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Thread #128010   Message #2862318
Posted By: Artful Codger
11-Mar-10 - 11:15 PM
Thread Name: French naval songs c.1760
Subject: RE: French naval songs c.1760
Here is an ABC of the music in Cahiers de chants de marins, which I prepared from Monique's notation above and a scan of the score which she sent me.

X:1
T:La Prise du Foudroyant
S:Cahier de chants de marins, #5, p. 21, from Le Chasse-Mar\'ee
N:From the singing of L\'evi Le Houthillier, Haut Siant Simon, New Brunswick, 1953
% Fermatas (H) added by the ABC transcriber; they do not appear in the original score.
% The tempo marking is the transcriber's rough guess.
M:none
L:1/8
Q:1/4=80
K:G
B, E F G G G G (G HF2) A G F E2 D E F (G HF2)
w: Nous som-mes par-tis de Tou-lon_ Trois grand na-vires de la na-tion._
B, E F G F G A HB3 B A G F G (A G) HF2
w: C'\'e-tait pour s'en al-ler croi-ser Sur les c\^o-tes d'Es-pa--gne.
B, E F G A G E (E HD2) E F A G F (G F) HE2 |]
w: \`A Lis-bonn' nous a-vons mouil-l\'e._ Et at-ten-dent l'es-ca--dre.

You can plug it into Concertina.net's Tune-o-Tron to produce dots or a MIDI.