Dear Ed,

> There must be heaps of stuff, but the general public may not know 
> those works before the Baroque other than a handful.

Well, they can learn... :-)
I think most important is that you tell this is christmas music...
(Well, you could perform Amarilli and tell it is christmas music! ;-)

> In such cases, I usually need to come up with a bunch of music in a 
> hurry and this is precisely why I've been searching for a program 
> that will import SMFs. It would be so great to be able to import 
> something in different keys and turn it into tab to see what works 
> best. Every year or so I muck around with it, but find I'm usually 
> spending more time fighting the computer then I would if I just wrote 
> it out.

What I do, if I want to transpose a piece, is that I write only the
bass with numbers in the right key and glue it (really by glue, not 
virtually by computer) onto the original music(-paper). Doesn't take
too much time - especially when you need not use the computer...

Arto



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