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[actrealdon]

After Stormhold Singing on Sunday, which was much fun, I've been collating some old links I had on period singing and following some new ones.

Baroness Cecilia's Essential SCA Songbook is quite awesome, particularly when one's work printer has Booklet Maker functionality. :)

In my travels, I also found an origin story for the "Happy Birthday [

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[bar_barra]

Sorry I missed you. I was manically busy on Sunday, but have been reading about Bridie. Glad things are good. Seeya round like a brick.....

[etfb]

I think the origin story is a bit out - I recall a reference to it being sung in the 1950s. Reading between the lines in your link, I think it's more a case of the song being dimly remembered and then expanded. We'll never know the real origin, of course, unless you've got a TARDIS and an ethnomusicology degree...

[etfb]

Are there any programs that use Lilypond and let you compose and play the sheet music with a GUI? That's the advantage of NoteWorthy, which really is an excellent tool for that sort of thing. Its output is bog-standard, but that's not what people use it for.

[actrealdon]

If you've got Linux, which you do and I don't, I hear there's something called Rose Garden.

[kirieldp]

I prefer Noteworthy because while it doesn't produce as pretty prints as lilypond, it does allow you to play the music back, so is a useful rehearsal tool, and the noteworthy player is free. Thanks for these useful links!

[actrealdon]

Lilypond can also create MIDI files for playback.

[frodolover]

I also praise the awesomeness that is Lilypond. uniqueid and I did the songbook for SNIV using Lilypond without too much pain and we did it using both linux and windows (since I had to relocate to Sydney for Christmas and this was before I had Flea - my Eee PC running linux).

[actrealdon]

uniqueid was kind enough to give me your SNIV LY files a few months ago. I spliced out all the pre-1600 songs to make a quick and dirty SCA/AICSA overlap songbook.