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The Song About John Donne -Concept

In the course of the performance of Innocent Marpl’s stories, there will be a song on Marpl's words. It’s a song about the British poet-preacher-heretic John Donn translated in Even (or Lamut or Tungus) tongue.

Dmitry Sumarokov suggested that the music accompanying the song be written with Eastern influence, or may be with the mood of Chinese tradition. Of course that music should be strange and crazy – as you know, Marpl was the mad composer all the same.

I chose to write the song with the mood of Chinese tradition. However, since General MIDI does not have Chinese musical instruments, I have to use other instruments or a combination of other instruments to approximate the sounds. For examples:

Cello + trumpet approximate the sound of erhu,

trumpet + synth string1 to approximate the sound of pipe (sometimes called tida) used in rites and operas,

synthdrums to approximate the sounds of various Chinese drums.

Clavinet and Pad1 (new age) are used to approximate the sounds of different gongs

Agogo to approximate the bell used in rites

The song is a mixture of Chinese folk, rites and operas music. It does not have a fixed tempo. The song may suddenly increase in tempo and slow down unexpectedly, e.g. measures 53 - 69. This is to portray a man who suffers from hallucination and may be going in a trance and waking up repeatedly.

Click here for the story and photos of Innocent's Old Fiddle

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