| SECTION TWO Instructions for downloading and installing the NOTEWORTHY READER PROGRAMME on your computer. (WIN95, WIN98, WIN-ME, WIN2K) IT IS FREE IT IS NOT SPYWARE IT CONTAINS NO VIRUS OR TROJANS Quite simply, it is a boon to those of us who are musical illiterates.. |
| Placing this ICON on your desktop will allow you to more easily access and manipulate the files on your computer, which will prove a help in times to come! 1: click anywhere on your desktop that does not contain an icon. A dialog box will come up: select NEW and then SHORTCUT. Another dialog box will appear. 2: in the second dialog box, doubleclick on your "C" drive and then on "WINDOWS". Scroll to the RIGHT until you see an icon of a computer which is named "EXPLORER". Doubleclick on that icon and when you return to dialog box (2), click on "CONTINUE" and then on "FINISH". This will create an icon on your desktop labeled "EXPLORER". Whenyou click on this icon, your dedicated file manipulator program will come up. This will be most useful for moving files from one directory to another, finding and deleting files, renaming files and creating new sub-folders. 3: The File manager screen is divided into TWO PANES: On the LEFT, there are all the drives you have on your computer as well as certain standard folders for WINDOWS use. CLICK on the "C" folder, and in the RIGHT pane, it will show you all the files and folders currently within your "C" drive. 4: Go to the TOP of the page and you will find "FILE" in the toolbar; click on FILE and then NEW and slide over to FOLDER when it appears. In the resulting highlighted part of the RIGHT pane, type "Downloaded Music". (you will want this for storing the files you'll download from my pages). You may, if you wish, further create folders withn DOWNLOADED MUSIC to keep the various types of music separated. This procedure can be used to create a shorcut to any programme you have on your computer so you can start it from the desktop. |
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| 1: Go to the NOTEWORTHY PLAYER PROGRAMME PAGE and download the program to your computer. I had considered putting it here for your access, but going there will give the company a more accurate idea of how many times the programme has been downloaded and it costs you no extra time. BE SURE you make a note as to where the program is stored on your computer! If you can't find it, go to START, FIND, FILES AND FOLDERS and in the resulting dialog box, type "noteworthy". Cick start, and when it comes up, double-click the icon in the box to start the "install" program. Follow all directions as they are presented to you. Again, this programme - to my knowledge - contains nothing that can harm your computer or which will "phone home" or otherwise negatively impact you in any way. Now, you can go to any of my pages and click on a tune name. A dialog box will open asking if you want to save the file to disk or open it from it's current location. Either is acceptable: If you "Open it from current location" you will be able to both see and hear the file (provided, of course, you have a soundcard in your computer) at once, but when you close the file you will need to re-download it to see it again. The quality of the sound reproduction is entirely dependant upon your soundcard! If you "Save it to Disk", you should follow these instructions: Click on "Save it to Disk" and a dialog box will open. Click on the "C" drive (or wherever you created your "Downloaded Music" folder, then find and doubleclick on that folder. The file will automatically download into that folder, after which the dialog box will close (you may have to close it manually). Using the file Explorer icon you created on your desktop, you can easily open the folder and double click on the file in question, which will open for you. Now when you close the file, it remains available to you without having to go online and re-download it from my pages. (RECOMMENDED, as it saves me bandwidth!) ALSO: you should click the link to download the font "Boxmarks", which is an auxiliary font used in Noteworthy to show certain performance markings and ornamentations on the staff. If you do not, you will only see various lower-case letters instead of the actual direction markings. To install Boxmarks, once downloaded, click on START, SETTINGS, CONTROL PANEL, go to FONTS and double click on that. This will show you all the fonts installed on your computer. Go to FILE and to INSTALL NEW FONT. Follow the directions from that point to install Boxmarks. If there are any questions as to these procedures, please feel free to EMAIL me and I will respond as soon as I can (usually the same day or next day, latest.) FIREWALL procedures are totally beyond my grasp... anyone who cna explain firewalls to me in terms that a musician can grasp will be my hero! |
| SECTION ONE: MAKING A "FILE EXPLORER" INCON ON YOUR DESKTOP (recommended!) You may skip section one if you so wish |
| ON THIS PAGE ARE INSTRUCTIONS, HINTS AND TIPS ON THE VARIOUS READERS REQUIRED TO UTILIZE THE NOTEWORTHY AND ABC FILES CONTAINED IN THE O'NEILL'S' AND ALLAN'S COLLECTIONS |
| SECTION THREE Instructions and notes concerning THE ABC MUSIC NOTATION FORMAT |
| "It's as simple as A B C..." Like hell it is. ABC is a notation system for music that is based on the alphabet, but thank God, you don't have to be able to read it in order to use it. Here is what one looks like: X:00001 T:Dewdrops In the Corn C:after Mr. Bill Reeder C: From the IrTrad Mail List N:Collected from Listmail 8-13-03 (Name and variation from Roger Landes) N:Also known as "Australian Waters" N: Subscribe at http://www.lsoft.com/scripts/wl.exe?SL1=IRTRAD-L&H=LISTSERV.HEANET.IE M:6/8 L:1/8 K:D A|d2D FED|=c3 ed^c|d=cA GEA|~D3 efe| d2D FED|=c3 ed^c|d=cA GEA|~D3 D2:|| A|~d3 efg|fed =cAG|~d3 efg|fdc def| gbg faf|ecA ABc|d=cA GEA|~D3 D2A| ~d3 efg|fed =cAG|~d3 efg|fdc def| gAA fAA|ecA ABc|d=cA GEA|~D3 D2|| "^ALT"A|d2D FED|=c3 ed^c|d=cA GEA|~D3 efe| d2D FED|=c3 ed^c|d=cA GEA|~D3 D2:|| dB/c/d efg|fed =cAG|dB/c/d efg|fed def| gbg afa|e^cA ABc|d^cA GEA|DD/D/DD2 A:|| THAT'S bloody intimidatiing, innit? This is used for transmitting music via email or where attachments may not be permitted. It is useful for archiving a great many tunes in a small space and is accepted throughout the musical world as a standard notation system, BUT: ONLY an idiot would try to play music from the raw code! There are programmes to convert ABC into standard notation, into MIDI or into other formats, to play it thru you computer's speaker or to play it thru your soundcard, so you don't have to be able to understand it to use it! All of the above, and all you could ever wish to know about ABC may be found on the ABC HOMEPAGE run by Chris (and you thought I was obsessive?) Walshaw. He has assembled a devastating collection of readers, coders and other paraphenalia and additional links and goes into the origins and mechanics of the system far more completely than I would ever attempt. For the music collections on this site, I wrote out all the tunes using Noteworthy, (and saved them as UNCOMPRESSED NWC files!), then used the program from ABACUS Music called ABC2NWC which converts from ABC to NWC and vice-versa. The cost is QUITE modest! The ABC files thus produced I proofed and then converted to the GIF (sheet music) and MIDI files using Paul Schwartz' excellent converter programme from CONCERTINA NET's pages which he provides for free. Fine Lad he is, then, entirely. Paul's programme will convert to a MIDI (uninspired but serviceable) and to a PDF which gives you the sheet music. As PDF's take up quite a bit of room, I further used PRINT-KEY PRO which is a scalable screen-capture program to save the picture of the PDF as a GIF or JPEG since they take up less space and are more easily readable by a greater number of people. (Again, this is a very modestly-priced programme and useful far beyond it's cost.) I then went out to the local and downed about a half-litre of Paddy's when it all got to be too much, which is why it took so long to finish up! Now it's all done, but I still go out regularly and attempt to reduce the amount of Paddy's in the world by a significant amount. And that's all I've got to say, other than if you'd like to help support the pages and keeping the collection online, you can go HERE and get a CD copy of whole bleedin' thing. |