Wow... Hard to find Folk Song Notation

Subject: Wow... Hard to find Folk Song Notation
From: Max
Date: 04 Oct 96 - 04:13 PM

Found a great Website that has a lot of what we all look for. A lot of hard to find sheet music notation. It's all in ASCII notation, but is certainly better than nothing.

Check out:

http://www.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc/index/wwabc.html

Subject: RE: Wow... Hard to find Folk Song Notation
From: John Henry
Date: 20 Oct 96 - 08:32 PM

I copied your url and pasted it into my browser. It didn't work.

Subject: RE: Wow... Hard to find Folk Song Notation
From:
Date: 31 Oct 96 - 10:51 AM

Try the following link for MIDI files which can be easily imported into transcription proggies.

http://www.eden.com/~brianh/irish.html

Subject: RE: Wow... Hard to find Folk Song Notation
From:
Date: 31 Oct 96 - 01:51 PM

As checked today (10/31/96) /wwabc.html is a huge file that requires specialized software. Take a look at Chris Walshaw's explanation and links to freeware/shareware at http://www.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc/indexabc

Subject: RE: Wow... Hard to find Folk Song Notation
From: Sechelt Computing Services
Date: 31 Oct 96 - 06:18 PM

Hi, I am trying to find a free copy of sheet music for "The Flower of Scotland" so it can be used at a senior citizen's hospital in Sechelt, BC Canada.

I am having trouble with this task and hope you can help me help some of these older people. No one here seems to know the tune or how to play it. I did manange to get the lyrics to the song.

Thank you for your help email: [e-mail]

Subject: Tune Add: THE FLOWER OF SCOTLAND (Roy Williamson)
From:
Date: 07 Dec 06 - 09:33 AM

From JC's TuneFinder:

X: 1
T:The Flower of Scotland
C:Roy Williamson, The Corries
Z:ABC by Thornton Rose, January 2002
N:Original score in F.
M:3/4
L:1/4
F:http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/abc/FlowerOfScotland.abc 2006-12-07 14:17:51 UT
K:A
c | c2 B | A3 | E3- | E2
w:Oh, Flower of Scot-land,_
E | A2 c | B3- | B2 B | A2 B | c3- | c3- | c2
w:When will we see_ your like a-gain,__
c | d c d | e3 | A3- | A2 c | B2 B | B A B | c2
w:That fought_ and died for_ your wee bit Hill_ and Glen,
d | c2 B | A3 | E3- | E2 c | d c d | e3 | A3- | A2
w:And stood a-gainst him,_ Proud Ed_ ward's ar-my,
c | d c B | (c2 B) | A3- | A2 A | =G2 B | A3- | A3- | A2 |]
w:And sent_ him home_ ward_ tae think a-gain.__
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W:2. The hills are bare now,
W:And autumn leaves lie thick and still,
W:O'er land that is lost now, which those so dearly held,
W:And stood against him, Proud Edward's army,
W:And sent him homeward tae think again.
W:
W:3. Those days are passed now
W:And in the past they must remain
W:But we can still rise now, and be the nation again
W:That stood against him, Proud Edward's army
W:And sent him homeward tae think again.
W:
W:4. (Repeat 1)

For more versions of the tune, check out: JC's TuneFinder

Subject: RE: Wow... Hard to find Folk Song Notation
From: jeffp
Date: 07 Dec 06 - 09:56 AM

I think we have a candidate for the longest span between question and answer - 10 years.

Subject: RE: Wow... Hard to find Folk Song Notation
From: MMario
Date: 07 Dec 06 - 09:58 AM

sooner or later ... less then a minute to over ten years - if the answer it out there....

Subject: RE: Wow... Hard to find Folk Song Notation
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 07 Dec 06 - 10:11 AM

(changing the subject line to facilitate searches - text & tune above)

Subject: RE: Wow... Hard to find Folk Song Notation
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 07 Dec 06 - 11:11 AM

I've got a child as old as that!!!

LTS