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September 2010:
Pitch, Time Delay and Frequency Conversion Tool
A Javascript GUI tool has been added to the Document Archive.
Musical Pitch is converted into MIDI Key parameters and Frequency.
Also, for a given Time Delay the comb filter Cancelling Frequencies
are calculated.
Go to the Pitch,
Time Delay and Frequency conversion page
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Go to the Document Archive
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July 2010:
Singer Stephanie Kramer in the recording studio
In the first week of this month the young talent and dedicated singer Stephanie Kramer will be in the studio to record the lead vocal tracks of the song Identiteit Harenkarspel (a song about the identity of the Harenkarspel village community).
The closing song from the Harenkarstival 2008 music and theatre production will be released in a new audio and video production. It will support the local festivities during the annual North-Holland fair season in August 2010.
Play the movie on YouTube >>
June 2010: MIDI keyboard and controller to sound mapping
In the PDF section of the document archive, find a 28 page booklet
with MIDI keyboard (note and key velocity) and controller (modulation wheel)
to sound library mapping for the Logic EXS24 sampler instrument and the
Native Instruments Kontakt and Battery sample player.
Go to the MIDI Keyboard and Controller to Sound Mapping document
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Go to the Document Archive
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May 2010: Create symmetrical 12-tone series
A new JavaScript GUI has been added to the document archive. This
generates either retrograde or retrograde-inversion
symmetrical twelve-tone series.
Go to the symmetrical
12-tone series page
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Go to the Document Archive
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March 2010: Search tool added
A search tool has been added to facilitate searching and navigating
this Website. Enter a search string and get the most relevant links.
Go to the Search tool
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December 2009: Harenkarstival movie on YouTube
The film Harenkarspel Dorpstaferelen
(Harenkarspel Village Scenes) from the 2008 Harenkarstival
theatre and music project has been published on YouTube.
Play the movie on YouTube >>
November 2009: Interviews in the Metro Friends magazine
The current issue of the Metro Friends magazine
(Jaargang 12, Nr. 23, September 2009) contains more
articles in a series of interviews with composers/arrangers:
In the Document Archive (PDF section), there is also a new article about harmonic technique: the combination of two layers of three-part chord structures in perfect 5ths, with chord classification, analysis and application examples (pdf, 8 pp.). And there's a new, extended version of the Pitch-Class set graphical toolkit.
August 2009: New composer tool in the document archive
This GUI demonstrates vibrating string natural harmonics:
June 2009: New composer tools in the document archive
Two new Javascript GUI pages have been added to the Composer Toolbox in the Document Archive:
May 2009: Composer Interviews in the Metro Friends magazine
The current issue of the Metro Friends magazine (Jaargang 12, Nr. 22, April 2009) contains the first two articles in a series of interviews with composers/arrangers (this Website presents the English version of the interviews):
March 2009: Tonal Counterpoint Examples (Booklets)
A number of PDF booklets has been added to the Document Archive.
These contain marked tonal counterpoint examples (2 to 4 voices, 1st to
5th species). This collection will be extended in the near future.
Go to the Counterpoint
Examples page >>
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December 2008: Articles published in Metro Friends Journal
The current issue of the Metro Friends magazine (Jaargang 11, Nr. 21, December 2008) features the string section and harp from the Metropole Orkest. It contains five interviews with orchestra musicians (in Dutch):
November 2008: New free documents available
The following documents have been added to the document library:
September 2008: More information available in Dutch
Now a number of pages on this website is also available in Dutch:
Biografie/Introductie
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Toelichting
bij mijn muziek voor fanfare en harmonie-orkest
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Een
overzicht van het Harenkarstival 2008 Project >>
June 2008: Articles published in Metro Friends Journal
The forthcoming issue of the Metro Friends magazine
(Jaargang 11, Nr. 20, June 2008) contains an episode
from my Metropole Orkest weblog (Jan 24, 2008: Metropole
Orkest Big Band with Peter Erskine at the Bimhuis) and
a portrait of saxophone player Leo Janssen (in Dutch).
Go to the Metropole Orkest Weblog on this website >>
Go to the Leo Janssen portrait on this website >>
March 2008: Website restyled
The page layout of this website used to be defined with 'tables' (shame, shame, I know). Finally, time was invested to do a redesign with 'div' elements, more consistent XHTML, and update the layout by modifying the CSS style file. The result is a more standardized page layout, see e.g., the Music Data Sheets in the compositions and arrangements lists (these used to open in a new window, in black and white). And, by the way, in the document archive there is now a fresh document about Schillinger's Hybrid 5- and 4-Part Harmony technique.
November 2007: Website moved to the new domain
The website no longer resides at the old location. It was time to register my own domain name and to change provider. I needed more disk space for the MP3 audio archive (see the news in July 2007). I hope that some of you will create a link or update existing links to this new domain (www.fransabsil.nl). That will certainly help to increase visibility in search engine results.
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September 2007: Three articles submitted to the Metro Friends journal.
The forthcoming issue of the Metro Friends magazine (Jaargang 10, Nr. 19, December 2007) contains three articles (in Dutch) that I have submitted for publication:
Go to the Metropole Orkest Weblog on this website >>
For more detailed information: go to the Metro Friends (Stichting Vrienden van het Metropole Orkest) website www.metrofriends.nl. Free copies of this journal are available at most of the Metropole Orkest concerts. Or even better: become a MetroFriend yourself!
July 2007: MP3 Audio Excerpt Archive created
This website contains score excerpts since it was created a couple of
years ago. Now, after several requests, an archive with MP3 audio
fragments has been added. There are several categories of music, with
either real bands performing the music, or with low-fidelity MIDI to
audio mixes.
Go to the mp3 audio excerpts page >>
April 2007: Music publisher Mythen-Hollanda stops the distribution of my music
After eight years the music publisher Mythen-Hollanda has stopped the distribution of my music. So I will take care of the business myself now. Relevant information about the music for fanfare and symphonic wind band (score and audio excerpts, musical guidance and pricing information) is available on these pages.
Go to the Guide to my Music for Fanfare and Concert Band >>
December 2006: Harenkarspel Music Project 2008 Weblog created
My involvement in the "Harenkarspel Muziekproject 2008" has triggered
the creation of a weblog (in Dutch). In monthly episodes I will
report the progress of the project and my contribution as composer
of the music for that event. Note: [JUN2008] The weblog is closed
and has been replaced by an overview of this project.
Go to the Harenkarstival 2008 Overview >>