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Thread #75525   Message #1328846
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
16-Nov-04 - 01:52 PM
Thread Name: Tune Req: Malborough
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Malborough
Did Chris Leslie not say anything about the tune, or where he got it? He has certainly recorded Old Marlborough on Dancing Days; is that what you meant? It always helps to quote the correct title of a tune or recording when asking about it.

Further information on both Marlborough and Old Marlborough can be found at Andrew Kuntz's The Fiddler's Companion. Although some of the sources from which details are taken are questionable, the site is an invaluable resource and should always be the first resort when enquiring about dance tunes. The pages are rather large at present, so I quote the entry for Old Marlborough here:


OLD MARLBOROUGH. AKA ? "Heel and Toe." English, Morris Dance Tune (6/8 time). D Major.
Standard. AABB. The tune goes with a heel and toe dance collected in the village of Fieldtown (Leafield), Oxfordshire, England. The first part of the melody is Yellow Joke [2], a companion of sorts to The Black Joke (although not the Yellow Joak published by Walsh in his third Lancashire collection). Bacon (The Morris Ring), 1974; pg. 160.

X:1
T:Old Marlborough
L:1/8
M:6/8
S:Bacon, The Morris Ring, 1974, 160.
K:D
d3 fed|dcB AGF|G2A Bcd|A2F DEF|G3 BAG|F3 D3:|
|:G3 A3|Bcd e3|G3 A3|Bcd e2f|d2c d2B|A2G FGA|B2c dcB|A2F DEF|G3 BAG|F3 D3:|]


For anyone not familiar with abc notation, I'll just mention that it can easily be converted to staff or midi; for example via http://www.concertina.net/tunes_convert.html