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  • ...most the identical figures from those collected by Sharp, was set to a new tune by Jimmy Kennedy (composer of Teddy-Bears' Picnic, who died in Cheltenham) [[Category: Dance]]
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  • This tune has been a staple in the repertoire of many English folk dance bands for years, to the extent that it is probably considered quite 'hackn ...ler's tune books in the 19th century and settled down to be a 32 bar dance tune.
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  • Even today, tunes take up new titles through association with a dance and keep those titles as the tunes are played in sessions or published in b ...e'' because it was associated with that couple dance, whereas the original tune title was ''Laddy With the Plaidie''.
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  • This tune was published with dance instructions by [[Peter Thompson]] in Thompson's 200 Country Dances Volume ...ished by [[Peter Thompson]] in one of his [[Index_to_Thompson's_200_Series|dance collections]]
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  • ...ling was often idiosyncratic) is so called because it was the music to the dance of the same name possibly first published by [[Preston and Son|John Preston This gives a problem when naming new pages in Folkopedia as a tune and a dance will compete for the same name.
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  • ...ggest that a coconut dance ever existed in Rochdale. If not, where did the tune come from? It is likely that it came from the pen of some northern musician The band '''Bellowhead''' popularised the tune in 2004 but their version reverses the order of the A and B parts.
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  • ...sovenneVarsoviana Dance]] was hugely popular and scores of variants of the tune are to be found all over the world. [[Category:Tune]]
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  • This is a dance tune (a reel) with scores of variants. It is often attributed to Joshua Cummings Bruce Olsen refers to the incidence of the tune in a variety of printed sources. [http://www.csufresno.edu/folklore/Olson/C
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  • ...where even then it was described as 'an old tune'. In D'Urfrey's play the tune carried the title ''Wou'd You Have a Young Virgin'' but it's earlier name w The tune is found as far afield as the Faroe Islands, where it is called 'La Fille'
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  • [[Category:Dance Tune]]
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  • ...tp://www.englishcountrydancing.org/kidson56.html here] also), for a 32-bar dance which differs from that known now. Campbell-Aird published a slightly diff The third part of the dance was introduced in an anonymous manuscript of 1818 and was quickly adopted i
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  • ...ficulties. Some books deal with dance and it's associated music, some with dance only or the tunes only, etc. Some authors write from a perspective that in [[Dance_Bibliography|Social Dance Bibliography ]]
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  • Morris dance. At Bledington and Fieldtown this is a leapfrog dance.
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  • ...on of c 1896. The latter, in English, is 'The Red House of Cardiff- a pipe dance.' '' [http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=4518&messages=128#24769 Lin
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  • Bibliography: [[The Great Northern Tune Book]] [[category:Dance tune]][[category:Hornpipe]]
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  • ...n double square brackets) so that it becomes the link to the page for that tune. Categorise the page by putting <nowiki>[[category:Dance tune]] and [[category:Hornpipe]]</nowiki> at the end of the page
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  • [[Category:Dance tune]]
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  • A tune composed by Felix Burns (1864 – 1920). ...itcart Polka]], popular dance orchestras such as Harry Davidson's Old Time Dance Orchestra and was also known in Sweden where Carl Jularbo recorded it as "S
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  • This tune was published with dance instructions by [[Peter Thompson]] in Thompson's 200 Country Dances Volume ...named Caroline. The daughter died in in 1767 aged 19. The birthday of the dance title could have been for either of these characters. In time, more detaile
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  • The tune had already been noted down from Charles Leaton by Walter Pitchford on Apri This version of the dance differs from what is danced now. These days, the first couple return to fir
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  • This tune was published with dance instructions by [[Peter Thompson]] in Thompson's 200 Country Dances Volume ...ng we will go''. However, many printed sources show these words set to the tune above.
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  • This tune was published with dance instructions by [[Peter Thompson]] in Thompson's 200 Country Dances Volume [[Category:Tune]]
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  • A possible reason for the name of this dance could be Mount Edgcumbe House, the former home of the Earls of Mount Edgcum [[Category:Dance]]
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  • ...played by [[Walter Bulwer]] can be heard on [[Rig-a-Jig-Jig|Rig-a-Jig-Jig: Dance Music of the South of England]], [[The Voice of the People]] Volume 9.
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  • Published in [[John Simpson]]'s [[Minstrel, The|The Minstrel]], this tune seems to have enjoyed a measure of popularity as it subsequently appears in ...e title ''Le Garcon Vola(n)ge'' and as there is [[Le Garcon Volage|another tune with this title]], it likely refers to the Quadrille figure that was danced
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  • Popular Hornpipe tune (sometimes played as a reel) in Britain and America. Known by a variety of In recent years the tune has been given a new lease of life by the line dancing fraternity and many
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  • Source: [[Community Dance Manuals]] - [[CDM7]] '''Music''': [[Soldier's Joy (tune)|Soldier's Joy]]; [[Sheffield Hornpipe]]; or any similar reel
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  • Country dance and morris tune, also known as 'Balance A Straw' and 'Balancy Straw'. Used as a morris tune at
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  • This tune, [[The Retreat]] is a missing link between an earlier version called [[Buf The 'Buff Coat' version features in one of the [[Playford]] published dance books and in Morpeth musician [[Henry Atkinson]]'s manuscript book of 1694,
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  • Info from Andrew Kuntz's [https://tunearch.org/wiki/TTA Traditional Tune Archive] ...arber has an index of tunes and PDFs of the following British Library tune/dance books on his [https://nick-barber.net/?page_id=303&fbclid=IwAR0QU0kEYiRTkf-
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  • Various - Ranting & Reeling. Dance Music Of The North Of England. ‎(CD, Album, Comp) Topic Records TSCD669 1 Various - Troubles They Are But Few. Dance Tunes & Ditties. ‎(CD, Album, Comp) Topic Records TSCD664 1998
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  • This tune was published with dance instructions by [[Peter Thompson]] in Thompson's 200 Country Dances Volume The dance was also known in America and is mentioned on the [http://www.colonialmusic
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  • * The Earl Soham Slog - Step Dance And Country Music From Suffolk ‎(LP) Topic Records 12TS374 1978 ''Untitle ...mp) Topic Records TSCD659 1998 ''Untitled Polka / Golden Slippers / Mick's Tune''
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  • ...r, the term Jig refers to the dance rather than the time signature of the tune and there are tunes called '' 'jigs' '' that are in other time signatures i ...eless, for tunes in 6/8, be they for jigs, quadrilles or any other sort of dance.
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  • ...d it is the home of the English [[longsword]] dance tradition. Traditional dance tunes go back a long way, with important sources such as the 18th century [ ==Tune Manuscripts==
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  • ...ng with the Waltz and the Quadrille, in sweeping the Country Dance off the dance floors of England and elsewhere. * ''Leeds'' found in ''The South Yorkshire Tune Book'', ''Hardcore English'',
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  • ===DANCE=== ''[[Holly Berry, The-dance|The Holly Berry]], A Christmas dance from Dave Townsend.
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  • The manuscript is referred to as "WM" in tune title catalogue number. with figures to each tune as performed overleaf."
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  • ...c and could effectively illustrate the delicacies required to make a dance tune come alive.&nbsp; A small sampling of his abundant repertory can be found o
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  • This tune was published with dance instructions by [[Peter Thompson]] in Thompson's 200 Country Dances Volume
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  • [[Category:tune book]] [[Category:dance book]]
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  • [[Category:tune book]] [[Category:dance book]]
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  • The tune most commonly known by this title was recorded by [[William Kimber]], [[an ...s printed in [[English Dance and Song]], vol X, no. 3 (February 1946). The tune was also included on a 78rpm record recorded in October 1946, and issued by
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  • ...the mouth organ for us, including this prototypical eastern Kentucky dance tune.
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  • '''''Journal of the [[English Folk Dance Society]]'''''. Six issues between 1914 and 1932. ...e organ of the EFDSS. It has a [http://www.efdss.org/efdss-join-us/english-dance-and-song web site] where extra content is included for each issue.
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  • Steven Gale shows just how much John Gay achieved with this tune in the opening minutes of the most famous of Ballad Operas ===A TRIP TO UXBRIDGE (dance)===
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  • Article in English Dance and Song Winter 2009 p18. [[Tune Manuscripts List]]
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  • Popular hornpipe tune in Britain and America. According to [http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/CIA_C [[category:Dance tune]][[category:Hornpipe]]
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  • ...ing classic examples of fiddlers tune books including a mixture of country dance tunes of the early nineteenth century, a few songs and number of street tun Information taken from Gordon Ashman's The Ironbridge Hornpipe: a Shropshire tune collection from John Moore's manuscripts (Blyth: Dragonfly Music, 1991)</bl
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  • A country-dance air, which, however, has nothing in common with the tune in the text, is printed by Walsh (1708), and in ''The Dancing Master'' (vol The tune in the text is in the Æolian mode.
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  • [[Category:Dance book]] [[Category:Tune book]]
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  • ...1954. Many of Billy's dance tunes were published in Kennedy's ''Fiddler's Tune Books''. Another tune of Billy Ballantine's is transcribed in the following file - transcription
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  • [[Category:tune book]] [[Category:dance book]]
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  • This manuscript tune book was purchased from George Kelsall’s bookshop in Littleborough in the ...tly ruled (? printed) staves. The contents comprise dance tunes (some with dance notation), songs and hymns (some with words). All the tunes have both trebl
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  • * [[Albert Farmer's Bonfire Tune]] * [[Morgan Rattler-Tune|Morgan Rattler]]
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  • See also [[Books, Articles, and Academic Studies - Music]] for music (tune) research. ...and also has a particular interest in the illustration of music and social dance over the centuries. http://www.broadsideband.co.uk
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  • ...e fun of cowards and other undesirables. This is one of about twelve known tune books from the Revolutionary War. It contains melodies familiar in other so ''Anne Livermore Rookey studied the tune book thoroughly for her Masters thesis at Brandeis University in 1997. She
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  • This item is a brief manuscript tune book, containing 16 dance tunes, Most pages contain dance instructions in the stylised manner of the printed
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  • ...e fun of cowards and other undesirables. This is one of about twelve known tune books from the Revolutionary War. It contains melodies familiar in other so ''Anne Livermore Rookey studied the tune book thoroughly for her Masters thesis at Brandeis University in 1997. She
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  • Many of the tunes are piano arrangements of dance tunes and popular music of the day. Back to [[Tune Manuscripts List]]
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  • The William Vickers’ tune book was compiled in 1770, probably in Newcastle upon Tyne. It contained 58 ...of The High Level Ranters, The Cut and Dry Band and Alistair Anderson. The tune book provides a unique insight into the traditional music repertoire 240 ye
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  • Chips and Shavings/Peter Street Dance Untitled continued/Collier's Lass/The Russian Dance (My list has
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  • ...Kidson Collection. The book contains more than 24 tunes, has two styles of tune heading, and displays the additional date of 1792. The complete contents wi Merrily dance the Quakers
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  • ...s another ones schottische. What started off as a mid 18th century country dance ends up as fast Shetland Reel. Tunes morph, change tempo, split and recombi ...tunes, is to be found at the [http://tunearch.org/wiki/TTA The Traditional Tune Archive] formerly [http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/FCfiles.html The Fiddler
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  • ...arson]] - [[The Varsoviana]] (Original Tune) / [[The Varsoviana]] (Later Tune) ...]] & [[Ian Powrie]] - [[Stirling Militia]] / [[Ruthven House]] / [[Fairy Dance]]
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  • ...sited by Cecil Sharp on 4th April 1912 and Gardner gave him several morris dance tunes - presumably those used by the North Leigh Set: 2765 - Mrs Kaysey (Morris Tune)<BR>
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  • == The story of a tune == ...ven the title only three years earlier. People are still arguing about the tune’s origin, but it went on to have a most fascinating life. Three 18th cent
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  • ...he melody stolen from an old ballad called Death and the Lady.” It is this tune which Chappell prints to the words of “Death and the Lady,” from ''A Gu
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  • ...key signature to E Dorian to indicate more clearly the modal nature of the tune. w: spray; We'll *|pipe and we'll|sing * Love, We'll *|dance in a|ring * Love, When each|lad takes his|lass all *|<br>
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  • .... ‎(CD) Topic Records TSCD659 1998 ''Johnny's So Long At The Fair - Morris tune''
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  • There are literally tens of thousands of folk dance tunes (as well as other tune forms) in this format on the internet. A quick way of getting a tune out of an abc file is to cut and paste the code into the interpreter at [ht
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  • John Kirkpatrick says that if a tune is worth playing once it's worth playing a hundred times.<br /> Derek Schofield looks at ''The'' Traditional Dance Event, organised annually by the Black Cap Swordsmen, and asks, "Why hasn't
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  • Manuscript tunebook containing fashionable dance tunes of the early 19thC, many Scottish. The name of the anonymous collection is arbitrarily chosen from a tune within it.
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  • ...r, who collected tunes from a variety of sources. These tunes include both dance and song tunes. Back to [[Tune Manuscripts List]]
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  • 11. [[Bill Elson]] - [[Step Dance Tune]]<br />
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  • ...ted to her home, so that Blunt could write down the words and work out the tune on her piano. ...wn details of the [[Adderbury#Morris Dancing in Adderbury|Adderbury morris dance tradition]], largely from [[William Walton]].
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  • The William Calvert Manuscript is a typical Fiddler's Tune Book of the early 19th C. ...f the jigs is large, typical of the age when the Gows dance band and their tune books were popular in both Scotland and England.
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  • * Sicilian Dance * Cylph Dance
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  • ...e Gloucester towards Churchdown. He seems to have been active as a morris dance musician from about 1836, although what the connection was that led to him ...the King Enjoys His Own Again. Again Charlie Baldwin had a version of this tune, which he called the Wild Morris.
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  • ''[[Step Dance Tune]]'', [[Peter Plant]]<BR> ''[[Unidentified Tune]]'', [[George Woolnough]]<BR>
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  • "A manuscript music book containing airs and dance tunes (reels, hornpipes, waltzes, etc.) (NLW MS 20067A). The volume is desc Back to [[Tune Manuscripts List]]
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  • ==Tune Analysis Step 1: Note the Metre or Time Signature.== The metre, time signature or rhythm of a tune has no relevance to its scale or mode. It is, however, important in compara
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  • == The English Folk Dance and Song Society == The [http://www.efdss.org English Folk Dance and Song Society] is the longest running society in England dedicated to p
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  • A typical "fiddler's tune book", 71/2inches wide by 31/2inches tall, hard-bound, four printed staves Containing 80 musical items. Mainly dance tunes, some song airs, and hymns at the back.
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  • See also [[Dance Bibliography]] for research on Dance. ...he Olden Time''. 1855. 2 Vols. A collection of Ancient Songs, Ballads, and Dance Tunes, illustrative of the National Music of England. With short introducti
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  • ...her 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.
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  • '''Rig-a-Jig-Jig: Dance Music of the South of England''' ...[[Font Whatling]] - [[Untitled Polka]] / [[Golden Slippers]] / [[Mick's Tune]]
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  • ...h]] and [[Duet concertina|duet]] concertinas can be so horrendously out of tune as to play very different notes on the pull from the push, and thus fool th ...ey of G. Also fairly common are G/D instruments, commonly used for English dance music. Normally the two rows are a fifth apart, so that you can have other
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  • [[Tune Manuscripts List]] * Navy Dance
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  • ...tion of the tunes in keys other than “D” and “G,” the most popular keys in tune manuscripts, particularly those associated with fiddle players. The frequen No date is given in the manuscript. Internal evidence from the tune titles suggests that it may date from the 1830s: after Waterloo (1815) and
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  • viola and mandolin as well as the fiddle, could knock a tune out of an old ten-key melodeon, * Rig-a-Jig-Jig: Dance music of the South of England , Topic TSCD659 - (The Voice of the People Se
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  • ...tunes of the day, some seem more uncommon. A large number of quadrilles, a dance in five parts for four couples, and a significant number of polka’s are i Back to [[Tune Manuscripts List]]
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  • '''Song Books published prior to 1900''' (For ''dance tune'' books go [[List of historical tunebooks, some of which are available on t
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  • ...sicians heard in the streets. These include early notations of the country dance tunes ‘Astley's Ride’ and ‘Davy, Davy Knick-Knack’, and of the melo Back to [[Tune Manuscripts List]]
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  • ''Notes on GB/7d/2'' The tune is identical to that of GB/6b/12. W: The tune is unaltered.
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  • ...s first publication that Lady Nairne wrote the words of this song to Gow's tune. The following are some few of the Gow publications:--
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  • Back to [[Tune Manuscripts List]] 9.Country Dance JGi.009
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  • ...'TS' numbers are the Village Music Project index numbers allocated to the tune. Russian Dance, The (TS044)
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  • ...iolin years ago,” says Ambrose. “They’d make a fire and get a board to tap dance on and he’d play jigs and reels on the fiddle. That was their entertainme ...Jimmie Rodgers said: ‘Will there be any brakemen in heaven?’ So it was his tune but my words.”''
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  • Links to the [[Song Books]] page and to [[Tune Analysis: How To Dissect, Interpret and Categorize Anglo-American, Celtic a ...liams]] and [[A.L. Lloyd]], revised by [[Malcolm Douglas]], [[English Folk Dance & Song Society]], London, 2003.
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