Full English Transcription Programme: The Lucy Broadwood Manuscript Collection, MS LEB/2/65
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For playback of these transcriptions linked to their original MSS enter the filenames [LEB/2/1/1 or whatever] in the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library's Full English search box here. [[1]]
LEB/2/65/1 Maria Martin (Murder Of Maria Martin In The Red Barn)
LEB/2/65/2 Bold William Taylor
LEB/2/65/3 I Wish My Baby It Was Born
For an audio rendition of this song by Joseph Taylor go to: [2]
Further phonograph recordings of Joseph Taylor singing the song, taken by Percy Grainger, are available from the British Sound Archive at the British Library: [3]
LEB/2/65/4 Polly's Love or The Cruel Ship's Carpenter
Tune Analysis: This is a full heptatonic or 7 note scale. The key would be C major (C Ionian) except for the comment in the MS that the Fs were sometimes sharpened. If all of the Fs were sharpened the key would be C Lydian (an extremely rare mode in English folk song). As it stands, however, the tune presents as an Ionian/Lydian hybrid.