| Bruce Olson writes: | There's lots of tunes and information on tonic sol-fa on the internet. | Use google to search on 'tonic sol fa'.
Sure 'nuf. Of course, 2/3 of the matches are for the pop group that uses that name. Can't say that they're my favorite band. Anyhow, I looked around, and found numerous explanations and history of the notation. I didn't find very many songs. I wonder if there's an efficient way to dig the actual songs out of all the chaff? I recently wrote a perl script that queries google for the phrase "abc tunes", and I found about 20 new abc sites in the first 1000 matches. Plus the 180 or so that I already had in my list. That's about a 20% success rate. Maybe I oughta add a bit of code to my search bot that matches tonic sol fa notation, and see what it turns up. One problem I see is that the title is given in all sorts of idiosyncratic ways; there's nothing like abc's T: to clearly identify the title. So finding tsf tunes on the web could turn out to be a difficult project. Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
