I have no idea how to go about getting English pounds to order this CD, but as soon as credit card ordering is available I would really like to get one of your CD ROMs! If that isn't likely in the near future, please e-mail me and tell me how to go about ordering this. I'm in Escondido, California, USA.
thank you, Don Jack Campin wrote: > I finally have copies of my CD-ROM available: > > <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/embro/> > > It's not the largest tune collection, but with the associated texts and > historical commentary, it's by far the largest, most labour-intensive > single project ever done using ABC. Special thanks to Phil Taylor, as > it wouldn't have been remotely possible without BarFly. > > 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 > > To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: >http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
