Tune Req: Bath Minuet

09 Jun 06 - 02:52 PM (#1756223)
Subject: Tune Req: Bath Minuet
From: GUEST,Crowder

The Bath minuet was played/danced in Cornwall (and many other places) in 1768. If anyone can point me at dots, mp3 or midi I'd be much obliged.

Oll an gwella

Crowder

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09 Jun 06 - 03:20 PM (#1756235)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Bath Minuet
From: Joe Offer

Hi, Crowder - this site (click) (fiddle tunes from the American Revolution period) has a MIDI of Bath Minuet and lots of other tunes from the period. There's an MP3 clip here (click).
-Joe-

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Here's the entry from The Fiddler's Companion:

BATH MINUET. AKA – “New Bath Minuet.” English, Minuet (3/4 time). D Major. Standard. AABB. The tune was transcribed by John Ormsby (as “New Bath Minuet”) in Annapolis, Maryland, dated around 1758, in a music manuscript now at the New York Public Library. See note for “Bath Medley” for more on Bath. Source for notated version: the music manuscript of Captain George Bush (1753?-1797), a fiddler and officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolution [Keller]. Keller (Fiddle Tunes from the American Revolution), 1992; pg. 11.

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09 Jun 06 - 05:30 PM (#1756294)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Bath Minuet
From: GUEST,Crowder

A Joe ker,

Meur ras, many thanks for your swift and full response.

I'm familiar with the New Bath Minuet and also that the Fiddler's Companion suggests it's the same as the Bath Minuet.

My problem is that I have a manuscript (dating about 1768) which mentions both the Bath Miuet and the New Bath Minuet as separate entities, but without giving tunes! So if your good self (or anyone else) has a pointer to another source so I can compare them that would be really good.

Oll an gwella

Crowder

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