Anselm Lingnau writes: | | My little project is ABCifying the tunes from the RSCDS dance books. | Some of the tunes have a second voice every so often (say, in four | bars out of twenty-four), and the »&« feature saves me a lot of typing | in [V:2] bits that are mostly empty.
Hey, glad to see you're doing this. I've volunteered in the past, but the RSCDS didn't respond. So I've just done a lot of them in my own way, which usually amounts to extracting just the melody and ignoring bass lines and decorative "voicelets". And adding my own chords (or simplifying theirs). And comparing the tunes with other books, to get a merged version. So my collection isn't a faithful transcription of the RSCDS booklets. If you're trying to transcribe the entire RSCDS versions of tunes, you might want to start commenting here about the abc limitations. You'll probably see a lot of them. Keyboard music is the worst case. I've also mentioned the idea of an RSCDS ABC project in the strathspey list, but it always seems to morph into a discussion of the possible copyright problems. I suspect that this is a red herring. People contribute their tunes and dances to the RSCDS because they want them played and danced, not because they expect to collect royalties. I'll predict that not a single tune or dance deviser will object to having them online. And your if your site has any impact on sales of the booklet, it will be a small increase due to the publicity. (I'm assuming that you'll include "www.rscds.org" in each tune's header. ;-) Are you doing the dance descriptions, too? That's a LOT of typing. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
