Sheet music excerpts from C64 JollyDisk Yule Log Juke Box
Channel: David Youd
Date: 2020-12-12

Four sheet music excerpts from the flip side of the JollyDisk Christmas music program: https://stirringdragon.games/product/jollydisk2019
Songs were arranged for the Commodore 64 in Sibelius, then exported as midi and converted to Stirring Dragon Game's ML64 music format.  ML64 is a human-readable music file format, designed to allow people who backed the Unknown Realm kickstarter at the Bard tier level to be able to submit game music without having to have a programming background (much like how Shroud of the Avatar allows players to submit game music in the human-readable ABC file format).  The same ML64 engine was used for the JollyDisk (and Yule Log).  I haven't seen the ML64 engine code, but I've written python tools that export note data its spec.

Notes:

Wexford Carol: This melody is notoriously difficult to harmonize, but I gave it the old college try.  There's hints of John Rutter in there.  To submit it as ML64, I had to convert it to 9/8 to convert the triplet in measure 12 into dotted notes.

I Have a Little Dreidel: Bruce asked me to "go nuts" on one of the arrangements.  I thought he meant this one.  He didn't. :D  But the arrangement was fun, so I left it this way.

There's other songs in the Juke Box not included here: Deck the Halls, Silent Night, We Wish You a Merry Christmas, Carol of the Bells, Gesu Bambino, and Auld Lang Syne.

Merry Christmas!