Folk Group Term 33

17/01/22

Welcome back all.

Here’s a tune I wrote a little while ago, but couldn’t find a satisfactory title for. I think Ian would have liked it, so it’s for him now.

MIDI FILE: Waltz for Ian

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24/01/22

I can’t find much information about the Yarker Manuscripts, other than they’re from Cumbria, 1797. They are full of tunes from the North East, North West and Scotland. There’s not a lot in there, but here are three jigs that I liked. Jacky and the Cow sounds very much like a song, but the only lyrics I can find were written 70 years later. The harmony part is from the Yarker MS and doesn’t necessarily work, but isn’t bad 😉

MIDI FILE: The Fox

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MIDI FILE: Jacky and the Cow

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MIDI FILE: Beaus of Edingburgh, The

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31/01/22

Here’s a couple of tunes to honour the fabulous Robert Burns, who’s day was last Tuesday. These tunes are both played as Marches nowadays. Burns added lyrics to the existing melodies and made them popular.

MIDI FILE: The Lea Rigg

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Lyrics

MIDI: Miss Farquharson’s Reel”

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Robert Burns wrote lyrics: My Love is But a Lassie Yet, which (for obvious reasons), I’ll not condone by typing here. If you’re interested here’s a link to lots of Burns poems including this one: http://www.robertburns.org/works/269.shtml

07/02/22

Looking at the borders of Ukraine I was reminded of these lovely Bessarabian tunes (now part of Moldova). Can’t remember where I learned the Sirba (a Klezmer dance), but the wedding dance is from Pete Cooper’s “All Around the World” cassette that I borrowed from a Canadian friend back in the 90s.

MIDI FILE: Sîrba Besarabia

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MIDI FILE: Bessarabian Wedding Dance”>

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21/02/22

Two lovely bourrées from France. If there’s time we’ll re-visit some other bourrées we’ve done before.

MIDI FILE: Bourrée des Dindes

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MIDI FILE: Fil et Bobine

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Too fast!

28/02/22

Here’s a lovely klezmer tune that’s a lot of fun once you’ve got the hand of the speedy bits. It’s ukulele friendly-ish! (We’ll do something harp friendly next week – sorry David).

MIDI FILE: Tate Ziser

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07/03/22

Sorry, but I had to take my kid for a last minute doctors appointment.

14/03/2022

We’ll do the Irish tunes from last week next week, as per David’s request.

Here’s a lovely Swedish Vals instead:

MIDI FILE: Trollduetten efter Gössa Anders

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Listen to it here

21/03/2022

Here’s a couple of lovely hornpipes from Ireland in dorian mode (mode that starts on the 2nd degree of the major scale.

MIDI FILE: Humours of Tullycrine

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