[scots-l] abc matters and the Calvert Collection - Kelso 1799

2001-04-11 Thread Philip Whittaker
Funny what you can get up to on a rainy day! I thought I'd never really find any use for abc which is common currency on this list and others dealing with traditional music. I downloaded a copy of ABC2 Win and looked at all the collections on the web that I could find. I am amazed at the

Re: [scots-l] abc matters and the Calvert Collection - Kelso 1799

2001-04-11 Thread David Kilpatrick
Philip Whittaker wrote: Maybe there is something in this abc format I thought. So I tried a few tunes from the Calvert Collection of 1799(?). I tried all the features that were on offer and was very pleasantly surpised. I manged to notate just about everything I wanted. It seems to cope

Re: [scots-l] abc matters and the Calvert Collection - Kelso 1799

2001-04-11 Thread John Chambers
Philip Whittaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | Maybe there is something in this abc format I thought. So I tried a few | tunes from the Calvert Collection of 1799(?). I tried all the features | that were on offer and was very pleasantly surpised. I manged to notate | just about everything I

Re: [scots-l] abc matters and the Calvert Collection - Kelso 1799

2001-04-11 Thread Jack Campin
Why not transcribe the whole of the Calvert Collection? [...] there are bass parts for almost all the tunes. Many are fairly pedestrian but some have been well written, by Calvert himself I would guess. Also several tunes have a second violin part. There are double stoppings, trills and ties