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Thread #75576   Message #1328874
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
16-Nov-04 - 02:21 PM
Thread Name: Tune Add: a tune for November
Subject: RE: Tune Add: a tune for November
Perhaps it would be easier to post abc. Here is the transcription from Andrew Kuntz's Fiddler's Companion, which is taken from Cecil Sharp, Country Dance Tunes, 1909, 65. Notation from Playford, with a short description of the dance figures, can be seen at The Dancing Master 1651-1728: An Illustrated Compendium.


X:1
T:Dissembling Love, or, the Lost Heart
L:1/8
M:6/8
S:Cecil Sharp, Country Dance Tunes, 1909, 65.
N:Playford, Dancing Master, 1651
Z:Andrew Kuntz/Fiddler's Companion
K:D Minor
D|D2E F2G|A3 A2d|c2A B2G|(A3 A2)D|D2E F2G|A3 A2d|c2A B2G|(A3 A2)||
|:B/c/|d2A A B2|c3 F>GA/B/|GAF/G/ E>DE/F/|(D3 D2):|B/C/| d2A A B2|
c3 F>GA/B/|GAF/G/ E>DE/F/|(D3 D2)||


The uncomfortable phrasing in places is partly down to the way midi interprets note values. On a fiddle, you would need to use short, single strokes for those bits. It's a little tricky (probably also on other instruments) but with practice can be made to sound fluid and natural: you may find it helps to visualise what the dancers would be doing at that point.