BBC Radio 4 is shortly to broadcast a programme about abc and its impact on the world of traditional music.
Entitled "From Dots to Download", the programme documents the use of abc music notation in the rediscovery of old manuscript tune-books from the 18th and 19th centuries.
The programme goes out on 21st July at 1.30pm and will be available to listen again for 7 days after the broadcast from: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lp15m
It features interviews with Chris Walshaw, inventor of abc, and members of the Village Music Project team and is presented by singer and musician, Tim van Eyken.
llig believes that the people who jotted down the tunes from the 17th century onwards that are now transcribed on http://www.village-music-project.org.uk/index.htm should have stuck with just sharing them aurally with their contemporaries!
A problem - the Beeb's terms and conditions for their iPlayer listen again service indicate that downloadable content is available only to people resident in the UK, and that DRM is applied (which means that downloaded BBC content will be deleted from your computer in due course).
However, if you're listening to the content as streaming audio you should be able to record it as an audio wav file using an audio recorder on your computer (I regularly use Creative's recorder for this purpose), and then of course there's no DRM involved. I think this DRM business applies primarily to BBC video content.
There's also the possibility that this radio programme could be rebroadcast sometime on the BBC World Service.
Thank goodness for the dots. Without them, English music would consist of three dozen German band polkas aurally acquired from a couple of geezers playing one-row melodeons in East Anglia in the 50s.
Thanks for posting this thread, cwalshaw - just caught the programme live.
However, I felt that the programme was really more about researching old manuscript tunebooks (though an interesting topic that may be) than it was about the abc notation system.
For example, it wasn't really explained why it was better to have the abc code from the tunebooks on the Internet, rather than having scanned jpegs of the originals.
For those who missed the programme live, here is the link again (available for seven days)
BBC Radio 4 features abc
BBC Radio 4 features abc
BBC Radio 4 is shortly to broadcast a programme about abc and its impact on the world of traditional music.
Entitled "From Dots to Download", the programme documents the use of abc music notation in the rediscovery of old manuscript tune-books from the 18th and 19th centuries.
The programme goes out on 21st July at 1.30pm and will be available to listen again for 7 days after the broadcast from:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lp15m
It features interviews with Chris Walshaw, inventor of abc, and members of the Village Music Project team and is presented by singer and musician, Tim van Eyken.
Chris
# Posted on July 14th 2009 by cwalshaw
Re: BBC Radio 4 features abc
The programme will plainly be biased. They never interviewed me
# Posted on July 14th 2009 by ...
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Can't think why.
# Posted on July 14th 2009 by Trevor Jennings
Re: BBC Radio 4 features abc
llig believes that the people who jotted down the tunes from the 17th century onwards that are now transcribed on http://www.village-music-project.org.uk/index.htm should have stuck with just sharing them aurally with their contemporaries!
# Posted on July 14th 2009 by RichardB
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I think it's quite probable that in the 17th century, English traditional music was pretty good. It's bloody rubbish now
# Posted on July 14th 2009 by ...
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Looking forward to it already.
Bit mean to announce it then make us wait a week...
# Posted on July 14th 2009 by Joe Wass
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A problem - the Beeb's terms and conditions for their iPlayer listen again service indicate that downloadable content is available only to people resident in the UK, and that DRM is applied (which means that downloaded BBC content will be deleted from your computer in due course).
However, if you're listening to the content as streaming audio you should be able to record it as an audio wav file using an audio recorder on your computer (I regularly use Creative's recorder for this purpose), and then of course there's no DRM involved. I think this DRM business applies primarily to BBC video content.
There's also the possibility that this radio programme could be rebroadcast sometime on the BBC World Service.
# Posted on July 14th 2009 by Trevor Jennings
Re: BBC Radio 4 features abc
Thank goodness for the dots. Without them, English music would consist of three dozen German band polkas aurally acquired from a couple of geezers playing one-row melodeons in East Anglia in the 50s.
# Posted on July 15th 2009 by nicholas
Re: BBC Radio 4 features abc
Thanks for posting this thread, cwalshaw - just caught the programme live.
However, I felt that the programme was really more about researching old manuscript tunebooks (though an interesting topic that may be) than it was about the abc notation system.
For example, it wasn't really explained why it was better to have the abc code from the tunebooks on the Internet, rather than having scanned jpegs of the originals.
For those who missed the programme live, here is the link again (available for seven days)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lp15m
# Posted on July 21st 2009 by Mix O'Lydian