On 02/02/2011 03:30 AM, Ralph Palmer wrote:
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:05 PM, Patrick Horgan <phorg...@yahoo.com
<mailto:phorg...@yahoo.com>> wrote:
I'm setting some of O'Neill's Irish tunes, and the tempo
indications are (a selection):
Animated, Boldly, Cheerful, Cheerfully, Gaily, Gracefully, Moderate,
Plaintive, Plaintively, Playful, Playfully, Rather slow, Slow,
Slow and distinctly, Slow and mournful, Slow and tenderly,
Slow and with feeling, Slow with expression, Slow and feeling,
Spirited, Tenderly, Very slow, With animation, With expression,
With feeling, With spirit
What do you do with that? I can find tables of usual tempo ranges
for italian tempo indications, but I have no idea what to do with
these. I'd like them to be authentic, in that the midi file would
be about as fast as the tune would usually be played in an Irish
pub. Does anyone have any ideas?
Patrick
Greetings, Patrick -
The tempo indications are just what they say. There's a lot of
variation in tempo for the same tune at various sessions.This may not
be a lot of help, but I would suggest three possibilities: 1) play the
midi at a default or provisional tempo, decide whether it sounds right
to you, then modify the tempo accordingly;
But I don't know the repertoire so I don't know what sounds right.
2) get a metronome with a beat input button, play or hum the tune the
way you think it should go, then tap the metronome button at that pace
to find the tempo; or
Again, I don't know the repertoire.
3) find a recording or an Irish session musician who will play the
tune for you, and determine that tempo.
I've tried with some of that with youtube. Still not helpful for most,
cause I can't find them.
No hard and fast rules, I'm afraid. I'd like to see the results when
you're done. Incidentally, if you didn't know, all the O'Neill's tunes
have been transcribed using ABC format and are freely available. Some
of them may give tempos; I don't know. If you want to check them out,
go to
http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/tunefind
<http://trillian.mit.edu/%7Ejc/cgi/abc/tunefind>
enter the tune name, and you can check out the ABC source file, a
.jpg, a .png, and other formats.
Yeah, I know that site. They mention the same problem and that most of
the files don't have any real tempo indications so the midi files are
often at weird speeds.
There will be *multiple* hits for each tune. If you want the
O'Neill's, it will be identified by a number (I can't remember what
the number is) all the way to the left of the entry.
Thank you,
Patrick
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