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• MOORE,John of Shropshire
  ...ic (dated 11 April 1839) but the others being classic examples of fiddlers tune books including a mixture of country dance tunes of the early nineteenth ce 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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• Tom Lenihan
  ...e would speak; to fit the tune to the words, not to make the words fit the tune. A selection of Tom’s songs, recorded by Tom Munnelly, was published in book form in 1994 by Comhairle Bhéaloideas Éireann entitled ''Mount Callan Gar
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• There was a Lady in the West
  ...and text are provided in the link provided on the separate page for this book.) ...Sisters", a Cornish version, given in Davies Gilbert's "Christmas Carols" (tune and words of a first verse to this are provided).
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• CLARK,William Southern, MS
  ...Aberystwyth. NLW20067A folio 20.verso. Marked "Mr W. S. Clark’s Old Music Book. William Thomas Lewis, Mardy, Aberdare, 1869" ...) (NLW MS 20067A). The volume is described as 'Mr. W. S. Clark's Old Music Book' and bears the name 'Willm. Thos. Lewis, Mardy, Aberdare, July 22 [18]69' [
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• Strike Sound
  The book can be bought from the Strand Bookshop in Padstow. *[[Behold the Grace]] - sung to the tune [[Cranbrook]], originally written by [[Thomas Clark]]
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• CLARE,John MS
  ...f the few first hand accounts by an actual contemporary practitioner. This book is still in print and copies may be had from the author. Back to [[Tune Manuscripts List]]
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• Henry Huntlea
  ...ictorian - though there are one or two "folk" tunes towards the end of the book. His spelling wasn't the best - Marsurka is a classic example. He lived wit Back to [[Tune Manuscripts List]]
  1 KB (195 words) - 14:52, 5 October 2012
• Cecil Sharp's Note 77 (1916)
  A Scottish version of this curious song, “The Crab,” is given in ''A Ballad Book'' by C. K. Sharpe and Edmund Goldsmid (volume ii, p. 10), published in 1824 The tune is in the Mixolydian mode, and was sung to me very excitedly and at break-n
  516 bytes (92 words) - 22:00, 19 November 2018
• Jasper Robertson
  Note in Cecil Sharp's MSS tune book, 29.9.18
  957 bytes (137 words) - 14:03, 31 May 2007
• SKENE,John MS
  Dauney's book is available in its [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=iE0JAAAAQAAJ&print <blockquote>Dauney’s book contains a complete transcription into staff notation of the music in the S
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• Lo! The Eastern Sages Rise
  ..., Sheffield and Carrs Lane Congregational Chapel, Birmingham; and set to a tune by Samuel Stanley of Birmingham. ...nes, Mithian, and Perranzabuloe — and is still sung there. Variants of the tune exist, with interpolations. The version given here is from the most reliabl
  2 KB (292 words) - 14:09, 6 February 2008
• Polkas
  * ''Leeds'' found in ''The South Yorkshire Tune Book'', ''Hardcore English'',
  1,021 bytes (152 words) - 13:28, 1 July 2007
• Ann Winnington Ms
  This manuscript tune book was purchased from George Kelsall’s bookshop in Littleborough in the mid The book has been bound in card covers overlaid with a very thin leather which is in
  2 KB (361 words) - 09:48, 11 October 2012
• CALVERT,William MS
  The William Calvert Manuscript is a typical Fiddler's Tune Book of the early 19th C. ...inscribed repeatedly throughout with the name "Wm Calvert", "Wm Calvert's Book", etc. and the date "1812".
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• Austin Flanagan
  ...so that over half of the songs we recorded from them were sung to the same tune, the one usually associated with ''The Rocks of Bawn''.
  2 KB (268 words) - 10:15, 28 March 2007
• Cecil J. Sharp, ed. (1908) 'Folk-songs from Dorset'
  Links to the [[Song Books]] page and to [[Tune Analysis: How To Dissect, Interpret and Categorize Anglo-American, Celtic a 'Novello's School Songs Book 269' can be downloaded from here.[[https://ks.imslp.net/files/imglnks/usimg
  936 bytes (144 words) - 20:09, 25 March 2021
• Swalcliffe May Day Carol
  ...he words were passed onto Janet Blunt in 1908, and she finally collected a tune for the song from Mrs Woolgrove of Swalcliffe, and Mrs Lynes of Sibford, at The words and tune are given in Tony Foxworthy, "[[Forty Long Miles (book)|Forty Long Miles]]".
  1 KB (260 words) - 09:39, 31 December 2012
• Ashover Ms
  "A Book Of Tunes "David Wall, His Book, 1775"
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• Fantocini,The
  This tune was published with dance instructions by [[Peter Thompson]] in Thompson's 2 It was written down in a manuscript book compiled by [[Ashover Ms|Harrison and Wall]], two musicians from the villag
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• William Clark Ms
  ...e scans with the [[Village Music Project]]. The present whereabouts of the book is unknown. It's listed as being in the Lincoln Records Office but they can ...xt to William Clark's name - 1770 but there are other names written in the book, including Charles Woodall and George Skelton in 1789 and William Moss, Lin
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