Re: [Harp-L] list of Scottish/Irish tunes



You ca find many Scottish tunes, along with plenty of other traditional music, at the ABC music site. It's a bit geeky, but once you learn how to use it, it's a great resource.

ABC notation is a sort of musical shorthand that some trad musicians can read and even use for programming purposes. Any tune on the site can be displayed in ABC, in standard notation, or even played as a MIDI file:


http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/tunefind 
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From: Adam Sampson <ats@xxxxxxxxx>
To: JANIS SHAH <jkshah77@xxxxxxxxx> 
Cc: "harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx> 
Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2015 12:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] list of Scottish/Irish tunes


JANIS SHAH <jkshah77@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> ... and particular what is the meaning of the word 'hoi'.

The list you're talking about was originally from the Scots Moothie
Group in Edinburgh:
  http://www.geocurrent.org.uk/moothie/group.html

You could try asking them, but I suspect the answer you'll get is
"because you yell 'hoi!' halfway through the second part". ;-)

(For those who don't know this tune:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK0DDwp6Kas
  http://www.folktunefinder.com/tune/85526/    )

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Adam Sampson <ats@xxxxxxxxx>                         <http://offog.org/>



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