Methods developed while preparing ten movements of an independently adjustable rehearsal aid for Handel's Dixit Dominus (HWV 232). Read the documents online or download the original Markdown. The methods are shared so other musicians and developers can learn from, adapt and improve the workflow.
Read first: current production settings
Some values within these source documents are historical. Movement 3 is now final at solo 0.7665 / piano 1.4741 (master 1.0000); Movement 10 piano is 1.7786. The modular-player and piano reference documents cover examples through Movement 8. See all current-status notes.
Rehearsal-aid methods
Full project workflow, performer adaptation, synthesis and the Movement 10 discoveries
Through Movement 10 · Read online →Stage-1 score parser
Literal extraction from the Legge score, score geometry and validation
Parser v4 · Read online →Modular player architecture
Reusable Web Audio player, individual tracks, looping, transport and gain settings
Architecture v1 · through M8 · Read online →Répétiteur piano
Instrumental transcription, written reductions, MIDI rendering and FluidR3
Accompaniment v1 · through M8 · Read online →Sharing and attribution
Original explanatory material is offered under CC BY 4.0, with acknowledgement of Andrew Pierce. The musical score, score-derived transcriptions, recordings, voicebanks and software may carry other terms; see provenance and exceptions. This does not change the separate non-commercial sharing terms for the rehearsal recordings.
Prepared by Andrew Pierce with assistance from OpenAI ChatGPT (GPT-6, October 2026). Created with warm compliments for the Cambridge Philharmonic.