The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #167022   Message #4023685
Posted By: Jack Campin
14-Dec-19 - 07:49 AM
Thread Name: Bayard and how to 'operationalise' ?
Subject: RE: Bayard and how to 'operationalise' ?
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Fiddler's Companion gives you a pretty one-eyed perspective. The vast majority of the sources cited are Irish or Irish-American, often thoroughly obscuring a tune's longer and well-established origin and development in England or Scotland. And they never, ever correct anything. TheSession works much better since you can be sure someone will be along eventually with a post that sets the history straight.

http://abcnotation.com has a graphical display of related tunes when you look at one in particular. I'm not sure how the relatedness is calculated.