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Thread #53204   Message #817614
Posted By: Mary in Kentucky
03-Nov-02 - 03:33 PM
Thread Name: Writing a Yule Carol -- help with melody
Subject: RE: Writing a Yule Carol -- help with melody
Hi Capri, I hear potential here!

First, to anyone wanting to hear this melody, but still too stubborn to use the red Miditext program (like me, sometimes) go here [http://www.concertina.net/tunes_convert.html] to see the notation and also to hear a midi of the tune. It's easy! Just delete all of Capri's double spaced lines (make it all single line spacing).

Capri, I'd like to hear some dotted notes or maybe some 6/8 time instead of the even 3/4 time with all quarter notes. You could possibly sing it for us on PalTalk. ;-)

I'll have a look at the dots tonight when I have more time and get back with you. Just off the top of my head (before I heard your tune) I was thinking of "the English" sound...like in Greensleeves...going from a minor chord to the adjacent major chord one step down...