the village music project
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The Doc Rowe Collection is an important archive of film, video, audio, photographs and ephemera relating to the traditional culture of the British Isles.
Francis Boutle publish two relevant books. One is a paperback reprint of George Deacon's marvellous book John Clare and The Folk Tradition. Poet John Clare collected much traditional music and song during the 18th century and the book includes Marion Ross's interpretations and transcriptions of Clare's handwritten books of dance tunes.
The second book is Step Change, a series of essays, edited by Georgina Boyes, presenting new perspectives on some aspects of traditional dance. This gives invaluable background to some of the music with which we are dealing in our project.
Tradtunes is a Yahoo discussion list for people interested in this sort of music. It's run by John Adams and regular contributors include Village Music Project researchers and associates.
ABC Tune Finder - the most complete web index of ABC tunes
ABC Primer - a brief intro to ABC
ABC Resource Steve Mansfield's excellent site
AbcMus for listening to and handling ABC tunes.
New version 2.0 out now Abc2Win for printing sheet music
Abc2ps for printing sheet music
BarFly. ABC program for the Mac
Free Sheet Music web site.
Musica Viva free sheet music archives, directory & web ring
Irtrad-l Irish Traditional Music E-mail List
John of the Green -The Cheshire Way: the definitive collection of 3/2 hornpipes - indispensable.