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GUEST,Jon ABC versus Standard Notation (115* d) RE: ABC versus Standard Notation 19 Jun 18


I doubt Sandman will have used lilypond. Anyway, here is an abc2ly conversion of a version of the an abc of Kesh Jig taken from the Internet.

Original abc:

X:1
T:The Kesh Jig
O:Ireland
S:John B. Walsh Session Tunes
R:Jig
M:6/8
K:G
P:A
|:D|"G"~G3 GAB|"D"ABA ABd|"G"edd gdd|"G"edB "D"dBA|
    "G"~G3 GAB|"D"ABA ABd|"G"edd gdB|"D"AGF "G"G2:|
P:B
|:A|"G"~B3 dBd|"C"ege "G"dBG|"G"~B3 dBG|"D"ABA AGA|
    "G"BAB dBd|"C"ege "G"dBd|"G"gfg "D"aga|"G"bgf g2:|


Lilypond:

\version "2.7.40"
\header {
        crossRefNumber = "1"
        footnotes = ""
        origin = "Ireland"
        subtitle = "John B. Walsh Session Tunes"
        tagline = "Lily was here 2.18.2 -- automatically converted from ABC"
        title = "The Kesh Jig"
}
voicedefault = {
\set Score.defaultBarType = ""

\time 6/8 \key g \major   \repeat volta 2 {   d'8 \bar "|"   g'4. ^"G"^"~"   
g'8    a'8    b'8 \bar "|"   a'8 ^"D"   b'8    a'8    a'8    b'8    d'8
\bar "|"   e'8 ^"G"   d'8    d'8    g'8    d'8    d'8 \bar "|"   e'8
^"G"   d'8    b'8      d'8 ^"D"   b'8    a'8 \bar "|"       g'4. ^"G"^"~"   
g'8    a'8    b'8 \bar "|"   a'8 ^"D"   b'8    a'8    a'8    b'8    d'8
\bar "|"   e'8 ^"G"   d'8    d'8    g'8    d'8    b'8 \bar "|"   a'8 ^"D"
g'8    fis'8      g'4 ^"G" }    \repeat volta 2 {   a'8 \bar "|"   b'4.
^"G"^"~"    d'8    b'8    d'8 \bar "|"   e'8 ^"C"   g'8    e'8      d'8
^"G"   b'8    g'8 \bar "|"   b'4. ^"G"^"~"    d'8    b'8    g'8 \bar "|"   
a'8 ^"D"   b'8    a'8    a'8    g'8    a'8 \bar "|"       b'8 ^"G"   a'8   
b'8    d'8    b'8    d'8 \bar "|"   e'8 ^"C"   g'8    e'8      d'8 ^"G"
b'8    d'8 \bar "|"   g'8 ^"G"   fis'8    g'8      a'8 ^"D"   g'8   
a'8 \bar "|"   b'8 ^"G"   g'8    fis'8    g'4 }   
}

\score{
    <<

        \context Staff="default"
        {
            \voicedefault
        }

    >>
        \layout {
        }
        \midi {}
}


I've put the resulting pdf at http://jonbanjo.com/temp/kesh.pdf


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