I was playing with the calliope voice on a synthesizer, and out came this silly, drunken thing. My mom added the counterpoint and lyrics that come in after the intro.
Happy birthday, baby,
Have a happy day.
Celebrate your birthday
In some crazy way.
You can download the MIDI file from which the QuickTime movie was made.
MIDIGraphy is a pretty good shareware MIDI editor for Mac. I used it to touch up the MIDI file.
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Sheet music, MIDI file, QuickTime movie, and other media realizations of this piece are also copyrighted by this author. Permission required for performance or republication in any form — or democratization for that matter.