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01 Oct 12 - 06:56 AM (#3412468) Subject: Tune Req: 10 most popular English-ish dance tunes From: Les in Chorlton Looking to add more tunes to The Beech Tunes book. What are the 10 most popular or most played English-ish country dance tunes. I realise that the origin of many tunes is open to discussion and some of the most popular originate elswhere. Any offers? L in C# |
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01 Oct 12 - 10:45 AM (#3412550) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 10 most popular English-ish dance tunes From: greg stephens Soldiers Joy. And 9 others. |
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01 Oct 12 - 10:54 AM (#3412556) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 10 most popular English-ish dance tunes From: GUEST Speed the Plough and 8 others |
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01 Oct 12 - 10:57 AM (#3412557) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 10 most popular English-ish dance tunes From: GUEST,Ian Gill Walter Bulwer's Polkas and 7 others |
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01 Oct 12 - 11:00 AM (#3412558) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 10 most popular English-ish dance tunes From: Les in Chorlton Thanks we have those plus a Speed the Plough in a minor key Any offers L in C# |
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01 Oct 12 - 11:10 AM (#3412563) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 10 most popular English-ish dance tunes From: GUEST,FloraG Surely you need a waltz, jig, reel ( polka) and hornpipe to cover most dances. 2 hornpipes and a reel so far. Dark Island Blaydon races Jenny Lind A and B parts Portsmouth FloraG |
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01 Oct 12 - 11:12 AM (#3412564) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 10 most popular English-ish dance tunes From: Stanron Constant Billy and you're nearly halfway there. |
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01 Oct 12 - 11:16 AM (#3412568) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 10 most popular English-ish dance tunes From: Stanron Do you do 'Young Collins'? |
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01 Oct 12 - 11:28 AM (#3412572) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 10 most popular English-ish dance tunes From: selby The Vine Tree |
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01 Oct 12 - 12:10 PM (#3412585) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 10 most popular English-ish dance tunes From: SteveMansfield Enrico Morpeth Rant Lady In The Lake |
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01 Oct 12 - 12:11 PM (#3412586) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 10 most popular English-ish dance tunes From: Banjo-Flower Waltz Maguire and Patterson's |
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01 Oct 12 - 12:25 PM (#3412592) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 10 most popular English-ish dance tunes From: Brian Peters Salmon Tails (often paired with Jamie Allen). There are several contributions so far that I've never heard of, in the course of playing English music for dances and in sessions for more years than I care to mention. And one or two others that I know, but have never heard in that context. Perhaps it's a regional thing. |
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01 Oct 12 - 01:01 PM (#3412603) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 10 most popular English-ish dance tunes From: Murpholly Dorset Four Hand Reel, starts reasonably and gets faster. Wonderful tune. Wonderful dance. |
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01 Oct 12 - 02:10 PM (#3412633) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 10 most popular English-ish dance tunes From: Banjo-Flower English Polkas Kit Whites Square Eight & The Officer's Polka English Jigs Woodland Flowers & Uncle Jim's Gerry |
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01 Oct 12 - 02:14 PM (#3412634) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 10 most popular English-ish dance tunes From: GUEST,ploppo Winster Gallop |
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01 Oct 12 - 02:14 PM (#3412636) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 10 most popular English-ish dance tunes From: Lester Fill your boots |
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01 Oct 12 - 05:41 PM (#3412714) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 10 most popular English-ish dance tunes From: Rozza Moon and Seven Stars and Enrico |
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01 Oct 12 - 08:38 PM (#3412786) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 10 most popular English-ish dance tunes From: GUEST,leeneia Black Nag, but you probably already have that. |
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02 Oct 12 - 07:04 AM (#3412945) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 10 most popular English-ish dance tunes From: Mo the caller Some tunes are linked unbreakably with their dances. Dorset 4-hand (parts 1 & 2 which is a pig to play because it's in A , has twice as many notes and needs to be played faster) Oswestry Square (well, it's Welsh but we're on the border) Chinese Breakdown (we always did an American square at Manley) Black Nag is a Playford dance - Rhodri Davies calls it Mr Playford's best ceilidh dance. |
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03 Oct 12 - 04:57 AM (#3413489) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 10 most popular English-ish dance tunes From: Les in Chorlton Thanks to all - lots of goodies some we have some we don't. Any more L in C# |
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03 Oct 12 - 05:26 AM (#3413501) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 10 most popular English-ish dance tunes From: Mo the caller Have you learnt a slipjig yet? Foxhunters, Roger deCoverley, Drops of Brandy, Peacock followed the Hen etc. |
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03 Oct 12 - 05:28 AM (#3413505) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 10 most popular English-ish dance tunes From: Mo the caller Oh, and that Black Nag is full of fast arpegios, not easy on some instruments. |
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03 Oct 12 - 09:43 AM (#3413620) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 10 most popular English-ish dance tunes From: Stanron Les in C Is the Chorlton Tune book available on line? I'd like to come down some time and be prepared. |
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03 Oct 12 - 01:24 PM (#3413742) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 10 most popular English-ish dance tunes From: GUEST Hi Stanron, about 1/4 is here:www.folkatthebeech.org Here The rest will go up shortly Les |
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03 Oct 12 - 03:27 PM (#3413802) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 10 most popular English-ish dance tunes From: Stanron Thanks Les. I'll give it a look over. |
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03 Oct 12 - 06:26 PM (#3413912) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 10 most popular English-ish dance tunes From: GUEST,Ebor_Fiddler (Well-known pedant) Are there not six Walter Bulwer polkas? Then, what can be more English than Nellie The Elephant? |
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03 Oct 12 - 06:38 PM (#3413917) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 10 most popular English-ish dance tunes From: Banjo-Flower I thought Nellie The Elephant was an American tune I E Nellie The Elephant whacked a skunk you don't get many skunks in England Gerry |
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03 Oct 12 - 09:46 PM (#3414021) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 10 most popular English-ish dance tunes From: Leadfingers Maidenhead is a STRANGE song club as we play a lot of tunes ! Dorset Four Hand , Winster Galop and Rakes of Mallow is one set Emma (aka The Swedish Waltz) and Fanny Power Brighton Camp , Maggie in the Wood and Salmon Tails Are samples of what we play to start the evening and in the Beer Break |
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04 Oct 12 - 10:10 AM (#3414216) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 10 most popular English-ish dance tunes From: GUEST,leeneia Hello, Les I can't say it's popular world-wide, but a dance my little group really enjoys is 'Linnen Hall.' A friend of mine was given a copy by his teacher when taking reocrder lessons, and the teacher said it was English. If you don't find it lying around the Internet somewhere, I can post a MIDI of it, but not today. Let me know. |
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04 Oct 12 - 02:26 PM (#3414373) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 10 most popular English-ish dance tunes From: GUEST,Ebor_Fiddler Here's the abc's X: 1 T:Linnen Hall M:6/8 R:Jig K:G G2G A2A| B2c dBG| E2E c2B| ABG FED|\ G2G A2A| B2c dBG| EcB AGF| G3 G3:: d2d e2e| d2g dBG| d2d e2e| dBG A3|\ d2d e2e| d2g g2f| egf ed^c| d3 D3:| |
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04 Oct 12 - 07:20 PM (#3414512) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 10 most popular English-ish dance tunes From: GUEST,leeneia Thanks, Ebor. |
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05 Oct 12 - 04:53 AM (#3414675) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 10 most popular English-ish dance tunes From: Brakn That's very nice Ebor. So Les - What are you adding? |
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05 Oct 12 - 12:52 PM (#3414936) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 10 most popular English-ish dance tunes From: Les in Chorlton Dunno Mike, as usual we will get loads of suggestions from here and from various Beechists - I certainly fancy Willafjord and Spootiskerry. Quite fancy The Butterfly. But mostly looking for stuff on the easyside. I think I will gather a pile, stick 'em all on our website in ABC and pdf, ask people to give 'em a go and print thoe most popular off and try 'em down The Beech Les |
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05 Oct 12 - 05:23 PM (#3415068) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 10 most popular English-ish dance tunes From: Tootler No one seems to have mentioned Bonny Kate |
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06 Oct 12 - 03:33 AM (#3415278) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 10 most popular English-ish dance tunes From: Les in Chorlton Great tune Tootler - we have it with Harpers Frolick L in C# |
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07 Oct 12 - 01:57 PM (#3415921) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 10 most popular English-ish dance tunes From: Les in Chorlton Still collecting L in C# |
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07 Oct 12 - 03:01 PM (#3415951) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 10 most popular English-ish dance tunes From: SteveMansfield Get hold of copies of Nick Barber's two tune books for Dave Mallinson Music, 'English Choice' and 'English Selection'. Chock full of damn good English-ish tunes the pair of them. |
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07 Oct 12 - 03:33 PM (#3415962) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 10 most popular English-ish dance tunes From: Tootler There's also Hardcore English from EFDSS, an excellent source of English tunes. |
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07 Oct 12 - 03:48 PM (#3415969) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 10 most popular English-ish dance tunes From: SteveMansfield Hardcore english is a brilliant book, perfect mix of scholarship, history, and banging-tune-ness. The content filtering software at work doesn't like it though ... |
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07 Oct 12 - 04:51 PM (#3415996) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 10 most popular English-ish dance tunes From: GUEST Corn Riggs |
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08 Oct 12 - 04:38 AM (#3416192) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 10 most popular English-ish dance tunes From: GUEST Wallace and Grommit theme makes a lovely 2/4 dance tune (slightly adapted)you can't get anymore English than that BTW Oscar Woods & co allegedly used popular tunes of the day for dances so you do have a precedent Gerry |
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08 Oct 12 - 05:22 AM (#3416207) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 10 most popular English-ish dance tunes From: Les in Chorlton Thanks folks, I have hardcore, two Dave Townsend's, The Great Northern - Matt Seattle, The Community Tune book and quite a few others - not to mention all the stuff from Johnny Adams via Sakford. The 'problem' not that it is one really is knowing where to go next. As I said above somewhere, we were "Beginners" and are now probably "Improvers" with a boook od 100 good tunes and I think we would like to gather more of the common well played tunes before we go for lesser known ones Thanks for all help above L in C# Tunes this Wednesday 10 October The Beech, M21 9EG |
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08 Oct 12 - 05:44 AM (#3416214) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 10 most popular English-ish dance tunes From: GUEST Upton Stick? Gloucester Hornpipe? |
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08 Oct 12 - 07:43 AM (#3416261) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 10 most popular English-ish dance tunes From: greg stephens Start local: there are eight different tunes called the Manchester Hornpipe, for a start. |
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08 Oct 12 - 08:28 AM (#3416280) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 10 most popular English-ish dance tunes From: Les in Chorlton Thanks Greg, we shall seek 'em out Les |
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08 Oct 12 - 09:11 AM (#3416305) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 10 most popular English-ish dance tunes From: GUEST,leeneia I went to an English dance meeting a couple days ago. They did the following before I got discouraged and left: Hole in the Wall Duke of Kent's Waltz Upon a Summer's Day. So there's a view from afar - thousands of miles. (In my view, folk dance leaders try to teach too many things in one night.) |
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08 Oct 12 - 09:51 AM (#3416323) Subject: RE: Tune Req: 10 most popular English-ish dance tunes From: Tattie Bogle English - "ISH" is about the size of it! Tunes there from Scotland, Ireland, Shetland, USA and probably more! I'd just do whatever works! We have a Dashing White Sergeant set that includes tunes from Brittany, Isle of Man and Ukraine as well as the usual tune at each end of i, and an "Irish Gay Gordons". |