Tune Req: The Earl of Totnes

Subject: Tune Req: The Earl of Totnes
From: RTim
Date: 06 Nov 06 - 02:17 PM

Hi All,
I am looking for the tune - dots please NOT ABC(I don't understand that!), for The Earl of Totnes, as recorded by Robin & Barry Dransfield on Rout of the Blues.

Tim Radford

Subject: RE: Tune Req: The Earl of Totnes
From: jonm
Date: 07 Nov 06 - 03:21 AM

Apparently, the original only had one line of melody repeated four times per verse and Robin & Barry invented the last line to relieve the tedium.

I learnt it once upon a time, haven't any dots but I'll see what I can do...

Subject: RE: Tune Req: The Earl of Totnes
From: Paul Burke
Date: 07 Nov 06 - 03:33 AM

The original? I'd like to know where it came from. It smells Victorian to me.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: The Earl of Totnes
From: Paul Burke
Date: 07 Nov 06 - 03:55 AM

History of Dartington Hall

Written records do not begin until the thirteenth century, but there is evidence of considerable activity in the area during the Roman occupation and the manor of Dartington is mentioned in a Royal Charter of 833 AD.

In 1348 the manor reverted to the Crown, and in 1384 Richard II granted it to his half-brother John Holand. Soon afterwards Holand became an Earl and during the following two decades he made Dartington Hall into a great country house, laying out new buildings in the form of a huge double quadrangle, covering almost an acre. The modern Courtyard is a fragment of the buildings originally planned.

After John Holland was beheaded it stayed in the Holland family – going to John Holland II, Earl of Huntingdon and Third Duke of Exeter (whose active service included the Battle of Agincourt), 1400-1447; Henry Holand, Fourth Duke of Exeter, (who returning from an invasion of France drowned between Calais and Dover. A leading supporter of the Lancastrian cause, it was possibly at the order of Edward IV), 1447-1475. The Hall then passed through Holand's widow to her second husband, Sir Thomas St Leger, (executed at Exeter for his part in a rising against Richard III), 1476-1483. It then passed to the Crown to be held by a succession of owners and tenants. For short periods it became the property of two of Henry VIII's wives, the Catherines Howard and Parr.

In 1559 the Champernownes, a Devon family well connected during Elizabethan times, purchased the estate. Dartington was to remain theirs for the next three hundred years. Their wealth and influence dwindled until agricultural depression in the nineteenth century all but robbed them of a livelihood. At the beginning of the 20th century they were forced to sell much of their land, and in 1925 the remaining 800-acre estate was bought by Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst, to become the basis of their joint venture in rural regeneration.

So it's a nice song, but not a historical ballad.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: The Earl of Totnes
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 07 Nov 06 - 05:30 AM

Strange seeing Totnes mentioned on here. I was at Totnes Grammar School when it was on the main street, between 1959-64.....also boarded at Kennicott House on Ashburton Rd. Distant memories.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: The Earl of Totnes
From: Mr Happy
Date: 07 Nov 06 - 06:32 AM

showin' yer age George!!

Subject: RE: Tune Req: The Earl of Totnes
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 07 Nov 06 - 07:14 AM

Tim - ABC is easy to handle if you are on the internet, which you obviously are.
Use this site -Concertina.net Tune-OTron Converter.
What you do is highlight the ABC text and copy it (browser edit menu or Cntrl+C keys).
You then go to the Tune-O-Tron converter, paste the text into the box and click the Submit box.
It then turns the ABC into something which can be saved as a MIDI file to listen to, or as a PDF of printable sheet music - the dots you are asking for.
EASY.
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: The Earl of Totnes
From: Mick Pearce (MCP)
Date: 07 Nov 06 - 03:39 PM

I did PM RTim last night offering to email a score in any format if he let me have an email address. I haven't heard anything from him yet, but if there's nothing tomorrow I'll post abc here.

Mick

Subject: RE: Tune Req: The Earl of Totnes
From: Mick Pearce (MCP)
Date: 08 Nov 06 - 11:01 AM

Music emailed today.

Mick