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Thanks for sharing this! My sister and I used to love listening to this song on our Gateway 2000 when we were kids.
by mrblampo 5y ago
Thanks for sharing this! My sister and I used to love listening to this song on our Gateway 2000 when we were kids.
- littlebentoo 5y ago> listening to this song Song? It’s just music there’s no singing in it. Midi is an instrumental only declarative format.
- underwater 5y agoHow am I only just learning that a a piece of music is only a song if it has vocals? Even the name makes that obvious.
- frogulis 5y agoCalling instrumental pieces "songs" does exist in real-life common usage even if it's not "technically" correct. After all, the ancestor post did just that. Depends how prescriptive you want to be.
- mkl 5y agoA classical music lecture series I listened to [1] claimed this came about because that's what iTunes calls all tracks/pieces/songs. Seems plausible, but probably other MP3 players did the same thing too. [1] Sorry, no link, don't remember what exactly it was.
- markshead 5y agoFelix Mendelssohn wrote a collection of pieces called Songs without Words for the piano. This might suggest that the term "song" can be more nuanced than simply whether or not there are vocals.
- rob74 5y agoThe original German title is "Lieder ohne Worte" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_Without_Words https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_Without_Words), and there is AFAIK no strict requirement for lyrics to count as a "Lied" (or at least "Lied" is not connected to "singen" the way "song" is connected to "sing").
- jrootabega 5y agoNo no no, the second letter functions like a power button. i means on, and o means off. "Song" means the vocals are off.
- GaylordTuring 5y ago> Midi is an instrumental only declarative format. There's nothing stopping you from using midi data to generate singing: https://youtu.be/Ab4zUFKxVpk?t=87 https://youtu.be/Ab4zUFKxVpk?t=87
- mrblampo 5y agoHere's a much weirder example of using midi data to generate singing: https://youtu.be/ZY6h3pKqYI0 https://youtu.be/ZY6h3pKqYI0
- bartvk 5y agoThat is low-key terrifying. And amazing, too.
- smcl 5y agoHere's another nice example of this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRlhKaxcKpA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRlhKaxcKpA
- BoxOfRain 5y agoThis is absolutely terrifying and I hate it. Congratulations to the author, it's very interesting!
- TheOtherHobbes 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant-Q_transform https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant-Q_transform
- mrblampo 5y agoBoooo.
- littlebentoo 5y agoWhat does that mean?
- mrblampo 5y agoSorry, I may have been making unfair assumptions about your intent with your comment about the definition of "song." Let's assume that you are just eager to help me understand proper usage of the term. Thank you for pointing this out. I'm aware of the distinction, but was making a choice to ignore it, because I think most people ignore it. And when I was a kid playing around with Windows 3.1 I definitely would have called it a song.
- pjbeam 5y agoSince when does a song require singing..?
- Biganon 5y agoIt's literally in the name
- mekkkkkk 5y agoWords can expand from their original meanings, you know. Look at any music player or just everyday speech, you'll see "song" being used to refer to a discrete unit of music in the same way you could use "track" or "tune".
- Biganon 5y agoMaybe, but we can still protest against changes when they are silly. Nobody in French would call Debussy's Clair de Lune "une chanson", why should the English language be oversimplified? Also, good music players use the word "track", and one song (or other musical piece) can span over multiple tracks, e.g. Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother.
- mekkkkkk 5y agoIt's not about simplification, it's just the way language works and evolves. Like how "track" originally referred to the literal engraved track on a phonograph record, yet you claim that that's obviously the correct term for a musical piece. At one point someone argued like you do now about that word.
- jay-anderson 5y agoI've sung or hummed along to canyon.mid a time or two. We're good. The meaning of the word 'song' has expanded in popular usage. I play the horn (french horn) and I smile an nod when someone calls a clarinet a horn.