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 MIDI files and notation for educational use. On this page you can find downloadable MIDI files and sections of the score from From Egil's Saga. These are support materials for the Eastern Orchestral Board's Connected education projects associated with this new work. Connected: educational projects There are teachers' workshops notes to accompany the material: Teachers' Workshops notes How to download the MIDI files PC users: Right click on the link to the midi file and click on Save Target As... Left clicking on a link to a midi file may play it in Windows Media Player if you have this software installed on your system. You can save the file from within WMP by clicking on File > Save Media As... Help with viewing Adobe pdf files can be found on the BBC schools website How to listen to the samples 'Sample 1' and 'Extra files 2' have audio of the sample available in RealMedia format. If you need help listening to the RealMedia please see Audio help Further advice on opening or downloading the MIDI files and notation
 Sample 1 Downloads Download solo bass line notation "Lament" as pdf document (55kb) Download midi file (4kb) Translation Beginning of Part II, "Lament for my Sons" : My mouth strains To move the tongue To weigh and wing The choice word: Not easy to breathe Odin's inspiration In my heart's hinterland Little hope there.  Listen to sample 1 "Lament" (43")Sample 2 Downloads Download processed bass clarinet and solo bass lines bars 244-251 as pdf document (74kb) Download midi realisation for bass clarinet and solo bass voice bars 244-251 (2kb) Translation Purest of possessions, Poetic craft, power That dwarf-devised Drew first breath: Now I feel it surge, swell Like a sea, old giant's blood, About the cragged cliff face Of the dwarf-caves. Sample 3 Downloads Download processed solo bass line bars 327-348 as pdf document (74kb) Download midi realisation of full score bars 327-346 (2kb) Translation The end is all. Even now High on the headland Hel stands and waits, Life fades, I must fall And face my own end Not in misery and mourning, But with a man's heart. Sample 4 There are no downloadable files associated with sample 4. Translation Time passes tediously, I tarry here alone, An old, senile elder With no king to aid me. I walk on two widows, Once true women, Now frosted and feeble, Needing the old flame. Extra files 1 Downloads Download full score bars 43-56 as pdf document (164kb) Translation By Sun and Moon I journeyed west, My sea-borne tune From Odin's breast, My song-ship packed With poet's art: Its word-keel cracked The frozen heart.  Extra files 2 Downloads Download processed bass solo and chorus lines bars 57-95 as pdf document (267kb) Translation (solo Bass, bars 57-71) The war-lord weaves His web of fear, Each man receives His fated share: A blood-red sun's The warrior's shield, The eagle scans The battlefield. (Chorus entry, bar 69) Chorus sounding*: As edges swing Blades cut men down Erik the King Earns his renown. Listen to Bass Chorus from bar 57 (1'41")Extra files 3 Downloads Download solo bass and chorus lines bars 262-274 as pdf document (128kb) Translation Chorus, bars 262-269 Sounding Now the bard has no brother, Bitter the mind-surge Beating and battering About the brain-cliff. Solo bass, bars 262-274 Will no comrade of courage Cleave to me, To be at my back In bitter peril? No help can I hope for Against the hard hero, Few are my friends, Yet I cannot fly battle. Extra files 4 Downloads Download solo bass line bars 394-408 as pdf document (58kb) Translation So I rise up early To erect my rhyme, My tongue toils, A servant at his task; I pile the praise-stones The poem rises, My labour is not lost, Long may my words live. Extra files 5 Downloads Download solo bass line bars 491-500 as pdf document (51kb) Translation The end is all. Even now High on the headland Hel stands and waits, Life fades, I must fall And face my own end Not in misery and mourning, But with a man's heart. Copyright information Translation from Egil's Saga, translated and introduced by Hermann Palsson and Paul Edwards (Penguin Classics, 1976). Copyright © Hermann Palsson and Paul Edwards 1976. Reproduced by permission of Penguin Books Ltd. MIDI files, scores and audio copyright © 2004 Schott & Co. Ltd, London. | | Introduction Interviews Bryars answers your questions Technical realisation Work in progress Educational projects Samples and notation Teachers notes Related Links on radio 3 on bbc.co.uk on the web The BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites. |
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