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Thread #24959   Message #290047
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
02-Sep-00 - 06:33 PM
Thread Name: Tune Add: Missing Tunes Wanted - Part III
Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing Tunes Wanted - Part III
More midis:

ABOUT THE BUSH, WILLY filename[ BUSHWILI  Tune from Northumbrian Minstrelsy, Bruce & Stokoe (1882)

ANDREW CARR filename[ ANDRCAR  The file contains 2 Scottish versions and one English.  Tune for the latter is in Bruce & Stokoe.  As it stands, it's a 9/8 AABB jig, and the given text is rather difficult to sing to it, so I've made one midi of the tune as given, and another, slightly modified to make a singable set.  This is only a suggestion; it should be emphasised that the traditional form might have been quite different.

BONNIE WEE LASSIE THAT NEVER SAID NO filename[ NEVSAYNO  Jeannie Robertson's version.  Midi made from the transcription in Jeannie Robertson: Emergent Singer, Transformative Voice (Porter & Gower, 1995).

CALLING ON SONG filename[ CLNGON and CALLING-ON SONG filename[ CALLNGON  are both transcriptions of Ashley Hutchings' 1970 re-write of the Captain's song of the Earsdon Sword Dancers.  The former attributes the piece, the latter does not but is a more accurate transcription.  Midi made from Hutchings' recording with Steeleye Span (Hark the Village Wait, RCA, 1970).

COME UP AND SEE MY GARRET filename[ COMGARET  The entry cites 3 versions, but doesn't say whether they share the same tune.  I have Jeannie Robertson's version, which is set to a different tune than the one Ewan MacColl used.  Midi sent, with the caveat that it's only one of at least two alternatives.

CRAIGIE HILL filename[ CRAIGHIL  No source given.  It looks to be the version that Dick Gaughan recorded, which came from Brigid Tunney: Paddy Tunney included it in The Stone Fiddle, and I've made a midi from the notation given there.

DARK EYED SAILOR filename[ DARKEYE2  Presumably transcribed from recordings by Christy Moore or Steeleye Span.  Since the latter is the earlier recording, I've made a midi based on that, using the version in Roy Palmer's Everyman's Book of English Country Songs as a template.  Gay Woods learnt the song from Al O'Donnell of Dublin, incidentally.  I've just seen that Snuffy has posted an .abc, but this will save someone having to mess about converting it.

GHRUAGACH DHONN filename[ GRUDHONN  Tune from Moffat's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Highlands.  It's clearly a member of the Hind Horn/Cruel Mother (etc.) tune family.

POLLY VAUGHN (3) filename[ POLLVON3  Harry Cox's version; and it should be spelled Vaughan!  Midi made from Kennedy's transcription (Folk Songs of Britain and Ireland.

Cross-references:

THE COUNTRY LASS filename[ CNTYLAS  The entry doesn't give any source, but Robert Burns published it as Country Lassie.  See COUNTRY LASSIE filename[ CNTRYLAS, CNTRYLAS.mid

HOO CAN I KEEP MY MAIDENHEID filename[ HOWMAID  See THE BIRKS OF ABERFELDIE filename[ ABERFELD  -ABERFELD.mid

Malcolm