Origins: villez vous danser

Subject: Origins: villez vous danse
From: GUEST,AEU
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 01:07 PM

Hi, In response to an earlier query I put out about the origins of "La Bastringue," someone who goes by the handle "Mitch the Bass" answered that he had a related tune called "Villez Vous Danse" in an 1810 manuscript from Lancashire/Derbyshire. So Mithc, if you're out there and reading this message, c1an you tell me more about this manuscript? Do you actually own the manuscript or is it in a library somewhere? How could I find a copy of that version of the tune? Many thanks, Anne

Subject: RE: Origins: villez vous danser
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 01:19 PM

On a recording of La Bastringue by Jean Carignan, he can be heard singing, Mademoiselle voulez vous danser, La Bastringue,La Bastrigue Mademoiselle voulez vous danser La Bastingue la la la.
Giok

Subject: RE: Origins: villez vous danser
From: Anglogeezer
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 03:28 PM

There is a tune :- Voulez vous Dancer, ( a 48 bar, 3-part jig, with key change G/D/G )in the tune book :- "Stock in Trade for Folk Dance Musicians" compiled by Dave Robinson. Published by :- Timespan Music Publications, East Timewell Cottage, Morebath, Tiverton, Devon EX16 9BY ISBN 1 898512 01 9

regards Jake

Subject: RE: Origins: villez vous danser
From: Anglogeezer
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 03:40 PM

PS:- Try this site for tunes. They have "Voulez vous Dancer/Danser "
http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/FindTune.html

regards Jake

Subject: RE: Origins: villez vous danser
From: Mitch the Bass
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 06:52 PM

I had a copy of the manuscript when I was keeper of the Manchester Morris archive. I believe the original is in a library in Rossendale if I remember correctly.

I think I still have a copy - I'll have to find it.

Send me a pm with your email.

Mitch
http://www.stradivarious.co.uk

Subject: RE: Origins: villez vous danser
From: Mitch the Bass
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 07:02 PM

Found it quicker than I thought. Let me know what format you'd like but give me a while I'm off to play at the Lancashire Walloper's ceilidh tomorrow.

It's the same(ish) tune as the one others have referenced but in jig time.

Mitch

Subject: RE: Origins: villez vous danser
From: Mitch the Bass
Date: 12 Feb 05 - 04:01 AM

A little bit more info - it's in "Dances , Tunes and Solos from the James Nuttal Manuscript, Watter (Water) 1800". Owned by the Dean Larks of Rossendale.

Mitch

Subject: RE: Origins: villez vous danser
From: Mitch the Bass
Date: 12 Feb 05 - 04:54 AM

Just remembered. I transcribed the tunes for the Village Music Project. Chris Partington added others from the same collection. You'll find the complete collection in abc at http://www.village-music-project.org.uk/abc/nuttall.abc

This includes the secundo and bass parts for Viley Vous Dance which I didn't have.

Mitch