* MY BANDS
* LISTS
Bands that I'm in
Click on one of the links
Have a look at my BITS & BOBS
page, which is a work in progress mainly to do with dusty old
dance and music manuscripts, and their transcription into ABC
Notation for the computer age, for The Village Music Project.
This constitutes the bulk of this website.
By Frank Kidson, 1900
Although the most famous publisher of British dances and dance music was John Playford and his successors, there were many notable publishers throughout the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. In 1900 Frank Kidson published a directory of all the ones uncovered by him in his research. I have transcribed it into HTML to render it searchable
Part 1, Preface
and Introduction
Part 2, London
Publishers
Part 3,
Provincial, Scottish and Irish Publishers
A PDF copy of the original is available at The
Petrucci Archive
I collected together a list of
traditional tunes and put them into ABC file format and
into PDF format
to sites mostly about traditional music and dance
The Village
Music Project, A large assortment of old English
manuscript tune books and antique dance instruction manuals,
converted into ABC format, many with explanatory introductions
The Traditional Tune
Archive, By Andrew Kuntz. An internet Wiki database of
traditional tunes in ABC, with their sources and histories
Folkopedia, A peer
reviewed Wiki resource, with some input from me, particularly in
the Music section
The English Folk Dance and Song
Society, What it says on the tin
Ryburn3step,
Promotes a variety of folk-related activities within the Ryburn
Valley district of Calderdale
Astralsound PA
Basics Guide, No connection, not even a customer (too far
away) but it's an excellent online tutorial.
Veteran Mail Order,
online shop for traditional music and song
Topic Records,
another
EnglishFolkInfo,
Martin Nail's guide to the folk scene
The Centre for the Study of
the Legacies of British Slave-ownership, search the
database to find out if you or your town have any historic
connection to the slave trade
I put together a brief two-page leaflet about tune collections,
Folkopedia and the Village Music Project, available as a PDF
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