INTERESTING TOPICS
The ABC Home Page
ABC is a language designed to notate tunes in a text format. It was designed primarily for folk and
traditional tunes of European origin (such as English, Irish, French, Balkan and Scottish) which can be
written on one stave in standard classical notation. You can see the written music, hear it, slow it down,
transpose to any key and much more. Free software for any computer system. You can download
complete tune books at no cost. How about ONeills 1850 tunes on your Palm Pilot or great collections
of Bulgarian, Breton, Irish and tunes from other cultures to have on your laptop or home computer.
ABC Tune Finder
Want to find out how a tune goes? Want to here it? Want to have the music? Want 20 versions in
different keys. This is the place.
The Village Music Project
A study of English Social Musicians from the 17th century onwards from their manuscripts.
Music has, for centuries, formed an integral part of life in the villages and towns of the world. The local musician(s) were and still are in great demand for social occasions, religious festivals, community ritual and celebration. It has not been uncommon for musicians to have a multiplicity of functions within their community, playing for the local dance on the Saturday night, and the church service on the Sunday morning.
Often, musically literate musicians wrote down their tunes, songs, hymns, psalms and band parts in a single book which was easily carried along with their portable instrument. Some of these surviving hand written books date back to the eighteenth century. Some are devoted entirely to church music, some to secular music like the dance tunes of the day, and some are a rich mixture of all musics of their time.
The surviving manuscript books of England are spread around. Museum and library archives, private collections and church bookshelves contain many treasures of this kind. Some are known of, and have been inspected, researched, published in full or in part, and safeguarded. Others are yet to be discovered, and may well be deterioratating due to neglect. Some have even been destroyed by people who saw them as having little value.
Many manuscripts available here in ABC and some other formats.
The Digital Tradition
Want to have the lyrics and music for about 9000 songs at your fingertips? You can either look them
up on this site or download the whole database to your computer. It will even play you the melodies
for many of the tunes.
Music Summer Camps
A nice list of violin focused summer camps.
The Larkies
Websites of the folks that come to Lark Camp.
Olaf Palm
Our dear friend, painter of musicians.
Nancy Covey's Festival Tours International
Wonderful guided tours to Louisiana and English Music Festivals.
California Gaitieros
The Lark Camp and California Galician bagpipe maddness.
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