles) together in Adobe Premiere and exported the movie as a QuickTime file. Then, I used On2 Flix to convert the final file into Flash format (so that YouTube's conversion to their Flash format wouldn't change it in unpredictable ways), and uploaded the result. The PDFs mentioned in this description are in this ZIP file:
http://www.musanim.com/pdf/b5_scores.zip
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