Take 6 Transcription Programme: The Butterworth Archive, MS 7d
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GB/7d/1 Painful Plough
GB/7d/2 Now We've drunk Our Master's Health
Notes on GB/7d/2 The tune is identical to that of GB/6b/12.
GB/7d/3 We Poor Labouring Men
GB/7d/4 Young Girl Cut Down In Her Prime
GB/7d/5 Horn Fair
Notes on GB/7d/5 In the MS the bar lengths are inconsistent. To resolve this the anacrucial crotchet has been split into two quavers and a forward repeat has been inserted between them.
GB/7d/6 Dido & Spandigo
GB/7d/7 Madam I'll Present
Notes on GB/7d/7 The tune is identical to that of GB/6b/25.
GB/7d/8 "Banks of Sweet Dundee"
GB/7d/9 Planxty Conor
GB/7d/10 The Blackbird (Dance)
GB/7d/11 Bonny Light Horseman
GB/7d/12 Week Before Easter
GB/7d/13 'Twas Down in Yonder Valley
GB/7d/14 The Servant Man
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GB/7d/15 Merry Broomfield
GB/7d/16 Tree in the Wood
GB/7d/17 Bucknell Morris Tunes 1 of 8: Bonny Green
Notes on GB/7d/17 The Bucknell Morris Tunes have been thoroughly researched and published by Lionel Bacon in his "A Handbook of Morris Dances" published by the Morris Ring.
GB/7d/18 Bucknell Morris Tunes 2 of 8: Queen's Delight
Notes on GB/7d/18 The Bucknell Morris Tunes have been thoroughly researched and published by Lionel Bacon in his "A Handbook of Morris Dances" published by the Morris Ring.
GB/7d/19 Bucknell Morris Tunes 3 of 8: Bonnet So Blue
Notes on GB/7d/19 The Bucknell Morris Tunes have been thoroughly researched and published by Lionel Bacon in his "A Handbook of Morris Dances" published by the Morris Ring.
GB/7d/20 Bucknell Morris Tunes 4 of 8: Saturday Night
Notes on GB/7d/20 The Bucknell Morris Tunes have been thoroughly researched and published by Lionel Bacon in his "A Handbook of Morris Dances" published by the Morris Ring.
GB/7d/21 Bucknell Morris Tunes 5 of 8: Room for Cuckolds
Notes on GB/7d/21 The Bucknell Morris Tunes have been thoroughly researched and published by Lionel Bacon in his "A Handbook of Morris Dances" published by the Morris Ring.
GB/7d/22 Bucknell Morris Tunes 6 of 8: Old Woman
Notes on GB/7d/22 The Bucknell Morris Tunes have been thoroughly researched and published by Lionel Bacon in his "A Handbook of Morris Dances" published by the Morris Ring.
GB/7d/23 Bucknell Morris Tunes 7 of 8: Old Black Joe
Notes on GB/7d/23 The Bucknell Morris Tunes have been thoroughly researched and published by Lionel Bacon in his "A Handbook of Morris Dances" published by the Morris Ring.
GB/7d/24 Bucknell Morris Tunes 8 of 8: Trunkles
Notes on GB/7d/24 The Bucknell Morris Tunes have been thoroughly researched and published by Lionel Bacon in his "A Handbook of Morris Dances" published by the Morris Ring.
GB/7d/30a Escrick Sword Dance Tunes 1 of 2: Fisher Laddy
GB/7d/30b Escrick Sword Dance Tunes 2 of 2: Oyster Girl
GB/7d/31a Winlaton Sword Dance Tunes 1 of 2: Song
GB/7d/31b Winlaton Sword Dance Tune 2 of 2: Jig Tune
Notes on GB/7d/31b This is a rapper dance. See [1] for a performance of this dance in 1920; the musician and the dancers were probably the same individuals that Butterworth witnessed. This footage illustrates just how hard rapper tunes are to notate without recording equipment.
GB/7d/34 A Story, A Story
Notes on GB/7d/34 An F has been inserted into the key signature and the flats have been removed from all of the Bs; this fine Mixolydian tune is simplified but unaltered by this.
GB/7d/35 On the First of November Last
Notes on GB/7d/35 A redundant flat has been removed from the key signature, which is F and in the Dorian mode; the tune is unaltered by this. Fermatas have been added on the final minim in each of the three verses (at the ends of the second, fouth and sixth lines) to bring out the unusual and beautiful shape of the tune. The "cannon ball" interpolation clearly relates to a variation in the tune specific to that particular verse.
GB/7d/36 Scarbro' Town
GB/7d/37 Oh Father, Dear Father (Fragment)
GB/7d/38 On the 1st of November
GB/7d/39 Saucy Ward
GB/7d/40 Crystal Stream
GB/7d/41 Gipsy Laddy