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• Mount Edgcomb
  ...home of the Earls of Mount Edgcumbe, set within 865 acres Country Park on the Rame Peninsula, South East Cornwall. [[Black Prince Flower Boat|Traditional event on the Rame Peninsula]]
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• Flamborough
  Longsword dancers at Flamborough on the Yorkshire coast - Boxing Day 1999 - ©John Adams Their uniform consists of black shoes, white trousers, a navy knitted gansey and a grey cloth cap. They are
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• Goathland
  ...Goathland Plough Stots are a traditional Long Sword Dance team located in the small moorland village of Goathland set in the North York Moors National Park located some nine
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• Ashover Ms
  This item is a brief manuscript tune book, containing 16 dance tunes, Many of the tunes found their way into the repertoire of The New Victory Band
  4 KB (622 words) - 12:28, 9 June 2013
• May
  The month of May is very rich in traditions and superstitions. The First day of May, or [[May Day]] sees a number of celebrations, some famous [[May superstitions]] and sayings include "''Marry in May, rue the Day''" and "''Mist in May, Heat in June Makes harvest come right soon''."
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• Frederick George Gardner
  ...d at home and helped with the business until his death in February 1927 at the ripe old age of 97 years.<BR><BR> ...and Gardner gave him several morris dance tunes - presumably those used by the North Leigh Set:
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• Billy Harrison
  ...e was also a keen and accomplished singer. His repertoire included country dance tunes and [[Christmas carols]], often with harmony parts. He was visited on ...rom “Oral History of Pocklington and Districts” by Edna Whelan produced by the Pocklington & District Civic Society
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• MTCD339-0 A Story to Tell: Keith Summers in Suffolk 1972-9
  ...D details, go to the ''Musical Traditions'' website where you'll also find the complete booklet notes https://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/summers.htm ''[[Blow the Candle Out]]'', [[Jumbo Brightwell|William 'Jumbo' Brightwell]], [[Roud 3
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• James Alexander
  ...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>
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• GILES,William Henry MS
  Presented to the Cecil Sharp (Vaughan Williams Memorial) Library by Mrs W.R.Kettlewell Apr 1 Transcribed into abc and edited for The Village Music Project by P.J.Headford, in 2009
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• Music
  ...r another 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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• Take 6 Transcription Programme: The Butterworth Archive, MS 7d
  ...inked to their original MSS enter the filenames [LEB/2/1/1 or whatever] in the search box here. [[http://www.vwml.org/]]''' ...s- ter's health,|We'll drink our|dame's, And|we will be|mer- ry in|do- ing the|same: To|him we drank|one glass, To|her we'll drink|<br>
  24 KB (5,268 words) - 13:49, 20 April 2016
• Thomas Sands Ms
  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)
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• Leader Records
  ...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
  9 KB (1,144 words) - 18:13, 4 February 2016
• John Thomas
  ...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
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• Index to Thompson's 200 Series
  This index covers the first four volumes of the series of Thompson's dance books entitled '200 Country Dances' and published between 1758 and (probab * [[Adieu, The|The Adieu]] 79-V4
  31 KB (4,541 words) - 12:29, 21 January 2010
• 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-Ame ...per-keynotes if they are above the keynote. A further complication is that the judgment as to whether a tune is mainly authentic or plagal is subjective a
  43 KB (7,734 words) - 02:03, 10 February 2021
• Take 6 Transcription Programme: The Butterworth Archive, MS 6b
  ...inked to their original MSS enter the filenames [LEB/2/1/1 or whatever] in the search box here. [[http://www.vwml.org/]]''' W: I will wear the green willow,<br>
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• List of historical tunebooks, some of which are available on the internet
  ...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
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• Full English Transcription Programme: The Vaughan Williams Archive at the British Library, MS RVW2/1 Part 2
  ...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/]]'''
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