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Welcome to The Pianist.
To start the program after installing - close this window and then click
on the Pianist ICON .
If your system has only 2mb memory total, see the bottom of this note
for tips on maximizing performance.
The Pianist is a Music Program containing a huge collection of over 200 of
the world's most popular classical piano pieces, performed by world-class
concert pianists!
Plus... Music Trivia Game,"Guess the Song", Program Notes, Biographies,
Music Dictionary (all on disk).... and much more.
All the pieces have been recorded "in real time " by concert pianists on
an 88 note weighted MIDI piano keyboard. They are never quantized or step
recorded. All are complete artistic performances professionally performed,
recorded and saved as Standard MIDI files. You'll hear the music playing
with CD-quality through your sound card or MIDI system, just as if the
pianist was in your home.
All your favorite Pieces such as...
Moonlight Sonata, Sonata Path tique, Claire de Lune, Liebestraume, Minute
Waltz, Mephisto Waltz, Islamey, Hungarian Rhapsody, Flight of the
Bumblebee, Nutcracker, Fantasie Impromptu, Military Polonaise... and over
200 more!!!
All your favorite Composers...
Now you can have all the greatest works by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms,
Chopin, Debussy, Faur , Granados, Grainger, Grieg, Haydn, Joplin, Liszt,
Mendelssohn, Mozart, Mussogorsky, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Ravel, Satie,
Scarlatti, Schumann, Schubert, Scriabin, Tchaikovsky & many more.
Sort & play music by:
Composer Name, type of piece, historic period, mood, difficulty, title or
create your own personal "favorites files".
Play single selections or sets of your favorite pieces or composers
Have some Fun!
Play the Music Trivia Game with over 400 Questions about the music, the
piano, and the composers.
Or play the "Guess That Song" Game - the program selects and plays a piece
at random for you to guess.
Educate yourself about the composers and their music
Program Notes -Each piece has a memo describing the piece, with descriptive
anecdotes & musical points. Composer Biographies & Pictures describe the
lives & times of the composers. On-screen Music Dictionary explains the
musical terms.
Learn how to Play the MUSIC
On-screen piano keyboard lets you see the music as it's played. Learn the
music by watching the on-screen keyboard or slowing down the performance.
Other functions: Stop/Pause/Rewind/Slow Motion/Tempo Changes/
Transposition/Volume/Velocity.
Play the music while you work in other programs!
Playback continues in the background of other programs so you can listen to
your favorite music while you work.
You can also use the Pieces in your other Music Programs or for your
presentations
Since the pieces are saved as Standard MIDI files, you can use these
fabulous performances in your other music programs or as background
music for presentations, music for telephone on-hold, etc.
Use your Existing sound card or MIDI synthesizer
Plays the music back through your existing MIDI synthesizer, digital
piano or sound module. Windows users can playback through their SoundCard
(Roland, SoundBlaster, etc.)
From PG Music
Phone orders: 1-800-268-6272 or 1-416-528-2368 or 1-905-528-2368
VISA/MC/AMEX/cheque/mo/po# Fax 1-416-628-2541 or 1-905-628-2541
PG Music Inc. 266 Elmwood Avenue Suite 111 Buffalo NY 14222
For your
PC Soundcard or MIDI system
Requirements: Windows (IBM) 2mb RAM memory,Windows 3.1, Soundcard
(Roland, SoundBlaster, etc.) or MIDI system with piano sound, 3.5" or 5.25"
high density Floppy Disk, 3.5 mb hard drive space required.
Mac and Atari versions also available.
Users with 2mb total RAM memory.
The Pianist runs on systems with 2mb memory . Users with 2mb should
consider the following :
You will find that the operation is much more efficient when more
memory is available to the program. You can make more memory available
to the Pianist by disabling the Dictonary and Biography files. To do this
execute the following from the DOS prompt:
rename Bio*.txt Bio*.sav
rename Diction*.txt Diction*.sav
This will improve operation for users with 2mb. Users with 3mb or more
don't need to do this.
************* DOS USERS *********************
If you don't have Windows, and want to use the files from DOS, then
type INSTDOS.BAT to see the READDOS.DOC file for installation instructions.
*********************************************
Have Fun !
Peter Gannon
PG Music Inc.