> I got a copy of Rose Among the Heather from the Chambers website. > HOWEVER, it has, if you look at the GIF file, only 1/8th notes. > However,if you play the midi file, it has 1/16th's and dotted 1/8/s. > What's going on?
As I recall it, the tune, despite being a strathspey, has only forward-dotted note pairs like a hornpipe. Some MIDI-generating programs have an option to interpret even-length notes in hornpipe fashion, particularly if the transcriber puts "R:hornpipe" in the header; a lot of people who transcribe hornpipes count on their software to do this for them. So I'd guess that's what's been done here; somebody's thought "might as well get this interpreted as a hornpipe to save a bit of typing". There are two versions of that tune. I prefer the pipers' one but it's almost unrecognizably different from the fiddlers' version. Is there a song behind both? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU; 0131 6604760 <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack> * food intolerance data & recipes, Mac logic fonts, Scots traditional music files, and my CD-ROM "Embro, Embro". Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
