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Toccata & Fugue
We're all familiar with Bach's
splendid Toccata and Fugue. It's the
one played by every evil scientist in
every B horror movie ever filmed.
It's also one of OUR favorite organ
works.
That's why we went to the trouble
of teaching our Commodore how to play
it.
This particular version of the
Toccata has an interesting (to us)
history which we are about to share
with you. If you'd rather listen to
the music than learn its rich and
varied history, please feel free to
back out of this article and do so.
We'll never know the difference.
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! The computer history of !
! Bach's Toccata and Fugue !
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This particular version of the
Toccata and Fugue made its first
public appearance in the March, 1983
issue of Softdisk, Loadstar's parent
magazine. Ken Fehrmann originally
transcribed it using a program called
"Electric Duet" by Paul Lutus.
The music lay neglected for two and
a half years. In the meantime,
Softdisk gave birth to Loadstar and
Loadstar grew robust and healthy.
Then the people at Softdisk realized
that they could transfer programs,
pictures, and text directly (well,
nearly so) from the Apple to the
Commodore 64 and publish them on both
magazines. They did it with
Mathematical Reflections. They did
it with the Halley's Comet series.
They even did it with Movie Mogul.
Gosh, they were happy about all the
work they saved!
But then Jim Weiler started
thinking about sound. Why couldn't
they transfer MUSIC from the Apple to
the Commodore 64? He tried it and
found out that he could! The only
problem was that there was no way to
make the Commodore 64 translate the
musical files into musical sounds.
So he sat himself down and devised a
way. That way is called Q&D DUET
PLAY, or as it appears on this issue,
Q&D PLAY 32768. It is a machine code
program that translates the data in
the musical files into real, audible
notes.
So now he had a way to play music
-- what music should he play? Why
not pick his favorite organ piece?
And while he was at it, why not a
bunch of Christmas music to fit the
season, too?
Well, he didn't see any reason not
to, so he did.
Then he looked around at all the
Apple music scattered about the
Softdisk offices and thought to
himself, 'Gee, what a lot of music we
could transfer over to the Commodore
64! We've got enough for YEARS!'
And indeed, we do. In the next
sixty or seventy issues of Loadstar
you can expect to hear some of the
over three hundred songs we found.
If there's enough interest, we may
even be able to convince Jim to put
together a whole disk full of music.
Who knows?
Now, get out there and listen!
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