I can recommend some additional sources for professional, classical accompaniments, vocal and instrumental.
Rehearsalnet
Timothy Hester, a fabulous pianist, is the director of accompanying in the music department at the U. of Houston. He runs a terrific program that trains pianists in this art. In addition to teaching, he schedules young pianists to work with instrumentalist and vocal students during lessons and performances. But, there are never enough pianists to go around, 24 hours of the day, 7 days a week.
So, Maestro Hester records lots of accompaniments on Disklavier and makes them available for student use. Gradually, he is making this library available to the outside world commercially. And, he will record pieces on request.
Check out the options at:
www.rehearsalnet.com
www.YamahaMusicSoft.com
You can find albums of Italian and French Art Songs recorded on Disklavier at this site as well as 6 volumes of flute accompaniments.
MusAcom
A few years ago, this company recorded hundreds of accompaniments for classical vocal solos on Disklavier. They put together rather impressive packages that included diction CDs and other materials in addition to the Disklavier recordings. I am not sure whether the Disklavier recordings are available separately, and I find the web site a bit confusing. However, if you are serious about classical vocal music, I strongly recommend that you contact this company:
www.rehearsalnet.com
Double-Reed Accompaniments
You can find hundreds of excellent MIDI accompaniments (recorded on Clavinova) for double-reed instruments at:
Regards,
PianoBench
On Jan 9, 2006, at 10:46 PM, FRASER RUBENS wrote:
there are many of us who would be thrilled and would pay good money for classical vocal accompaniments....Fraser Rubens----- Original Message -----Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 4:35 PMSubject: Re: [disklavier] disklavier as accompanist?Good afternoon, everyone.
Additional comments:
Pianist and well known Suzuki accompanist Linda Perry (music
professor at Southern Ill. U.) recorded piano accompaniments to the
first 6 volumes of Suzuki violin music. You can find these volumes at
many string dealers, such as Shar (www.sharmusic.com).
You don't have to be a Suzuki student to appreciate most of these
recordings. The upper level books are comprised of standard violin
literature. Best of all, they were recorded on Disklavier and
therefore sound great on playback.
They are published by Warner Bros., now part of Alfred Music
(www.alfred.com).
Note, further, that many Disklaviers have an auxiliary pedal input.
You can use a volume pedal (like a Yamaha FC7) or a foot-switch pedal
(like a Yamaha FC4 or 5) to control start and stop with your foot. If
you use the volume pedal, you can also adjust the tempo. See the
links below.
Regards,
PianoBench
FC7
http://www.yamaha.com/yamahavgn/CDA/ContentDetail/ModelSeriesDetail/
0,,CNTID%253D363%2526CNTYP%253DPRODUCT,00.html
FC5
http://www.yamaha.com/yamahavgn/CDA/ContentDetail/ModelSeriesDetail/
0,,CNTID%253D393%2526CTID%253D204600,00.html
FC4
http://www.yamaha.com/yamahavgn/CDA/ContentDetail/ModelSeriesDetail/
0,,CNTID%253D392%2526CTID%253D204600,00.html
On Jan 9, 2006, at 4:02 PM, Robert Welcyng wrote:
> Your plan sounds feasible. You realize, of course, that there is a
> great deal of interaction that goes on between a performer and a live
> accompanist. That is, the live accompanist will respond to your cues
> and will adjust her tempo and dynamics to your playing. Being a
> robot,
> the Disklavier will do the leading and you will be following. That may
> work all right for you, but you may find it strange at first..
>
> In playing piano duets, with the Disklavier as my partner, I have
> found
> that it is helpful to place a bar or two of countdown notes at the
> head
> of the MIDI file. That allows me to sync with the Disklavier and to
>; give me time to move my hand from the Disklavier's Play Button to the
> keyboard.
>
> You will want MIDI files that were recorded on a Disklavier.
> Generally,
> the free stuff that you might find on Internet is worth just what you
> pay for it. To sound musical, a MIDI file must match the
> characteristics of a Disklavier. Your best strategy would be to have a
> live accompanist accompany you on your Disklavier while you record the
> session to disk or hard drive. You can later add countdown bars to
> the
> file. The Disklavier also gives you the advantage of being able to
> adjust the tempo of the accompaniment for your practice sessions.
>
> Good luck!
>
> penman2803 wrote:
>
>> I am a violinist interested in purchasing a disklavier. One of the
>> uses I would be interested in exploring is the possibility of
>>; using the
>> disklavier to provide violin accompaniments. Can anyone tell me if
>> piano accompaniment midi files (without the violin part) are
>>; available
>> for disklavier, or generally if the disklavier can be used in this
>> way?
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