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• Michael Turner
  ...rner's manuscript book has been published in part within the [[Sussex Tune Book]] by Vic Gammon & Anne Loughran.
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• Goulding & D'Almaine's 24 Country Dances for 1826
  [[Category:book]] [[Category:tune book]]
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• Goulding & D'Almaine's 24 Country Dances for the year 1826
  [[Category:book]] [[Category:tune book]]
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• Le Garcon Volage
  ...f the title refer to a particular move contained in the quadrille that the tune was used for. ...c publisher [[John Simpson]] includes the tune (labelled ''Quadrille'') in book one of '''''[[Minstrel, The|The Minstrel]]''''', a selection of National Ai
  521 bytes (83 words) - 10:47, 11 October 2008
• 1796 Twelve Country Dances for the year 1796... T.Cahusac
  [[Category:Book]] [[Category:Dance book]]
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• 1826 Twenty Four Country Dances for the year 1826 - Goulding and D'Almaine
  [[Category:book]] [[Category:tune book]]
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• WIDECOMBE MSS
  [[Tune Manuscripts List]] ...ished since about 1900 containing mainly tunes from the English repertoire|Book List]]
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• Take 6 Transcription Programme: The Hammond Archive, MS 5
  == Sheet Music Tune Book of Melodies from Hammond MS 5 (incomplete) == == Book of Incipits of Melodies from Butterworth MS 7a (incomplete) ==
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• The Prussian Hornpipe
  Bibliography: [[The Great Northern Tune Book]] [[category:Dance tune]][[category:Hornpipe]]
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• Tumbler's Hornpipe
  The triple hornpipe is to be found in the manuscript book of one James Biggins, of Leeds which bears the date 1779 and is to be found ...w has the following tune entitled The Tumbler's Hornpipe which is the same tune as the [[Washington Hornpipe]].
  862 bytes (139 words) - 14:13, 18 January 2010
• NIXON,T,&LONG,J. MS
  ...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 also
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• NIXON,T,
  ...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 also
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• William Vickers Ms
  The William Vickers’ tune book was compiled in 1770, probably in Newcastle upon Tyne. It contained 580 tun ...e High Level Ranters, The Cut and Dry Band and Alistair Anderson. The tune book provides a unique insight into the traditional music repertoire 240 years a
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• WCL052
  This tune, [[The Retreat]] is a missing link between an earlier version called [[Buf ...lished dance books and in Morpeth musician [[Henry Atkinson]]'s manuscript book of 1694,
  1,006 bytes (165 words) - 18:09, 6 May 2007
• Buff Coat hath No Fellow,The
  ...Fellow]], this tune is to be found in Playford and in the 1694 manuscript book of [[Henry Atkinson]] of Morpeth, [[Northumberland]].
  338 bytes (55 words) - 16:28, 14 May 2007
• MITTELL,Wm
  The manuscript is referred to as "WM" in tune title catalogue number. ''"William Mittell, His Book. 1799."''
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• 144: Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford
  ...all ballad somewhat rewritten occurs in Elizabeth Cotton’s Manuscript Song Book which has been dated as c1730. It was printed in garlands in the mid eighte ...oadside of the early eighteenth century, and another five stanza text with tune from a half-sheet engraved 1780 by Thomas Straight. The only oral version,
  787 bytes (130 words) - 10:19, 23 January 2009
• 1801 Preston's Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1801
  ...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 [[Category:Book]]
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• Books
  This page is intended to be a focal point for navigating to book categories. It is more important to get the links in than to worry about wh [[Music#Books|Tune Books]]
  701 bytes (119 words) - 23:33, 22 March 2008
• Eliza Tennyson Ms
  There are two manuscript of interest to tune detectives along with a couple of boxes of various musical scores, includin ...uld have been living at Somersby in Lincs at the time it was written. The book contains about 24 pieces, mostly written in treble clef although a few have
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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]]
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• 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
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• Jasper Robertson
  Note in Cecil Sharp's MSS tune book, 29.9.18
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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''.
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• 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
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• 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]]".
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• 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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• 125: Robin Hood and Little John
  This first appears in the book 'A Collection of Old Ballads' published in 1723. Then on broadsides by the ...tish three stanza version and the Ohio version and mentions its use of the tune of Child 126/127.
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• Cecil Sharp's Note 19 (1916)
  ...609, and in ''Pills to Purge Melancholy'' (volume iii, p. 37, ed. 1719). A tune to which this ballad was once sung is to be found in Rimbault’s ''Music t A Scottish version of the words, “Jock Sheep,” is given in ''The Ballad Book'' (Kinloch and Goldsmid, p. 10); and another, “The Abashed Knight,” in
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• Tune Analysis: How To Dissect, Interpret and Categorize Anglo-American, Celtic and English Folk Melodies
  ==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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• TITLEY,William MS
  Manuscript Book, circa 1860 ...wing pages of music (''Ed. See PDFs'') are a complete copy of a manuscript book, which I was given by my late uncle Mr Joe Evans of Bromstead near Newport,
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• Music
  ...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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• As Shepherds watched their fleecy care
  ...lished in his ''Five Anthems, Four Collects, Twenty Psalm Tunes, [etc.]''. Book III, London: Mrs. Eliz. Key, Nuneaton, [1785]. Two verses, tune and two harmony parts noted by [[Janet Blunt]], Nov 1st 1916, from [[Willia
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• Cecil Sharp's Note 11 (1916)
  ...orded several fairly complete sets of words, from which that given in this book has been compiled. As a rule the versions vary but little, although I have ...cottish Songs'' (volume i, p. 153), in Motherwell’s ''Minstrelsy'' (p. 67, tune 24), and in Buchan’s ''Ancient Ballads and Songs of the North of Scotland
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• GILES,William Henry MS
  A typical "fiddler's tune book", 71/2inches wide by 31/2inches tall, hard-bound, four printed staves per p The following page carries the first tune (The Conquering Hero).
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• Penguin Book of English Folk Songs
  Links to the [[Song Books]] page and to [[Tune Analysis: How To Dissect, Interpret and Categorize Anglo-American, Celtic a Originally published as 'The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs', edited by [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]] and [[A.L. Llo
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• Dance Bibliography
  See also [[Books, Articles, and Academic Studies - Music]] for music (tune) research. * '''''[[The Social Dances of the 19th Century(Book)|The Social Dances of the 19th Century]]''''' Philip J.S.Richardson, 1960,
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