Oops. Some mistakes in songbook

[catsittingstill]

Peter Alway has kindly brought to my attention the fact that some of the chords in the songbook are wrong. The pieces in D minor that claim to have B flat minor chords in them actually have B flat major chords in them. I guess I got carried away with the whole minor thing. Also one of the links on the index page apparently doesn't work.

Also in a fit of intelligence beyond anything I normally display I incorrectly cited Phil Foglio as Peter Foglio on the index page. (headdesk) This is what comes of putting the crowning touches on one's creation at 11:00 pm at night.

I will fix these issues and upload a corrected version. Alas, I fear I may not have time to do it until after the Ireland trip. Thank you for your patience.

Comments

[occams_pyramid]

Ah, yes, I'd wondered about that Peter Foglio credit. By the way, in those credits it also says "picture of Dave Always".

That is of course the great thing about web publishing - you can *fix* the problems. It also means that you don't have to get it perfect before publishing, and end up never doing it.

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

Yes, I can fix the problems, and I will, as soon as I get back from the Ireland trip. But not having to have it perfect before publishing does free things up a lot, as you note.

The Dave Always thing is an artifact of the MS Word spell checker, which "fixes" things like that for me.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

A spurious S at the end of Alway is usually the fault of a spell-checker.

Should the last chord of "The Second Voice" be a G.

On the bright side, the songbook corrected a mondegreen for me in Landless Lady"

"Aegypius' track that goes dark"

I wasn't too clear on who Aegypius was or what his track was--I figured I'd google the greek myth of Aegypius eventually, probably a see monster from the Odyssey that I had fogotten between Scylla and Charybdis, or never quite learned in some watered-down version of the epic.

If I had bothered to google it, I'd have known is was a genus of vulture, ("Aegypius monachus, black vulture - of southern Eurasia and northern Africa") and recognized that the line was about a Diver's death, though I'd have wondered why a land bird would appear in a song of the ocean's deeps.

But the songbook tells me it was: "A GPS track that goes dark"

Nevermind.

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

Yes, the MS Word spell checker always turns Alway into Always--mostly I remember to fix it. It turns mimmoth into mammoth too, and I have to remember to go back and fix it.

And you're right about the last chord of "The Second Voice" I've got a wrong chord in the sheet music for Dulcimer's dance too--an A over "grin" where I should have a G.

I've got a printout of the songbook now; I'm going to mark mistakes on it as people point them out and fix them all when I get back.

Regarding the GPS track that goes dark--I'm not sure the telemetry was actually from a GPS system (do those work under water?). If there's a more accurate term I should probably use that.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure GPS wouldn't work very far underwater. The electrical conductivity of seawater makes it opaque to most radio waves. I recall reading how communications with submarines require "ELF" or extreme low frequency radio waves--frequencies of a few tens of hz and wavelengths of miles. There was a big controversy in Michigan back in the 70's or 80's about building an ELF antenna in the Upper Peninisula--an array that would cover many square miles. THe ELF filled the double requrement of penetrating seawater and bouncing around the globe via the ionosphere. And with such low frequencies, the bandwidth was so painfully low that all they could do was signal a specific sub to surface, or and least approach the surface to recieve commands from an aircraft in the vicinity, which I recall would trail an antenna to signal in the VLF (very low frequency) band.

I suppose Google and Wikipedia might get you more on that, but the point is that I'm pretty sure the telemetry would not have been GPS.

By the way, looking at Mostly Good Magics, and seeing that it alternates between the keys G and D, it struck me as and ideal song for the hammered dulcimer, which has regions in the keys of D, G, and C. I tested it out, and while my skills aren't up to it, the instrument is. I think a good player could have a lot of fun with that tune.