September 1987 — Vol 9 No 9
Source
Open original PDF • September 1987 • Vol 9 No 9 • 92 pages • $2
Overview
Tom Warrick continues as President. The PDF's extractable content was dominated by Music SIG officer announcements and Gary Hayman's "I Love Apple Music — Simple Apple Music: Part 4" musicology series.
★ Music SIG officers for the upcoming year: - Chairman: Bill Bittle - Vice-Chairman #1: Carol-Lee Erikson - Vice-Chairman #2: temporarily vacant - Membership Secretary/Treasurer: Chris Ehemann - Music Librarian: Kedenzze Carpcentre - Reporter: Ray Hobbs
Next meeting Saturday Sept 12 at 1:00 PM at the White Oak Public Library (Silver Spring, MD).
★ "I Love Apple Music — Simple Apple Music: Part 4" (Gary Hayman) — Hayman's deep dive on translating sheet-music notation to Apple BASIC music programs. Topics covered:
- Slurs vs ties — correction from Part 3 (the curved line over different-pitch notes is a slur for Legato, only same-pitch curved-line is a tie)
- Tie programming rule: extend duration of the held note by both notes' combined values
- Fermata (top-half-of-O with dot): pause/hold longer; suggested 10% duration increase
- Staccato: dot above/below note; release key at instant of sound; programming rule: reduce duration by ~30% and add silence of 10-30% of original duration after the note. Example: eighth note (duration 32) → Staccato → duration 22 + silence 10 (using pitch 1 for silence: DATA 1, 10)
This is Pi's most technically detailed series on programmatic music for Apple II — Hayman ran "I Love Apple Music" Parts 1-7+ across 1987.
Highlights
Music SIG officer slate consolidates
Bill Bittle's chairmanship marks the SIG's formalization beyond Raymond Hobbs's individual leadership (1986-06 — V08 N06 Music SIG launch).
Hayman musicology
Hayman's series translated music-theory concepts (slurs, ties, fermatas, staccato, articulation) into Applesoft BASIC DATA statement values — a unique Pi contribution to early computer-music education.
Entities
People: Tom Warrick, Bill Bittle, Carol-Lee Erikson, Chris Ehemann, Kedenzze Carpcentre, Ray Hobbs, Gary Hayman Topics: Music SIG, Apple II Music Programming, Apple Sound Synthesis References: I Love Apple Music Series, White Oak Public Library
Connections to other issues
- Music SIG officially launched 1986-06 — V08 N06 (Hobbs)
- Hayman "I Love Apple Music" Part 5 in 1987-10 — V09 N10, Part 6 1987-11 — V09 N11
- Music SIG officer model: chair + 2 VCs + Sec/Treas + Music Librarian + Reporter structure