G'day again bradfordian,

It's interesting that the three older tunes to Dorothy Hewett's Sailor home from the sea words are all set to tunes that are: major key and 3/4. The more recent one (the last of the four, all of which I have transcribed) is quite different - it is in 4/4 and is distinctly minor.

I think that Stephanie Oldfield, of Taliesin wanted a tune she could give more "jazz" manipulation - and Kim Poole came up with a minor (Bb minor ...!) tune that works well ... for Stephanie, anyway. I have all these tunes in dots (my transcriptions), MIDI files from the same, PDF (or TIFF) images from the music files and WAVs from the respective CDs or my older tapes. When i hear back from Joe Flood, I will see if he wants a CD of the comparative material.

Regards,

Bob Bolton