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The Microphones Rambles

Author: Bernie Stocks
Keywords: Irish Traditional Music
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Notes: These tunes have collected themselves over the years, in the sense that most of them come from tapes of various sessions and other gatherings. They are either tunes I regard as uncommon and thus worthy of recording, unusual settings of well known tunes, or settings of tunes (well known or otherwise) by musicians I regard as having a great way of playing. For personal reasons there is a bias towards the fiddle. It is inevitable that some tunes and sets of tunes here will be from commercial recordings I am unaware of. I have followed the splendid example of Brendan Breathnach in representing ornamentation (see 'Ceol Rince na h'Eireann'), except in cases were I have tried to represent a more unusual musical event. I had also intended to sort along the lines of tune type and key (again cf. Brendan Breathnach). However, it was easiest for me to just add tunes to the back of the list as I transcribed them, so the tunes are effectively sorted by session.. Note that key signatures do not denote the actual key of the tune, but the note spacings involved, e.g. a tune in 'A' with a modal feel will actually have a key signature of 'D' (2 sharps). If a tune is a transcription of an actual performance it is noted there, otherwise the notation is best seen as 'skeletal', or 'generic'. In the case of the latter I have not always indicated that a reel is played double, have often left out the 'lead' notes at the ends of parts, and have not usually credited the performer as most of the tunes were recorded at sessions. Names have been a real headache, particularly in the case of odd tunes gleaned from ancient tapes. Tracking them down would take far too much of my time, and an endless series of 'Gan Ainm' looks ridiculous, but I had had no option but to adopt the latter. The information in this book will inevitably contain errors, for which, apologies. I have tested the transcriptions with 'playqabc' and latterly with 'abc2midi'. A cheap Philips cassette player was used to slow down recordings to about threequarter speed when necessary. Bernie Stocks

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Traditional Irish dance tunes in ABC format, collected by Bernie Stocks

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