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Thread #106964   Message #2215616
Posted By: Jack Campin
14-Dec-07 - 08:26 PM
Thread Name: Songs for cattle
Subject: Tune Add: LAWRIE COBLEY'S CATTLE LULLABY
Most ABC software could make no sense of that version of Lawrie Cobley's tune. You wouldn't want to try creating staff notation from that MIDIText output if you could use what's on the original webpage. I went back to it and wrote it out from scratch to get this, which will play in an ABA form to give you an idea of the repeat structure and will also typeset legibly. (On BarFly at least - haven't tried other programs, the complicated repeat structure here is hard to represent and you may want to change it a little for other software).


X:1
T:Lawrie Cobley's Cattle Lullaby
N:The tune was collected by Dave de Hugard from ex-drover, Lawrie
N:Cobley who lilted it continuously to cattle at night to keep them
N:settled. Some drovers used a mouthorgan the same way, moving slowly
N:around the mob on a quiet night horse and playing a soothing melody.
M:3/4
L:1/8
Q:1/4=120
P:ABCB
% really ABCBCBCB...
K:C
[P:A]G,A,\
[P:B]   |:C4 (3CDC|A,G,3 C2 |   D4 CD    |E G3    G`E |
          DC3 CD |E4 (3EFE|   DC3 A,2   |A,G,3 [1 G,A,:|\
                                                 [2 C`D ||
[P:C]    EG3 GA |G4 (3GEC|   c4 c2    |AG3      C`D |
          EG3 GA |G2 E2 C2 |[1 ED3 DE    |D4       C`D :|\
                            [2 ED3 (3DED||


The tune is related to the one used in Scotland for the song "The Galway Shawl".

MIDIText seems not to know what a triplet is.