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Thread #16332   Message #152159
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
20-Dec-99 - 07:40 PM
Thread Name: Help: Where do I get the notes to folk tunes?
Subject: RE: Help: Where do I get the notes to folk tunes?
Anyway, the Nowhere Man missed out all the notes that keyboard players call the black ones. And then there are all the ones tyat fit in between the notes which we take note of. The ones that we've trained our ears out of recognising, by playing instruments with frets and buttons.

And noone has mentioned The Book. - Francis O'Neill's "Music of Ireland - Eighteen Hundred and Fifty Melodies: Airs, Jigs, Rels, Honpipes, Long Dances, Marches &c., Many of which are now published for the First Time, collected from all Available Sources."

There's a bastardised version of it edited by Miles Krassen in New York in 1976, Oak PPublications. But thefe's a better version published by someone else in the Hobgoblin Catalogue - clicky thing

I only wish I could read the music myself though.