Cantata 147

When my previous boss and good friend, Robert Lachance, decided to retire, we organised a little surprise happening for him, in which music was to be the participation theme for everybody attending. As I knew that Robert loves Bach's choral from Cantate 147, I made a special version of it, available here. You may browse the Lilypond source, see the resulting score and hear the derived MIDI file.

Don't be surprised by the lyrics, if your MIDI tool happens to show them. I've changed them all for the special circumstance! ☺

As an experiment, I physically connected the output of a MIDI synthesiser (a Roland JV-1080) to the input line of the sound card, while simultaneously using the same sound card to generate MIDI events running the synthesiser. A few simple ALSA commands, and prompto it worked: I could grab the generated audio data, which you may use it to compare and evaluate your own MIDI file renderer. Here it is either as an MP3 file, or a much bigger WAV file.