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Thread #163639   Message #3908260
Posted By: Jack Campin
27-Feb-18 - 07:03 AM
Thread Name: Whitby Folk Week 2018-August
Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2018-August
Here's a dance tune with Cook associations. It's from a collection by William Campbell; Omai (real name Mai, the explorers got it wrong) was the Tahitian gent who acted as interpreter for Cook in New Zealand and went back with Cook to England before being taken back home on the next voyage. He was quite a celebrity when in England. Campbell gave dance instructions; I can't read those and didn't copy them. The booklet is in the Wighton in Dundee. There's nothing Polynesian about the tune - Campbell presumably thought D minor sounded barbarically exotic, and couldn't be bothered distinguishing Aotearoa and Aberdeenshire.

X:2
T:Omai
S:William Campbell: New and Favourite Country Dances, book 2
N:Dundee, Wighton, 92520 H
M:4/4
L:1/8
K:Dmin
d>ed^c      Ddde       |fdcA                 FGEC           |\
ded^c       Ddde       |fd     f/e/d/^c/     d2          d2:|
fd a/b/a/g/ ec g/a/g/f/|de/f/ (g/f/).e/.d/ (^c/d/).e/.c/ A2 |\
F>GFE       Ddde       |fd^cA                d2          D2:|