Philip Whittaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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| 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 with most effects.
...
| The collection has nothing like the importance of the Aird Collections
| which it is suggested Burns used as source for many of his tunes. I am not
| sure that abc is the best medium for it as some tunes have second parts
| and good bass lines. There is the local interest and 200 year old version
| of well kent tunes.
I suspect that lots of people here would like to see the collection
transcribed and online. I notice that your email address looks like
the same machine, or maybe a near neighbor, of Neil Gatherer's. Maybe
you should talk to him about setting up a web directory for the
tunes. He could probably make a lot of useful suggestions.
Some abc software does multi-part music now, though it's not very
well standardised. If your program doesn't, it's no big deal. Just
enter the parts as separate "tunes", with different X: numbers, and
add something like "(harmony)" or "(bass)" to the T: lines. This will
print in a usable form, as separate parts. Transforming it into abc
that uses the V: lines would then be quite easy.
Some more 18th-century music collections online would be interesting
to a lot of us.
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