A belated thanks for all responses to my original note. I got a start on this project last week (One evening I sat down at the computer intending to transcribe a couple tunes but when I stopped I had 20 coded, or better than a third of Petrie's first tunebook!). I'm doing all the melody lines first, then will go back and add the bass lines later on. I'll keep Petrie's original keys and his ornaments, bow markings and comments. I expect my progress on this to be fairly erratic due to various upcoming commitments, though!
I have a further question: these tunebooks seem to be inconsistent in noting which tunes were composed by Petrie and which were from other sources (in the first tunebook there's no authorship info so I assumed most tunes were Petrie's own, however I found several that I know to be traditional. In latter tunebooks he does better with attribution). I'd like to be able to include accurate authorship information, so am looking for a resource to provide this. I'm aware of Andrew Kunz's Fiddlers' Companion, but are there other resources online or in print that I should be using? -Steve Steve Wyrick said: > I have a facsimile of Robert Petrie's tune books (thanks to Jan Tappan), which I think have never been reprinted, and I'm finding a lot of enjoyable tunes that don't show up in abc anywhere on the net. I'm thinking about starting a project to transcribe these books into abc but I > thought I'd ask for some advice. First, does anyone know of an existing abc transcription or other electronic facsimile of Petrie's collections? I don't want to duplicate someone else's work. Second, these tunes are scored for melody plus bass line (Petrie says, suitable for Harpsichord or > Cello); if I do pursue this project, is there value in transcribing the bass lines as well? Being a fiddler I don't normally deal with the bass clef but I'm sure I could figure it out! Any advice appreciated -Steve -- > Steve Wyrick - Concord, California > -- Steve Wyrick - Concord, California Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
