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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Paul Cranford's collection is great for Irish, Scots, and is fabulous for Cape Breton tunes:
http://www.cranfordpub.com/index.htm
Ceolas remains one of the earliest online collections, even though it hasn't been much beyond 'Dusted off" since 2003, there's a LOT there, including a great linkfest to everyone else publishing tunes on the web:
http://www.ceolas.org/ceolas.html
But these are all Scots, Irish, Welsh, with links to some North American celtic; which is lovely but NOT French.
There are Breton tunes linked from this Steve Mansfield's excellent website of celtic tunes (of all kinds) (he's in Manchester, England, so it's a UK web address):
http://www.lesession.co.uk/index.htm
Of course, I just found most of my "haul" over the weekend by plugging the search string "5/4" into JC's ABC TUNE FINDER, the lazy geek's webcrawler for abc tunes le nez plus ultra (all fiddle on nose puns aside, it's the best tune-finder on the planet.)
http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/FindTune.html
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