Has JC's ABC Tunefinder been mentioned on these listings before? You type in the name of the tune and it will crawl the web loking for music with that title in a variety of formats (including ABC and MIDI). What's really excellent about it is that if you know how a tune goes but not its title you can still search for it. This is done by entering the beginning of a tune's perl pattern instead of its title.
The perl pattern represents the direction the pitch goes from note to note: 'u' for up and 'd' for down. Adjacent notes with the same pitch are ignored. So the beginning of the perl pattern for Waltzing Matilda is dduudduuddduuud (ignoring the leading notes). Searching on a perl pattern can be a little hit and miss, because it depends on whether the ABC files on the internet match the variant of the tune that you enter. But you may be lucky if you dont know a tune's name. I dont know how all this it stands in terms of copyright, but from a functional point of view, it complements a tune list very well. Here's the link: http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/tunefind And if you've not got software to convert ABC to manuscript, the on-line converter from the concertina community will do the job nicely: just cut and paste the ABC into the space provided. It will even generate a MIDI file so that you can listen to the tune as well: http://www.concertina.net/tunes_convert.html Mike -----Original Message----- From: Simon Wascher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 April 2008 14:09 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [HG] Music Hello, by the way, why not just put a list of popular tunes together, just now, on the list. It would be helpfull for many and easily done. For the trad tunes linking to sheetmusic, abc and midi and to put it online is half an hour of editing. I can and offer the html code to every one who wants to have this too. Just titles composer and danceform. I guess it all starts with: basic common Central French dance repertoire list (title to be discussed) LaGrande'Bête (copyrighted) Man in a brown Hat (presumably copyrighted) Scottish à Virmoux Ganivelle (presumably copyrighted) AdeleBlanc-Sec (presumably copyrighted) Derrière les carreaux (presumably copyrighted) Scottish à Servant Bourrée du Plaix (presumably copyrighted) Les Poules Huppées (copyrighted) Tiennet (presumably copyrighted) Bourrée Droite La Bourrée Tournante Polka à Plumet Fubu Mazurka (presumably copyrighted) Mazurka à Chabenat (copyrighted) Bourréede Cusset L'Orientale (presumably copyrighted) Carrée de Vouvray (presumably copyrighted) Last Chance Bourrée (presumably copyrighted) Ton Ruban Bleu Bourrée dite Aurore Sand Derrière chez nous Valse à Bouffard (presumably copyrighted) Les Patins Blancs (presumably copyrighted) Valse a Cadet The Atholl Highlanders How to procede: add to the list what you think is missing, mark tunes you do not recognize or otherwise think are not suitable. I think such a list should not be too long, how long should be discussed, my guess is a maximum of 40 tunes, supposedly split into bourree a deux temps, bourree a trios temps, scotish, mazurka, valse, polka, 6/8 (to be discussed). kind regards, Simon --- have a look at: http://hurdygurdywiki.wiki-site.com http://drehleierwiki.wiki-site.com --- my site: http://simonwascher.info This email, including any attachment, is a confidential communication intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. It contains information which is private and may be proprietary or covered by legal professional privilege. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender upon receipt, and immediately delete it from your system. Anything contained in this email that is not connected with the businesses of this company is neither endorsed by nor is the liability of this company. Whilst we have taken reasonable precautions to ensure that any attachment to this email has been swept for viruses, we cannot accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of software viruses, and would advise that you carry out your own virus checks before opening any attachment.
