FolkScore Composer

Choose the kind of tune, the key and the feel, and Claude writes you a new one: sheet music, ABC, and a melody to hear. Then take it to the Backing Group for chords and accompaniment.

The tune

Type of tune

Key

Time signature

Shape

Bars per part

Tradition

Who is playing it

Instrument and range

How hard

Mark ornaments (rolls, cuts, triplets) Add guitar chords (or let the Backing Group do it)

Character

TraditionalAdventurous

Inspiration (all optional)

What is it about?

In the manner of

More: a title, an opening phrase, a tune to take the feel from

Title

Composer credit on the sheet

Build it around this phrase (ABC)

A tune to take the feel from (ABC)

The Withy Bed

Tempo104

Loop

About this tune

An example to show the page working: a D major reel in two parts, kept within first position on the fiddle. Set your choices on the left and press Compose a tune for a new one.

Ask for changes

ABC

Play it in the Backing Group

Edit the ABC and the sheet follows.

My compositions

Tunes you compose are kept here on this device.