Here is the video for this week’s tune, Sussex Waltz. It first appears in print as ‘Untitled Waltz’ in the 1800 Welch manuscript from Bosham in Sussex.
Here are the dots for the tune, with a PDF file here:
For a version with some variations and ornaments, and with an alternative chord sequence in the B part, here.
This is most likely La Marianne, though I have always known it as Madelaine, possibly a fancier version, or a mishearing, but anyway – here it is! PDF here, and video and dots below.
Here’s the Whitehall Minuet, a tune in three from the Playford collection which dates from the early 1700s.
Here are the dots for the tune (PDFs here for the tune, and the tune with ornaments and phrasing):
In the chords, we alternated between a playing a straight three for two bars (1 & 2 & 3 &), and playing a syncopated rhythm for two bars (1 & 2 & 3 &), which looks a bit like this:
Technically we’re going from a 3/4 feel to a 6/8 feel, giving the tune a bit more movement and forward momentum, maybe verging on feeling a little like a jazz waltz. We kept it to two bar chunks for the sake of clarity and ensemble but you could experiment with changing the rhythm in different places at home. Here’s me noodling about with the rhythm:
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