We discussed two possible rhythms/grooves for hornpipes, swung and straight – the video below shows both and the dots show the swung rhythm. The idea is that you can pick any note from the arpeggio and play the rhythms on that note.
Welcome back! We started the term with a jolly, bouncy tune called The Bath Hornpipe, from a manuscript of collector Frank Kidson. This tune turns up in various Yorkshire collections from around the 1840s and 1850s, sometimes under this title and sometimes as Newton’s Hornpipe. We are playing it as a dotted hornpipe… for now!
Here are the dots and video:
Our visit to the ECDC was a great success – not sure the pics capture the energy of the night, but a fabulous time was had by all. Robert has kindly made a video of highlights (below), and I’ve added some photos of my own too.
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 – we will cover this on Nov 4th, do have a look before then!
New Rigged Ship (D major)
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 – 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!
For those of you that are interested, here is the Michael Raven’s version:
Here is the arrangement of Fete de Village that we put together on 30th September.
Here are the videos I took during the sessions (edited into one video), with all three parts:
Here are some of the other videos that people have found:
New Ealing Sessions 