Fireside Rêverie

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#003333" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="03cd4c00dduajq.gif"> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="95" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 46 WIDTH="91"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="46" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="91" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0da96730.jpg" border=0 width="150" height="115" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <U>Fireside R</U><U>ê</U><U>verie</U></div> <div> Winter: staring dreamily  into the hypnotic flames of an open fire, aware of the cold wind, the falling snow and the bare, icy landscape a few feet away beyond the closed curtains. The flames begin to blur as images of bittersweet memories flood the mind's eye. Recollections of warmer, carefree times stretching back through the years. Glad to remember, yet a gladness tinged with a faint halo of sadness,  knowing  that those times are gone forever and that they exist now only in the hearts and minds of those who lived them and  within the glowing embers and flames in the hearth. Then, as swiftly as the fleeting images came, they melt and fade, and the dancing flames become once more a stark reminder of the wind, the snow, and the ice outside.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="0dc96730.jpg" border=0 width="150" height="115" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>John B.Sullivan</B><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#333399" FACE="Arial" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > (mistersynth)</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Fireside Rêverie</div> <div> This is an old piece of mine originally originally created in Notator SL using my Yamaha SY85 in November 1993. I used sounds which I created especially for the piece and although they were vaguely reminiscent of orchestral sounds it's only since I've had GPO that I've had the chance to re-record it as a truly orchestral piece. The instrumentation is shown below. The only non-GPO instrument in the piece, and which comes in during the repeat of the middle section as a counter-melody to the solo Oboe, is the "Gt Pinch" patch from Cakewalk's TTS Softsynth which is bundled with Sonar 4, the sequencer I used to create this version. An electric guitar might not, at first thought, be the most suitable of instruments to duet with an oboe, but I think it fits remarkably well here.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> GPO </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>  <OBJECT ID="MediaPlayer1" CLASSID="CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95" CODEBASE="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab# Version=5,1,52,701" STANDBY="Loading Microsoft Windows® Media Player components..." TYPE="application/x-oleobject" width="280" height="46"> <param name="fileName" value="http://www.sullivanweb.co.uk/music/Fireside Reverie.m3u"> <param name="animationatStart" value="true"> <param name="transparentatStart" value="true"> <param name="autoStart" value="false"> <param name="showControls" value="true"> <param name="Volume" value="-300"> <embed type="application/x-mplayer2" pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/" src="http://www.sullivanweb.co.uk/music/music.m3u" name="MediaPlayer1" width=280 height=46 autostart=0 showcontrols=1 volume=-300> </OBJECT>  </div> <div> <B>Fireside Rêverie</B></div> <div> <B> </B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.garritan.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.garritan.com/"><U><B>Garritan Personal Orchestra</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>If the above player/link doesn't work, please try </B><A HREF="http://www.sullivanweb.co.uk/Lazy/Lazy Tango.mp3" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.sullivanweb.co.uk/Lazy/Lazy T"><U><B>here</B></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>    <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="http://m1.nedstatbasic.net/basic.js"> </script> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">  </script> <noscript> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.nedstatbasic.net/stats?ADbjAwuW2ak5/6Kh5XIPizuAsELw"><img src="http://m1.nedstatbasic.net/n?id=ADbjAwuW2ak5/6Kh5XIPizuAsELw" border="0" width="18" height="18" alt="Nedstat Basic - Free web site statistics Personal homepage website counter"></a><br> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.nedstatbasic.net/">Free counter</a> </noscript>   </B></I></div> </td> </tr></table></body>