The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #22878   Message #276038
Posted By: GUEST,Bruce O.
11-Aug-00 - 07:14 PM
Thread Name: Penguin: The Trees They Grow So High
Subject: RE: Penguin: The Trees They Grow So High
Thanks, and another note.

Note from the file of Scots tunes in manuscripts on my website that there is a tune "Long a-growing" in the Guthrie MS, c 1675- 80. To the best of my knowledge the tune has not been translated from the Italian viola de braccia tablature. From the few tunes that I know of that have been translated from the MS (these noted in my file, search for GTMS) I don't hold out much hope of getting a good tune for our song (or any other song) from that manuscript. The translated tunes are either extremely variant or totally unrecognizable compared to later tunes of the same title.

The tune "John Robinson's Park" is also in the manuscript. The delightful song is in the Scarce Songs 1 file on my website, without music.