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Welsh Traditional Players

2010-03-30T10:22:54Z

Ceri rhys matthews:

* [[Tom Lloyd, Triple Harp (deceased)]]
* [[Nansi Richards, Triple Harp (deceased)]]
* [[Ffreda Holland, Triple Harp (deceased)]]
* [[Idwal Owen, Triple Harp]]
* [[Llio Rhydderch, Triple Harp]]
* [[Elin Wyn Jones, Triple Harp]]
* [[Eldra Jarman, Pedal Harp (deceased)]]
* [[Robin Huw Bowen, Triple Harp]]
* [[Chris Knowles, Harp]]
* [[Delyth Evans, Harp]]
* [[Anthony Griffiths, Guitar]]
* [[Dylan Fowler, Guitar]]
* [[Chris Grooms, Guitar]]
* [[Dave Burns, Mandolin]]
* [[Hefin Wyn Jones, Banjo]]
* [[Paul Hopkins, Bouzouki]]
* [[Meredith Morris, Fiddle, Pibgorn (deceased)]]
* [[Iolo Jones, Fiddle]]
* [[Dan Morris, Fiddle]]
* [[Mike Lease, Fiddle]]
* [[Robert Evans, Fiddle, Crwth]]
* [[Bernard KilBride, Fiddle]]
* [[Cass Meurig, Fiddle, Crwth]]
* [[Christine Cooper, Fiddle]]
* [[Gwilym Hardy, Fiddle]]
* [[Dewi Hefin, Flute (deceased)]]
* [[Jonathan Shorland, Flute, Pibgorn & Pipes]]
* [[Jem Hammond, Flute]]
* [[Andy McLaughlin, Flute & Pibgorn]]
* [[Ceri Webber, whistle]]
* [[Simon Owen, Pipes (deceased)]]
* [[Peter Stacey, Pipes]]
* [[Anne Marie Summers, Pipes]]
* [[John Tose, Pibgorn & Pipes]]
* [[Mick Tems, Button Accordion]]
* [[Guto Dafis, Button Accordion]]
* [[Stephen Rees, Piano Accordion]]
* [[Ywain Myfyr, Mouth Organ]]
* [[Marcus Butler, Anglo Concertina & English Concertina]]
* [[John Morgan, Duet Concertina]]

Welsh Traditional Players

2010-03-30T10:03:52Z

Ceri rhys matthews:

* [[Tom Lloyd, Triple Harp (deceased)]]
* [[Nansi Richards, Triple Harp (deceased)]]
* [[Ffreda Holland, Triple Harp (deceased)]]
* [[Idwal Owen, Triple Harp]]
* [[Llio Rhydderch, Triple Harp]]
* [[Elin Wyn Jones, Triple Harp]]
* [[Eldra Jarman, Single Action Pedal Harp (deceased)]]
* [[Robin Huw Bowen, Triple Harp]]
* [[Chris Knowles, Harp]]
* [[Delyth Evans, Harp]]
* [[Anthony Griffiths, Guitar]]
* [[Dylan Fowler, Guitar]]
* [[Chris Grooms, Guitar]]
* [[Dave Burns, Mandolin]]
* [[Hefin Wyn Jones, Banjo]]
* [[Paul Hopkins, Bouzouki]]
* [[Meredith Morris, Fiddle, Pibgorn (deceased)]]
* [[Iolo Jones, Fiddle]]
* [[Dan Morris, Fiddle]]
* [[Mike Lease, Fiddle]]
* [[Robert Evans, Fiddle, Crwth]]
* [[Bernard KilBride, Fiddle]]
* [[Cass Meurig, Fiddle, Crwth]]
* [[Christine Cooper, Fiddle]]
* [[Gwilym Hardy, Fiddle]]
* [[Dewi Hefin, Flute (deceased)]]
* [[Jonathan Shorland, Flute, Pibgorn & Pipes]]
* [[Jem Hammond, Flute]]
* [[Andy McLaughlin, Flute & Pibgorn]]
* [[Ceri Webber, whistle]]
* [[Simon Owen, Pipes (deceased)]]
* [[Peter Stacey, Pipes]]
* [[Anne Marie Summers, Pipes]]
* [[John Tose, Pibgorn & Pipes]]
* [[Mick Tems, Button Accordeon]]
* [[Guto Dafis, Button Accordeon]]
* [[Stephen Rees, Piano Accordion]]
* [[Ywain Myfyr, Mouth Organ]]
* [[Marcus Butler, Anglo Concertina & English Concertina]]
* [[John Morgan, Duet Concerina]]

Welsh Traditional Players

2010-03-30T09:54:02Z

Ceri rhys matthews:

* [[Tom Lloyd, Triple Harp (deceased)]]
* [[Nansi Richards, Triple Harp (deceased)]]
* [[Ffreda Holland, Triple Harp (deceased)]]
* [[Idwal Owen, Triple Harp]]
* [[Llio Rhydderch, Triple Harp]]
* [[Elin Wyn Jones, Triple Harp]]
* [[Eldra Jarman, Single Action Pedal Harp (deceased)]]
* [[Robin Huw Bowen, Triple Harp]]
* [[Chris Knowles, Harp]]
* [[Delyth Evans, Harp]]
* [[Anthony Griffiths, Guitar]]
* [[Dylan Fowler, Guitar]]
* [[Chris Grooms, Guitar]]
* [[Dave Burns, Mandolin]]
* [[Hefin Wyn Jones, Banjo]]
* [[Paul Hopkins, Bouzouki]]
* [[Meredith Morris, Fiddle, Pibgorn (deceased)]]
* [[Iolo Jones, Fiddle]]
* [[Dan Morris, Fiddle]]
* [[Mike Lease, Fiddle]]
* [[Robert Evans, Fiddle, Crwth]]
* [[Bernard KilBride, Fiddle]]
* [[Cass Meurig, Fiddle, Crwth]]
* [[Christine Cooper, Fiddle]]
* [[Gwilym Hardy, Fiddle]]
* [[Dewi Hefin, Flute (deceased)]]
* [[Jonathan Shorland, Flute, Pibgorn & Pipes]]
* [[Jem Hammond, Flute]]
* [[Andy McLaughlin, Flute & Pibgorn]]
* [[Ceri Webber, whistle]]
* [[Simon Owen, Pipes (deceased)]]
* [[Peter Stacey, Pipes]]
* [[Anne Marie Summers, Pipes]]
* [[John Tose, Pibgorn & Pipes]]
* [[Mick Tems, Button Accordeon]]
* [[Guto Dafis, Button Accordeon]]
* [[Stephen Rees, Piano Accordion]]
* [[John Morgan, Duet Concerina]]
* [[Ywain Myfyr, Mouth Organ]]

Welsh Traditional Players

2010-03-30T00:18:41Z

Ceri rhys matthews:

* [[Tom Lloyd, Triple Harp (deceased)]]
* [[Nansi Richards, Triple Harp (deceased)]]
* [[Ffreda Holland, Triple Harp (deceased)]]
* [[Idwal Owen, Triple Harp]]
* [[Llio Rhydderch, Triple Harp]]
* [[Elin Wyn Jones, Triple Harp]]
* [[Eldra Jarman, Single Action Pedal Harp (deceased)]]
* [[Robin Huw Bowen, Triple Harp]]
* [[Chris Knowles, Harp]]
* [[Delyth Evans, Harp]]
* [[Anthony Griffiths, Guitar]]
* [[Dylan Fowler, Guitar]]
* [[Chris Grooms, Guitar]]
* [[Meredith Morris, Fiddle, Pibgorn (deceased)]]
* [[Iolo Jones, Fiddle]]
* [[Dan Morris, Fiddle]]
* [[Mike Lease, Fiddle]]
* [[Robert Evans, Fiddle, Crwth]]
* [[Bernard KilBride, Fiddle]]
* [[Cass Meurig, Fiddle, Crwth]]
* [[Christine Cooper, Fiddle]]
* [[Gwilym Hardy, Fiddle]]
* [[Dewi Hefin, Flute (deceased)]]
* [[Jonathan Shorland, Flute, Pibgorn & Pipes]]
* [[Jem Hammond, Flute]]
* [[Andy McLaughlin, Flute & Pibgorn]]
* [[Ceri Webber, whistle]]
* [[Simon Owen, Pipes (deceased)]]
* [[Peter Stacey, Pipes]]
* [[Anne Marie Summers, Pipes]]
* [[John Tose, Pibgorn & Pipes]]
* [[Mick Tems, Button Accordeon]]
* [[Guto Dafis, Button Accordeon]]
* [[John Morgan, Duet Concerina]]
* [[Ywain Myfyr, Mouth Organ]]

Welsh Traditional Players

2010-03-30T00:16:36Z

Ceri rhys matthews:

* [[Tom Lloyd, Triple Harp (deceased)]]
* [[Nansi Richards, Triple Harp (deceased)]]
* [[Ffreda Holland, Triple Harp (deceased)]]
* [[Idwal Owen, Triple Harp]]
* [[Llio Rhydderch, Triple Harp]]
* [[Elin Wyn Jones, Triple Harp]]
* [[Eldra Jarman, Single Action Pedal Harp (deceased)]]
* [[Robin Huw Bowen, Triple Harp]]
* [[Chris Knowles, Harp]]
* [[Delyth Evans, Harp]]
* [[Anthony Griffiths, Guitar]]
* [[Dylan Fowler, Guitar]]
* [[Chris Grooms, Guitar]]
* [[Meredith Morris, Fiddle, Pibgorn (deceased)]]
* [[Iolo Jones, Fiddle]]
* [[Dan Morris, Fiddle]]
* [[Mike Lease, Fiddle]]
* [[Robert Evans, Fiddle, Crwth]]
* [[Bernard KilBride, Fiddle]]
* [[Cass Meurig, Fiddle, Crwth]]
* [[Christine Cooper, Fiddle]]
* [[Gwilym Hardy, Fiddle]]
* [[Dewi Hefin, Flute (deceased)]]
* [[Jonathan Shorland, Flute, Pibgorn & Pipes]]
* [[Ceri Rhys Matthews, Flute, Pibgorn & Pipes]]
* [[Jem Hammond, Flute]]
* [[Andy McLaughlin, Flute & Pibgorn]]
* [[Ceri Webber, whistle]]
* [[Simon Owen, Pipes (deceased)]]
* [[Peter Stacey, Pipes]]
* [[Anne Marie Summers, Pipes]]
* [[John Tose, Pibgorn & Pipes]]
* [[Mick Tems, Button Accordeon]]
* [[Guto Dafis, Button Accordeon]]
* [[John Morgan, Duet Concerina]]
* [[Ywain Myfyr, Mouth Organ]]

Welsh Traditional Players

2010-03-29T23:50:51Z

Ceri rhys matthews:

* [[Tom Lloyd, Triple Harp]]
* [[Nansi Richards, Triple Harp]]
* [[Ffreda Holland, Triple Harp]]
* [[Idwal Owen, Triple Harp]]
* [[Llio Rhydderch, Triple Harp]]
* [[Elin Wyn Jones, Triple Harp]]
* [[Eldra Jarman, Single Action Pedal Harp]]
* [[Robin Huw Bowen, Triple Harp]]

Tom Lloyd

2010-03-29T23:48:19Z

Ceri rhys matthews:

born 1858. died 1917. Known also as "Telynor Ceiriog" Taught Nansi Richards

Tom Lloyd

2010-03-29T23:47:57Z

Ceri rhys matthews: Created page with 'born 1858. died 1917. Known also as "Telynor Ceiriog" Taught ~Nansi Richards'

born 1858. died 1917. Known also as "Telynor Ceiriog" Taught ~Nansi Richards

Pibgorn (Hornpipe)

2010-03-27T16:18:18Z

Ceri rhys matthews: /* Articles */

Pibgorn (literally, pipe horn) is the name given in Welsh to the variety of hornpipe (the musical instrument, and not the dance) played there since the very earliest times. The first attested use is by Hywel Dda (died 949–50) in his law book - the earliest transcription of which dates from 1250. The last traditional player of the instrument was Meredith Morris, originally from Pembrokeshire, who died in 1921.
Another name for the instrument is "cornicyll", meaning either 'hazel horn' or 'lapwing' ('capan cornicyll' is a nasturtium).
The sound is generated by blowing a single-reed, cut from an Elder branch or Reed Cane, like that found in the drone of a Bagpipe. The body of the instrument has six small finger-holes and a thumb-hole giving a diatonic compass of an octave, and the modes given in historical instruments vary. No extant historical instrument plays a major scale. The body is traditionally carved from a single piece of wood or bone. Historically, the wood used was elder. The instrument is played either attached to a bag, or directly via the mouth. The sound is amplified at the foot of the chanter via a carved horn, usually of cow horn. A drone is sometimes attached to the bag. The pibgorn is the ancestor of the modern clarinet.

===Articles===

'''Instrumental Music in Medieval Wales.''' by Sally Harper. North American Journal of Welsh Studies, Vol. 3, no. 1. Flint, MI: North American Association for the Study of Welsh Culture and History, 2004.

'''The Old British "Pibcorn" or "Hornpipe" and its affinities.''' By Henry Balfour, Esq., M.A., F.Z.S © 1891 Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.

Pibgorn (Hornpipe)

2010-03-27T16:14:44Z

Ceri rhys matthews:

Pibgorn (literally, pipe horn) is the name given in Welsh to the variety of hornpipe (the musical instrument, and not the dance) played there since the very earliest times. The first attested use is by Hywel Dda (died 949–50) in his law book - the earliest transcription of which dates from 1250. The last traditional player of the instrument was Meredith Morris, originally from Pembrokeshire, who died in 1921.
Another name for the instrument is "cornicyll", meaning either 'hazel horn' or 'lapwing' ('capan cornicyll' is a nasturtium).
The sound is generated by blowing a single-reed, cut from an Elder branch or Reed Cane, like that found in the drone of a Bagpipe. The body of the instrument has six small finger-holes and a thumb-hole giving a diatonic compass of an octave, and the modes given in historical instruments vary. No extant historical instrument plays a major scale. The body is traditionally carved from a single piece of wood or bone. Historically, the wood used was elder. The instrument is played either attached to a bag, or directly via the mouth. The sound is amplified at the foot of the chanter via a carved horn, usually of cow horn. A drone is sometimes attached to the bag. The pibgorn is the ancestor of the modern clarinet.

===Articles===

'''Instrumental Music in Medieval Wales.''' North American Journal of Welsh Studies, Vol. 3, no. 1. Flint, MI: North American Association for the Study of Welsh Culture and History, 2004. by Sally Harper

'''The Old British "Pibcorn" or "Hornpipe" and its affinities.''' By Henry Balfour, Esq., M.A., F.Z.S © 1891 Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.

Pibgorn (Hornpipe)

2010-03-27T16:08:25Z

Ceri rhys matthews: pibgorn intro

Pibgorn (literally, pipe horn) is the name given in Welsh to the variety of hornpipe (the musical instrument, and not the dance) played there since the very earliest times. The first attested use is by Hywel Dda (died 949–50) in his law book - the earliest transcription of which dates from 1250. The last traditional player of the instrument was Meredith Morris, originally from Pembrokeshire, who died in 1921.
Another name for the instrument is "cornicyll", meaning either 'hazel horn' or 'lapwing' ('capan cornicyll' is a nasturtium).
The sound is generated by blowing a single-reed, cut from an Elder branch or Reed Cane, like that found in the drone of a Bagpipe. The body of the instrument has six small finger-holes and a thumb-hole giving a diatonic compass of an octave, and is traditionally carved from a single piece of wood or bone. Historically, the wood used was elder. The instrument is played either attached to a bag, or directly via the mouth. The sound is amplified at the foot of the chanter via a carved horn, usually of cow horn. A drone is sometimes attached to the bag. The pibgorn is the ancestor of the modern clarinet.

===Articles===

'''Instrumental Music in Medieval Wales.''' North American Journal of Welsh Studies, Vol. 3, no. 1. Flint, MI: North American Association for the Study of Welsh Culture and History, 2004. by Sally Harper

'''The Old British "Pibcorn" or "Hornpipe" and its affinities.''' By Henry Balfour, Esq., M.A., F.Z.S © 1891 Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.

Music

2010-03-27T15:46:59Z

Ceri rhys matthews: /* Instruments */ added two instruments. pibgorn and triple harp

''Category Editor Paul Burgess''

Music is an integral part of singing and dancing and often an accompaniment to other activities like processions and ceremonials.

Singers and Dancers are just as much musicians as people who play instruments.

Folk tunes are very often divorced from their original setting and played for another purpose or just for the joy of it. Thus a song tune can become a dance tune or a concert piece.

Sometimes a good tune inspires the addition of words to make it a song.

All of these things happen.

Here we can pool information about where tunes came from, when, what they were used for, possibly who published them, how they travelled and where they are to be found now.

==Tunes==

Such a small word - such a big subject! Let's start with a [[Tune Index]]

Before putting tunes into the system please read the [[Policy for tune pages]]

==Traditional Players==

===[[English Traditional Players]]===

The definition of ''English'' can be loosely applied. Some players were born of English parents and lived in England all their lives playing whatever music came their way in a style that could be described as 'English'.

Other players were born in England but their parents were Irish or Welsh, etc.

Other players were born elsewhere but learned and played in the midst of an English culture.

Yet others were born in England or elsewhere and played music from another tradition or style in an English venue.

It doesn't really matter that much. This section is just to narrow the search.

[[English Traditional Players]]

===[[Scottish Traditional Players]]===

===[[Irish Traditional Players]]===

===[[Welsh Traditional Players]]===

===[[American Traditional Players]]===

===[[Australian Traditional Players]]===

The major part of the work in documenting Australia's traditional players was done by the late [[John Meredith]] in association with a number of other researchers.

[[Australian Traditional Players|Here is a list]] of the known performers.

See also the National Library of Australia [http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/picturescatalogue pictures catalogue] for John Meredith's collection of pictures of traditional players. (Search on ''John Meredith'' and ''Creator'').

===[[French Canadian Traditional Players]]===

==Instruments==

* [[Fiddle]]

* [[Viola]]

* [[Cello]]

* [[Double Bass]]

* [[Bagpipes]]

* [[Pibgorn (Hornpipe)]]

* [[Melodeon]]

* [[Pipe and Tabor|Pipe & Tabor]]

* [[Piano Accordion]]

* [[Button Accordion]]

* [[Concertina]]

* [[Harmonica]]

* [[Flute]]

* [[Piano]]

* [[Jaw Harp]]

* [[Harp]]

* [[Triple Harp]]

==Resources==

===Recordings===

* [[Firebird Records]]

* [[Musical Traditions Records]]

* [[Leader Records]]

===Books===

''available''

* 'John of the Green - The Cheshire Way' ''The famous triple-time hornpipes of North West England'' - John Offord - Green Man Music 2008 [http://www.johnofthegreen.co.uk]
* 'Three Extraordinary Collections' - early 18th-century collections by Thomas Marsden, David Wright and John Walsh, ed. Pete Stewart - Hornpipe Music, 2007
* 'Hardcore English' - Tunes for the internet age, Barry Callaghan - EFDSS Publications (2007) [http://folkshop.efdss.org/Books+and+Publications.htm?osCsid=0s7mup4mk207olc7gacvdolbi4]
* 'The Coleford Jig' Traditional Tunes From Gloucestershire - Charles Menteith/Paul Burgess - 2nd edition (2007)
* 'The Clough Family of Newsham' ''200 Years of Northumbrian Piping'' - C. Ormston & J. Say - Northumbrian Pipers Society, 2000
* 'Joshua Jackson' ''Tunes, Songs & Dances from the 1798 Manuscript of'' [[Yorkshire]] Bowen & Shepherd - Yorkshire Dales Workshop (1998)
* 'The Joshua Gibbons Manuscript' ''Lincolnshire Collections Volume 1'' Edited and transcribed by Peter D. Sumner - Breakfast Publications, 1997
* 'The Fiddler of Helperby' ''The Life & Music of a Yorkshire fiddler'' [[Yorkshire]] James Merryweather & Matt Seattle (1994)
* 'The Border Bagpipe Book' Music for Lowland Pipes, Northumbrian Half-Long Pipes & Scottish Small Pipes - Ed. Matt Seattle - Dragonfly Music (1993)
* 'The Ironbridge Hornpipe', A [[Shropshire]] Tune Collection from John Moore's Manuscripts - Gordon Ashman - Dragonfly Music (1991)
* 'Northern Frisk' A Treasury of Tunes from [[North West]] England - Jamie Knowles/Pat Knowles/Ian McGrady - Dragonfly Music (1988)
* 'One Thousand English Country Dance Tunes' - Edited and published by Michael Raven - 1984
* 'The Great Northern Tune Book' ''William Vickers collection of country dance music'' - Matt Seattle - EFDSS/Northumbrian Pipers Society [http://folkshop.efdss.org/publications/musicnotation/index.htm] (2008)
* 'William Winter's Quantocks Tune Book' - Edited by Geoff Woolfe (2007) Halsway Manor Society [http://www.halswaymanor.org.uk]

===Manuscripts===

Many musicians over the centuries have written down their repertoire in music books and some of the old ones have survived into the 21st century. The oldest one so far identified was written down by Henry Atkinson of Morpeth Northumberland and is dated on one page - 1694.

Some good work has been done in transcribing these books and making them available as paper published tunebooks or as [[abc code]] collections on the internet.

[[Manuscripts by County]]

[[Tune Manuscripts List]]

===Historical Publications===

Tunes and dances are bound together and when Walsh and Simpson, et al published the dances the tunes came attached. Mostly, modern musicians raid the tunes and skip over the dances. You should [[Dance Publishers|follow the dances]] to find the tunes.

===Online Tunes===

* The Village Music Project 
A study of English social musicians from the 17th Century onwards from their manuscripts.
Contains information about fiddle manuscripts, plus many of their contents transcribed into abc format. 
http://www.village-music-project.org.uk/

* The Farne Project 
A selection of texts, pictures and recordings of Northumbrian Traditional Music, including a number of traditional tune resources. There are scans of one of the oldest tune manuscripts in England written down by Henry Atkinson in 1694. There are recordings by a variety of musicians including [[Willy Taylor]], [[Joe Hutton]] and [[Will Atkinson]].

 
[http://www.asaplive.com/FARNE/Home.cfm The Farne Project]



* '''John Chamber's Tune Finder'''

This excellent resource trawls the web for tunes in abc format and allows the user to retrieve the results in a variety of ways. You just need to know something about your target tune to narrow the search.

[http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/tunefind Find tunes]

Welsh Traditional Players

2010-03-27T15:45:06Z

Ceri rhys matthews: list of trad harpers

* [[Tom Lloyd]]
* [[Nansi Richards]]
* [[Llio Rhydderch]]
* [[Elin Wyn Jones]]
* [[Eldra Jarman]]
* [[Robin Huw Bowen]]

Triple Harp

2010-03-27T15:16:23Z

Ceri rhys matthews: Created page with 'This harp has three rows of strings: the two outer rows are tuned to the diatonic scale, and the semitones are in the central row. This harp originated in Italy in the sixteenth …'

This harp has three rows of strings: the two outer rows are tuned to the diatonic scale, and the semitones are in the central row. This harp originated in Italy in the sixteenth century as a low headed instrument. Soon, towards the end of 1600s, it arrived in Wales where it developed a high head and was larger in size. Here it established itself as part of the tradition. This is the harp preferred by folk harpers, with classical and other harpers preferring the concert, or double action, pedal harp.
A technique derived from Baroque performance creates a sound idiosyncratic to the Triple Harp. This style and technique was to be found in the playing of Tom Lloyd, Nansi Richards, Freda Holland and others and is inherited directly by Llio Rhydderch and Elin Jones amongst others.
The harp is still built in Wales by Brian Blackmore, Phil Lowry and others.

Music

2010-03-27T15:01:53Z

Ceri rhys matthews: /* Instruments */

''Category Editor Paul Burgess''

Music is an integral part of singing and dancing and often an accompaniment to other activities like processions and ceremonials.

Singers and Dancers are just as much musicians as people who play instruments.

Folk tunes are very often divorced from their original setting and played for another purpose or just for the joy of it. Thus a song tune can become a dance tune or a concert piece.

Sometimes a good tune inspires the addition of words to make it a song.

All of these things happen.

Here we can pool information about where tunes came from, when, what they were used for, possibly who published them, how they travelled and where they are to be found now.

==Tunes==

Such a small word - such a big subject! Let's start with a [[Tune Index]]

Before putting tunes into the system please read the [[Policy for tune pages]]

==Traditional Players==

===[[English Traditional Players]]===

The definition of ''English'' can be loosely applied. Some players were born of English parents and lived in England all their lives playing whatever music came their way in a style that could be described as 'English'.

Other players were born in England but their parents were Irish or Welsh, etc.

Other players were born elsewhere but learned and played in the midst of an English culture.

Yet others were born in England or elsewhere and played music from another tradition or style in an English venue.

It doesn't really matter that much. This section is just to narrow the search.

[[English Traditional Players]]

===[[Scottish Traditional Players]]===

===[[Irish Traditional Players]]===

===[[Welsh Traditional Players]]===

===[[American Traditional Players]]===

===[[Australian Traditional Players]]===

The major part of the work in documenting Australia's traditional players was done by the late [[John Meredith]] in association with a number of other researchers.

[[Australian Traditional Players|Here is a list]] of the known performers.

See also the National Library of Australia [http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/picturescatalogue pictures catalogue] for John Meredith's collection of pictures of traditional players. (Search on ''John Meredith'' and ''Creator'').

===[[French Canadian Traditional Players]]===

==Instruments==

* [[Fiddle]]

* [[Viola]]

* [[Cello]]

* [[Double Bass]]

* [[Bagpipes]]

* [[Melodeon]]

* [[Pipe and Tabor|Pipe & Tabor]]

* [[Piano Accordion]]

* [[Button Accordion]]

* [[Concertina]]

* [[Harmonica]]

* [[Flute]]

* [[Piano]]

* [[Jaw Harp]]

* [[Harp]]

* [[Triple Harp]]

==Resources==

===Recordings===

* [[Firebird Records]]

* [[Musical Traditions Records]]

* [[Leader Records]]

===Books===

''available''

* 'John of the Green - The Cheshire Way' ''The famous triple-time hornpipes of North West England'' - John Offord - Green Man Music 2008 [http://www.johnofthegreen.co.uk]
* 'Three Extraordinary Collections' - early 18th-century collections by Thomas Marsden, David Wright and John Walsh, ed. Pete Stewart - Hornpipe Music, 2007
* 'Hardcore English' - Tunes for the internet age, Barry Callaghan - EFDSS Publications (2007) [http://folkshop.efdss.org/Books+and+Publications.htm?osCsid=0s7mup4mk207olc7gacvdolbi4]
* 'The Coleford Jig' Traditional Tunes From Gloucestershire - Charles Menteith/Paul Burgess - 2nd edition (2007)
* 'The Clough Family of Newsham' ''200 Years of Northumbrian Piping'' - C. Ormston & J. Say - Northumbrian Pipers Society, 2000
* 'Joshua Jackson' ''Tunes, Songs & Dances from the 1798 Manuscript of'' [[Yorkshire]] Bowen & Shepherd - Yorkshire Dales Workshop (1998)
* 'The Joshua Gibbons Manuscript' ''Lincolnshire Collections Volume 1'' Edited and transcribed by Peter D. Sumner - Breakfast Publications, 1997
* 'The Fiddler of Helperby' ''The Life & Music of a Yorkshire fiddler'' [[Yorkshire]] James Merryweather & Matt Seattle (1994)
* 'The Border Bagpipe Book' Music for Lowland Pipes, Northumbrian Half-Long Pipes & Scottish Small Pipes - Ed. Matt Seattle - Dragonfly Music (1993)
* 'The Ironbridge Hornpipe', A [[Shropshire]] Tune Collection from John Moore's Manuscripts - Gordon Ashman - Dragonfly Music (1991)
* 'Northern Frisk' A Treasury of Tunes from [[North West]] England - Jamie Knowles/Pat Knowles/Ian McGrady - Dragonfly Music (1988)
* 'One Thousand English Country Dance Tunes' - Edited and published by Michael Raven - 1984
* 'The Great Northern Tune Book' ''William Vickers collection of country dance music'' - Matt Seattle - EFDSS/Northumbrian Pipers Society [http://folkshop.efdss.org/publications/musicnotation/index.htm] (2008)
* 'William Winter's Quantocks Tune Book' - Edited by Geoff Woolfe (2007) Halsway Manor Society [http://www.halswaymanor.org.uk]

===Manuscripts===

Many musicians over the centuries have written down their repertoire in music books and some of the old ones have survived into the 21st century. The oldest one so far identified was written down by Henry Atkinson of Morpeth Northumberland and is dated on one page - 1694.

Some good work has been done in transcribing these books and making them available as paper published tunebooks or as [[abc code]] collections on the internet.

[[Manuscripts by County]]

[[Tune Manuscripts List]]

===Historical Publications===

Tunes and dances are bound together and when Walsh and Simpson, et al published the dances the tunes came attached. Mostly, modern musicians raid the tunes and skip over the dances. You should [[Dance Publishers|follow the dances]] to find the tunes.

===Online Tunes===

* The Village Music Project 
A study of English social musicians from the 17th Century onwards from their manuscripts.
Contains information about fiddle manuscripts, plus many of their contents transcribed into abc format. 
http://www.village-music-project.org.uk/

* The Farne Project 
A selection of texts, pictures and recordings of Northumbrian Traditional Music, including a number of traditional tune resources. There are scans of one of the oldest tune manuscripts in England written down by Henry Atkinson in 1694. There are recordings by a variety of musicians including [[Willy Taylor]], [[Joe Hutton]] and [[Will Atkinson]].

 
[http://www.asaplive.com/FARNE/Home.cfm The Farne Project]



* '''John Chamber's Tune Finder'''

This excellent resource trawls the web for tunes in abc format and allows the user to retrieve the results in a variety of ways. You just need to know something about your target tune to narrow the search.

[http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/tunefind Find tunes]

Music

2010-03-27T14:59:31Z

Ceri rhys matthews: /* Instruments */

''Category Editor Paul Burgess''

Music is an integral part of singing and dancing and often an accompaniment to other activities like processions and ceremonials.

Singers and Dancers are just as much musicians as people who play instruments.

Folk tunes are very often divorced from their original setting and played for another purpose or just for the joy of it. Thus a song tune can become a dance tune or a concert piece.

Sometimes a good tune inspires the addition of words to make it a song.

All of these things happen.

Here we can pool information about where tunes came from, when, what they were used for, possibly who published them, how they travelled and where they are to be found now.

==Tunes==

Such a small word - such a big subject! Let's start with a [[Tune Index]]

Before putting tunes into the system please read the [[Policy for tune pages]]

==Traditional Players==

===[[English Traditional Players]]===

The definition of ''English'' can be loosely applied. Some players were born of English parents and lived in England all their lives playing whatever music came their way in a style that could be described as 'English'.

Other players were born in England but their parents were Irish or Welsh, etc.

Other players were born elsewhere but learned and played in the midst of an English culture.

Yet others were born in England or elsewhere and played music from another tradition or style in an English venue.

It doesn't really matter that much. This section is just to narrow the search.

[[English Traditional Players]]

===[[Scottish Traditional Players]]===

===[[Irish Traditional Players]]===

===[[Welsh Traditional Players]]===

===[[American Traditional Players]]===

===[[Australian Traditional Players]]===

The major part of the work in documenting Australia's traditional players was done by the late [[John Meredith]] in association with a number of other researchers.

[[Australian Traditional Players|Here is a list]] of the known performers.

See also the National Library of Australia [http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/picturescatalogue pictures catalogue] for John Meredith's collection of pictures of traditional players. (Search on ''John Meredith'' and ''Creator'').

===[[French Canadian Traditional Players]]===

==Instruments==

* [[Fiddle]]

* [[Viola]]

* [[Cello]]

* [[Double Bass]]

* [[Bagpipes]]

* [[Melodeon]]

* [[Pipe and Tabor|Pipe & Tabor]]

* [[Piano Accordion]]

* [[Button Accordion]]

* [[Concertina]]

* [[Harmonica]]

* [[Flute]]

* [[Piano]]

* [[Jaw Harp]]

* [[Harp]]

* [[Triple Harp | Telyn Deires]]

==Resources==

===Recordings===

* [[Firebird Records]]

* [[Musical Traditions Records]]

* [[Leader Records]]

===Books===

''available''

* 'John of the Green - The Cheshire Way' ''The famous triple-time hornpipes of North West England'' - John Offord - Green Man Music 2008 [http://www.johnofthegreen.co.uk]
* 'Three Extraordinary Collections' - early 18th-century collections by Thomas Marsden, David Wright and John Walsh, ed. Pete Stewart - Hornpipe Music, 2007
* 'Hardcore English' - Tunes for the internet age, Barry Callaghan - EFDSS Publications (2007) [http://folkshop.efdss.org/Books+and+Publications.htm?osCsid=0s7mup4mk207olc7gacvdolbi4]
* 'The Coleford Jig' Traditional Tunes From Gloucestershire - Charles Menteith/Paul Burgess - 2nd edition (2007)
* 'The Clough Family of Newsham' ''200 Years of Northumbrian Piping'' - C. Ormston & J. Say - Northumbrian Pipers Society, 2000
* 'Joshua Jackson' ''Tunes, Songs & Dances from the 1798 Manuscript of'' [[Yorkshire]] Bowen & Shepherd - Yorkshire Dales Workshop (1998)
* 'The Joshua Gibbons Manuscript' ''Lincolnshire Collections Volume 1'' Edited and transcribed by Peter D. Sumner - Breakfast Publications, 1997
* 'The Fiddler of Helperby' ''The Life & Music of a Yorkshire fiddler'' [[Yorkshire]] James Merryweather & Matt Seattle (1994)
* 'The Border Bagpipe Book' Music for Lowland Pipes, Northumbrian Half-Long Pipes & Scottish Small Pipes - Ed. Matt Seattle - Dragonfly Music (1993)
* 'The Ironbridge Hornpipe', A [[Shropshire]] Tune Collection from John Moore's Manuscripts - Gordon Ashman - Dragonfly Music (1991)
* 'Northern Frisk' A Treasury of Tunes from [[North West]] England - Jamie Knowles/Pat Knowles/Ian McGrady - Dragonfly Music (1988)
* 'One Thousand English Country Dance Tunes' - Edited and published by Michael Raven - 1984
* 'The Great Northern Tune Book' ''William Vickers collection of country dance music'' - Matt Seattle - EFDSS/Northumbrian Pipers Society [http://folkshop.efdss.org/publications/musicnotation/index.htm] (2008)
* 'William Winter's Quantocks Tune Book' - Edited by Geoff Woolfe (2007) Halsway Manor Society [http://www.halswaymanor.org.uk]

===Manuscripts===

Many musicians over the centuries have written down their repertoire in music books and some of the old ones have survived into the 21st century. The oldest one so far identified was written down by Henry Atkinson of Morpeth Northumberland and is dated on one page - 1694.

Some good work has been done in transcribing these books and making them available as paper published tunebooks or as [[abc code]] collections on the internet.

[[Manuscripts by County]]

[[Tune Manuscripts List]]

===Historical Publications===

Tunes and dances are bound together and when Walsh and Simpson, et al published the dances the tunes came attached. Mostly, modern musicians raid the tunes and skip over the dances. You should [[Dance Publishers|follow the dances]] to find the tunes.

===Online Tunes===

* The Village Music Project 
A study of English social musicians from the 17th Century onwards from their manuscripts.
Contains information about fiddle manuscripts, plus many of their contents transcribed into abc format. 
http://www.village-music-project.org.uk/

* The Farne Project 
A selection of texts, pictures and recordings of Northumbrian Traditional Music, including a number of traditional tune resources. There are scans of one of the oldest tune manuscripts in England written down by Henry Atkinson in 1694. There are recordings by a variety of musicians including [[Willy Taylor]], [[Joe Hutton]] and [[Will Atkinson]].

 
[http://www.asaplive.com/FARNE/Home.cfm The Farne Project]



* '''John Chamber's Tune Finder'''

This excellent resource trawls the web for tunes in abc format and allows the user to retrieve the results in a variety of ways. You just need to know something about your target tune to narrow the search.

[http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/tunefind Find tunes]

Welsh Traditional Players

2010-03-27T14:55:47Z

Ceri rhys matthews: Created page with '* Nansi Richards * Llio Rhydderch'

* [[Nansi Richards]]
* [[Llio Rhydderch]]

Music

2010-03-27T14:52:04Z

Ceri rhys matthews: Added "Wales/Cymru" section

''Category Editor Paul Burgess''

Music is an integral part of singing and dancing and often an accompaniment to other activities like processions and ceremonials.

Singers and Dancers are just as much musicians as people who play instruments.

Folk tunes are very often divorced from their original setting and played for another purpose or just for the joy of it. Thus a song tune can become a dance tune or a concert piece.

Sometimes a good tune inspires the addition of words to make it a song.

All of these things happen.

Here we can pool information about where tunes came from, when, what they were used for, possibly who published them, how they travelled and where they are to be found now.

==Tunes==

Such a small word - such a big subject! Let's start with a [[Tune Index]]

Before putting tunes into the system please read the [[Policy for tune pages]]

==Traditional Players==

===[[English Traditional Players]]===

The definition of ''English'' can be loosely applied. Some players were born of English parents and lived in England all their lives playing whatever music came their way in a style that could be described as 'English'.

Other players were born in England but their parents were Irish or Welsh, etc.

Other players were born elsewhere but learned and played in the midst of an English culture.

Yet others were born in England or elsewhere and played music from another tradition or style in an English venue.

It doesn't really matter that much. This section is just to narrow the search.

[[English Traditional Players]]

===[[Scottish Traditional Players]]===

===[[Irish Traditional Players]]===

===[[Welsh Traditional Players]]===

===[[American Traditional Players]]===

===[[Australian Traditional Players]]===

The major part of the work in documenting Australia's traditional players was done by the late [[John Meredith]] in association with a number of other researchers.

[[Australian Traditional Players|Here is a list]] of the known performers.

See also the National Library of Australia [http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/picturescatalogue pictures catalogue] for John Meredith's collection of pictures of traditional players. (Search on ''John Meredith'' and ''Creator'').

===[[French Canadian Traditional Players]]===

==Instruments==

* [[Fiddle]]

* [[Viola]]

* [[Cello]]

* [[Double Bass]]

* [[Bagpipes]]

* [[Melodeon]]

* [[Pipe and Tabor|Pipe & Tabor]]

* [[Piano Accordion]]

* [[Button Accordion]]

* [[Concertina]]

* [[Harmonica]]

* [[Flute]]

* [[Piano]]

* [[Jaw Harp]]

==Resources==

===Recordings===

* [[Firebird Records]]

* [[Musical Traditions Records]]

* [[Leader Records]]

===Books===

''available''

* 'John of the Green - The Cheshire Way' ''The famous triple-time hornpipes of North West England'' - John Offord - Green Man Music 2008 [http://www.johnofthegreen.co.uk]
* 'Three Extraordinary Collections' - early 18th-century collections by Thomas Marsden, David Wright and John Walsh, ed. Pete Stewart - Hornpipe Music, 2007
* 'Hardcore English' - Tunes for the internet age, Barry Callaghan - EFDSS Publications (2007) [http://folkshop.efdss.org/Books+and+Publications.htm?osCsid=0s7mup4mk207olc7gacvdolbi4]
* 'The Coleford Jig' Traditional Tunes From Gloucestershire - Charles Menteith/Paul Burgess - 2nd edition (2007)
* 'The Clough Family of Newsham' ''200 Years of Northumbrian Piping'' - C. Ormston & J. Say - Northumbrian Pipers Society, 2000
* 'Joshua Jackson' ''Tunes, Songs & Dances from the 1798 Manuscript of'' [[Yorkshire]] Bowen & Shepherd - Yorkshire Dales Workshop (1998)
* 'The Joshua Gibbons Manuscript' ''Lincolnshire Collections Volume 1'' Edited and transcribed by Peter D. Sumner - Breakfast Publications, 1997
* 'The Fiddler of Helperby' ''The Life & Music of a Yorkshire fiddler'' [[Yorkshire]] James Merryweather & Matt Seattle (1994)
* 'The Border Bagpipe Book' Music for Lowland Pipes, Northumbrian Half-Long Pipes & Scottish Small Pipes - Ed. Matt Seattle - Dragonfly Music (1993)
* 'The Ironbridge Hornpipe', A [[Shropshire]] Tune Collection from John Moore's Manuscripts - Gordon Ashman - Dragonfly Music (1991)
* 'Northern Frisk' A Treasury of Tunes from [[North West]] England - Jamie Knowles/Pat Knowles/Ian McGrady - Dragonfly Music (1988)
* 'One Thousand English Country Dance Tunes' - Edited and published by Michael Raven - 1984
* 'The Great Northern Tune Book' ''William Vickers collection of country dance music'' - Matt Seattle - EFDSS/Northumbrian Pipers Society [http://folkshop.efdss.org/publications/musicnotation/index.htm] (2008)
* 'William Winter's Quantocks Tune Book' - Edited by Geoff Woolfe (2007) Halsway Manor Society [http://www.halswaymanor.org.uk]

===Manuscripts===

Many musicians over the centuries have written down their repertoire in music books and some of the old ones have survived into the 21st century. The oldest one so far identified was written down by Henry Atkinson of Morpeth Northumberland and is dated on one page - 1694.

Some good work has been done in transcribing these books and making them available as paper published tunebooks or as [[abc code]] collections on the internet.

[[Manuscripts by County]]

[[Tune Manuscripts List]]

===Historical Publications===

Tunes and dances are bound together and when Walsh and Simpson, et al published the dances the tunes came attached. Mostly, modern musicians raid the tunes and skip over the dances. You should [[Dance Publishers|follow the dances]] to find the tunes.

===Online Tunes===

* The Village Music Project 
A study of English social musicians from the 17th Century onwards from their manuscripts.
Contains information about fiddle manuscripts, plus many of their contents transcribed into abc format. 
http://www.village-music-project.org.uk/

* The Farne Project 
A selection of texts, pictures and recordings of Northumbrian Traditional Music, including a number of traditional tune resources. There are scans of one of the oldest tune manuscripts in England written down by Henry Atkinson in 1694. There are recordings by a variety of musicians including [[Willy Taylor]], [[Joe Hutton]] and [[Will Atkinson]].

 
[http://www.asaplive.com/FARNE/Home.cfm The Farne Project]



* '''John Chamber's Tune Finder'''

This excellent resource trawls the web for tunes in abc format and allows the user to retrieve the results in a variety of ways. You just need to know something about your target tune to narrow the search.

[http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/tunefind Find tunes]