October 2024 – New Ealing Sessions

Duke of Kent’s Waltz

Here is the tune that we will be looking at Nov 4th, Duke of Kent’s Waltz. It’s an English Country Dance Tune from the early 1800s. Updated to include the PDF 12/11/24.

Duke of Kent’s Waltz Download

Tunes for ECDC – list two

Fete de Village

Mount Hills

Duke of Kent’s Waltz – we will cover this on Nov 4th, do have a look before then!

Hunt the Squirrel

New Rigged Ship (D major)

Major Malley’s Reel

Queen’s Jig

It’s a Playford tune! We need it for the ECDC visit! I will update the info at a later date! Here it is:

Queen’s Jig Download

Tunes for ECDC visit – list one

Queen’s Jig – Own dance

Johnny’s Gone to France – Circassian Circle

The Big Ship – Mr Isaac’s Magic

Lilting Banshee – Maguire’s Irish Coffee

Great North Run – New Elixir

Soldier’s Joy – Terry’s Triple Chain

Fete de Village – own dance TBC

Here are the dots and video for Johnny’s Gone to France. There was some discussion over the origins of this tune on Monday as I, and many others, felt that that it sound pretty Irish! Further research shows that this tune is in The Fiddler’s Tune Book Vol. 2 by Peter Kennedy (1954), which covers tunes from all over the British Isles, it’s listed as on TuneArch.org as an English reel, and it’s also in Michael Raven’s English Country Dance Tunes book (1984). However! The version in the Raven book is slightly different to the version I know specifically at the end – I play both on the video – which makes it sound a lot less Irish. This makes me think that it is an English reel after all, of the type similar to tunes such as Wednesday Night, Dear Tobacco and Cuckold Come Out the Amery. I find the alternative titles/related tunes that have been suggested on various sites to be rather tenuous at best, so this is what we’re going with!