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Thread #125811   Message #2792868
Posted By: GUEST,Cornish Max
20-Dec-09 - 12:45 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Popular carols 'have folks roots'
Subject: RE: Folklore: Popular carols 'have folks roots'
In our Washaway West Gallery choir we have been giving three different tune versions for WSW over several years [different each year]; as others suggest, there are very many tunes, some known to have been used and others equally "do-able".

The West Gallery Music Association has a very useful web page on this early psalmody - and there are now many quires in various locations who will know a lot about this stuff, as will many collectors and researchers such as the esteemed Rollo Woods in Dorset.

Sheffield etc is on radio 2 next Monday evening at 10.00 and Padstow (plus, perhaps, a snippet of Washaway) on Tuesday. Who knows, there may be a version of WSW!

Off dreckly for a visitation to nearby Padstow for an 'ark.