swiss alps / air on g-string (Bach)

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south view
swiss alps with 500x Zoom analog camera

47º 26' 16.15" N 8º 8' 48.95" E

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music performed by Marquise(Roland Märke Leuenberger)
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©2008 MiC Music CH-Switzerland

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Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750. Air on a G String, from Suite in D, B.W.V. 1068. Probably composed 1722-23. Scored for first and second violins, viola, and continuo.




In 1717, Bach was offered an appointment at the court of Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Cöthen (today Köthen), which is located about 30 miles northwest of Leipzig. Until then the famed organist had had a post at Weimar, and we can guess that he must have been unhappy there, for he took the new position even though his new employer could not offer him a good organ, choir, or theater. To increase his difficulties, Duke Wilhelm August, his former patron, imprisoned him for nearly a month as punishment for the manner in which he resigned!




The change in jobs produced a matching shift in focus, and Bach turned from organ and church music to chamber works that would be more likely to please the Prince, who played the viola da gamba (a predecessor to the modern cello) in his own chamber group.




There is no exact record of the composition of the four Orchestral Suites (or ``Overtures,'' as Bach termed them), and different writers place them as early as 1722 and as late as 1731, but most sources agree on the earlier date. In any case, they represent something of an experiment by Bach, who may have wished to try his hand at a French style pioneered by Lully. The third of these, numbered 1068 in the standard catalog of Bach's works, is the most popular and probably the most masterful.




The so-called ``Air on a G String'' is the brief (36 measures) second movement of this suite. Although the full suite includes trumpets, oboe, and tympani as well as the strings and continuo (a bass line usually played on harpsichord and cello), this movement is reduced to strings and continuo only.




The title is inappropriate in the work's original setting, having been invented by a violinist to identify his solo transcription. But the oddness of the title is not reflected in the music, which is one of the most pleasing trifles a listener could ask for.




(c) 1996, Geoff Kuenning

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[micmusic1]

Hi

to play a midi-file on my PSR-620 i must copy the Files to my Hard-Drive and send it with MIDI to the Keyboard.

i can't test it now, because i don't have a Floppy-Drive on my new Computer-System.

But i think to remember it never worked correctly.

Maybe the problem is MIDI-Format=0?????????

i use old DD 720KB Disks (only with one Hole) to save Songs & Styles etc.

Sorry, i will test it with my oldest computer and then i send you a message.

Greets from Switzerland

Marquise

[notreallysure9]

I will try that... what is strange is that I am trying to use both a professionally made floppy that works on my friend's PSR-630 or a disk that I made recently that worked just fine in a PSR-740 I borrowed for a gig last month. Let me ask you this: when you insert a floppy in the drive does all its data automatically pop up in the PSR 620 window?

[micmusic1]

Taping or otherwise covering the bottom right hole on a HD 3½-inch disk enables it to be 'downgraded' to DD format. This may be done for reasons such as compatibility issues with older computers, drives or devices that use DD floppies, like some electronic keyboard instruments and samplers[27] where a 'downgraded' disk can be useful, as factory-made DD disks have become hard to find after the mid-1990s. See the section "Compatibility" above.

[micmusic1]

The PSR-620 uses only 3.5 2DD floppy disks. Before you can use a new disk for saving data, the disk

must be formatted

DD means 720KB not HD 1.44MB.

Sorry i have the same problem

Greets Marquise

[notreallysure9]

I just acquired a PSR-630 and I have a question on how to use the floppy disk to play Midi tracks. As opposed to my friend's PSR-730 - or 740], where I insert the disk and all the songs show up on the screen, When I insert a floppy into the PSR-630, either nothing happens or it asks me if I want to format the disk.... And yes, I am 100% that the test floppy disk works. Is there something I need to do to get the floppy to be 'recognized?'

Thanks!