Re: [abcusers] O'Neill's 1001
Richard Robinson writes: | On Mon, 2 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | So when does the Svenska Laatar Project begin? (How many volumes of | that were there?) | | 24 :) | | You know the books have recently been re-published ? Great! Now I just have to resist the urge to order a copy. Maybe if I got them, I could get started on transcribing them, and show that crazy Norbeck character a thing or two ... Wait a minute; I think I'll just stick to sanity for a while. It sure would be nice to have such things online, though. Too bad we can't expect the publishers to ever do it. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [abcusers] O'Neill's 1001
"Atchley, John" wrote: Wow! Are you wearing bifocals yet?! No, but I think I should. Bert Van Vreckem wrote: Dzjeez, what kind of a job do you have that leaves you with so much free time? Just don't tell my boss, OK? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Meanwhile, I told my ABC bot about Henrik's .../abc/abcusers/ directory and about the above URL, and the number of ABC titles listed for www.musicaviva.com nearly doubled. Yes, I think there were a lot missing. All my ABC files are linked directly or with just one intermediate page from http://www.musicaviva.com/abc/index.html except: ... And the oneill-1001-1-500.abc doesn't seem to be pointed to by an link, so it would have never been found. That's right. At the moment it's for the abcusers mail list exclusively. THat's partly because I hoped for (and got) some valuable feedback from you before I posted them officially, partly because I was in a bit of hurry. When I posted my message, I had just five minutes before I had to go to work, and I haven't been back to my computer until now. I've wondered about O'Neill's 1001 myself; it's nice to see someone so masochistic as to take it on. I wouldn't have started the project at all if I had known how far the other O'Neill project had gotten. But I wonder about putting it all in one huge file. This will lead to a lot of slow downloads for people just looking for a tune or three. That was one of the things I wanted feedback from the list about. I think I'll settle for 100 tunes a file. Søren R Christensen wrote: Fantastic ! Now I see why you can put in a tune in abc in less than 5 minutes :-o - lots of routine. Me? I don't even touch-type properly. I don't think a simple folk tune should take more than four minutes to type into ABC. Here are three secrets to fast ABC typing: 1. Don't work too fast. It'll only mean more proofreading 2. Make your own shorthand writing. Especially if you use a non-US keyboard layout. An extreme example is my Psion 3 with Norwegian/Danish keyboard. To get a | on that, I'll have to type ctrl-1-2-4 (!) So I just use i for barlines and do a search-and-replace routine afterwards. 3. Use whatever tools are most suitable. One of my secrets is a FileMaker Pro database that automatically configures the headers, replaces strange characters with Tex codes (btw, Phil, when are BarFly going to recognize \ss for ß ?) and a few other minor details. Today's ABC project (Vivaldi's 1st flute concerto) was mainly done in a ClarisWorks spreadsheet. With all the repetitions across bars and parts that seemed to be the best approach. Actually I managed the whole concerto in about two hours, even on the old Mac LC I keep in my bedroom. It gave quite a load of errors, many of which may be from different interpretaion af the format (F.ex. it seems like if ABC2PS automatic put slurs on grace-notes, and therefore will not accept () around gracenotes, resulting in quite a mess of long slurs in the output). Hmmm... that's a serious problem that would affect quite a lot of ABC files on the web, including quite a few from the big O'Neill project I think. Another problem more specific to this particular collection is abc2ps seems to try to interpret the BarFly ornament macros as music. It shouldn't do that - they are clearly identifiable as header fields, so the program should just ignore them if it doesn't understand them. Oh well, I guess I'll have to upload an abc2ps safe version as well. Won't be much of a job, but I don't really like this "dual-version" business. Frank To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
[abcusers] O'Neill's 1001
In case somebody wonder why I've been so quiet recently: I've just finished the first half of my own private O'Neill project. The first 500 tunes from Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (known as "O'Neill's 1001") is now available as ABC at: http://www.musicaviva.com/abc/oneill-1001-1-500.abc and as midis at: http://home.online.no/~frnordbe/oneill-1001-midis (the midi URL is temporary) I feel I've got the right to brag a bit here. The project I think is already one of the biggest single-transcriber ABC projects ever done (and it'll be twice as big when it's finished) and it also means that I now have more than 1000 of my own ABC transcriptions on my web site. The midis should be good examples of the possibilities of BarFly's ornament macros and stress programming, btw. Nos 51-500 are almost plain BarFly output. Postprocessing is limited to adding reverb an a copyright note (and removing some superfluous midi commands) Frank To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
RE: [abcusers] O'Neill's 1001
Wow! Are you wearing bifocals yet?! From: Frank Nordberg I've just finished the first half of my own private O'Neill project. The first 500 tunes from Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (known as "O'Neill's 1001") is now available as ABC at: http://www.musicaviva.com/abc/oneill-1001-1-500.abc To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [abcusers] O'Neill's 1001
Frank Nordberg wrote: In case somebody wonder why I've been so quiet recently: I've just finished the first half of my own private O'Neill project. The first 500 tunes from Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (known as "O'Neill's 1001") is now available as ABC at: http://www.musicaviva.com/abc/oneill-1001-1-500.abc Dzjeez, what kind of a job do you have that leaves you with so much free time? I can't even find the time to transcribe the odd one hundred tunes I'd like to put on-line... -- Bert Van Vreckem Give a man a fire and he is warm for a day Set a man on fire and he is warm for the rest of his life -- John A. Hrastar. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [abcusers] O'Neill's 1001
| Frank Nordberg wrote: | In case somebody wonder why I've been so quiet recently: | | I've just finished the first half of my own private O'Neill project. | The first 500 tunes from Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of | Ireland" (known as "O'Neill's 1001") is now available as ABC at: | http://www.musicaviva.com/abc/oneill-1001-1-500.abc | | Dzjeez, what kind of a job do you have that leaves you with so much free | time? I can't even find the time to transcribe the odd one hundred tunes | I'd like to put on-line... Meanwhile, I told my ABC bot about Henrik's .../abc/abcusers/ directory and about the above URL, and the number of ABC titles listed for www.musicaviva.com nearly doubled. The reason that the abcusers/ directory hadn't been scanned was that it was too far from my starting URL. I've found that it's a good idea to limit the depth of Web searches to 3 hops, to avoid trying to search the whole Web for ABC. This isn't very productive; having other people spot new ABC sites and tell me about them is far more practical. And the oneill-1001-1-500.abc doesn't seem to be pointed to by an link, so it would have never been found. I've wondered about O'Neill's 1001 myself; it's nice to see someone so masochistic as to take it on. But I wonder about putting it all in one huge file. This will lead to a lot of slow downloads for people just looking for a tune or three. So when does the Svenska Laatar Project begin? (How many volumes of that were there?) To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [abcusers] O'Neill's 1001
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So when does the Svenska Laatar Project begin? (How many volumes of that were there?) 24 :) You know the books have recently been re-published ? -- Richard Robinson "The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
