Full English Transcription Programme: The Vaughan Williams Archive at the British Library, MS RVW2/3
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Acknowledgements and clarifications.
This transcription work, although carried out by us, Lewis Jones and Simon Furey, would not have been possible without the help and encouragement of the Traditional Song Forum, and Martin Graebe, Steve Gardham and Paul Davenport in particular. We also relied at times on the prior published work done by Roy Palmer and Alan Helsdon to resolve some of the difficulties we encountered in interpreting the Vaughan Williams manuscripts. We acknowledge their efforts with grateful thanks. At the same time, we wish to point out that our work differs from those of Roy and Alan in that our aim was not to produce transcriptions as performance-ready pieces. Instead, we have tried to include all of the musical variations which Vaughan Williams notated; we leave the assembly of each individual piece to the choice of the performer, who may be assured that we have omitted nothing of the music in the original manuscripts.
RVW2/3/2 Forty Miles
RVW2/3/3 There Was An Old Man (Green Broom)
RVW2/3/4 Young William
RVW2/3/5 The Miller And His Three Sons
RVW2/3/6 A Yacre Of Land
RVW2/3/7 In Fylingdale's Parish
RVW2/3/8 Billy O'Rooke
RVW2/3/9 I Married A Wife
RVW2/3/10i The Farmer's Boy (i)
RVW2/3/10ii The Farmer's Boy (ii)
RVW2/3/11 A Brisk Young Farmer
RVW2/3/13 Careless Solly Reel
RVW2/3/14 Hornpipe [Manchester Hornpipe?]
RVW2/3/15 Butter'd Peas
RVW2/3/16 The Devil's Dream
RVW2/3/17 Tarry Woo'
RVW2/3/20 Erin's Lovely Home
RVW2/3/21 William And Phillis
RVW2/3/23 The Farmer's Daughter
RVW2/3/25 In Jessie's City
RVW2/3/26 Come All You Jolly Ploughmen
RVW2/3/27 Golden Glove
RVW2/3/28 Horn Fair
RVW2/3/29 As I Was Walking (Handfuls Of Roses)
RVW2/3/30 The Week Before Easter
RVW2/3/31 Maria Martin
RVW2/3/32 Salisbury Plain
RVW2/3/33 William And Sally
RVW2/3/34 The Ship's Carpenter
RVW2/3/35 The Trees They Do Grow High
RVW2/3/36 Adieu To Lovely Nancy
RVW2/3/37 John Reilly
RVW2/3/38 Orange And Blue
RVW2/3/39 Robin Hood And The Pedlar
RVW2/3/40 Foggy Dew
RVW2/3/41 Cupid's Garden
RVW2/2/3/42 Spencer The Rover
RVW2/3/43 Tom Block
RVW2/3/44 [Wraggle Taggle] ?
RVW2/3/46 Georgie
RVW2/3/47 Lord Bateman
RVW2/3/48 It Was One Morning
RVW2/3/49 Bold Carter
RVW2/3/50 The Foxhunt
RVW2/3/52 Trip To The Cottage
RVW2/3/53 Gipsies In The Wood
RVW2/3/54 Low Backed Car [Cow]
RVW2/3/55 Ladies' Triumph
RVW2/3/56 Lord Lovel
RVW2/3/57 The Red Barn
RVW2/3/58 The Streams Of Lovely Nancy
RVW2/3/59 As I Was A Walking
RVW2/3/60 Green Bushes
RVW2/3/61 Lincolnshire Farmer [Yorkshire Bite]
RVW2/3/62 Young Jockey
RVW2/3/63 Deeds Of Napoleon
RVW2/3/64 The Prentice Boy (Captain's Apprentice)
RVW2/3/65 Ward The Pirate
RVW2/3/66 As I Was A-walking One Midsummer Morning
RVW2/3/67 The Dragoon And The Lady
RVW2/3/68 The Yorkshire Farmer
RVW2/3/69 John Reilly
RVW2/3/70 Basket Of Eggs
RVW2/3/71 Van Dieman's Land [Young Henry The Poacher]
RVW2/3/72 Erin's Lovely Home
RVW2/3/73 Sheffield Apprentice
RVW2/3/75 Dream Of Napoleon
RVW2/3/76 On Board A '98
RVW2/3/77 Napoleon's Farewell
RVW2/3/78 Come People All [Spurn Point]
RVW2/3/79 Princess Royal
RVW2/3/80 Loss Of The Ramillies
RVW2/3/81 Erin's Lovely Home
RVW2/3/82 Raven's Feather
RVW2/3/83 Creeping Jane
RVW2/3/84 The Irish Girl
RVW2/3/85 It's Of An Old Lord
RVW2/3/86 Hares In The Plantation
RVW2/3/87 Hills Of Caledonia (John Raeburn)
RVW2/3/88 Three Jolly Butchers
RVW2/3/89 The Cumberland's Crew
RVW2/3/90 The Robin's Petition
RVW2/3/91 The Maid Of Australia
RVW2/3/92 Spanish Ladies
RVW2/3/93 Paul Jones or, the American Frigate
RVW2/3/94 Fair Flora
RVW2/3/95 Just As The Tide Was Flowing
RVW2/3/96 Oxford City
RVW2/3/97 Poor Mary
RVW2/3/98 Captain Markee
RVW2/3/99 Edward Gayen
RVW2/3/100 Ratcliffe Highway
RVW2/3/101 Our Anchors Weighed (Liverpool Docks)
RVW2/3/102 The Sheffield Apprentice
RVW2/3/103 The Bold Robber
RVW2/3/104 A Bold Young Soldier
RVW2/3/105 The Nobleman And The Thresherman
RVW2/3/106 As I Was A-Walking Down By The Black Hospital
RVW2/3/107 The Blacksmith
RVW2/3/108 Barbary Allen
RVW2/3/109 The Farmer's Daughter
RVW2/3/110 It's Of A Shopkeeper
RVW2/3/111 I Went To Betsy
RVW2/3/112 The Three Butchers
RVW2/3/113 Come Nancy Will You Marry Me?
RVW2/3/114 Near Scarborough Town
RVW2/3/115 My Bonny Boy
RVW2/3/116 Betsy And William
RVW2/3/117 Bold Princess Royal
RVW2/3/118 Hills of Caledonia
RVW2/3/119 Pat Reilly
RVW2/3/120 Glencoe
RVW2/3/121 The Convict
RVW2/3/122 Spanish Ladies
RVW2/3/123 Come All You Young Sailors