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[Clive Williams]

Well, we should get at least 16 submissions for TOTM this month!  

Winner this month, despite my last minute attempt to overtake it, is The Liberty Bell, a march written by John Philip Sousa. Lots more information about it here at Wikipedia, but suffice to say, it's the Monty Python theme!

Here's a simplified version, suitable for D/G melodeon, courtesy of Lester:

Code: [Select]

X:1
T:Liberty Bell
M:6/8
K:G
g2fe2d|d2^c=c2B)|ABc BzA|dzz z2||
d|B2B BAG|g2d d2B|c2c c2d|e3 -e2c|
A2A AGA|f2e e2c|B2B B2c|d3 -d2d|
B2B BAB|g2d d2B|c2a a2a|a3 -a2g|
f2a aba|e2a aba|d2^c d2c|d3 -d2||
c|BAB e2d|B3 G3|E3 A3|G3 -G2G|
ABA f2e|d3 g3|f3 e3|d3 -d2d|
e2e ede|f2f f3|g2g aga|b3 -b2b|
a2g e2c|B3 G3|A3 F3|G3 -G2||
d|B3 c3|^c3 d3|bbb b2a|b3 -b2d|
B3 c3|^c3 d3|c'c'c' c'2b|c'3 -c'2b|
a3 g3|a2d ^c2d|b3 a3|b2d ^c2d|
|1f3 a3|g2a e2g|f2g e2f|d2e c2 |
:|2e3 c'3|b2g a2f|g2d B2d|G3 -G2||

and courtesy of Guy, here's a more complete transcription:

Code: [Select]

X:1
T:Liberty Bell
S:Monty Python, via EF
M:6/8
K:G
P:A
|:d/2c/2|"G"B2B B^AB|"G"g2d d2B|"Am"c2c c2d|"Am"e3 e2c|"D"A2A A^GA|
"D7"f2e e2c|"G"B2B "D7"B2c|"G"d3 -"D7"d2c|"G"B2B B^AB|"G"g2d d2B|"A"^c2a a2a|
"A7"a3 a2g|"D"F2A A^GA|"A7"E2A A^GA|"D7"d2^c d2c|"D7"d3 d2:|
P:B
|:c|"G"B^AB e2d|"G"B3 G3|"C"E3 "D7"A3|"G"G3 G2G|"D7"ABd f2e|"G"d3 g3|\
"D"f3 "A7"e3|"D7"d3 d2d|
"C"e2e e^de|"B7"f3 f3|"Em"g2g aga|"B"b3 b2b|"C"a2g e2c|"G"B3 G3|"D7"A3 F3|\
"G"G3 G2:|
P:C
|:d|B3 c3|^c3 d3|B2B B2^A|B3 B2d|B3 c3|^c3 d3|c2c c2B|
c3 c2B|A3 ^G3|A2d ^c2d|B3 ^A3|B2d ^c2d|[1f3 a3|\
g2a e2g|
f2g e2f|d2e c2:|2A3 f3|e2c d2B|c6|c4||

This tune is as complicated as you want to make it!

Here's how the tune as originally written:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PizaJJQgto

... complete with somewhat disturbing slideshow of horses. Isn't youtube wonderful?

Cheers,

Clive

[tlxxxviii]

As an American with a deep and abiding love for the Pythons, I could not be any happier with the choice. And I am dutifully working on it, as per the threats of those in the voting thread.

[Owen Woods]

I think that this could be a nice outing for my battered, out of tune, disreputable but most importantly extremely inexpensive CF club.

[rees]

My brain hurts!

[Sandy]

I will need to learn this out of Python duty but am not overly keen on it. Fortunately I've been learning 'Herbert the Sherbert' on my holibobs   

cheers
Sandy
 

[HallelujahAl]

Every time I try and play it I end up playing 'John of Paris' (Gisburn)...
AL

[OwenG]

Sounds good on a one-row 

[Lester]

Guess somebody has to be first. So The "sort of" Liberty Bell on a Salterelle L'Elfique. This is about take 37 so excuse the fluff at the end 

http://www.onmvoice.com/play.php?a=28148

[Simon]

For further inspiration there's a piano score from 1893 and even an 1896 recording.

[nemethmik]

For further inspiration there's a piano score from 1893 and even an 1896 recording.

This tune would be a perfect piece for
Theme of the Month for July 2010 - Music You Wouldn't Expect on a Melodeon

[Anahata]

This tune would be a perfect piece for
Theme of the Month for July 2010 - Music You Wouldn't Expect on a Melodeon

It would be a doddle on a B/C/C# - made for that sort of music.
I used to play The Washington Post in my B/C/C# days.
That is another Sousa march with a John Cleese connection: th elast strain theof is The Rhubarb Tart Song - not Monty Python but ISIRTA, I think.

I think I probably had a go at the Liberty Bell too, come to think of it.

[GbH]

Guess somebody has to be first. So The "sort of" Liberty Bell on a Salterelle L'Elfique. This is about take 37 so excuse the fluff at the end 

http://www.onmvoice.com/play.php?a=28148

This seems like a very good recording to start this off with.  Since it's obvious that a piece of music scored for full marching band will never fully fit on a simple diatonic instrument, the trick with this TOTM will surely be more about arranging key elements into something that works on its own terms.  I think that's exactly what you've done here.  It'll be interesting to see which people are also willing to go ahead and ask themselves 'now, what can I do with this...'.  It is, after, all just a straightforward rumpty-tumpty tune at heart.

[Clive Williams]

Guess somebody has to be first. So The "sort of" Liberty Bell on a Salterelle L'Elfique. This is about take 37 so excuse the fluff at the end 

http://www.onmvoice.com/play.php?a=28148

This seems like a very good recording to start this off with.  Since it's obvious that a piece of music scored for full marching band will never fully fit on a simple diatonic instrument, the trick with this TOTM will surely be more about arranging key elements into something that works on its own terms.  I think that's exactly what you've done here.  It'll be interesting to see which people are also willing to go ahead and ask themselves 'now, what can I do with this...'.  It is, after, all just a straightforward rumpty-tumpty tune at heart.

Yep -agreed! Cheers Lester - now I've got something to work from!

[juker]

Guess somebody has to be first. So The "sort of" Liberty Bell on a Salterelle L'Elfique. This is about take 37 so excuse the fluff at the end 

http://www.onmvoice.com/play.php?a=28148

We need an applauding emoticon for occasions like this! Clap, clap, clap etc.....
Thanks Lester 

Did you use the ABC's above for this? I am finding it hard to make my music sound anything like the tune!! This is probably a bad case of a 'tradesman blaming his tools' though.

[Lester]

Guess somebody has to be first. So The "sort of" Liberty Bell on a Salterelle L'Elfique. This is about take 37 so excuse the fluff at the end 

http://www.onmvoice.com/play.php?a=28148

We need an applauding emoticon for occasions like this! Clap, clap, clap etc.....
Thanks Lester 

Did you use the ABC's above for this? I am finding it hard to make my music sound anything like the tune!! This is probably a bad case of a 'tradesman blaming his tools' though.

Thanks Juker :) I used my revised version of the tune:

X:1
T:Liberty Bell
M:6/8
K:G
g2fe2d|d2^c=c2B)|ABc BzA|dzz z2||
d|B2B BAG|g2d d2B|c2c c2d|e3 -e2c|
A2A AGA|f2e e2c|B2B B2c|d3 -d2d|
B2B BAB|g2d d2B|c2a a2a|a3 -a2g|
f2a aba|e2a aba|d2^c d2c|d3 -d2||
c|BAB e2d|B3 G3|E3 A3|G3 -G2G|
ABA f2e|d3 g3|f3 e3|d3 -d2d|
e2e ede|f2f f3|g2g aga|b3 -b2b|
a2g e2c|B3 G3|A3 F3|G3 -G2||
d|B3 c3|^c3 d3|bbb b2a|b3 -b2d|
B3 c3|^c3 d3|c'c'c' c'2b|c'3 -c'2b|
a3 g3|a2d ^c2d|b3 a3|b2d ^c2d|
|1f3 a3|g2a e2g|f2g e2f|d2e c2 |
:|2e3 c'3|b2g a2f|g2d B2d|G3 -G2||

[juker]

Got it, thanks 

[Anahata]

I've had an idea for the second part of the tune. It's supposed to change key from G to C (or the same relative key from whatever it started in) and the simplified versions stay in G which is certainly easier.
Starting in D and going to G doesn't make the first tune fit very well on the instrument, but it is possible to go from G to D, which is the wrong relative key shift compared to the original, but at least it's a key change. Playing the second part of the tune in D allows liberal deployment of three accidentals in places where they make a big difference.

That will be the basis of my contribution when sufficient round tuits arrive.

[Chris Ryall]

Young Anahata's a far better musician than I'll ever be, but

  http://www.mutopiaproject.org/ftp/SousaJP/TheLibertyBell/TheLibertyBell-a4.pdf

I read this as F modulating up a couple of times into C.  I've been struggling with the G+G version as a. it conflicts with what I hear in my head and b. I was having some difficulty finding a chromatic run that'll take you back into the same key! All is now revealed.

btw they sell square tuits here in Sukamvit, but in rather garrish colours. I might find you some round ones in Helsinki on the way back - they defo have inuits in the north part of the country. :)

[Anahata]

 http://www.mutopiaproject.org/ftp/SousaJP/TheLibertyBell/TheLibertyBell-a4.pdf
I read this as F modulating up a couple of times into C.

It goes briefly into C at the end of the first 16 bar section, but I was talking about the final part which is
clearly in B flat.

Thanks for the link to the piano score though - that's a great resource for a more elaborate and complete interpretation (not on any melodeon of mine though - maybe an arrangement for various instruments)

EATMT trad music day today - more later...

[Thrupenny Bit]

I suspect this is waaaay beyond me as a beginner, but I thought I'd transpose Lester's simple version into dots using the Montreal Tunebook converter and simply take a look.
I've cut-and-pasted it into the converter but it only produces one line of dots, so not sure what's happened!
any ideas?
cheers
Q