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* [[Beatrice Hill's Three-Handed Reel]] * [[Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine]]

Recorded by [[Peter Kennedy]] for the BBC in 1952. *[[Four Hand Reel]]

The New Haydn The First of September

...er J Music seller and musical instrument maker 70 Leadenhall Street and at the Manufactory, Moorfields.</blockquote> ...ished and sold by J. Alexander, 101, Leadenhall Street," circa 1830, also "The Flowers of Emerald Isle," in 8 numbers, small square quarto.</blockquote>

...ea on a vessel, or on two different vessels, of the British India fleet in the years 1800 to 1802. ...outus.php Dukes County Historical Society] in Edgartown, Massachusetts, on the Island of Martha's Vineyard.

...be displayed here but bisecting the two and identifying the publisher for the other tunes will take a little more detective work. The Persian Ricardo

...age-music-project.org.uk/abc/jmooret.abc transcribed] into [[abc code]] by the [[Village Music Project]] * The Swiss Boy

Associate of and sitter-in with [[Cheviot Ranters, The]] Untitled Hornpipe / The Swallow's Tail (Reel) and 1 more…

...e is a date of 1778 associated with it. In the United States, it is one of the tunes most commonly played by "old-time" musicians. Bruce Olsen refers to the incidence of the tune in a variety of printed sources. [http://www.csufresno.edu/folklore/Ol

THE RIVAL KNIGHTS MS Manuscript tunebook containing fashionable dance tunes of the early 19thC, many Scottish.

...sherman’s Hornpipe, [[Egg Hornpipe]], [[Fisherman’s Lilt]], [[First of May|The First of May]]. In recent years the tune has been given a new lease of life by the line dancing fraternity and many versions are danced by groups of enthusias

...of "Holm Cultram", Abbeytown,on the north coast of Cumbria and a little to the west of Carlisle. Holm Cultram Abbey was dissolved by HenryVIII. ...loral pattern such as would have been used for an embroidered waistcoat of the 18thC "Tailor of Gloucester" type.

4 Over the Water to Charlie 5 The Fife Hunt

The Pin Reel - Jig and 6 more… Various - Holey Ha'penny: Classic Recordings Of Traditional Music From The North-East Of England

Thomas Sands' MS book was in private ownership, but has been donated to the VWML (2013) ...ne Thomas Sands. (Research by Ruairidh Greig, who ABC'd the collection for the VMP)

Speed the Plough/The Maid of Carlisle/Kiss Me Faster The Cuckoo Solo - A Concerto (2 pages)

# [[Kester Rocky Waltz|The Kester Rocky Waltz]] <br /> #[[ Ford Farm Reel]] / [[Cornish Quickstep]]<br />

==The Ballads and Songs of Derbyshire== * Devonshire's Noble Duel with Lord Danby in the year 1687

Many of the tunes found their way into the repertoire of The New Victory Band and thus into general currency in the late 1970's, early ‘80s in England.

...t started off as a mid 18th century country dance ends up as fast Shetland Reel. Tunes morph, change tempo, split and recombine in different ways, change t ...ollections and an opportunity to find some of the research undertaken over the years.

...our children and were living at Worsborough Common. Joshua’s occupation at the time is given as “weaver”. ...o borrow a shilling to buy food, the family being in great distress due to the lack of work.

...Dymock (Gloucestershire).&nbsp; But after Stephen’s birth his parents took the family back to Newent in Gloucestershire where his father Charles (‘Charl ...hich was home to several other families of Baldwins and Bowrys, as well as the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel where his mother had been christened in 1835.

===The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library=== The [[Vaughan Williams Memorial Library]] houses the best collection of material related to traditional music in England – pro

...]. The present whereabouts of the book is unknown. It's listed as being in the Lincoln Records Office but they can't seem to find it. ...s next 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

...stinct from the singers who have learned via the folk revival initiated in the 1950s and continuing today. ...e machines and then the newer technologies, probably as far as the turn of the millenium. What we include before and after that is open to discussion and

The Alan Lomax Collection Originally released as The Columbia World Library of Folk and Primitive Music - Volume III: England

Village Music Project notes on the AGG transcripts:- ''Filed with the Anne Geddes Gilchrist Manuscript Collection, AGG/2/137,''

...ches are given, but tunes are transposed into "user-friendly" keys. 186 of the 208 items are included. ...uscript has recently been converted into .abc notation and is available on the Village Music Project website.[http://www.village-music-project.org.uk/]

...ches are given, but tunes are transposed into "user-friendly" keys. 186 of the 208 items are included. ...plete manuscript has been converted into .abc notation and is available on the Village Music Project.[http://www.cpartington.plus.com/Links/ChrisPartingto

...e Home Page of the Full English Transcription Programme (formerly known as the [[Take 6 Transcription Programme]]) ...inked to their original MSS enter the filenames [LEB/2/1/1 or whatever] in the search box here. [[http://www.vwml.org/]]'''

...est England. It is thought that his daughter Alice may have contributed to the book. ...on.rtf]] - Follow this link for biographical notes and an introduction to the manuscript, by Barry Callaghan and Chris Partington.

...ncolnshire]] singers. The 4 LP boxed set '[[A Song for Every Season]]' by the [[Copper Family]] was also recorded by Bill Leader and released on his labe ...which then went into receivership. Subsequently sold to [[Celtic Music]], the vast majority of Leader records have remained unobtainable since then, with

This index covers the first four volumes of the series of Thompson's dance books entitled '200 Country Dances' and publish * [[Adieu, The|The Adieu]] 79-V4

...of performers featured on the [[Topic Records]] 20 CD set, "[[The Voice of the People]]". [[Abbots Bromley Horn Dancers]] - Live Performance - [[Cock o' the North]] - [[You Lazy Lot of Bone - Shakers|Volume 16]] Track 23<br />

...of note layout as well as informative notes on the sources and history of the tunes. ...n; 1995; Music of Cheshire, Lancashire, Yorkshire and the Lake District of the last four centuries 44pp

...' Whiting (1905-1988) was a singer, fiddler, bones player and performer on the dancing dolls. He lived in Kenton which is a small village near Debenham in ...issue of Traditional Music (Vol. 8 and 9) and aIso on the sleeve notes on the Topic record Earl Soham Slog on which Fred plays fiddle.

...ollection. The new book gives the general public their first ever taste of the songs their forefathers would have sung and danced to almost three hundred Acen Colomen / The Dove's Accent

...rural pastimes, which sometimes appear more novel, even desirably savage, the further from London they claim (not always justly) as their origin. ...lf with the effect of this on English popular dance music, which even from the earliest times can be seen to reflect reality by including influential musi