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• Harry Baker
  ...e is a little uncertain in his singing, and I had to ask him to repeat the tune of "Death and the Lady" a number of times before I was certain of having it ...erses, but his version, with expanded words, was included in the [[Penguin Book of English Folk Songs]].
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• Morgan Rattler-Song
  The Morgan Rattler is, in the 21stC, best known as a [[Morgan Rattler-Tune|tune]] and is catalogued under several titles in [http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddler The following set of words appears in '''Gaskel's Comic Song Book (1841)'''
  3 KB (532 words) - 17:32, 15 June 2010
• BARNES,Joseph MS
  Back to [[Tune Manuscripts List]] The book is 9" tall by 7" wide, with hard covers of a material not evident from our
  4 KB (580 words) - 12:57, 20 September 2021
• John Moore of Tyneside Ms
  John Moore's Ms book is in private possession but has been photgraphed, [http://www.village-musi Back to [[Tune Manuscripts List]]
  3 KB (406 words) - 10:17, 14 October 2013
• Frederick George Gardner
  2765 - Mrs Kaysey (Morris Tune)<BR> ...They struck each others hands as well as their own together. Mrs Kaysey a tune to which this cocoa nut dance was danced. He remembered a great meeting at
  5 KB (875 words) - 20:01, 19 February 2022
• HAM-05-32-05.abc
  W:[In the tune MS, to the left of the title:] 500 [to the right:] Mrs Russell of Upwey<br> W:[In the lyrics note-book, this:]<br>
  3 KB (584 words) - 15:23, 21 November 2010
• Tune
  ...e the Meter 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 '''Tune Analysis Step 2: Ascertain Whether the Scale is Authentic, Mainly Authentic
  9 KB (1,637 words) - 16:18, 9 February 2018
• IRWIN,William
  '''1..William Irwin’s Manuscript Tune Book, 1838''' On title page “William Irwin’s Book Jan 2 1838”.
  17 KB (2,648 words) - 11:46, 18 December 2013
• Books, Articles, and Academic Studies - Music
  ...author's PhD thesis completed at the University of Edinburgh in 1982. The book has long been out of print. Zip file with 34 accompanying tracks. [https:// ...?fbclid=IwAR1oDZAU5ueP_q3E_EXWOEirrsWtaOZThPPwwvTHOWoy9UoTleuZO6nRYN4 flip book]
  12 KB (1,752 words) - 15:07, 7 March 2024
• Cecil Sharp
  ...g all the time. During the third he makes little refining touches, and the tune is complete.<br> PDF page images of the book are available from the Internet Archive.[https://archive.org/details/london
  4 KB (647 words) - 23:14, 7 May 2022
• Joshua Burnett Ms
  ...flutes, clarinets and bassoons, possibly in a church band. A printed music book of hymns was also kept with the fiddle, which may support this theory. 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
• Scales and Musical Modes in Celtic, Anglo-American and English Folk Songs
  This article should be studied in conjunction with the article [[Tune Analysis: How To Dissect, Interpret and Categorize Anglo-American, Celtic a ..., but is important in determining tune similarities, tune differences, and tune families.
  43 KB (7,734 words) - 02:03, 10 February 2021
• John Thomas
  <blockquote>"Alawon John Thomas - A Fiddler's Tune Book From Eighteenth Century Wales" ed. Cass Meurig, LLGC, 2004, 1862250421 ...ose manuscript is found amongst the National Library's collection. The new book gives the general public their first ever taste of the songs their forefath
  13 KB (2,064 words) - 16:20, 26 November 2012
• 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:-- ...he German Flute . . Gow & Shepherd, 40, Princes Street, oblong 4to. Ditto, Book II.
  5 KB (829 words) - 13:17, 26 September 2012
• Take 6 Transcription Programme: The Butterworth Archive, MS 7a
  == Sheet Music Tune Book of Melodies from Butterworth MS 7a == [[File:Butterworth MS 7a Tune Book.pdf]]
  52 KB (11,658 words) - 13:47, 20 April 2016
• Books published since about 1900 containing mainly tunes from the English repertoire
  ...lature system used by Gary Coover for his tutors and tune collections. The book includes tablature for both the Jeffries and Wheatstone/Lachenal systems of ...g,Cass; Aberystwyth; Tne National Library of Wales; 2004; A Fiddler's Tune Book from 18th Century Wales. 438 tunes
  40 KB (5,573 words) - 12:28, 18 October 2023
• Thomas Sands Ms
  Thomas Sands' MS book was in private ownership, but has been donated to the VWML (2013) The book is 11 1/2" wide and 9" tall. It is dated March 12th 1810. In sideways scrip
  8 KB (1,243 words) - 07:13, 8 June 2021
• Introduction to the Robin Hood Ballads
  ...ar; they employ the same opening stanza, and they often share a designated tune. However this apart they do have much in common with other ballads of the s ...ballads amongst the lower orders as the middle of the fifteenth century. A book printed in 1521 states that by then the RH ballads were in vogue over all B
  8 KB (1,409 words) - 22:25, 14 January 2009
• Song
  ==Tune Analysis: How To Dissect, Interpret and Categorise Anglo-American, Celtic a ...Book' can be downloaded here [https://marine-cafe.com/download/the-shanty-book-by-richard-runciman-terry-parts-i-and-ii-in-one-pdf-file/]
  10 KB (1,507 words) - 00:11, 8 May 2022
• Take 6 Transcription Programme: The Butterworth Archive, MS 7b
  ''Notes on GB/7b/1'' The tune is similar to that of GB/6a/132. ''Notes on GB/7b/2A'' The tune is identical to that of GB/6a/149.
  37 KB (8,486 words) - 13:48, 20 April 2016
• Take 6 Transcription Programme: The Butterworth Archive, MS 6a
  == Sheet Music Tune Book of Melodies from Butterworth MS 6a == [[File:Butterworth MS 6a Tune Book.pdf]]
  84 KB (17,931 words) - 20:27, 27 September 2017
• Fred Whiting
  ...n first off, anyway the keys in it went wrong and I'd watched an old fella tune a harmonium up, so I took the outside cases off this mouth-organ. Tuned it ...ren't more than 2 of us in the same key, but as long as we played the same tune that was all right. Well I couldn't stand the cost of replacing mouth-organ
  21 KB (4,296 words) - 22:23, 16 February 2022
• Take 6 Transcription Programme: The Butterworth Archive, MS 6b
  ...G in MS is here changed to C (G Mixolydian) to eliminate accidentals. The tune is unaltered. " D | <br> ''Notes on GB/6b/1'' The tune is similar to those of GB/6a/1 and GB/7a/70. In the MS the version sung by
  44 KB (9,339 words) - 13:46, 20 April 2016
• List of historical tunebooks, some of which are available on the internet
  ...nuals/ The Library Of Dance], which contains links to many early published tune and dance books from all around the world. ...ife, Violin or German Flute; Generally referred to as Aird, this series of tune books had various editors and publishers.6 Volumes, 200 pieces each in Vols
  86 KB (12,369 words) - 11:32, 10 April 2024
• Tune Manuscripts List
  It is based on the database of historical dance tune manuscripts compiled for the [[Village Music Project]]. It represents the m VWML is the [http://www.vwml.org/browse/browse-collections-dance-tune-books Vaughan Williams Memorial Library] website, where you will find facsi
  46 KB (6,710 words) - 16:21, 17 May 2024
• HARRISON,Rev. Robt. MS
  [[Tune Manuscripts List]] ...England. It is thought that his daughter Alice may have contributed to the book.
  18 KB (2,583 words) - 18:32, 22 April 2013
• Take 6 Transcription Programme: The Butterworth Archive, MS 7e
  ...4'' A degree of editorial interpretation was necessary to reconstruct this tune from the rather sketchy version in the MS. From the layout of the <br> ...'Come, dear, don't fear, try and cut a shine' and it goes to the much used tune of 'The Knickerbocker <br>
  27 KB (6,009 words) - 13:50, 20 April 2016
• Henry Burstow
  ...ctice Broadwood, or the Horsham organist Herbert Buttifant, noted down the tune, while Burstow would write out the words and send them on to her). Subsequ ...115), which illustrates the traditional singer’s ability to adapt a song’s tune and phrasing verse by verse.
  23 KB (3,638 words) - 01:13, 29 June 2008
• Full English Transcription Programme: The Vaughan Williams Archive at the British Library, MS RVW2/1 Part 2
  ...roadside. A version can be found, for example, in Roy Palmer's "Everyman's Book<br> W:indicate that the structure of the tune is AABA. Thus this transcription differs from the MS; instead it<br>
  74 KB (15,812 words) - 13:52, 20 April 2016
• Full English Transcription Programme: The Vaughan Williams Archive at the British Library, MS RVW2/1
  T: It is upside down, as if the collector just seized his book to dash off a notation in a hurry.The first part of<br> T: the tune, however, is extremely familiar, since it is clearly the basis of the third
  57 KB (12,006 words) - 23:48, 29 March 2022

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