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Thread #4518   Message #660501
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
01-Mar-02 - 06:34 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Do ye ken John Peel?
Subject: RE: Do ye ken John Peel?
The following midis are made from the notation given in Anne G. Gilchrist's article, The Evolution of a Tune: "Red House" and "John Peel" (Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society, vol.IV, no.2, 1941).

  1. Red House  -from Playford's Dancing Master (1706).  The tune first appeared in the edition of 1695 in a slightly different form.

  2. Where Will Our Goodman Laye  -from Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion for the Flute, vol.II, c.1750.

  3. Tycoch Caerdydd (The Red House of Cardiff)  -from Alawon Fy Ngwlad, c.1896.  Described as a pib-ddawns (pipe-dance).

  4. John Peel  -W. Metcalfe's version, 1868.  This is referred to in more detail above; bear in mind that the tune usually used nowadays is just the third part (refrain) of the original.