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• 1796 Twelve Country Dances for the year 1796... T.Cahusac
  [[Category:Dance book]] [[Category:Tune book]]
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• Billy Ballantine
  ...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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• 1826 Twenty Four Country Dances for the year 1826 - Goulding and D'Almaine
  [[Category:tune book]] [[Category:dance book]]
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• Ann Winnington Ms
  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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• All Dance Tunes- Alphabetical
  * [[Albert Farmer's Bonfire Tune]] * [[Morgan Rattler-Tune|Morgan Rattler]]
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• Dance Bibliography
  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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• 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
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• Ashover Ms
  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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• 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
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• DIXON,(2) MS
  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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• William Vickers Ms
  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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• TAYLOR,James MS
  Chips and Shavings/Peter Street Dance Untitled continued/Collier's Lass/The Russian Dance (My list has
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• 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 Merrily dance the Quakers
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• Tune Index
  ...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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• First I'm Going to Sing You a Ditty
  ...arson]] - [[The Varsoviana]] (Original Tune) / [[The Varsoviana]] (Later Tune) ...]] & [[Ian Powrie]] - [[Stirling Militia]] / [[Ruthven House]] / [[Fairy Dance]]
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• Frederick George Gardner
  ...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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• Princess Royal
  == 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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• Cecil Sharp's Note 22 (1916)
  ...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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• 93 Rosebud in June
  ...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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• Arnold Woodley
  .... ‎(CD) Topic Records TSCD659 1998 ''Johnny's So Long At The Fair - Morris tune''
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• ABC notation
  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
  1 KB (258 words) - 09:21, 10 June 2019
• EDS Vol 43 No 2
  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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• ANON MS(Rival Knights)
  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.
  3 KB (375 words) - 09:23, 14 October 2013
• CLARE,John MS
  ...r, who collected tunes from a variety of sources. These tunes include both dance and song tunes. Back to [[Tune Manuscripts List]]
  1 KB (176 words) - 09:27, 26 October 2020
• Travellers (LP)
  11. [[Bill Elson]] - [[Step Dance Tune]]<br />
  2 KB (265 words) - 20:44, 23 May 2009
• Janet Blunt
  ...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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• CALVERT,William MS
  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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• John Moore of Tyneside Ms
  * Sicilian Dance * Cylph Dance
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• Henry Allen
  ...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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• MTCD339-0 A Story to Tell: Keith Summers in Suffolk 1972-9
  ''[[Step Dance Tune]]'', [[Peter Plant]]<BR> ''[[Unidentified Tune]]'', [[George Woolnough]]<BR>
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• CLARK,William Southern, MS
  "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: 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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• National
  == 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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• GILES,William Henry MS
  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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• Books, Articles, and Academic Studies - Music
  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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• 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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• Rig-a-Jig-Jig (CD)
  '''Rig-a-Jig-Jig: Dance Music of the South of England''' ...[[Font Whatling]] - [[Untitled Polka]] / [[Golden Slippers]] / [[Mick's Tune]]
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• Anglo concertina
  ...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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• LITTEN, William MS
  [[Tune Manuscripts List]] * Navy Dance
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• Joshua Burnett Ms
  ...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
  5 KB (714 words) - 03:08, 21 February 2021
• Walter Bulwer
  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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• TITLEY,William MS
  ...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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• Books before 1900
  '''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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• J.MALCHAIR
  ...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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• Take 6 Transcription Programme: The Butterworth Archive, MS 7d
  ''Notes on GB/7d/2'' The tune is identical to that of GB/6b/12. W: The tune is unaltered.
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• Gow
  ...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:--
  5 KB (829 words) - 13:17, 26 September 2012
• GIBBONS,Joshua MS,
  Back to [[Tune Manuscripts List]] 9.Country Dance JGi.009
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• Thomas Sands Ms
  ...'TS' numbers are the Village Music Project index numbers allocated to the tune. Russian Dance, The (TS044)
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• Ambrose Cooper
  ...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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• 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 ...liams]] and [[A.L. Lloyd]], revised by [[Malcolm Douglas]], [[English Folk Dance & Song Society]], London, 2003.
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