Tune Posting - the contest

Subject: Tune Posting - the contest
From: John in Brisbane (copied by Joe Offer)
Date: 04 Dec 98 - 03:14 AM

About 15 years ago Decca released two separate vinyls of The World's Greatest Voices, the original plus Vol 2. It includes this song plus a couple of dozen classics from the early part of this century with performances by Tauber, Peter Dawson, Moncrieff and many others - certainly no syrupy cover versions. I believe that it MAY have been issued on CD, but unlike a number of more recent Australian releases by the ABC it has not been digitally titivated. The version by Peter Dawson (?) is magnificent.

I do recommend this to anyone who can locate it. In fact I will send a taped copy of this to any one Mudcatter who posts a new tune to this forum by the end of Sunday 20 December. Joe Offer to work out the rules and adjudicate. (Thanks in advance Joe if you care to re-post this please).

Regards
John

Subject: RE: Tune Posting - the contest
From: Joe Offer
Date: 04 Dec 98 - 03:39 AM

titivated???
Interesting word, and the etymology is fascinating. My dictionary says it comes from "tidy" with a pseudo-Latin ending. It means "to spruce up," or, I suppose, "to make tidy." You use words like that all the time in Brisbane, John?

OK, John says I'm supposed to make up the rules, so here goes:

Whatchagottado
In this thread right here, post a tune, in ABC or MIDITXT format, for any lyrics in the database that lack a tune. If the lyrics aren't in the database, post them, too. No need to start a new thread for every tune - Eagle-Eyed Dick Greenhaus can spot a tune a mile away - so just post 'em in this thread. If you can't (or won't) use MIDITXT or ABC but are willing to do a MIDI for us, click here to e-mail me a message, with MIDI attached. I'll convert it for ya.

Whatchaget
One very nice cassette tape, as described above. But Alison gets the first tape, since she's posted more tunes than the rest of us combined until John in Brisbane started his current marathon (and because we guys all try to curry favor with Alison).

Once you've posted the tune, click on my name below and e-mail me your snail mail address so we can send you a cassette. Contest ends December 20, but Mudcatteers are always encouraged to post tunes. The usual caveats and whereases apply. If the tune has already been posted or is already in the database, too bad, buddy.
Employees of Mudcat and its subsidiaries are not eligible. However, since Mudcat has no employees or subsidiaries, this rule does not apply.
The contest begins now!
Ready?
Set?
POST!!!!
[e-mail]

Subject: RE: Tune Posting - the contest
From: AndreasW
Date: 04 Dec 98 - 05:22 AM

I'd like to join the contest, but...

I have some songs on CD which are not in the database.
I could provide lyrics (and I will later on), but I can't provide MIDI, ABC or MIDITEXT.
My PC here at work (I've none at home) has no sound equipment.
All I could provide is cda-files that I could copy from the cds.
Or is there a way to convert from cda (I think that means CD-Audio)
to MIDI or MIDITEXT or ABC?

cu,
Andreas (with the Not-Up-To-Date PC)

Subject: RE: Tune Posting - the contest
From: alison
Date: 04 Dec 98 - 06:56 AM

hi Joe,

thanks for the crawling.... but I think he's only offering one tape.... and I think it should be used to entice new tune people.

Nice thought though....... big hug........ (don't tell Mick **grin**)

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Tune Posting - the contest
From: Alan of Australia
Date: 04 Dec 98 - 07:46 AM

Andreas,
There's not really anything you can do with the cda files from a CD. They can't be converted to MIDI and they are not the files containing the music so they can't be converted to wav files which in any case are typically 30MB or more. (For that you need a "ripper" program.) The best you can do if you have the ear for it is to get the tune onto paper in staff notation or ABC format & take it from there.

Cheers,
Alan

Subject: RE: Tune Posting - the contest
From: Joe Offer
Date: 05 Dec 98 - 03:44 AM

John, care to clarify? Did I misunderstand you, or did Alison? Click on my name and send me an e-mail, willya? I can't find your name to send you a personal message.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Tune Posting - the contest
From: gargoyle
Date: 05 Dec 98 - 11:27 AM

CLARIFICATION PLEASE

"Madcatter who posts a new tune to this forum.

I understand this to mean - an orginal tune - never before heard in context with words posted to the DT.... ie NOT the posting of a traditional tune that is correctly matched to its traditional lyrics.

Or is it, as Joe indicates, the posting of an "old tune" that is "new" to the mudcat?

Or could it be both???

Which is this correct?

Subject: RE: Tune Posting - the contest
From: Joe Offer
Date: 05 Dec 98 - 12:50 PM

How come you can never find a lawyer when you need one? Hey, Tim Jaques, come and help us out with a couple of whereases and heretofores!
John in Brisbane, why did you get me into this? We'll have to let John give us an explanation about the prize. What I'd suggest is that John can mail me a copy of the cassette, and I'll dub copies for people from the U.S. and Canada who submit tunes. John can take care of the rest of the world, or deputize somebody in Europe to help him out. OK, John?
Regarding submissions: the primary need is for tunes to songs already in the database, the ones for which we do not yet have tunes. Secondarily, for "folk" songs not yet in the database - but please submit lyrics for them also. Submit them to this thread - we'll transfer them to other threads if needed. As for submitting tunes in formats other than ABC or MIDITXT, I'll make a ruling on that one: that doesn't qualify you for a prize, because part of this campaign is to encourage people to learn how to post tunes.
But Alison should get a tape in recognition of her prolific tune posting.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Tune Posting - the contest
From: Helen
Date: 05 Dec 98 - 06:36 PM

Andreas,

This is a suggestion for your PC problem. If you download a free demo copy of Noteworthy (a music notation program) from this site: http://www.ntworthy.com/composer/

You can then enter the notes of the tune onto music staff lines. Then you can save it as a midi file (i.e. export the file through [file menu, export file] rather than saving it as a noteworthy file) and then e-mail the file to Joe. The main drawback is that you wouldn't be able to hear the music played to check its accuracy but I'm sure Joe would do that for you, hey Joe?

Helen

(PS - if I mentioned the dreaded C-word (copyright) with regards to this free tape offer would I get thrown out forcibly??)

Subject: RE: Tune Posting - the contest
From: Paul Jay
Date: 05 Dec 98 - 09:47 PM

May those of us who are "alphabetically challenged" submit a tape of the tunes by snail mail?

Subject: RE: Tune Posting - the contest
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 Dec 98 - 06:08 AM

Well, Paul, most of us who can do that alphabet stuff don't have the ear for transcribing from a tape. If you can write it down in musical notation and fax or snailmail it to me, I can handle that. Click on my name and e-mail me, and I'll reply with my snail or fax address.
Helen, I would be happy to check tunes Andreas submits. As for the c-word, for the sake of assumption, let's assume said recordings are old enough to be in the public domain. Well, at least they're very old recordings...
But hey, the mail purpose of all this is to get tunes that are missing from the database. Tuneless lyrics are hard to sing.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Tune Posting - the contest
From: Alice
Date: 06 Dec 98 - 09:52 AM

To complicate this more, is it ok to post (or email) a gif of the notation?

Subject: RE: Tune Posting - the contest
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Dec 98 - 11:23 AM

Alice..in regard to that...I have been playing with the demo version of Noteworthy for about one hour!...It seems a very nice program...well worth registering...but I find that it is possible to enter a melody, say, of 'Barbry Allen' ..and with a 'screen capture' program, make a .gif, or .jpeg of it...which can then be printed,emailed or posted on a website.

Screen capture programs differ in their complexity, (I have 3 or 4...CompuPic is one of the most powerful..it allows me to zoom and/or adjust the size of the file to fit the page. So..there are several options for relaying to others what tune goes with a song under discussion..if Dick & Max are able to work out a freeware program which does most of this...so much the better.

I do emphasize, though, that for those who do a LOT of music notation, Noteworthy Composer is a quite economical way of composing, playing, printing...etc. your tunes..

Subject: RE: Tune Posting - the contest
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Dec 98 - 11:28 AM

(for instance, I have a very old Scottish songbook with printed scores...I could easily, now, enter one of those in response to a request, and send it by either midi or emailed .gif!...or both...)I do assume that this would be in public domain...

Subject: RE: Tune Posting - the contest
From: Alice
Date: 06 Dec 98 - 12:41 PM

Hi, Bill. I have Concertware notation software (for a Mac) and it creates gifs (and midis).

alice in montana

Subject: RE: Tune Posting - the contest
From: John in Brisbane
Date: 06 Dec 98 - 07:45 PM

Hi Joe and everyone who has replied to this thread - I am pleased that it has stimulated some interest.

As Alison has commented my offer was to send ONE special contributor a special prize, with Joe doomed to determine how that lucky person is to be chosen. Hope that this doesn't rain on your parade too much Joe.

My email is [e-mail], but I will be out of contact for the next week.

Joe, the English language is a marvellous beast isn't it? My early education taught me that terrific=terrifying, fantastic=unbelievable, and that titivation of a partner's clothing was not necessarily titillation. It was somewhat later that I discovered that osculation and oscillation could peacefully co-exist.

Regards
John

Subject: RE: Tune Posting - the contest
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 Dec 98 - 08:55 PM

Still and all, we have 16 messages in this thread, and not one tune posted. OK, the criteria, now revised:
- Entries should be posted HERE IN THIS THREAD in ABC or MIDITXT FORMAT. Period. No other formats accepted. Exclamation Point. This is to encourage people to learn how to post tunes here.
- If the song is not in the database, please post the lyrics, too.
-If you already post tunes on a regular basis, you probably won't win a prize, but we love you very much and are very proud of you.
-If this is the first time you have ever posted a tune in your entire life, please call attention to that in your message. Even if you don't win the tape, we will issue you a virtual gold star. We will love you and be very proud of you, too; almost as much as we love the regular tune-posters.
-Extra consideration will be given to a spirit of selflessness in the posting of tunes (i.e., don't make it too obvious that you're only posting the tune so you can win the tape.
-The prize will go to a tune that is considered to be a significant addition to the Digital Tradition database, so don't bother posting tunes to James Taylor songs.
-Even if you've never won a prize in your entire life and you don't expect (or want) to win this one, be nice and post a few tunes for us.
-Other rules will be posted as they occur to me.

So, how 'bout posting a tune, somebody?
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Tune Posting - the contest
From: John in Brisbane
Date: 06 Dec 98 - 09:47 PM

I also like and use NoteWorthy Composer, and as many others will attest, believe that it is very good value. The Help Support is very understanding and responsive, and while normally restricted to registered users only, I will now fire off an email to them asking if first time users who wish to contribute to this contest can also receive support for the shareware version. In general though I would expect most new users to pick it up without any problems.

Regards
John

Subject: RE: Tune Posting - the contest
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 06 Dec 98 - 09:58 PM

To those who have tunes, and don't want to wrestle with ABC or MIDI or Noteworthy or MisicEase or SongWright, I can only point out that a photocopy and snailmail works fine, too. Much easier to deal with than GIFs, TIFFs and JPEGS. Less bandwidth, too.

Subject: Tune Add: THE HERMIT (Oscar Brand?)
From: BSeed
Date: 06 Dec 98 - 11:49 PM

I'd better try it one more time. There was an A that should have been an a, and a couple of apostrophes I need to fix, as well as a few too many spaces, thanks to my relative unfamiliarity with the < pre > command.

    

I don¹t know if I got the ABC quite right.  I hope so; it seems pretty simple, at least for a song as simple as this:

    

T.  The Hermit
  C.  Oscar Brand (?)
  M.  3/4
  K.  C
  
  g CCC EEE GGG EC
  E DDD DDD BDD Ba
  g CCC ECE GAG EC
  E Dgg gAB Cge c2
  

  It might be worthwhile here to type it out with a verse, with the appropriate notes over the words.

  g  C  C    C   E-C  E    G   G  G  E-C
  A hermit there was who lived in a dell--
  
   E     D    D  D    D   D   D   B     D  D B-a
  I¹ll swear to the truth of the tale that I tell;
  
  g    C   C  C      E   C  E   G    A    G    E-C
  My grandfather¹s grandfather knew him quite well;
  
   E    D  g    g    g   a   B   C   G    E    C2
  This hermit

--seed

    

I don¹t know if I got the ABC quite right.  I hope so; it seems pretty simple, at least for a song as simple as this:

    

T.  The Hermit
  C.  Oscar Brand (?)
  M.  3/4
  K.  C
  
  g CCC EEE GGG EC
  E DDD DDD BDD BA
  g CCC ECE GAG EC
  E Dgg gAB Cge c2
  

    

It might be worthwhile here to type it out with a verse, with the appropriate notes over the words.

  
  g  C  C    C   E-C  E    G   G  G  E-C
  A hermit there was who lived in a dell--
  
   E     D    D  D    D   D   D   B     D  D B-a
  I¹ll swear to the truth of the tale that I tell;
  
  g    C   C  C      E   C  E   G    A    G    E-C
  My grandfather¹s grandfather knew him quite well;
  
   E    D  g    g    g   a   B   C   G    E    C2
  This hermit

--seed

    

I don¹t know if I got the ABC quite right.  I hope so; it seems pretty simple, at least for a song as simple as this:

    

T.  The Hermit
  C.  Oscar Brand (?)
  M.  3/4
  K.  C
  
  g CCC EEE GGG EC
  E DDD DDD BDD BA
  g CCC ECE GAG EC
  E Dgg gAB Cge c2
  

    

It might be worthwhile here to type it out with a verse, with the appropriate notes over the words.

  
  g  C  C    C   E-C  E    G   G  G  E-C
  A hermit there was who lived in a dell--
  
   E     D    D  D    D   D   D   B     D  D B-a
  I¹ll swear to the truth of the tale that I tell;
  
  g    C   C  C      E   C  E   G    A    G    E-C
  My grandfather¹s grandfather knew him quite well;
  
   E    D  g    g    g   a   B   C   G    E    C2
  This hermit

--seed

    

I don¹t know if I got the ABC quite right.  I hope so; it seems pretty simple, at least for a song as simple as this:

    

T.  The Hermit
  C.  Oscar Brand (?)
  M.  3/4
  K.  C
  
  g CCC EEE GGG EC
  E DDD DDD BDD BA
  g CCC ECE GAG EC
  E Dgg gAB Cge c2
  

    

It might be worthwhile here to type it out with a verse, with the appropriate notes over the words.

  
  g  C  C    C   E-C  E    G   G  G  E-C
  A hermit there was who lived in a dell--
  
   E     D    D  D    D   D   D   B     D  D B-a
  I¹ll swear to the truth of the tale that I tell;
  
  g    C   C  C      E   C  E   G    A    G    E-C
  My grandfather¹s grandfather knew him quite well;
  
   E    D  g    g    g   a   B   C   G    E    C2
  This hermit

--seed    

Joe, you could dump the first posting if this one comes out right, purty pleeze?

Subject: Tune Add: BORNEO (Ken Cockrell)
From: Barbara
Date: 07 Dec 98 - 01:06 AM

Well, so you all don't get bent for wont of pretty little red numbers, here's a tune and words, I thought we had a thread on it, but I couldn't find it.
Blessings ,
Barbara
(I know I don't qualify, Joe, but I thought it might be good to get some songs going)

MIDI file: borneo.mid

Timebase: 240

TimeSig: 6/8 36 8
Tempo: 100 (600000 microsec/crotchet)
Start
0000 1 55 080 0096 0 55 064 0024 1 60 080 0096 0 60 064 0024 1 62 080 0096 0 62 064 0024 1 64 080 0288 0 64 064 0072 1 60 080 0048 0 60 064 0012 1 60 080 0048 0 60 064 0012 1 65 080 0096 0 65 064 0024 1 62 080 0096 0 62 064 0024 1 60 080 0096 0 60 064 0024 1 59 080 0096 0 59 064 0024 1 57 080 0096 0 57 064 0024 1 55 080 0288 0 55 064 0072 1 55 080 0096 0 55 064 0024 1 60 080 0096 0 60 064 0024 1 62 080 0096 0 62 064 0024 1 64 080 0288 0 64 064 0072 1 60 080 0096 0 60 064 0024 1 65 080 0096 0 65 064 0024 1 67 080 0096 0 67 064 0024 1 62 080 0288 0 62 064 0072 1 55 080 0096 0 55 064 0024 1 60 080 0096 0 60 064 0024 1 62 080 0096 0 62 064 0024 1 64 080 0288 0 64 064 0072 1 60 080 0096 0 60 064 0024 1 65 080 0096 0 65 064 0024 1 62 080 0096 0 62 064 0024 1 60 080 0096 0 60 064 0024 1 59 080 0096 0 59 064 0024 1 57 080 0096 0 57 064 0024 1 55 080 0288 0 55 064 0072 1 55 080 0096 0 55 064 0024 1 53 080 0096 0 53 064 0024 1 55 080 0096 0 55 064 0024 1 57 080 0288 0 57 064 0072 1 60 080 0096 0 60 064 0024 1 59 080 0096 0 59 064 0024 1 55 080 0096 0 55 064 0024 1 55 080 0648 0 55 064
End

This program is worth the effort of learning it.

To download the March 10 MIDItext 98 software and get instructions on how to use it click here

ABC format:

X:1
T:
M:6/8
Q:1/4=100
K:C
G,CDE3|C/2C/2FDCB,A,|G,3G,CD|E3CFG|D3G,CD|
E3CFD|CB,A,G,3|G,F,G,A,3|CB,G,G,3|-G,19/8||

As sung, and possibly ammended by Tom Lewis.
BORNEO (song for Vic)
Ken Cockrell
Chorus:
Oh, not for me the sun brings the morning-o
No not for me of patient mind
No more for me long hauls down to Borneo
For I am old and I am blind

Yet in my mind the vision still is clear
Of crows nest days so long ago
With both eyes peeled for dangers far and near
I hear again the cry: "Sail ho."

They tell me now that ships are twice as long
With masts of steel and hulls of iron
Just ‘cause I'm blind you can't fool me, my lads
For they would sink beneath the brine

Now as I sit on foggy ev-en-ings
A plaintive siren taunts my ear
And minds me when I was sailor lad
For that's the sound by which I'd steer

And from my bed November mornings
I'd feel the tremble, hear the roar
And pray for those in peril on the sea
And all my shipmates, gone before

Subject: Tune Add: THE NIGHT THEY DROVE OLD DIXIE DOWN
From: John in Brisbane
Date: 07 Dec 98 - 01:49 AM

Hope that this is a tad above the James Taylor category, but here is one in the DT without a tune - there's plenty more though!

Regards
John

THE NIGHT THEY DROVE OLD DIXIE DOWN

MIDI file: dixie_nu.mid

Timebase: 120

TimeSig: 4/4 24 8
Key: C
Tempo: 136 (441176 microsec/crotchet)
Name: The Night They Drove OLd Dixie Down
Start
0245 1 69 111 0058 0 69 000 0000 1 72 108 0100 0 72 000 0020 1 76 108 0118 0 76 000 0005 1 74 107 0058 0 74 000 0002 1 72 109 0058 0 72 000 0000 1 72 112 0160 0 72 000 0022 1 72 109 0088 0 72 000 0001 1 69 113 0028 0 69 000 0002 1 72 110 0058 0 72 000 0001 1 72 110 0100 0 72 000 0019 1 69 111 0058 0 69 000 0004 1 72 111 0100 0 72 000 0018 1 72 111 0100 0 72 000 0021 1 69 107 0450 0 69 000 0148 1 76 112 0100 0 76 000 0020 1 79 110 0100 0 79 000 0020 1 79 107 0100 0 79 000 0020 1 76 112 0058 0 76 000 0002 1 74 108 0058 0 74 000 0002 1 72 107 0058 0 72 000 0003 1 72 110 0220 0 72 000 0019 1 69 108 0058 0 69 000 0001 1 72 113 0058 0 72 000 0003 1 72 109 0100 0 72 000 0019 1 69 107 0058 0 69 000 0002 1 72 113 0100 0 72 000 0020 1 69 107 0058 0 69 000 0004 1 74 111 0058 0 74 000 0000 1 69 108 0450 0 69 000 0150 1 69 111 0058 0 69 000 0002 1 69 107 0058 0 69 000 0004 1 72 107 0058 0 72 000 0001 1 69 113 0058 0 69 000 0002 1 72 107 0058 0 72 000 0003 1 74 108 0118 0 74 000 0001 1 72 109 0058 0 72 000 0002 1 72 109 0210 0 72 000 0028 1 72 112 0058 0 72 000 0002 1 72 111 0058 0 72 000 0002 1 76 112 0100 0 76 000 0021 1 76 107 0210 0 76 000 0028 1 77 110 0058 0 77 000 0003 1 76 111 0058 0 76 000 0002 1 74 111 0058 0 74 000 0002 1 72 113 0058 0 72 000 0004 1 72 110 0058 0 72 000 0000 1 72 107 0270 0 72 000 0091 1 69 107 0058 0 69 000 0002 1 72 108 0058 0 72 000 0002 1 69 109 0058 0 69 000 0004 1 72 110 0210 0 72 000 0029 1 74 109 0058 0 74 000 0001 1 72 109 0058 0 72 000 0001 1 72 109 0058 0 72 000 0004 1 72 108 0118 0 72 000 0001 1 69 109 0058 0 69 000 0003 1 72 112 0058 0 72 000 0000 1 74 107 0058 0 74 000 0003 1 76 112 0330 0 76 000 0030 1 76 113 0058 0 76 000 0003 1 74 110 0058 0 74 000 0001 1 76 107 0058 0 76 000 0001 1 74 107 0160 0 74 000 0020 1 72 108 0058 0 72 000 0003 1 74 111 0100 0 74 000 0020 1 74 108 0870 0 74 000 0033 1 74 109 0100 0 74 000 0018 1 76 110 0330 0 76 000 0029 1 74 112 0100 0 74 000 0021 1 74 107 0100 0 74 000 0021 1 72 111 0100 0 72 000 0019 1 72 113 0058 0 72 000 0004 1 69 107 0100 0 69 000 0020 1 67 111 0358 0 67 000 0002 1 67 111 0058 0 67 000 0001 1 69 107 0100 0 69 000 0020 1 76 111 0100 0 76 000 0021 1 76 111 0058 0 76 000 0001 1 74 108 0118 0 74 000 0002 1 72 109 0100 0 72 000 0020 1 72 108 0058 0 72 000 0004 1 76 109 0330 0 76 000 0028 1 74 109 0100 0 74 000 0021 1 74 110 0100 0 74 000 0020 1 72 113 0100 0 72 000 0019 1 72 109 0058 0 72 000 0002 1 69 108 0100 0 69 000 0019 1 67 107 0358 0 67 000 0005 1 67 111 0058 0 67 000 0002 1 69 110 0100 0 69 000 0019 1 76 113 0058 0 76 000 0000 1 74 112 0058 0 74 000 0002 1 76 107 0058 0 76 000 0002 1 74 107 0118 0 74 000 0004 1 72 113 0058 0 72 000 0002 1 74 113 0058 0 74 000 0002 1 72 111 0160 0 72 000 0018 1 76 107 0210 0 76 000 0030 1 74 107 0088 0 74 000 0003 1 74 113 0028 0 74 000 0000 1 74 107 0058 0 74 000 0001 1 72 113 0100 0 72 000 0022 1 76 112 0270 0 76 000 0029 1 74 110 0058 0 74 000 0002 1 74 110 0100 0 74 000 0018 1 74 112 0058 0 74 000 0002 1 74 110 0100 0 74 000 0020 1 74 109 0058 0 74 000 0002 1 72 110 0118 0 72 000 0005 1 72 108 0058 0 72 000 0001 1 69 109 0100 0 69 000 0020 1 65 107 0690 0 65 000
End

This program is worth the effort of learning it.

To download the March 10 MIDItext 98 software and get instructions on how to use it click here

ABC format:

X:1
T:The Night They Drove OLd Dixie Down
M:4/4
Q:1/4=136
K:C
A5c2e|-edcc3c3/2A/2|cc2Ac2c2|A8|-A2e2g2g2|
edcc4A|cc2Ac2Ad|A8|-A2AAcAcd|-dcc4cc|e2e4fe|
dccc5|-cAcAc4|dccc2Acd|e6ed|ed3cd2d|-d8|d6d2|
-d8|e8|-e6d2|d2c2cA2G|-G5GA2|e2ed2c2c|e6d2|
d2c2cA2G|-G5GA2|eded2cdc|-c2e4d3/2d/2|dc2e5|
dd2dd2dc|-ccA2F4|-F15/2||

Subject: RE: Tune Posting - the contest
From: AndreasW
Date: 07 Dec 98 - 05:25 AM

Hi,
thanks for your suggestions
BUT: my musical abilities are only passive: I can listen to it, I can enjoy it (not all music, just the one I like), but I can't write it down, neither on paper nor with a program, as I don't have the ear for it.
I know (roughly) what these dots and lines mean, but that's not enough...
So it looks as if I'm out of the contest :-(
Andreas

Subject: RE: Tune Posting - the contest
From: John in Brisbane
Date: 22 Dec 98 - 11:19 PM

Joe, I'll await the results of your very difficult adjudication. Will drop in tomorrow, but otherwise won't be available until first working week after New Year. Season's greetings to all tune posters.

Regards
John

Subject: RE: Tune Posting - the contest
From: Joe Offer
Date: 23 Dec 98 - 04:13 PM

Well, I guess Seed wins, since he's the only person other than the regular tune posters who even tried to post a tune. Grump, grump.
Now, can one of you ABC people fix the tune so it plays, and so the rest of us can see how it works? I was hoping for more success with this. I'll admit it is a challenge to learn how to post tunes. I put it off for a long time after Alan came up with MIDITXT. It took a really good song to convince me to learn - I think it was "Bury Me in My Overalls." I just had to share the song with somebody. Special recognition should go to Gene Graham and Ezio and a few others - while they haven't posted tunes here, they've posted songs for us on their own Web sites.

Congratulations, Seed, you win.

John, send one tape to the following address:

BSeed
Berkeley, California
U.S.A.

-Joe Offer-

Subject: Tune Posting - The Honor Roll
From: Joe Offer
Date: 23 Dec 98 - 05:17 PM

I thought it would be appropriate to recognize all the other people here at the "Cat who post tunes on a regular or not-so-regular basis. I did a Forum Search for X:, since I figured that was a term that should show up in every MIDITXT and ABC tune. There were 543 messages. I was led astray by a few messages that contained TX: FAX:, and, of course, MAX: - however, I think that most of those postings are actual tunes. The first tune posted was by Benjamin Hollister on 3 June 1997, followed by somebody named Carl. The first regular poster was Bruce Olson, who has posted a phenomenal number of ABC tunes, beginning 5 September 1997. There were many first-time posters in December, 1998. However, they didn't post in this thread, so they are disqualified from the contest. I think we should recognize all the people who post tunes here. It's a wonderful contribution. Here are their names, indroduced by an appropriate drum roll:

Ian Kirk
Barbara Millikan
Brack&
Helen
MMario
Bob Bolton
Bruce O
Alison
John in Brisbane
Jon W
Baz
Henrik W
Joe Offer
Ralph Butts
Ian HP
Alan of Australia
PKD on Teesside
Jerry Friedman
Carl
Benjamin Hollister

Dick and Susan don't post tunes - they have the Keys to the Kingdon, so they put tunes directly into the database, and we thank them very much for all they have shared with us over the years. I should also mention that Alice, Murray, and Seed posted tunes that didn't work. Keep trying, folks. Somebody named Johnny posted an ABC and asked somebody to explain it - that doesn't count. Barry Finn copied and posted a tune I posted in another thread - that doesn't count, either, but we think Barry is just grand, anyhow.
So, that's the story. It's pretty impressive to think that all these people would learn a fairly complex computer procedure, just so they could share songs with their friends.
-Joe Offer-

Oh, Seed, if you think John should send your tape to a more specific address, contact him.

Subject: RE: Tune Posting - the contest
From: John in Brisbane
Date: 23 Dec 98 - 06:31 PM

Great work Joe, and congrats to BSeed. Because there was no second place winner, they will be spared the pleasure of a copy of my greatest hits.

BSeed, please email me on [e-mail] or let me know when you're dropping into Brisbane to collect personally.

Merry Christmas
John