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14 Jan 08 - 08:32 PM (#2236577) Subject: Music wanted: Black is the colour From: GUEST,Guest Sue Can't seem to find the sheet music of the version I sing (for our new fiddle player). Anyone know a source? Thanks. |
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14 Jan 08 - 08:38 PM (#2236581) Subject: RE: Music wanted: Black is the colour From: Lin in Kansas Guest Sue: Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair is in the Digital Tradition, click here with a midi file. I can make sheet music from the midi file for you if it is the version you sing. Let me know. Lin |
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14 Jan 08 - 08:43 PM (#2236587) Subject: RE: Music wanted: Black is the colour From: Don Firth Very nice version with a different tune can be found in Alan Lomax's Folk Songs of North America. Good book to have! Thick. Oodles of songs! Don Firth |
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14 Jan 08 - 08:46 PM (#2236589) Subject: RE: Music wanted: Black is the colour From: Amos You can order sheet music from this site for it. There's a MIDI playing on this page he could listen to. Lyrics here. The Max Hunter music can be found here along with playable files. A |
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14 Jan 08 - 09:17 PM (#2236611) Subject: RE: Music wanted: Black is the colour From: Sorcha Printable sheet music #1 from the Yet Another DT site Printable #2, same source |
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15 Jan 08 - 12:01 PM (#2237026) Subject: RE: Music wanted: Black is the colour From: Stewart Here's the version I sing, taken from Niamh Parson's CD "In My Prime". Cheers, S. in Seattle |
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16 Jan 08 - 08:46 PM (#2238128) Subject: RE: Music wanted: Black is the colour From: GUEST,Sue Thank you all sooo much! but none of those are the version I sing (which I learnt from an Irish singer I know). The version you have mostly given me is the one sung by Joan Baez, which I also know. But I prefer this other one. I don't read music well, but I've just played the first line on my recorder, which goes like this: b b e g g f(sharp) ga f g Black is the colour of my true love's hair |
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16 Jan 08 - 08:48 PM (#2238132) Subject: RE: Music wanted: Black is the colour From: GUEST IGNORE THOSE NOTES PLEASE.....whoops, posted that by accident before I'd finished writing it! b b e g g f(sharp) g a f(sharp) e Black is the colour of my true love's hair Anyone know it? Thanks |
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16 Jan 08 - 09:17 PM (#2238145) Subject: RE: Music wanted: Black is the colour From: Brendy What kind of tempo - slow or fast? B. |
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16 Jan 08 - 09:23 PM (#2238148) Subject: RE: Music wanted: Black is the colour From: GUEST,Sue Well, I sing it pretty slow (as is my wont), though it could go a bit faster. Don't think it's ever a poppy little number though. Sue |
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16 Jan 08 - 09:28 PM (#2238153) Subject: RE: Music wanted: Black is the colour From: Brendy a href=http://www.brendanmckeever.com/mp3.htm>Try the 4th link down, on the right side of the page. See if that's any closer... :-) B. |
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16 Jan 08 - 09:35 PM (#2238160) Subject: RE: Music wanted: Black is the colour From: Brendy Clickable Link B. |
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17 Jan 08 - 06:09 PM (#2238805) Subject: RE: Music wanted: Black is the colour From: GUEST Heyyyy thass the one! (pretty much, give or take a note or two!) Cool! Exactly the version. Thanks sooo much. Do you have the dots for it, perhaps in the key I sing it in? I've just worked out that my start note is D, so something like: d d g b sharp a b sharp c a g Black is the colour of my true love's hair Cheers Sue |
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17 Jan 08 - 06:10 PM (#2238807) Subject: RE: Music wanted: Black is the colour From: GUEST,Sue Ooops forgot to put my name on that last post! also, I think it may be B flat, not sharp in the above notes. :) |
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18 Jan 08 - 02:53 AM (#2239015) Subject: RE: Music wanted: Black is the colour From: Brendy I'll do the notation for the basic tune of it, over the next few days, if that's alright... B. |
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18 Jan 08 - 12:59 PM (#2239340) Subject: RE: Music wanted: Black is the colour From: Brendy ... or rather the notes. D D G A# A C A G D F D G F A F D D F D G F A F D D D G A# A C A G Hope you can figure it out from that, Sue B. |
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18 Jan 08 - 05:29 PM (#2239550) Subject: RE: Music wanted: Black is the colour From: GUEST Pretty much it, I think! thanks Brendan, you're a star, thanks for your help. Sue |
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19 Jan 08 - 02:01 AM (#2239826) Subject: RE: Music wanted: Black is the colour From: GUEST There are a lot of versions of "Black Is the Color". I like the Madison County North Carolina version which is pretty well known from old recordings and from Sheila Kay Adams, who is singing and teaching those ballads. You can hear it at Elizabeth LaPrelle's website. |
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06 May 09 - 06:00 PM (#2625807) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Black Is the Colour of My True Love's... From: GUEST thxx a lot guys, î ve been nlooking for these chords for like ages!! ( the judy collins - joan baez melody type ) cheers sami |
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06 May 09 - 06:37 PM (#2625826) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Black Is the Colour of My True Love's... From: Jack Campin The commonest version you hear in the British Isles these days is due to Hamish Imlach, who was trying to remember the John Jacob Niles tune at the time, got it horribly garbled, and decided to stick with it. I've more than once heard Irish singers insist that the Imlach version is an Irish tune. As far as I'm concerned it sucks and they're welcome to it. I just wish people here would drop it and do the Niles one instead. |
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06 May 09 - 06:41 PM (#2625834) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Black Is the Colour of My True Love's... From: Suegorgeous Jack Which is the version that I sing? |