[irishtune.info] new feature and Cobb re-indexed

[Alan Ng]

Dear irishtune.info news subscribers,

More nerdy stuff to announce:

1) http://www.irishtune.info/rhythm/history.html

Is a three-dimensional graph describing the rise, fall, and vagaries of 
how various Irish tune types have fared in commercial recordings over 
the past 100 years.

Lots of fascinating things about Irish music history can be read from 
this graph: I will shortly post some comments to IRTRAD-L with a few of 
my thoughts.

2) Since the previous news broadcast on Mar. 3, 2006, I've re-indexed 
the Cobb abc collection, which I last inspected several years ago. The 
result of my combing through it was that I found 38 additional 
transcriptions in it which match tunes in the Tunography. Quoting the 
Bibliography page: there are now a total of 735 transcriptions from the 
Cobb collection in the Tunography.

If any of you are interested in a copy of the Cobb abc files ordered by 
their Cobb ID# (as listed in each tune's Z: field), let me know. As abc 
fans among you know, Cobb keeps his tune transcriptions ordered 
alphabetically by title, which makes his X: numbers unstable and 
temporary. In the course of working on the Cobb index I wrote a program 
to re-sort his abc files according to their permanent Cobb ID number in 
the Z: field.

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Alan Ng  .  Madison, Wisconsin, USA
alan at alan-ng.net  .  http://alan-ng.net