You may remember several weeks ago, one of Bailey Summers' original songs from Jem got a very positive reception. At the time, only the lyrics existed.

When I read it, I started to get the inklings of a tune, and with Bailey's permission, have attempted writing some music for it (my first attempt at composing since GCSE Music in 1993-95!). Bailey approves, so now the next stage is to publish it here, in the hope we've got some arrangers / musicians / singers who can take Bailey's words and my melody / chords, and work some magic with them.

To that extent, I've created and uploaded a couple of midi files (which you can either play on your computer, import into a notation editor or import into a sequencer), together with a PDF containing the basic score and lyrics. All are hosted on Google Docs, so the PDF will open in your browser while the midis will bring up a download page. I can also provide it in Rosegarden's native format, musicXML, mup or a csound score on request.

N.B. I haven't worked out how to get Rosegarden to do dynamics yet, so it's all the same volume; and I'd imagine a real performance would be slightly Rubato rather than following the timing to the letter!

N.N.B. In case I haven't made it obvious, you are hereby given permission to rearrange my score, add voices / harmonies, and basically remix it however you want:

Oncology.mid (a MIDI file - computer-readable score)

Oncology2.mid (simple alternative arrangement)

Oncology.pdf (Human-readable score)

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