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==Tunes==


==Traditional Players==


The definition of a musician's nationality can be loosely applied. Some players were born in one country and lived in that country all their lives playing whatever music came their way in a style that could be described as belonging to that country.
Such a small word - such a big subject!  This is not the place for storing tunes, those places exist in the links below, but to give a flavour of the commoner sort here are some examples [[Tune Index]]
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 the culture into which they were born.
If you feel the need to add tunes read this first [[Policy for tune pages]]


Yet others were born in a country and played music from another tradition or style in a venue of their country.


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


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


===[[Scottish Traditional Players]]===
* '''The Village Music Project''' [http://www.village-music-project.org.uk/] 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 notation]].<br>


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


===[[Irish Traditional Players]]===
* '''Morris Tunes on the Morris Ring website''' [http://www.themorrisring.org/music] ABCs, dots and mp3s of Lionel Bacon's Black Book, plus links to other sites.


* '''John Chamber's Tune Finder''' [http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/tunefind] 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.


===[[Welsh Traditional Players]]===
* '''Chris Walshaw's Search Engine on the ABC Notation Homepage''' [http://abcnotation.com/] Type in a title and see the tunes pop up, in notation, midi and [[ABC notation]].


* '''The Traditional Tune Archive''' [http://www.tunearch.org/wiki/TTA] A major source of tunes and a place to contribute them is  '''The Traditional Tune Archive'''  - The Semantic Index of North American, British and Irish traditional instrumental music with annotation, formerly known as The Fiddler's Companion.


===[[American Traditional Players]]===
* '''James Stewart's Index of Tunes''' [http://www.reocities.com/Heartland/6402/] is an online PDF database of 70K tunetitles (only) and which books they can be found in.


* '''Biteyourownelbow''' [http://www.biteyourownelbow.com/webtunes.htm] Another long list of tune collections on the internet, from Mickey Koth. Free collections of tunes in gif, jpg, pdf, png, or tif format and/or in ABC notation


===[[Australian Traditional Players]]===
* '''Manx Music - Manuscript and ABC format''' [http://www.mannincloud.info/music/music.html] contains a significant body of the music collected on the island by W.H. Gill, J.F. Gill and Dr J. Clague, as compiled by Colin Jerry in the book 'Kiaull Vannin'


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.


===Online Session Tunebooks===


[[Australian Traditional Players|Here is a list]] of the known performers.
Here are some online collections to give a flavour of tunes that are current nowadays in various informal music sessions in Britain and beyond. The descriptions may be taken from the compilers' own websites.  


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'').
* '''Paul Hardy's'''  [http://www.pghardy.net/concertina/tunebooks/#session session tunebook]. Mainly traditional Celtic and English from the British Isles.


===[[French Canadian Traditional Players]]===
* '''Lewes Favourites''' [http://www.lewessaturdayfolkclub.org/LAFC/Lewesfav.html website]. [http://www.lewessaturdayfolkclub.org/LAFC/LFTunes.html Tunes]. A good, large (200 tunes?) fundamental English repertoire, courtesy of the Lewes English Tunes Practice Session, in particular Bryan Creer and the late Andy Warburton. The following tunebooks are often subsets of this one, but worth browsing to get an idea of the first two dozen must-have tunes.


==Instruments==
* '''The Alton Steady Session''' [https://altonsteadysession.wordpress.com/about/tune-of-the-month/our-favourite-tunes/ website] contains link to a small tunebook


* [[Fiddle]]
* '''The Bath and Bradford on Avon Sessions''' [http://englishmusicplayedhere.org.uk/ website]. Concertina World [http://www.concertina.info/session_resources/ica_session_supplement.pdf Tunebook], includes tips on session etiquette.


* [[Viola]]
* '''Chorley Slow and Easy Session''' [http://chorleytradmusicsessions.org.uk/wp/tunebooks/ website] contains links to two PDF tunebooks


* [[Cello]]
* '''Dorking Folk Sessions''' [https://thedorkingsessions.wordpress.com/ website] contains a link to a small Steady Speed tunebook


* [[Double Bass]]
* '''The Ewell Sessions''' [http://www.theewellsessions.net/#!music/cnnz website] contains a link to a small tunebook


* [[Bagpipes]]
* '''Chris Partington's English Session Tunes''' [http://www.cpartington.plus.com/links/EnglishSessionTunes.html website] What do you play when you’re in a “Mainly English” session with musicians you’ve just met for the first time? ABCs and PDF


* [[Pibgorn (Hornpipe)]]
* '''The Duke of Wellington Folk Tunes Session''' [https://www.facebook.com/groups/312959745553372/?fref=ts FB page]. [http://www.cpartington.plus.com/links/The%20Duke%20of%20Wellington%20Tune%20Book%202nd%20Edtion.pdf Tunes]. We (they!) are a friendly group who meet on the second Thursday of every month at The Duke of Wellington 119 Balls Pond Road, London, N1 4BL. .


* [[Melodeon]]
* '''Folk at the Beech''' [http://www.folkatthebeech.org/ website] We (they!) will have 133 tunes in the 6th Edition of our Tune Book, you will find them on the 'Playing Tunes page' when it has been updated. They are currently available as pages of music as pdfs and ABCexplorer files. We have also made them available as midi files.


* [[Pipe and Tabor|Pipe & Tabor]]
* '''Freds Folks Ceilidh Band''' [http://www.chezfred.org.uk/University/music/pdf/FredsFolks/index.html website] Not strictly a session, but common session tunes nonetheless


* [[Piano Accordion]]
* '''Horsmonden sessions''' [http://www.singdanceandplay.net/free-traditional-music-classes-at-the-gun-and-spitroast-horsmonden/ website] workshop page contains link to tunes and the session
 
* [[Button Accordion]]
 
* [[Concertina]]
 
* [[Harmonica]]
 
* [[Flute]]
 
* [[Piano]]


* [[Jaw Harp]]
* [[Harp]]


* [[Triple Harp]]


==Resources==
==Resources==


===Recordings===
===Tune Books since 1900===  


*[[Argo Records]]
* [[Books published since about 1900 containing mainly tunes from the English repertoire]]


* [[Firebird Records]]
* [[Books containing tunes from the Welsh Repertoire]]
 
* [[Musical Traditions Records]]
 
* [[Leader Records]]


===Manuscripts===
===Manuscripts===
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*[[Tune Manuscripts List]]
*[[Tune Manuscripts List]]
===Books===
* [[Books published since about 1900 containing mainly tunes from the English repertoire]]
* [[Books containing tunes from the Welsh Repertoire]]


===Historical Publications===
===Historical Publications===
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* [[Music Publishers]]
* [[Music Publishers]]
===Recordings===
*[[Argo Records]]
* [[Firebird Records]]
* [[Musical Traditions Records]]
* [[Leader Records]]


===Academic Studies===
===Academic Studies===
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Popular Music and British Manuscript Compilations (1650–2000'') [http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3902/1/THESIS___FINAL.pdf PDF]
Popular Music and British Manuscript Compilations (1650–2000'') [http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3902/1/THESIS___FINAL.pdf PDF]


==Tunes==
 
==Traditional Players==
 
The definition of a musician's nationality can be loosely applied. Some players were born in one country and lived in that country all their lives playing whatever music came their way in a style that could be described as belonging to that country.
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 the culture into which they were born.
 
Yet others were born in a country and played music from another tradition or style in a venue of their country.
 
It doesn't really matter that much. This section is just to narrow the search.
 
===[[English Traditional Players]]===
 
===[[Scottish Traditional Players]]===




Such a small word - such a big subject!  This is not the place for storing tunes, those places exist in the links below, but to give a flavour of the commoner sort here are some examples [[Tune Index]]
===[[Irish Traditional Players]]===
 


If you feel the need to add tunes read this first [[Policy for tune pages]]
===[[Welsh Traditional Players]]===




===Online Tunes===
===[[American Traditional Players]]===




* '''The Village Music Project''' [http://www.village-music-project.org.uk/] A study of English social musicians from the 17th Century onwards from their manuscripts.
===[[Australian Traditional Players]]===
Contains information about fiddle manuscripts, plus many of their contents transcribed into [[ABC notation]].<br>


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


* '''Morris Tunes on the Morris Ring website''' [http://www.themorrisring.org/music] ABCs, dots and mp3s of Lionel Bacon's Black Book, plus links to other sites.


* '''John Chamber's Tune Finder''' [http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/tunefind] 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.
[[Australian Traditional Players|Here is a list]] of the known performers.


* '''Chris Walshaw's Search Engine on the ABC Notation Homepage''' [http://abcnotation.com/] Type in a title and see the tunes pop up, in notation, midi and [[ABC notation]].
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'').


* '''The Traditional Tune Archive''' [http://www.tunearch.org/wiki/TTA] A major source of tunes and a place to contribute them is  '''The Traditional Tune Archive'''  - The Semantic Index of North American, British and Irish traditional instrumental music with annotation, formerly known as The Fiddler's Companion.
===[[French Canadian Traditional Players]]===


* '''James Stewart's Index of Tunes''' [http://www.reocities.com/Heartland/6402/] is an online PDF database of 70K tunetitles (only) and which books they can be found in.
==[[Instruments]]==


* '''Biteyourownelbow''' [http://www.biteyourownelbow.com/webtunes.htm] Another long list of tune collections on the internet, from Mickey Koth. Free collections of tunes in gif, jpg, pdf, png, or tif format and/or in ABC notation
* [[Fiddle]]


* '''Manx Music - Manuscript and ABC format''' [http://www.mannincloud.info/music/music.html] contains a significant body of the music collected on the island by W.H. Gill, J.F. Gill and Dr J. Clague, as compiled by Colin Jerry in the book 'Kiaull Vannin'
* [[Viola]]


* [[Cello]]


===Online Session Tunebooks===
* [[Double Bass]]


Here are some online collections to give a flavour of tunes that are current nowadays in various informal music sessions in Britain and beyond. The descriptions may be taken from the compilers' own websites.
* [[Bagpipes]]


* '''Paul Hardy's'''  [http://www.pghardy.net/concertina/tunebooks/#session session tunebook]. Mainly traditional Celtic and English from the British Isles.
* [[Pibgorn (Hornpipe)]]


* '''Lewes Favourites''' [http://www.lewessaturdayfolkclub.org/LAFC/Lewesfav.html website]. [http://www.lewessaturdayfolkclub.org/LAFC/LFTunes.html Tunes]. A good, large (200 tunes?) fundamental English repertoire, courtesy of the Lewes English Tunes Practice Session, in particular Bryan Creer and the late Andy Warburton. The following tunebooks are often subsets of this one, but worth browsing to get an idea of the first two dozen must-have tunes.
* [[Melodeon]]


* '''The Alton Steady Session''' [https://altonsteadysession.wordpress.com/about/tune-of-the-month/our-favourite-tunes/ website] contains link to a small tunebook
* [[Pipe and Tabor|Pipe & Tabor]]


* '''The Bath and Bradford on Avon Sessions''' [http://englishmusicplayedhere.org.uk/ website]. Concertina World [http://www.concertina.info/session_resources/ica_session_supplement.pdf Tunebook], includes tips on session etiquette.
* [[Piano Accordion]]


* '''Chorley Slow and Easy Session''' [http://chorleytradmusicsessions.org.uk/wp/tunebooks/ website] contains links to two PDF tunebooks
* [[Button Accordion]]


* '''Dorking Folk Sessions''' [https://thedorkingsessions.wordpress.com/ website] contains a link to a small Steady Speed tunebook
* [[Concertina]]


* '''The Ewell Sessions''' [http://www.theewellsessions.net/#!music/cnnz website] contains a link to a small tunebook
* [[Harmonica]]


* '''Chris Partington's English Session Tunes''' [http://www.cpartington.plus.com/links/EnglishSessionTunes.html website] What do you play when you’re in a “Mainly English” session with musicians you’ve just met for the first time? ABCs and PDF
* [[Flute]]


* '''The Duke of Wellington Folk Tunes Session''' [https://www.facebook.com/groups/312959745553372/?fref=ts FB page]. [http://www.cpartington.plus.com/links/The%20Duke%20of%20Wellington%20Tune%20Book%202nd%20Edtion.pdf Tunes]. We (they!) are a friendly group who meet on the second Thursday of every month at The Duke of Wellington 119 Balls Pond Road, London, N1 4BL. .
* [[Piano]]


* '''Folk at the Beech''' [http://www.folkatthebeech.org/ website] We (they!) will have 133 tunes in the 6th Edition of our Tune Book, you will find them on the 'Playing Tunes page' when it has been updated. They are currently available as pages of music as pdfs and ABCexplorer files. We have also made them available as midi files.
* [[Jaw Harp]]


* '''Freds Folks Ceilidh Band''' [http://www.chezfred.org.uk/University/music/pdf/FredsFolks/index.html website] Not strictly a session, but common session tunes nonetheless
* [[Harp]]


* '''Horsmonden sessions''' [http://www.singdanceandplay.net/free-traditional-music-classes-at-the-gun-and-spitroast-horsmonden/ website] workshop page contains link to tunes and the session
* [[Triple Harp]]

Revision as of 11:48, 16 February 2016

Category Editor Chris Partington

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! This is not the place for storing tunes, those places exist in the links below, but to give a flavour of the commoner sort here are some examples Tune Index

If you feel the need to add tunes read this first Policy for tune pages


Online Tunes

  • The Village Music Project [1] 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 notation.

  • The Farne Project [2] 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.
  • Morris Tunes on the Morris Ring website [3] ABCs, dots and mp3s of Lionel Bacon's Black Book, plus links to other sites.
  • John Chamber's Tune Finder [4] 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.
  • Chris Walshaw's Search Engine on the ABC Notation Homepage [5] Type in a title and see the tunes pop up, in notation, midi and ABC notation.
  • The Traditional Tune Archive [6] A major source of tunes and a place to contribute them is The Traditional Tune Archive - The Semantic Index of North American, British and Irish traditional instrumental music with annotation, formerly known as The Fiddler's Companion.
  • James Stewart's Index of Tunes [7] is an online PDF database of 70K tunetitles (only) and which books they can be found in.
  • Biteyourownelbow [8] Another long list of tune collections on the internet, from Mickey Koth. Free collections of tunes in gif, jpg, pdf, png, or tif format and/or in ABC notation
  • Manx Music - Manuscript and ABC format [9] contains a significant body of the music collected on the island by W.H. Gill, J.F. Gill and Dr J. Clague, as compiled by Colin Jerry in the book 'Kiaull Vannin'


Online Session Tunebooks

Here are some online collections to give a flavour of tunes that are current nowadays in various informal music sessions in Britain and beyond. The descriptions may be taken from the compilers' own websites.

  • Paul Hardy's session tunebook. Mainly traditional Celtic and English from the British Isles.
  • Lewes Favourites website. Tunes. A good, large (200 tunes?) fundamental English repertoire, courtesy of the Lewes English Tunes Practice Session, in particular Bryan Creer and the late Andy Warburton. The following tunebooks are often subsets of this one, but worth browsing to get an idea of the first two dozen must-have tunes.
  • The Alton Steady Session website contains link to a small tunebook
  • The Bath and Bradford on Avon Sessions website. Concertina World Tunebook, includes tips on session etiquette.
  • Chorley Slow and Easy Session website contains links to two PDF tunebooks
  • Dorking Folk Sessions website contains a link to a small Steady Speed tunebook
  • The Ewell Sessions website contains a link to a small tunebook
  • Chris Partington's English Session Tunes website What do you play when you’re in a “Mainly English” session with musicians you’ve just met for the first time? ABCs and PDF
  • The Duke of Wellington Folk Tunes Session FB page. Tunes. We (they!) are a friendly group who meet on the second Thursday of every month at The Duke of Wellington 119 Balls Pond Road, London, N1 4BL. .
  • Folk at the Beech website We (they!) will have 133 tunes in the 6th Edition of our Tune Book, you will find them on the 'Playing Tunes page' when it has been updated. They are currently available as pages of music as pdfs and ABCexplorer files. We have also made them available as midi files.
  • Freds Folks Ceilidh Band website Not strictly a session, but common session tunes nonetheless
  • Horsmonden sessions website workshop page contains link to tunes and the session


Resources

Tune Books since 1900

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 notation collections on the internet.

Historical Publications

The most useful list of historical dance-tune books on the web is the Early American Secular Music and its European Sources website. This was researched in the later 20th century and is a very good overview of the field, with a few omissions of books that have come to light more recently, or weren't in the targeted libraries.

Another huge resource based on years of research is the late Bruce Olson's website . Some of the material on the site has become redundant since his death in 2003, yet it remains a valuable tool for serious scholars. http://www.fresnostate.edu/folklore/Olson/index.html

Tunes and dances are bound together and when Walsh and Simpson, et al published the tunes the dances often came attached. Mostly, modern musicians raid the tunes and skip over the dances.

Recordings


Academic Studies

There are a number of academic theses available online which may be of interest

Campbell, Stephen William John; Doctor of Philosophy University of York,Department of Music, October 2012 Reconsidering and Contextualising the Vernacular Tradition: Popular Music and British Manuscript Compilations (1650–2000) PDF


Traditional Players

The definition of a musician's nationality can be loosely applied. Some players were born in one country and lived in that country all their lives playing whatever music came their way in a style that could be described as belonging to that country. 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 the culture into which they were born.

Yet others were born in a country and played music from another tradition or style in a venue of their country.

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.


Here is a list of the known performers.

See also the National Library of Australia pictures catalogue for John Meredith's collection of pictures of traditional players. (Search on John Meredith and Creator).

French Canadian Traditional Players

Instruments