Help: Looking for black folk song

Subject: Looking for black folk song
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Mar 00 - 03:02 AM

I came acorss a tune which sounds like black spiritual but can't quite get the name.

  4/4  F   A | G  F  F |ACCD C  Bb |A GFGA  A |G  F F 
       H   H   Q. E  H  EEEE Q. E   Q EEEE  Q  Q. E H
  

H= half note
Q=quarter note
Q.=dotted quarter note
E= Eigth note


If anyone know the answer please email me at

[e-mail]

Thank you soooo much....

Gooi Tah Choe

Line Breaks <br> added.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Help: Looking for black folk song
From: Crowhugger
Date: 31 Mar 00 - 03:11 AM

Gonna go see if I can figure out your code. Then I'll see if I recognize the tune... I didn't get a lot of black music growing up, being from a "white-with-mediterranean-newcomers" city (one black kid per school, if that many) but we had a bit so as not to lose the roots (why DID they steal that word for a movie title...it used to mean something to us. Movie types, hmph)

Back in a bit. We'll see who beats me to it. West coast blues/gospel types? It must still be early in Hawaii.

Subject: RE: Help: Looking for black folk song
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Mar 00 - 03:18 AM

Sorry for the ambiguity Crow, the note-value line have somehow join up with the melody. Let me put it again.

4/4 F A | G F F |ACCD C Bb |A GFGA A |G F F

Note value for each note is:

H H Q. E H EEEE Q. E Q EEEE Q Q. E H

H= half note Q=quarter note Q.=dotted quarter note E= Eigth note

Subject: RE: Help: Looking for black folk song
From: Crowhugger
Date: 31 Mar 00 - 04:13 AM

It's okay, GTC. I like your notation a lot. Including bar lines on the line of note values would make it faster for me to match up, just save counting out letters and drawing in my own.

BTW, I don't know the tune. But it's lovely. I wish I did. So when someone solves the mystery, I hope there are also lovely words!

I'm not very Asian-literate about names, especially when some people keep the family name first and others switch things around to go with the format of English. So what's your given name? That's usually how we address each other here? Or you could pick a fun name...

Subject: RE: Help: Looking for black folk song
From: Crowhugger
Date: 31 Mar 00 - 08:29 AM

(to Praise and other mothering types: I forgot to mention in my last posting that I e-mailed GTC to check back here for a few days and how to look back more than one day etc.)

Subject: RE: Help: Looking for black folk song
From: Joe Offer
Date: 31 Mar 00 - 10:18 PM

Well, I don't recognize the tune, either. I transcribed it into MIDITEXT. Maybe somebody else can figure it out from the MIDI or ABC.
-Joe Offer-

MIDI file: UNKNOW~1.MID

Timebase: 192

Name: Unknown
Text: none
Copyright:
TimeSig: 4/4 24 8
Start
0000 1 65 110 0336 0 65 000 0048 1 69 110 0336 0 69 000 0048 1 67 110 0256 0 67 000 0032 1 65 110 0094 0 65 000 0002 1 65 110 0336 0 65 000 0048 1 69 110 0094 0 69 000 0002 1 72 110 0094 0 72 000 0002 1 72 110 0094 0 72 000 0002 1 74 110 0094 0 74 000 0002 1 72 110 0256 0 72 000 0032 1 70 110 0094 0 70 000 0002 1 69 110 0160 0 69 000 0032 1 67 110 0094 0 67 000 0002 1 65 110 0094 0 65 000 0002 1 67 110 0094 0 67 000 0002 1 69 110 0094 0 69 000 0002 1 69 110 0160 0 69 000 0032 1 67 110 0256 0 67 000 0032 1 65 110 0094 0 65 000 0002 1 65 110 0336 0 65 000
End

This program is worth the effort of learning it.

To download the March 10 MIDItext 98 software and get instructions on how to use it click here

ABC format:

X:1
T:Unknown
M:4/4
Q:1/4=120
K:C
F4A4|G3FF4|Accdc3^A|A2GFGAA2|G3FF7/2||

Subject: RE: Help: Looking for black folk song
From: Crowhugger
Date: 02 Apr 00 - 10:37 AM

Thanks, Joe. I hope so!

Subject: RE: Help: Looking for black folk song
From: Crowhugger
Date: 04 Apr 00 - 10:22 AM

Refresh. With hope...