Here is the set list for next week’s (2nd December) session at the Ealing Country Dance Club:
The venue is St Barbabas Church, Pitshanger Lane, Ealing W5 1QG and the session will run 8-10. I’m aiming to get there 7:30 for setting up and running through. So don’t come to the trade unions club next week because we won’t be there!
Here’s Goddesses, a tune from the Playford collection.
Here are the dots with a PDF available here:
Printed versions often have the last bar of each section printed the other way around, so as ‘crotchet crotchet minim’ – I’ve always played it this way and I can’t remember why! Apart from that I like it, and that seems as good a reason as any to me!
Here is the piece we learned on Monday 11th November, Carol of the Bells. This was arranged by Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych in 1914, based on a Ukrainian folk chant called ‘Shchedryk’. We divided the piece into four phrases – phrases one and two can be played simultaneouly and with the bass line. The structure is pretty free at the moment, with everyone following my hand signals, we might formalise it later.
And here are the dots, with a PDF available here:
Here is the tune from Monday 4th November, Lancashire. This tune is from the 1838 William Irwin manuscript, a collection from Cumbria. I learend it from fiddler and clog dancer extraodinaire Toby Bennett. Here is the video:
And here are the dots, with a PDF version here.
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