An unfinished masterpiece Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria in 1756. His musical talent was noticed very early. His father, Leopold Mozart, taught him music theory, keyboard technique, and the violin. (Cormican 5) He toured Europe with his father, playing for many royal families. (Cormican 8) On this tour, he absorbed the… Read more »
Posts By: William Johnston
Hymnsoft Followup
Earlier, I showed how to get Hymnsoft to work in Vista with its new security model. I now am updating some staff at my church to Windows 7 x64 and hit a different problem with Hymnsoft. As mentioned previously, Hymnsoft is a 16 bit application, a relic (if you saw this word and chuckled, you… Read more »
Theory II Listening Assignment – Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6
Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany in 1770. His works are traditionally divided into three periods. In his early period, he focused on imitating classical style, although his personal characteristics of darker pieces, motivic development, and larger forms are already evident or foreshadowed. In his middle period, he is beginning to go deaf,… Read more »
Multi-resolution calendar using CSS3
I am trying to write examples of how a truly resolution independent website would be written if you only had to worry about modern, standards-compliant browsers. This is a grid calendar that collapses into a list when the browser window shrinks beyond a certain point. The idea is to create (without javascript if possible) a… Read more »
Theory II Listening Assignment – Mozart’s 40th Symphony
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria in 1756. His musical talent was noticed very early, and his father, Leopold Mozart, taught him music theory and how to play the keyboard and violin. He toured Europe with his father, playing for many royal families. On this tour, he absorbed many national styles of music… Read more »
Thaxted Harmonization
This is a four-part harmonization for Thaxted. It is one of my first voice-leading works, so there are some issues with parts being difficult to sing. I think it would be quite beautiful sung, although difficult. I intended it for use as an alternate harmonization for Jerusalem the Golden. Thaxted is the chorale melody from… Read more »
Arrangement of Cradle Song (Away in a Manger)
I recently arranged a four part harmonization of the tune cradle song. Not all that interesting, except that I am experimenting with diminished triads and 7th chords. I think it came out rather nicely. The motivation was a lame arrangement that was brought home by a sibling from a Christmas program. Feedback anyone? Cradle Song.ly – Lilypond… Read more »
Music History I – Martin Luther, the German Reformation, and their impact on sacred music.
Martin Luther Martin Luther, leader of the German Reformation, was a gifted tenor, flutist, lutenist, poet, and composer (Schalk, 19 – 20). He admired and extensively used polyphonic music from the Netherlands, particularly that of Josquin des Pres (Bainton, 268) (Grout, 214). Luther personally composed and arranged at least 10 chorales (Bainton, 266-267). When… Read more »
Where in Cyberspace are the Carmen Sandiego Game Devs?
I have been trying to get Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego working on my school’s computers for a while. I decided to go in deep over Christmas break. Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego (CSUSA from now on) comes in 3 main versions. 3.0, 3.5, and 4.0 School Edition. The major changes… Read more »
Hymnsoft Vista compatability
NEWS FLASH!!!! SOFTWARE RELEASED IN 2007 MAKES IT HARD TO USE SOFTWARE DESIGNED BEFORE 1995. I really want to know why NPH is still using and maintaining Hymnsoft in its current form. Hymnsoft is a piece of software that allows church faculty to have the LW hymnal in electronic form. Really cool program. Only one… Read more »