| Author | Topic: Lavender Cries | |
| dmcg | Posted - 09 Jun 07 - 04:06 pm | |
As I'm sure everyone has noticed by now, I am working my way through 'English County Songs.' The next in order should have been a set of four lavender cries. Getting the ABC for the first was easy; the remaining three are more problematical; they are shown in 3/4 time but none of the bars actually conform to that; being more like 6/4. In addition, played as written, they rather lack melody. My guess is that they show just the broad outline of the tunes and that the details of the length of each note is actually unspecified, perhaps because there was a lot of variation in the tune in the original or perhaps the details were simply not recorded. Add to that the complication of how to represent the four distinct ABCs in one group on this site - the PDF works but the MIDI player only takes the first, I believe - and I've decided I'll come back to this set at a later date... | ||
| Jon Freeman | Posted - 09 Jun 07 - 04:09 pm | |
I'll try to take another look at multiple midis over the next couple of days. | ||
| Jon Freeman | Posted - 09 Jun 07 - 04:36 pm | |
Do we need to have separate abc's or could we do something like this: X:1 T:Two ABCs T:Song 1 M:3/4 L:1/4 K:C CDE | FGA | Bcd | efg | abc' T:Song 2 M:6/8 L:1/8 K:D DEF GAB | cde fga | bc'd' I suppose it could get tricky on multi-voice tunes but I'd have thought it OK otherwise. Any thoughts? | ||
| dmcg | Posted - 09 Jun 07 - 04:42 pm | |
I've put the ABC I have here. so that people can see what we are talking about. I have used the X:1 X:2 X:3 notation to separate the various pieces. | ||
| Jon Freeman | Posted - 09 Jun 07 - 05:04 pm | |
I see what you mean about the other tunes. Anyway, combined, that would give us: X:1 T:Lavender Cries B:Broadwood, L, 1893, English County Songs, London, Leadenhall Press Z:Lucy Broadwood F:http://www.folkinfo.org/songs T:Tune 1 M:3/4 L:1/8 K:G GA |B3 c B2 |AB G2 z2 |A4 FE | DG G2 z w:Will you buy my sweet la-ven-der? Sweet bloom-ing lav-en-der? A |B3 d cB |AB G2 z2 || [M:C] A2 G2 F2 ED |D G3 |] w:O buy my pret-ty la-ven-der, Six-teen bunch-es a pen-ny! T:Tune 2 M:3/4 L:1/8 K:C c4 d4 |e4 d4 c4 |d4 d4 c4 | A4 A4 G4- |G4 c4 d4 |e4 d4 c4 |d4 c8 |] w: Six-teen bunch-es a pen-ny, sweet la-ven-der, * Six-teen bunch-es a pen-ny! T:Tune 3 M:3/4 L:1/8 K:C c4 d4 |e4 d4 c4 |e4 e4 f4 |d4 d4 c4- | c4 c4 d4 |e4 d4 c4 |d8 c4 |] w:Six-teen bunch-es a pen-ny, sweet la-ven-der, * six-teen bunch-es a pen-ny. T: Tune 4 M:3/4 L:1/8 K:C c4 d4 |e4 d4 c4 |e4 e4 f4 |e2 d2 c2 A2 G4- |G4 c4 d4 |e4 d4 c4 |d8 c4 |] w:Six-teen bunch-es a pen-ny, sweet la--ven--der, * six-teen bunch-es a pen-ny. which I think looks OK. I'm not sure about an all in one MIDI though. I suppose we could have separate abcs and supply a link for each MIDI but I'd need to know the count of MIDIs on displaying the page. | ||
| dmcg | Posted - 09 Jun 07 - 06:06 pm | |
Now, come, come, Jon, I know you are quite up to counting how many X:N lines are in the ABC! | ||
| Jon Freeman | Posted - 09 Jun 07 - 06:15 pm | |
OK, I'll do it that way then. | ||