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Thread #62521 Message #1010695
Posted By: GUEST,MCP
30-Aug-03 - 06:15 AM
Thread Name: Songs in 5/4 time
Subject: RE: Songs in 5/4 time
I've just been through a few books with the following results:
From the Hammond/Gardner books:
Wanton Seed yielded 2:
The Murdered Servantman ("A famous farmer") - mrs Randall, Preston Candover(Hants) 1907 Sheffield Park - Moses Blake, Emery Down(Hants) 1906
Constant Lovers 2 versions of 1 song
Duke of Marlborough (A)William Chubb, Beominster (Dorset) 1906 (B)Mrs Webb, Bath(Somerset)
Marrow Bones had none
From Sharp's Collections:
Cecil Sharp's Collection of English Folk Songs (ed Karpeles) (Letters refer to versions when more than 1 tune)
Lord Bateman E, M Barbara Ellen G A Sailor By My Right (Flame of Fire) (I should have remembered this-used to sing it) Sheffield Park A Sweet William (A Sailor's Life) B, E General Wolfe ("Bold Genr'l Wolfe to his men did say") B I Sowed Some Seeds A, B
Sharp's English Folk Songs From The Southern Appalachians also had none
There were several tunes that were mainly in 5/4 with odd bars of some other rhythm (for example in Sharp's English Songs most versions of The Bold Fisherman were mostly in 5/4. The Appalachians had none like this).