Love it!
Do you have sheet music or a MIDI file available? Obviously, I'm thinking of an arrangement for playing in LOTRO, perhaps with lute (rhythm), clarinet (carrying the melody), theorbo (bass), and drums (because somebody has to bang on the table)... and maybe the fiddle when it becomes available.
Hooray! Oh thank you!
This is fabulous! You made it so easy, Steve. The only adjustment I had to make was to lower the key 3 steps (in Maestro) to get the high notes within range of the LOTRO clarinet. Otherwise it was just a matter of assigning the instruments, filling in the names of the lyricist and composer (J R R Tolkien / Steve Renard), and exporting the ABC file. I used the filenaming convention from the Lonely Mountain Band songbook. The 4 at the beginning means 4 parts, my name in parentheses because I'm the one who has the Maestro file, and then the squooshed song name to keep it reasonably short and free of funny escape characters
I put the .abc file in Crystal's LOTRO directory on my web server, here:
http://crystal.pearlsims.com/LOTRO/abcmusic/4-(Harnuth)ANurseryRhymeUndone.abc
Right-click on that link and Save Target As... to download the abc file. The server might want to deliver it as .html. Just change that to .abc and filetype "All Files."
You can get the lyrics from your Kindle copy of the Lord of the Rings and load them into the Lyrical or Poetical plugin.
We haven't tried it in-world yet, but it sounds really nice in Maestro and ABC Player.
If anyone would like to learn how to play music in LOTRO, these notes pilfered from the Lonely Mountain Band on Landroval might be helpful.
Using Songbook to Sync music:
If you'd like to learn how to sync music with a band, Eilye has written a very informative guide explaining how to use the Songbook Plugin!
http://lonelymountainband.guildlaunch.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=10492542
Somewhere on the order of 35 years ago, a local weekly radio show had a "music inspired by Tolkien" episode. Mostly unmemorable. But one song has stuck with me ever since: Sam's "Gil-Galad was an Elven king", sung acapella by a single tenor voice. I'm pretty sure he used a traditional tune, but I've never found the original, and though I remember the tune and can still sing it, I do not remember who the performer was so I've never heard it again.I will post additional songs I've been working on from other parts of the story.
The audio on this one is Bill Nighy playing Samwise in the BBC Radio Series which I recognise since I have just recently listened to it on archive.org. The composer was Stephen Oliver.Somewhere on the order of 35 years ago, a local weekly radio show had a "music inspired by Tolkien" episode. Mostly unmemorable. But one song has stuck with me ever since: Sam's "Gil-Galad was an Elven king", sung acapella by a single tenor voice. I'm pretty sure he used a traditional tune, but I've never found the original, and though I remember the tune and can still sing it, I do not remember who the performer was so I've never heard it again.
So I just now googled for it. This is very similar!It is not exactly the same. I'm sure this is a local variant of the same traditional tune, but I like the one I heard long ago much better.
Ah, thanks! The 1981 is just about right, too.The audio on this one is Bill Nighy playing Samwise in the BBC Radio Series which I recognise since I have just recently listened to it on archive.org. The composer was Stephen Oliver.