I’ve looked everywhere on the net. No luck so far.
That’s really a tough one. The best I could do was save a midi file from an O’carolan site in my Encore program. It was 10 pages long and I deleted it. I have it in an O’Carolan tune book but don’t have a functioning scanner. If you need, I could photocopy and send it by snail.
Steve
[ This Message was edited by: SteveK on 2003-01-05 09:26 ]
Do you have MIDINotate software?
It will automatically display the sheet music for any MIDI file. It will also play it for you and highlight the notes as they are playing, allow you to select which tracks to mute and which to play, transpose keys, edit the score, etc. You can download a free, 30-day trial at http://www.notation.com .
I went to http://www.ask.com and searched for “Luke Dillon midi.” I got a pageful of links and found a midi of the tune on the first one I clicked. Simply opening the midi file in my computer (with MIDINotate installed) displays the sheet music, which will print onto paper with a mouse click.
Best wishes,
Jerry
P.S. After the 30-day free trial expires, you can buy the software for $35.
“This (manifest world) is full, and that (unmanifest source from whence it springs) is also full. Fullness comes out of fullness. Taking fullness from fullness, all that remains is fullness.”
[ This Message was edited by: Jerry Freeman on 2003-01-05 09:21 ]
[ This Message was edited by: Jerry Freeman on 2003-01-06 18:21 ]
Thanks Jerry, both Steve and I will benefit from that advice. Probably a bunch of other people too.
Like I always say,
“Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he’ll sit in a boat and drink beer all day.”
Best wishes,
Jerry
My Encore program will save the midi and display and play the sheet music. That’s what I did with the midi of Luke D that I found somewhere. I would only save a midi as an act of desperation, though. Apart from the way they sound the sheet music usually shows many staves which are mostly unused. This causes a relatively short tune to take up umpteen pages.
Steve
Another cool thing about the MIDINotate software is that you can set it to play the piece at any tempo you choose, so you can slow it way down while learning it.
Best wishes,
Jerry
Hi, Steve,
Your software sounds very similar to MIDINotate. However, in the “Track” pulldown menu of MIDINotate, there’s a “Delete Track” option. I haven’t tried to use it, but that would obviously be the place to delete the tracks you don’t want to see on the sheet music.
Best wishes,
Jerry
Just to confirm, I went to http://www.ask.com and found a midi for “Give Me Your Hand,” which I want to learn.
It did, indeed have four or five tracks, which would have filled the sheet music with unwanted staves, just as Steve said. Then, I went to the “Tracks” pulldown menu and only took a matter of seconds to weed out what I didn’t want. Now I have just the melody, on one stave, with very little effort at all.
Best wishes,
Jerry
P.S. I agree with you, Steve about the undesirable sound of the MIDIs. I try to find mp3s (preferably several) of any piece I’m interested in, so I can understand how it sounds when played by a human being. And, of course, there are actual CDs.
On 2003-01-05 11:58, Jerry Freeman wrote:
It did, indeed have four or five tracks, which would have filled the sheet music with unwanted staves, just as Steve said. Then, I went to the “Tracks” pulldown menu and only took a matter of seconds to weed out what I didn’t want. Now I have just the melody, on one stave, with very little effort at all.
I’ll have to try that on my Encore in the event I want to save a midi.
Steve
You could have memorized it by now. Sheesh.
Well, maybe you could have memorized it.
I need all the help I can get, and being able to create sheet music with just a few minutes’ effort makes a big difference. It also helps me in sharing music with my wife and teaching it to my children.
Best wishes,
Jerry
I went to the University of Colorado library, typed in “Turlough Carolan” in their catalog and found the 1959 set “The Life and Times of an Irish Harper” (or similar title). I’m guessing that tune would be in this book.
A library with a really good music section may have this, or another book of his tunes.