Take 6 Transcription Programme

Take 6 Transcription Programme: Rationale, Outcomes and Methods

Rationale

The aim is to make the EFDSS’s online Take 6 archives more accessible and useable, for example for those with limited musical skills and/or who find it difficult to decipher a raw MS.

Outcomes

It is intended to support the Take 6 MSS with the following:

MIDI files of the melody line;

PDF files that display sheet music of the songs.

Industry standard Music XML files of the sheet music that can be loaded into most music notation software programmes and altered and edited to the requirements of the user.

Notes on Music XML files. If you open these at the Folkopedia website all you will get is a page of hyper text markup language (HTML). So download the files and open them with music notation software. The Music XML download pages display the following notice underneath the file link--Warning: This file may contain malicious code, by executing it your system may be compromised. So run virus scans before opening Music XML files. Some Music XML files may have data missing. So check their content against that of the PDF images.

Methods

The filenames are the Take 6 MSS references with dashes substituted for the forward slashes (e.g. GB-6a-39 for GB/6a/39).

The Butterworth archive is the first to be transcribed. Currently transcription is limited to songs collected by Butterworth himself and by his associate, Francis Jekyll, from the mouths of the people; it omits material that Butterworth copied into his notebooks from printed sources such as Barrett, Chappell and the Journal of the Folk Song Society.

Take 6 Transcription Programme: The Butterworth Archive, MS 6a

Take 6 Transcription Programme: The Butterworth Archive, MS 7a

Take 6 Transcription Programme: The Butterworth Archive, MS 7b