Nice work Frank.
The up tempo feel of The Girl I Left Behind Me (known as Brighton Camp around
here, I live ten miles from Brighton) is anticipation -
And if the night be ever so dark
Or ever so wet and windy
I must return to the Brighton Camp
And the girl I left behind me.
Adjust windy to
Christian Cepel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote :
Right now, the idea is based mostly on writing new file format which will
implement the current standard of ABC. We want to write our program to
implement fully, and not expand at all on or deviate at all from the
specifications of the current standard.
I'm in a software engineering course this semester, and we've decided we'd
like to go at adding another product to realm of available 'abc' tools.
[...]
Right now, the idea is based mostly on writing new file format which will
implement the current standard of ABC. We want to write our
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nice work Frank.
Thanks, Bryan :-)
[The Girl I Left Behind Me]
OK. Seems I misunderstand the whole story, then.
Technical point. Morpeth Rant isn't a hornpipe. It's a rant,
A rant? Is there actually a dance called that???
(Reminds me of what Shakespeare
Anybody know anything about this tune? (I already asked this on
uk.music.folk, no answer). I got it as a graphics file off the
Internet years ago and have been playing it ever since, but have
come across it recently in two different contexts - a Canadian
fiddler I know plays it, and the first
Frank writes:
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| King of the Fairies English?!
|
| Is it Irish? I know the book I got the tune from is wrong about the
| nationalitie of some tunes.
Well, the Irish definitely claim it, and there's a step
dance to it that is part of the Standard Repertoire among
John Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Part of the story was that if you played the King's tune
three times, he would appear. He would usually be in
disguise, of course, so you wouldn't necessarily realize he
was present. And summoning the Fairy King isn't something
that one
Jack Campin wrote:
King of the Fairies English?!
I thought it was Irish, but it's a variant of an older tune, Gilderoy,
which is first documented from Scotland but could equally well be English.
Hold on, Jack! Last time we had this folkband discussion, you said that
*Red-haired boy*
Jack Campin wrote:
Anybody know anything about this tune?
It's probably just a coincidence, but the beginning sounds very similar
to a well-known Norwegian lullaby:
X:396
T:Byssan lull
C:anon.
O:Norway
N:Collected by Evert Taube
R:Lullaby
Z:Transcribed by Frank Nordberg -
King of the Fairies English?!
I thought it was Irish, but it's a variant of an older tune, Gilderoy,
which is first documented from Scotland but could equally well be English.
Hold on, Jack! Last time we had this folkband discussion, you said that
*Red-haired boy* was the same tune as
Steve Mansfield
Let's face it there's only three (or is it four) parallel groups all
looking at extending the abc specification, eg
this list
the sub-committee of this list set up last year
abctf / abc+ / abc 2.0 (I forget are they distinct or all the same?)
sourceforge
You forgot Guido
Frank Nordberg asked
A rant? Is there actually a dance called that???
The rant is a northern English dance form which, to be honest, I don't know a
lot about. There is a dance step called a rant which is a bit difficult to
demonstrate over the internet (OK, with my knees, it's a bit
Jack wrote:
Anybody know anything about this tune? ...
I have heard Wild Asparagus http://www.wildasparagus.com/ play
it (or something very similar) at a contradance. I've just looked
through their web site and although they have some sound files,
this doesn't seem to be among them.
I bet if
This has nothing to do with abc, but
Further to the King of the Fairies etc:
I was told once that Hornpipes came originally from France
Is this true and in what way ?
(Sigh, they are _still_ lovely !)
Joe Mc Cool
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