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Subject: Artful Codger: Short entries for songs From: Artful Codger Date: 10 Mar 12 - 10:56 PM The Animals' Carol: Christmas carol sung by field mice in Kenneth Grahame's book The Wind in the Willows (1908). I wrote a jaunty Mixolydian tune for it; no significant revisions to the text. First lines: Villagers all, this frosty tide, / Let your doors swing open wide Mudcat thread: Wind in the Willows carol: http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=134368#3272400 (lyrics, ABC with lyrics) My Skydrive repository: Song settings (MIDIs, PDF) (Back to song index)
Click Clack: a poem about a miller who loves his late wife, his daughter and his maid, but they share a common failing: they never shut up (reminding him of the perpetual noise made by his mill). Charles Dibdin, jr wrote it, probably as a light theatrical song, and published it in his poetry collection Mirth and Metre (1807)--this is the only trace I've encountered of it. I wrote the patter chorus and musical setting, and made some wording changes to the text.
The Good Old Concertina (A.B. Patterson, 1891): in this Australian bush song, Patterson waxes nostalgic about evenings spent singing bush songs round the campfire to a concertina accompaniment. My setting includes a reel (used as an introduction and break) and a polka (played afterward).
[There's] Life in the Old Dog Yet: A jovial codger outlines the approach he took to ensure a satisfying life in the well-seasoned years. The song was written by Joseph Edward Carpenter, by 1878. Finding no music, I wrote a tune for it; text unaltered.
Lone Dog: A mongrel revels in his tough outcast life. The tune (sort of radio-cowboy) is mine, the text is unaltered.
Streams of Crimson Blood: A young man (John Stacey) breaks into an old man's home and brutally murders him and his housekeeper. He is tried for the murders and sentenced to be hanged. |
Subject: Artful Codger: Quick index to works From: Artful Codger Date: 10 Mar 12 - 10:56 PM Quick IndexSong settingsI've split these into two categories: those for which my music has been posted online in some fashion (ABC notation, MIDIs or recordings), and the rest. When I've posted music, you should be able to find MP3s or generated MIDIs and PDF scores in my SkyDrive Mudcat folder (particularly in the Song settings subfolder).
TranslationsL = literal translation; S = singable translation
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Subject: RE: Artful Codger: works, clips, notices From: Artful Codger Date: 10 Mar 12 - 10:56 PM
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Subject: Artful Codger: works, clips, notices From: Artful Codger Date: 10 Mar 12 - 10:55 PM NOTE: MODERATED THREAD Quick links: Song index -- Change history This thread provides lists and links for various works I've written or adapted: poem settings, reworked lyrics, parodies and tunes. General discussion of individual songs (history, other versions, etc.) is better placed in separate threads on those songs; I'll link primary ones below. Please let me know (preferably by PM) if you have an interest in these works--whether you'd like to see one not yet posted or whether you enjoyed a setting I've made. That's the only way I'll know it's worth the bother. ABC notation: I often post musical settings in ABC format. Due to my use of ABC version 2 features, I strongly advise using the online mandolintab.net ABC converter to generate MIDIs and PDF scores from my ABCs and others you'll find scattered about Mudcat. Most other ABC tools (notably, the Concertina.net online converter) will choke on or misapply most "advanced" features. I've put MIDI and PDF scores generated from the ABC notation under the Mudcat folder of my Skydrive repository; although you can't hear or view them directly at the repository, you can download them. This repository also contains MIDIs and PDFs for some other Mudcat projects I've helped on, notably the Notre Dame des Doms carols. Copyrights: I own the applicable copyrights on my contributions and revisions to these works, though not on the public domain works from which I have derived. You can assume I wrote all the music, except as noted. Irascibly yours, Artful Codger (Rob Wahl)
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