The G System Player
See below: An irrefutable computer demonstration of the G System accuracy which replaces the BASIC described in the 1st edition of the work (cf.p.91 – Annex 11 – BASIC). As a sound illustration and computer assisted demonstration, Here is the:
G SYSTEM PLAYER
>>> See lower : how to download and how to proceed
This program which has been set up with the help of Mr. Faraj ELIAS, I.T. expert, enables anyone to listen, completely free of charge, to pieces of music very simply coded: (note, duration) in a .txt file written on your computer note pad. What could be simpler? The notes refer to Western or oriental scales which have been preloaded on the left half of the player, with the 3 positions of the G System – low, middle and high – that each note of the octave may take, according to the tonality.
(See « Rules concerning positions » in the heading « Reference work »)
What does the G System player demonstrate?
By using notes coded according to the intervals and positions of the G System, and not the traditional synthesizer notes, and by producing sounds whose pitch corresponds to what we enjoy hearing, it demonstrates the accuracy and the sound basis of this system.
Try coding a piece of music on the G System Player with another system of intervals and you will hear the difference. Most musicologists (such as Alain Daniélou) have given Zarlino’s scale (also called the physicists’ scale) as their model, because it uses the first harmonics (up until the 5th) and consists of intervals which are numerically simple and pleasing: the Basic program and now the G System Player prove categorically and beyond any doubt the false pitch of intervals based on 5 belonging to the Zarlino’s system!
Having said that, dear Reader, please be indulgent towards the synthetic sounds
produced and the lack of nuance:
JUDGE ONLY THE PERFECT PITCH.
Downloading
(few clicks / few seconds)
♦ Click here to download the G System Player (PC only)
♦ Click here to download coded pieces of Western music. Refer to the list in the section: ”Western music playlist”.
♦ Click here to download code pieces of Oriental music. Refer to the list in the section: ”Oriental music playlist”.
All these pieces can be listened to directly on .mp3, without going through the G System Player. Refer to the list in the section: “To listen to: Western music” and “To listen to: Oriental music”.
Usefulness of the G System Player: it enables the notes to be displayed and to be sounded with their positions as well as their duration, without any nuances, but with changes in rhythm, slowing or accelerating, as well as lowering or raising the frequency of notes, for teaching purposes and to adapt to the pitch of everyone, high or low.
An example of encoding: Mozart, VOI CHE SAPETE, Bb major
@occidental
N = 800
$ string_2
# Bb MAJOR
# voi che sapete
sib,n
fa,c
fa,c
doh,n
fa,n
reh,n
sib,dcp
doh,tc
reh,dcp
mihb1,tc
doh,n
0,n
# donne vedete
reh,n
mihb1,c
mih3,c
fah,cp
reh,dc
sib,c
0,c
doh,n
rehb1,c
reh,c
mihb1,n
0,n
fah,c
reh,c
fah,c
reh,c
doh,c
mihb1,c
doh,c
mihb1,c
sib,n
la3,dcp
sib,tc
doh,dcp
reh,tc
sib,n
0,n
# Quello ch’io provo
# F MAJOR
doh,n
doh,c
doh,c
reh,dc
mih3,dc
fah,dc
reh,dc
doh,c
0,c
sol,cp
la,dc
sib1,c
doh,c
sib1,c
la,c
0,n
# E per me e nuovo
reh,n
mih3,c
mih3,c
fah,cp
reh,dc
la,c
0,c
la,cp
reh,dc
doh,c
si3,c
doh,n
0,n
# Sento un affetto
doh,n
doh,dc
doh,dc
fah,c
mih3,c
doh,c
sib1,c
0,c
la,n
fa,c
sib1,c
la,c
sol,c
0,n
# Ch’ora e diletto
doh,n
doh,dc
reh,dc
mih3,dc
fah,dc
fah,dc
mih3,dc
reh,dc
doh,dc
sib1,c
0,c
# F MINOR
lab1,n
sol,c
fa,c
doh,n
0,n
# Gelo e poi sento
doh,n
doh,c
doh,c
mihb,n
rehb1,n
rehb1,c
sib,c
sol,c
reb1,c
do,n
0,n
# e in un momento
mihb,c
doh,c
mihb,c
doh,c
sib,c
rehb1,c
sib,c
rehb1,c
lab1,n
doh,dc
sib,c
lab1,dc
lab1,n
0,n
# Ricerco un bene
doh,n
doh,c
doh,c
# G MINOR
doh,dc
reh,dc
mihb1,dc
reh,dc
doh,n
mihb1,n
reh,c
doh,c
sol,b-qc
0,qc
# Non son chi il tiene
mihb1,n
reh,c
dohd3,c
reh,n
sib1,n
la,n
reh,c
reh,c
sol,n
# Sospiro e gemo
0,dc
sib1,dc
sib1,dc
sib1,dc
doh,dc
sib1,dc
sib1,c
0,dc
sib1,dc
sib1,dc
sib1,dc
sol,c
0,c
# palpito e tremo
doh,c
doh,dc
doh,dc
reh,dc
doh,dc
doh,c
0,dc
doh,dc
doh,dc
doh,dc
la,n
# Non trovo pace
0,dc
reh,dc
reh,dc
reh,dc
mihb1,dc
reh,dc
reh,c
reh,c
reh,dc
reh,dc
sib1,c
sib1,c
mihb1,c
mihb1,c
mihb1,cp
fah,dc
reh,n
# F MINOR
# languir cosi
rehb1,n
doh,c
sib,c
fa,b-qc
0,qc
# Voi che sapete
# Bb MAJOR
sib,n
fa,c
fa,c
doh,n
fa,n
reh,n
sib,dcp
doh,tc
reh,dcp
mihb1,tc
doh,n
0,n
reh,n
mihb1,c
mih3,c
fah,cp
reh,dc
sib,c
0,c
doh,n
rehb1,c
reh,c
mihb1,n
0,n
fah,c
reh,c
fah,c
reh,c
doh,c
mihb1,c
doh,c
mihb1,c
sib,n
fa,cp
fa,dc
re,n
0,n
fah,c
reh,c
fah,c
reh,c
doh,c
mihb1,c
doh,c
mihb1,c
sib,n
la3,dcp
sib,tc
doh,dcp
reh,tc
sib,n
Correspondence between the names of notes
DO = C RE = D MI = E FA = F SOL = G LA = A SI = B
The G System Player : an extremely simple tool
available to everyone.
User Guide:
After downloading and unzipping the G System Player, double-click on “GSystemPlayer.exe“. It will install in just a few seconds. An icon will appear on the desktop. Double-click to open the G System Player.
In the left half, the Western scale has been pre-loaded (“Western scale”), in order to listen to pieces of Western music. If one wants to listen to Oriental music, one must choose “Oriental scale”, unless at the beginning of the piece coded appears “@oriental”, in which case the Oriental scale will automatically replace the Western scale.
You cannot intervene in the scale. But if you want to change the frequency of one or more notes or add other notes, you can do it in the .txt file of the coded piece itself (for example: A= 442 or C=A 6/5, etc.) before using these notes in the piece.
In the right half, click on the icon “Run file” in order to download the music of your choice from the “Western G System” file or the “oriental GSystem” file; if you wish, you may also click and slide the .txt file into the right half of the player.
• At the beginning of every piece, the duration of the quarter note (N) is indicated in milliseconds (an orange strip); if not N automatically takes a duration of 800, which is the one which appears in the pre-loaded scale. You can of course slow down or accelerate the rhythm by changing the duration of N in the .txt file.
• To write a comment in the .txt file: always start with # (green band).
• To predefine one or several instruments (selected from the list at the bottom left of the Player): always start with $ (purple band).
• To listen: click on the left arrow (Play/Pause) or press F5. During playback, a blue strip follows the note being played. If you click outside the Player, the blue strip disappears; it reappears as soon as you click on the Player again. To stop, click on the square Stop button or press F6.
• To listen to one or several notes, even if they are separated, select them (by holding down the Shift key or by clicking on the left column where there is no text, before sliding up or down, or by clicking in the space between the milliseconds column and the “scroll bar” in order to select by click-sliding), then click on the right arrow or press F7.
• To stop, click on the square Stop button or press F6.
• To listen with an instrument other than the predefined instruments: check the “lock” box and choose an instrument from the list.
• If you want to raise or lower the frequency of A (LA) a little and therefore all notes, you can replace the “0” at the bottom of the player, to the right of the instrument window, with 1, 2, -1, or -2, unless you go to the .txt file of the piece before loading it and add at the beginning, on a separate line: A = 442 or A = 450 or A = 435, etc. And if you want to lower or raise by a semitone, a tone, a third, etc., you would write for example: A = 440*8/9 (to lower elle the notes by a tone), or A = 440*32/27 (to raise them by a minor third), or A = 440*243/256 (to lower by a Pythagorean semitone), etc., or simply: A = 391, or 350, or 480, etc.
• To quickly find in the “note file” (left half) the definition of a note or duration from the “run file” (right half): right-click on the line of the “run file”, choose “go to definition”. For example, if you click on “sold3” (G sharp in high position), this note will appear in the “note file” next to the value: LA*21/22. If you then click on this value, you will find the value of LA: 440.
• You can move the columns of the run file so that, for example, you can place the column for durations next to the one for notes for easier reading during listening.
• You can write your own .txt files on your PC’s Notepad following the G System rules regarding positions, and listen on the Player to learn or teach (singers, choristers, violinists, etc.). Refer to the “Rules concerning positions” section in the “Reference work”
Convert to .mp3
After installing the .txt file you have written (note, duration) on the G System Player, you can save it internally to Audacity, where you can add nuances. If it is a multi-voice piece, you can record the voices one after the other on the same Audacity file, and then better synchronize the durations before working on the nuances. After that, you can save the piece in .mp3 format.
(See: “Rules concerning positions” in the “Reference Work” section.)
See the coded pieces in the “Western music playlist” section
and the “Oriental music playlist” section.