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Thread #153905   Message #3608074
Posted By: GUEST
07-Mar-14 - 02:31 PM
Thread Name: Notated Music ID request - Auld Lang Syne
Subject: Tune Req: Notated Music ID request
I have a piano with this painted on the top, and I am trying to find out what the tunes represented are. I tried using noteflight for the "Auld Lang Syne" page (here is the result), but I do not recognize the melody it plays back and might have gotten the notation wrong. I have not attempted the "Edinburgh Forever" page.
Apparently Robert Burns' poem "Auld Lang Syne" was not originally set to the music we associate it with it today (by George Thompson as I understand), and I wonder if anyone knows if the music depicted in the painting is the original Burns music ("For old long Sine my jo") or some other tune. (Fyi I could not load the plugin on this page to hear "For old long Sine my jo.")
I have not found any record of the Edinburgh song anywhere online so far.