Hi Michael, Sarah, and Justin ... as well as others. Thanks so so much for these leads on sources! This is SO great! I had to set aside working on this for a few days but I'm digging into it tonight and it's exciting to be pulling this material together.
Thanks for the help! :) Emily On Sat, Apr 1, 2023 at 8:46 PM Justin Godin <[email protected]> wrote: > Whelp, by the time I got here several had beaten me to the punch. It’s > amazing how many square dance tunes turn up on the session, > www.thesession.org, and the North Atlantic Tune List, www.natunelist.net > as well. If there’s stuff you can’t find even then, the Internet tune > archive www.tunearch.org is the closest thing there is to a comprehensive > database. Its predecessor, the fiddlers companion, had a lot of ABC files. > > Justin Godin > 603.566.1225 > [email protected] > > On Apr 1, 2023, at 16:48, Sarah Gowan via Musicians < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hooray for abc – it is SO useful! > > > > A lot of these abcs can be found via John Chambers’ ABC Tune Finder: > http://john-chambers.us/~jc/cgi/abc/find.cgi > > > > Mickey Koth has links to a ton of music resources, too including ABC > libraries: https://www.biteyourownelbow.com/webtunes.htm > > > > And I have a few on the SPUDS website. (Some are listed as reels, some are > still under “Couple Dance”) > > https://spuds.thursdaycontra.com/TuneLinks.html > > > > If you can’t find anything, a lot of us have our own libraries not posted > to the internet, too. > > > > > > Sarah > > > > > > > > *From: *Emily Addison via Musicians <[email protected]> > *Reply-To: *Emily Addison <[email protected]> > *Date: *Saturday, April 1, 2023 at 4:06 PM > *To: *<[email protected]> > *Subject: *[Musicians] ABC tune notation for singing squares? > > > > Hey trad dance musicians :) > > > > I was wondering if any of you have (or know if there are files) in ABC > tune notation for singing square melodies? > > > > The reason I'm wondering about ABC is that it's so easy to transpose to > different keys to accommodate vocal ranges I can pull the notation from > Ralph Sweet's book, put it into ABC notation and then transpose but if > someone has already done it, I'd rather not reinvent the wheel. Thoughts? > > > > (I've posted the same question on the trad callers listserv but I thought > I'd check with y'all as well!) > > > > The squares I'm interested in are below. > > > > Thanks :) > > Emily in Ottawa > > ================================== > > Deep in the heart of Texas > > Marching through Georgia > > The auctioneer > > Smoke on the water > > On the Trail of the lonesome pine > > Red wing > > Shindig in the Barn > > Marianne > > _______________________________________________ Musicians mailing list -- > [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Musicians mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > >
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