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Thread #137732   Message #3151966
Posted By: Jack Campin
11-May-11 - 06:33 AM
Thread Name: Is the tune 'Prince William' played in sessions?
Subject: RE: Is the tune Prince William played in ses
And while we're on tunes with this kind of name...


  X:850
  T:Princess Beatrice
  R:Hornpipe
  O:Scotland
  M:4/4
  C:W. B. Laybourn
  Z:Richard Robinson <richard@beulah.demon.co.uk>
  %%RR_OriginalCollection: <URL:http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/Info/RRTuneBk/>
  %%ID:00000aef
  K:Gm
  dc|BDGB AD^FA|GDGB dcBA|Bdgf   edcB |AGFE  DcBA   | 
     BDGB AD^FA|GDGB dcBA|f=e_ec AD^FA|GBdg  G2    :|
  FE|DBEB FBEB |DFBd fbfd|Ec=Ec  FcGc |Acec  AFEC   |
     DBEB FBEB |DFBd fbfd|f=e_ed cBAG |FEDC [B,2D2]:|


Laybourn was writing in the late 19th century - I often play his "The Grand Old Man versus the Rt. Hon. W.B. Gladstone's Hornpipe" from 1880. I don't know anything about Princess Beatrice, presumably one of Queen Victoria's offspring. This one *is* a bit tricky on the descant recorder - just about do-able if you take the last bar up an octave, but all those low E flats are hard to play effectively.