The above is a link to the BBC radio documentry about putting tunes into ABC and on the internet , broadcast today.
Now where else have I seen that done ?
And it's a very informative documentary, specifically about how musicians are rediscovering tune books from hundreds of years ago, now playing and arranging the tunes, and sharing them worldwide using the ABC notation.
I was delighted to hear on the documentary one of the stalwarts of our English session in Bristol who has been at the forefront in bringing the William Winter manuscript tune book back to life.
I happened to be out of the office driving this afternoon and caught some of it - the bits where they played Thomas Hardy's fiddle and where the bloke who invented abc was talking
also the 3/2 hornpipe, although their arrangement was a bit "identikit modern folk group"
From Dots to Downloads
From Dots to Downloads
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00lp15m/From_Dots_to_Downloads/
The above is a link to the BBC radio documentry about putting tunes into ABC and on the internet , broadcast today.
Now where else have I seen that done ?
# Posted on July 21st 2009 by bazouki dave
Re: From Dots to Downloads
And it's a very informative documentary, specifically about how musicians are rediscovering tune books from hundreds of years ago, now playing and arranging the tunes, and sharing them worldwide using the ABC notation.
I was delighted to hear on the documentary one of the stalwarts of our English session in Bristol who has been at the forefront in bringing the William Winter manuscript tune book back to life.
# Posted on July 21st 2009 by Trevor Jennings
Re: From Dots to Downloads
Oh, and the documentary will be available on the BBC iPlayer for the next 10 or 11 days.
# Posted on July 21st 2009 by Trevor Jennings
Re: From Dots to Downloads
I was just about to post on this.
I happened to be out of the office driving this afternoon and caught some of it - the bits where they played Thomas Hardy's fiddle and where the bloke who invented abc was talking
also the 3/2 hornpipe, although their arrangement was a bit "identikit modern folk group"
Good programme though.
# Posted on July 21st 2009 by Bren
Re: From Dots to Downloads
good programme.
i'm sure i heard devil amongst the tailors in there somewhere.......
# Posted on July 22nd 2009 by rumpole