I finally have copies of the "Embro, Embro" CD-ROM available: <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/embro/>
One reader of this list has paid me for a copy, but never sent me his address and I can't find him in the phonebook - if I don't see you this week, you know who you are... Here's the blurb (basically the above page made into plain text): ============================================ Embro, Embro the hidden history of Edinburgh in its music Jack Campin ============================================ A CD-ROM of the music of Edinburgh, containing: * 250 song texts * 750 computer-playable and printable tunes (ABC, GIF, and QuickTime formats) * hundreds of pages of historical commentary * designed so you can print songs or tunes as you need them * ABC software so you can adapt the tunes yourself The songs and tunes are from manuscripts, broadsides, old sheet music and rare books. Many have never been published before, or not reprinted for centuries. Their background is researched from equally unusual sources. The histories of Edinburgh and Scottish music have never been seen this way before. songs on Burke and Hare regimental farewells temperance songs mine disaster ballads a fanfare for announcing death sentences a hymn tune named after your street songs of famine street cries 14 tunes and a song about Edinburgh's bridges seven pieces about wells satires on George IV and Queen Victoria songs of the witches what Queen Anne wanted to do with the Scottish royal sceptre children's games tunes for the old trade guilds songs by Lady Nairne reels by Anon the music of the Porteous Riot songs about golf and curling a Chartist anti-war song a beer commercial of 1839 a hymn for repentant prostitutes a strathspey by a 19th century busker a reel by an 18th century earl a lynch mob song songs about newfangled electric street lights a jig about theatrical censorship a Tory song against the right to vote centuries of military incompetence set to music supernatural ballads football songs police marches fishermen's songs tunes for bankers feminist songs Masonic tunes four-part hymn settings prison songs tunes for fiddle, pipes, lute, piano, harp, flute, fifes, recorder, trumpet, bugle and guitar multiple versions of tunes back to their earliest forms sex, drink, drugs, bigotry and mindless violence songs in Scots, English, Gaelic and French the astonishing stories behind familiar tunes learn which character famed in folksong had three testicles period reportage, polemic and poetry Scots glossary unequalled chronology of the city's history Macintosh and Windows/ISO dual-format. Needs a web browser (not supplied; almost any web browser, even text-only). Works fast even on very old and low-spec computers. Long-term support with free updates via the Internet for registered users. No tricky code; won't turn into a beermat in five years' time from software incompatibilities. Contents ======== Introduction Scottish music as urban music The Smoke and Utter Ruin of the Bloody City of Edinburgh the town as viewed from outside Just As Good As You, Sir arrivals and welcomes Who's Got Feet Like Arthur's Seat? places around the city The Oldest Cheeses Have the Most Mites great families and big houses Sluttish, Nasty and Slothful the people of Edinburgh If My Heart It Should Break, I Wad Never Get Free work, trades and occupations Dangerous and Filthy Demonstrations of Tumultuous Joy sport, play, fun and the arts I Thought It Lang To Lie My Lane love and sex Hushie Ba My Bairnie mothers, children and school Buy My Caller Herrin street life, street cries and street music To Brotherhood Great Powers Belong clubs, cliques and conspiracies Oh, Let Me Aff This Ae Time crime, police and the law There's Nae Germs Aboot the Hoose disease and disaster Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego As Anarchists religion and the Kirk The Fairest Tapestry That Ever I Saw war and the army When Order and Law May Be Safely Defied politics, riot and repression The Flowers of Edinburgh a miscellany of tunes Sad's the Day I Ran Away From Edinburgh Town departures and farewells Appendices Chronology A Calendar of Edinburgh Celebrations Scots Glossary User Guide Ordering Information ==================== 19.50 pounds (including postage & packing to Europe or North America). Payment in UK currency; no credit cards yet. Euros, maybe - ask. Other currencies, not for a while; banks don't want small traders in the UK selling to Americans, Canadians or Australians so these might have to wait until I can find somebody to hold stocks or handle payment for me in those countries. Can I Try It Out? ================= I've put up a similar work for free downloading as a sampler. It's on a much smaller scale but uses the same techniques: Music of Dalkeith: <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/dalkeith/Dalkeith.htm> Dalkeith is a small market town five miles south of Edinburgh and not far from where I now live. I presented this in October 2000 as a lecture/concert (with a scratch band made up of me and my friends) to the Dalkeith History Society, in the ballroom of Dalkeith Palace. Some of the music we played had been written specifically for that room and had not been played in it for 200 years. I found more than enough material for a performance an hour and a half long. Contact information =================== <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> me <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/embro/> the CD-ROM Email: preferably to "embro" at the site I'm posting from; "jc" is getting so overwhelmed with spam that its days as a useful address are numbered. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack Campin * 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU, Scotland tel 0131 660 4760 * fax 0870 055 4975 * http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/ food intolerance data & recipes, freeware Mac logic fonts, and Scottish music Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html