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Tune Book Search for Irish, Scottish and English Dance Melodies.
Back in the early 1980s, when I playing and learning a lot of the time, I had lots of music books and lots of printed tunes in them, but no easy quick way of finding which tune was in what book and whether it was the tune that I wanted. It may be that I would go and look up the desired title only to find that it was a reel and not the jig that I thought it was. So I slowly typed in all the titles that I had with reference to the book, what page it was on and what type of tune it was.
This was all done on a Video Genie running the LDOS operating system. This PC was a Tandy TRS80 look alike, with 2 x 750k 5.25" floppy disks and maybe one other smaller floppy disk. Naturally I lost most of data one time due to the vagaries and unreliability of that media. A lesson well remembered ever since, as I had to spend hours retyping what I had already done.
The end result was that this database contains 8649 tune titles.
So take a look and see if this is of any use to yourself.
The Books covered are:-
1000 ENGLISH COUNTRY DANCE TUNES |
MCNULTY |
50 OLD ENGLISH AIRS |
NEW NATIONAL SONG BOOK |
6 DANCES FROM THE YORKSHIRE DALES |
NORTHUMBRIAN PIPERS |
AG DEANAMH CEOIL |
NORTHUMBRIAN PIPERS 2nd BOOK |
ALLANS IRISH FIDDLER (PIANIST) |
O CAROLAN |
APTED BOOK OF COUNTRY DANCES |
O NEILLS WAIFS AND STRAYS |
ARMAGH PIPERS 2 |
O'NEILLS 1000 |
B & S 1 |
O'NEILLS 1001 |
B & S 2 |
O'NEILLS 1850 |
B & S 3 |
PEACOCKS TUNES |
B & S 4 |
PENGUIN BOOK OF ENGLISH FOLK SONG |
BAGPIPE MCFAYDEN |
PIPERS DELIGHT |
BAGPIPE MUSIC FOR DANCING |
PLUA'S BOOK M1 |
BAND CALL |
PLUAS BOOK MIII |
BOBBY MCLEOD |
PLUAS BOOK N |
BOYS OF THE LOUGH |
PLUAS BOOK P |
CALLERS CHOICE |
PLUAS BOOK S |
CALLERS CHOICE VOL 2 |
POPULAR SELECTION BOOK 1 |
CANOW KERNOW |
POPULAR SELECTION BOOK 2 |
CHARLTON MEMORIAL TUNE BOOK |
POPULAR SELECTION BOOK 3 |
COMMUNITY DANCE MANUAL 1 |
POPULAR SELECTION BOOK 4 |
COMMUNITY DANCE MANUAL 2 |
RALPH PAGE BOOK OF CONTRAS |
COMMUNITY DANCE MANUAL 3 |
RINGING STRINGS |
COMMUNITY DANCE MANUAL 4 |
ROCHE COLLECTION BOOK 1 |
COMMUNITY DANCE MANUAL 5 |
ROCHE COLLECTION BOOK 2 |
COMMUNITY DANCE MANUAL 6 |
ROCHE COLLECTION BOOK 3 |
COMMUNITY DANCE MANUAL 7 |
ROLY NO 1 |
DORCHESTER HORNPIPE |
ROLY NO 2 |
EIGHTY ENGLISH FOLKSONGS |
ROLY NO 3 |
ENGLISH COUNTRY DANCE TUNES RMS35 |
RON GONNELLA FIDDLE |
EVERYDAY DANCES |
SCOTS GUARDS |
FEADOG STAIN |
SCOTS GUARDS VOL 2 |
FIDDLE TUNES |
SCOTTISH AIRS |
FIDDLERS TUNE BOOK 1 |
SCOTTISH CDM 1 |
FIDDLERS TUNE BOOK 2 |
SCOTTISH CDM 2 |
FIFTY OLD AIRS AND DANCES 1 |
SCOTTISH CDM 3 |
FIFTY OLD AIRS AND DANCES 2 |
SCOTTISH CDM 4 |
GLENDARUEL COLLECTION |
SCOTTISH SONGS |
GREAT GAELIC TUNES |
SCOTTISH VIOLINIST (SCOTT SKINNER) |
HARDINGS |
SKYE COLLECTION |
HIGH LEVEL RANTERS |
SOODLUMS TUTOR VOL 1 |
HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS |
SOODLUMS TUTOR VOL2 |
IRISH SONG BOOK |
SULLIVAN 1 |
IRISH SONGBOOK CLANCY |
SWING PARTNERS |
KERRS 1 |
SWORD AND CEREMONY |
KERRS 2 |
TIN WHISTLE TUTOR |
KERRS 3 |
TRADITIONAL DANCE AIRS |
KERRS 4 |
TREBLES DELIGHT |
KERRS CALEDONIAN |
TUNES FOR THE BAND |
KERRS COLLECTION OF REELS AND SY' |
TUNES FOR THE DANCING MASTER |
KERRS MODERN DANCE ALBUM |
TWELVE COUNTRY DANCES |
KERRS PIANO COLLECTION |
WESSEX TUNE BOOK 1 |
LOGANS TUTOR |
WESSEX TUNE BOOK 2 |
MARR & COS ROYAL |
WHISTLERS POCKET COMPANION |
PLUAS book were notes that Paul Stanbrook had made, maybe they were thrown away after he died.
I guess that ROLY 1 2 & 3 are somewhere in my loft.
Interestingly for me, it seems to have taken almost as much effort in formatting the original data into a MySql database.
Sending the database content to the Internet server.
Figuring out forms - sort of.
Figuring out Perl - even more sort of.
Figuring out how to create a web page on the fly.
My methods may not be elegant but they finally worked!
Thanks to David my son who decided that some more elegance was required.
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