Hi Beth I highly recommend a French website called www.diatojo.com/tablatures. The first page has a drawing of a circle of dancers - clicking on each dancer leads to a page of tunes for a specific dance type (waltz, bourree, scottishe, polka - and some uncommon types like sauteuse). The tunes are in midi format (both electronically generated and recorded) and usually with scores as well (mostly for G/C tuning). Two advantages of this site 1) it clarifies which dance each tune is intended for; poules houppees is too often played as a waltz when it's a 3-time bourree! 2) it gives authors for many of the new tunes, and origins for many of the older ones. There's even a link to Maxou Heintzen's site where you can find the words for his mazurka l'inconnu de limoise. If you're just starting, I recommend you stick to the trad French tunes for a while as they are usually more manageable; for some of the breton tunes you don't need to move your hand from the start position! Irish tunes are usually written for fiddles and are HARD to play on the gurdy, too many leaps up and down the scale. Best Clare
On Friday, 25 April 2014 20:13:42 UTC+1, emeraldemma wrote: > > Hi all, I am not ty]ied to sheet music to learn tunes.. but i would like > to collect addresses of places where good hg music could be found... I am > interested in medieval, elizabethan, english country, celtic (french, > irish, breton, welsh) , french canadian types of music... > > any suggestions? they can be video or sheet music...thanks!! > has this hg for some time, and just havent gotten started on it.(I think > Im a little intimidated by it...) > > Beth Gilmore > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hurdygurdy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hurdygurdy The rules of posting, courtesy, and other list information may be found at http://hurdygurdy.com/mailinglist/index.htm. To reduce spam, posts from new subscribers are held pending approval by the webmaster. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hurdygurdy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
