Difference between revisions of "Take 6 Transcription Programme: The Butterworth Archive, MS 7e"

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''Notes on GB/7e/9'' The significance of the term "twice" in the MS is unclear; here it is taken to indicate a repeat of the second phrase to produce a standard musical ABBA pattern.
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''Notes on GB/7e/9'' The significance of the term "twice" in the MS is unclear; here it is taken to indicate a repeat of the second  
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''Notes on GB/7e/15'' This is difficult to decipher. Bar 2 is ambiguous. It looks like Butterworth originally wrote three crotchets
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G,E,E and then decided that he had left out an initi�al crotchet, B (hence the cramped appearance in the MS). If this is the case,
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then the bar would be in 4/4 �time. Butterworth also notes a variati�on (in fainter wri�ting) in which the first two crotchets, B and G,
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are quavers, thus (and as transcribed here) restoring the 3/4 ti�me. At bar 15 there is another variant: A or �E between the two G crotchets.
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Revision as of 20:55, 18 October 2012

Link to Take 6 Transcription Programme Home Page


GB/7e/1 Bonny Blue Handkerchief

File:GB-7e-1.mid

File:GB-7e-1.pdf

File:GB-7e-1.xml


GB/7e/2 General Wolfe

File:GB-7e-2.mid

File:GB-7e-2.pdf

File:GB-7e-2.xml

Notes on GB/7e/2 The singer, "Jack Dade, Puham Union," has also given us the lyrics for this version of General Wolfe. See the image file for GB/4/56 posted at the EFDSS's VWML website.


GB/7e/3 Trot Away

File:GB-7e-3.mid

File:GB-7e-3.pdf

File:GB-7e-3.xml

Notes on GB/7e/3 The informant, "Old Tubbs" is not clearly indicated in the MS but has been deduced from the MS evidence. He is not to be confused with "Young Tubbs." (See GB/7e/20.)


GB/7e/4 Ratcatcher's Daughter

File:GB-7e-4.mid

File:GB-7e-4.pdf

File:GB-7e-4.xml

Notes on GB/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 MS it seems likely that this song, like GB/7e/3 and GB/7e/5, was from "Old Tubbs."


GB/7e/5 Hearts of Oak

File:GB-7e-5.mid

File:GB-7e-5.pdf

File:GB-7e-5.xml

Notes on GB/7e/5 The words are incomplete and garbled. From the layout of the MS it seems likely that this song, like GB/7e/3 and GB/7e/4, was from "Old Tubbs."


GB/7e/6 Harvest Song

File:GB-7e-6.mid

File:GB-7e-6.pdf

File:GB-7e-6.xml


GB/7e/7 Molecatcher

File:GB-7e-7.mid

File:GB-7e-7.pdf

File:GB-7e-7.xml


GB/7e/8 Rose of Britain's Isle

File:GB-7e-8.mid

File:GB-7e-8.pdf

File:GB-7e-8.xml

Notes on GB/7e/8 The MS is unclear, but in the transcription it is assumed that the singer is the same as for the previous song.


GB/7e/9 John Reilly

File:GB-7e-9.mid

File:GB-7e-9.pdf

File:GB-7e-9.xml

Notes on GB/7e/9 The significance of the term "twice" in the MS is unclear; here it is taken to indicate a repeat of the second phrase to produce a standard musical ABBA pattern.


GB/7e/10 Coming Down to Manchester

File:GB-7e-10.mid

File:GB-7e-10.pdf

File:GB-7e-10.xml


GB/7e/11 Boy and Highwayman

File:GB-7e-11.mid

File:GB-7e-11.pdf

File:GB-7e-11.xml

Notes on GB/7e/11 Both the music and the words are garbled.


GB/7e/12 Dolly Vardon Style

File:GB-7e-12.mid

File:GB-7e-12.pdf

File:GB-7e-12.xml


GB/7e/13 Horse Race

File:GB-7e-13.mid

File:GB-7e-13.pdf

File:GB-7e-13.xml


GB/7e/14 Jockey

File:GB-7e-14.mid

File:GB-7e-14.pdf

File:GB-7e-14.xml


GB/7e/15 [As Robin Was Driving His Wagon Along]

File:GB-7e-15.mid

File:GB-7e-15.pdf

File:GB-7e-15.xml

Notes on GB/7e/15 This is difficult to decipher. Bar 2 is ambiguous. It looks like Butterworth originally wrote three crotchets G,E,E and then decided that he had left out an initi�al crotchet, B (hence the cramped appearance in the MS). If this is the case, then the bar would be in 4/4 �time. Butterworth also notes a variati�on (in fainter wri�ting) in which the first two crotchets, B and G, are quavers, thus (and as transcribed here) restoring the 3/4 ti�me. At bar 15 there is another variant: A or �E between the two G crotchets. At bar 18, the fermata is clearly, if strangely, placed over the rest. The lyrics are incomplete and garbled.


GB/7e/16 Sowing Machine

File:GB-7e-16.mid

File:GB-7e-16.pdf

File:GB-7e-16.xml


GB/7e/18

File:GB-7e-18.mid

File:GB-7e-18.pdf

File:GB-7e-18.xml