Posted on 04/28/2018 3:13:52 PM PDT by mairdie
http://www.henrylivingston.com/writing/prose/revdiary.htm
http://www.henrylivingston.com/music
Major Henry Livingston, Jr. (1744-1828), my 5th great grandfather, went with his cousin's husband, Major General Richard Montgomery, on the 1775 invasion of Canada. These were short term enlistments, so he became major of the 3rd NY in August and returned home in late December. The diary is shown along with the Hudson River School's images of the terrain. The music was transcribed from Henry Livingston's handwritten music manuscript, one of the largest such books of the period.
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Very interesting, thank you for posting about it.
Totally cool! I’m both a history and music buff, and that simply means I spend some of my time and passion on those. I’m on the right computer, but wrong operating system to play midi files at the moment but I’ll be back.
My pleasure. It was fun to do!
I am SO glad you liked it!!!
I’ve been thinking that there might be interest in my updating the music part of the site to include the original music manuscript pages and wave files for everything instead of just midi.
If I’m going back into the old Mozart files, I’d like some advice from the music people here on what changes I should be making in timing or instrumentation or whatever.
Originally, I made the site to go as a museum display. It was signed off on by the board of the museum and the director, but then a new director came in and the board chair was killed in a car accident. So the whole project fell apart. I stripped out quite a bit of the museum site before I put the rest of it up in my site, then stripped that part off into its own site - henrylivingston.com But I still have the old museum site to scavenge from.
I’m thinking of a number of other things like this I’d be able to do. I have the Orders Book of another 5th great grandfather, Col Henry Bicker, from Valley Forge. I could use different wave files from Henry. Some of the other material I’m not sure how I’d handle.
Wonderful!
Thank you, thank you! I was so afraid I was going to fall on my nose with this.
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Recessional of the Sons of the American Revolution:
“Until we meet again, let us remember our obligations to ourDr. Benjamin Franklin, when asked if we had a republic or a monarchy, replied "A Republic, if you can keep it."
forefathers who gave us our Constitution, the Bill of Rights,
an independent Supreme Court and a nation of free men.”
Very cool !
I’m really pleased you like it.
Great idea for a topic! Thanks mairdie.
Excellent, as always. I’ve read Major Livingstone’s journal in the past and it was quite enlightening to set the scene with such gorgeous landscapes.
Haven’t had much time to post lately and expect to be busy for a few more weeks but will eventually send you some ideas that might be germane to some of what you do with in the historical fields.
Here’s the elevator version for MIDI / sheet music files - I am of the opinion that the most powerful A.I. will one that works in collaboration with humans. The system which would also be applicable to hand written text, antique printed materials or, in this case sheet music would use an AI with computer vision for input and a playable MIDI file as output with corrections as needed provided by a human musician.
“Mufical fcores and hiftorical art piecef” from the original text would be automatically output as “Musical scores and historical art pieces” in fresh modern type fonts as well.
Much more to follow someday if you are interested.
Almost forgot. I mentioned this video to the GGG ping list. Now I see that SunkenCiv seems to have had the same idea.
Again, a real short version for now. What I’m hearing sounds like the basic General MIDI sound set. I would get a sampler with real instrument samples. While many of fully decked out ensembles can sell for thousands of dollars you can get much more real sounding music for a few hundred dollars or less. Kontakt Elements is around $50, MAGIX Independence Pro starts around $65, IK Multimedia Miroslav Philharmonik comes in at around $150 and sounds real nice. Expect to pay a little extra on the cheep programs to get more than the minimum compliment of instruments.
Very interesting. I have been studying some of his relatives by marriage who fought on the British side. Namely, Capt. Alexander MacDonald and Normand MacLeod.
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