Mudcatter Valmai Goodyear has started a thread about certain Sussex carol concerts in her area. She has posted a video of a related piece, a cotillion, with a serpent featured. I don't know what it was called before, but I am naming it the Serpent Cotillion. A serpent in this case is a bass musical instrument. I remember hearing of the serpent in a story by Thomas Hardy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St-RZ2ItG2o&feature=youtu.be When I heard the cotillion, I decided my friends would love playing it. So I made two MIDI's and am sending them in to be posted here. One is simply the melody, the other is a fancier version. I tried to transcribe the original bass part, but it got too hard, so I made one up. Watch this spot.
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