Comments | fiddle: looking for 5/4 tunes

rutemple in fiddle

looking for 5/4 tunes

Jun 17, 2005 15:38

So I've got a couple of French 5/4 waltzes under my fingerbones, and would like to learn more.

Anyone know any? I'd be glad for pointers to online sources, abc notation in a comment, or links to (gasp) sheet music...

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jillwise June 17 2005, 21:17:43 UTC

i don't know any specifically, but http://www.cranfordpub.com/index.htm is a great resource... they have tons of tunes both written out and in abc format. hope it helps!

kiddokight June 20 2005, 16:34:30 UTC

That is a MAGNIFICENT ICON! And no- I dont know any good 5/4 tunes, but I do love your icon

rutemple June 21 2005, 09:47:32 UTC

thanks! it's just a silly shot my sweetie took of me mugging and laughing at some morris dance gig in the late 90s - I think we'd been talking about how some old-timey fiddlers tuck their fiddles not under their chin but into their collar-bones or sides, and well, once a viola da gamba player got into the fun, we just went into sillier realms - it was one of the great laughs.

I've found some good 5/4 tunes, and will post them here in abc as a separate comment to this post, with also a pointer to Chris Walshaw's abc home page (with the handy tutorial) and JC's abc finder (where, duh, I actually went and *found* 'em...)

kiddokight June 21 2005, 11:34:37 UTC

Thats sounds awesome. A great place to get tunes (irish) is off thesessions.org or something like that. Might just be thesession, and it might be .net. Hmm, regardless, the web is a great source of good music.

link-fest-noz rutemple June 21 2005, 11:59:57 UTC

The Session http://www.thesession.org/ is good for Irish tunes ( ... )

some French 5/4 Waltzes rutemple June 21 2005, 11:34:24 UTC

This is abc notation; anyone who is not (yet) familiar with this notation system, it's Chris Walshaw's mid-1980s hack at trying to send a fiddle tune by plain ascii email. He took development open-source in 1994, and with the aid of a small group of dedicated programming musical geeks, it's grown up into a sleek, versatile, platform independent musical notation, playing, and typesetting tool. And it's still simple ( ... )