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[Clive Williams]

Dear all,

This tune popped into my head a couple of weeks ago and has been driving me batty. Can anyone place it? I *think* it's classical in origin, and I *think* it then goes into a minor section, but my memory is very sketchy. Any ideas?

Listen to it here: http://www.clivew.com/download/whatsthis.mp3

Cheers,

Clive

[DaveW]

Dunno, but it's a good tune (I'm testing the new board as well)

[Steve Fox]

There are moments when it sounds ever so slightly like 'Princess Royal', but sorry I don't know the name of the tune.  Great new forum, by the way.

[Open_G]

I had no idea what the tune was so I decided to play spot the effects. -I'm going with a fair bit of reverb, a spot of chorus and what seemed to my ears as some heavy compression.

How'd I do? 0/3 probably.

[Theo]

I had no idea what the tune was so I decided to play spot the effects. -I'm going with a fair bit of reverb, a spot of chorus and what seemed to my ears as some heavy compression.

I think its played on the Streb!

The tune reminds me of the ones that compose themselves in your head from all the spare phrases that lie around in the memory.

[Open_G]

I had no idea what the tune was so I decided to play spot the effects. -I'm going with a fair bit of reverb, a spot of chorus and what seemed to my ears as some heavy compression.

I think its played on the Streb!

The tune reminds me of the ones that compose themselves in your head from all the spare phrases that lie around in the memory.

So are the effects built in on the streb? -Sorry if this has been covered previously on the forums but I have not been around so much recently.

[Theo]

So are the effects built in on the streb? -Sorry if this has been covered previously on the forums but I have not been around so much recently.

This would make an ideal topic for the Instrument makes and models discussion.

[Lester]

So are the effects built in on the streb? -Sorry if this has been covered previously on the forums but I have not been around so much recently.

This would make an ideal topic for the Instrument makes and models discussion.

I will produce same for the Streb over the next few days.

[Open_G]

So are the effects built in on the streb? -Sorry if this has been covered previously on the forums but I have not been around so much recently.

This would make an ideal topic for the Instrument makes and models discussion.

Yes sorry I'm bound to hijack/meander in the midst of a thread.

[Theo]

Yes sorry I'm bound to hijack/meander in the midst of a thread.

But now we are in a proper forum I can move posts to a more appropriate place if necessary.

[Clive Williams]

Tee hee - well spotted! It's played on the Streb - it's just so easy to wire up to my PC to record using something like Audacity. It's played with reverb and the Hohner club samples, and that's all - the streb also has chorus and pitch-shifting (i.e. between concert pitch tones), but I'm not using them there.

Cheers,

Clive

[tim54]

Hi all,

The tune sounds a lot like 'Boycott's Bourree'. Have a listen to The Albion Dand's 'BBC Sessions' or 'Live at the Cambridge Folk Festival' albums and see if you agree.

Regards,

Tim

[Clive Williams]

You sir, are a genius. Yep, it's Boycott's Bourree. Interestingly the second part of the tune set on the Live at... Albion Band album is Parsons' Farewell, a tune I keep mixing up with the first, so I guess I must have subconsciously at least learned it from this recording.

Cheers,

Clive

[Tony Gibbons]

It might be called "Boycott's bouree" now but it is credited to Michael Praetorius (1571 - 1621) and somehow I don't think it was called "Boycott's bouree" then. So it is "a Bouree by Michael Praetorius" or " Praetorius's Bouree no. 32a. There is another tune attached to this one which becomes bouree no. 32b. and has great similarity to "Parson's Farewell".

[Clive Williams]

It might be called "Boycott's bouree" now but it is credited to Michael Praetorius (1571 - 1621) and somehow I don't think it was called "Boycott's bouree" then. So it is "a Bouree by Michael Praetorius" or " Praetorius's Bouree no. 32a. There is another tune attached to this one which becomes bouree no. 32b. and has great similarity to "Parson's Farewell".

Interesting! I thought originally I'd heard it on a John Williams classical guitar album, but the Parson's Farewell segment suggested otherwise. Maybe it was a John Williams piece I was thinking of all along...

Thanks for the info!

Clive

[Robin Harrison]

I wonder if this is it ? It's such a lovely snippet you played,I'm trying to find the sheet music, but no luck so far.Sounds great on the melodeon.
   
         Regards Robin
Click on the third tied quarter-note symbol

http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=1107235&style=classical


3. Terpsichore: no 32, La Bouree
Composer   Michael Praetorius (1571 - 1621)
Conductor   David Munrow
Genre   Bouree / Dance / Renaissance Period
Date Written   by 1612
Ensemble   Early Music Consort of London
Period   Renaissance
Country   Germany
Recording   Studio
Recording Date   1973


(I think there is also so a hint of the Playford The Health or Merry Wassail ?)

[Tony Gibbons]

Interesting! I thought originally I'd heard it on a John Williams classical guitar album, but the Parson's Farewell segment suggested otherwise. Maybe it was a John Williams piece I was thinking of all along...

It is possible that John Williams played both tunes together because that is how it probably appeared on manuscript to him. The second tune has aquired the tag "Parsons Farewell" since and possibly by a certain fraternity of people, namely those involved in the art of courtly dancing as experienced by Playford (I am surmising now and guessing). The classically trained and experienced people would, I am sure, have referred to them both as by Praetorius.

Any idea of the name of the John Williams album?

TG

[Clive Williams]

Any idea of the name of the John Williams album?

TG

I'm afraid not ... in fact, I'm starting to wonder if I heard it on a Cambridge Buskers' album (an *old* one). How I can get the two mixed up, I've absolutely no idea. I'm really rather taken by all the Praetorius tunes I've heard - there are some really lovely ones. I don't suppose anyone has found an ABC version of the Terpsichore collection yet? I gather it's not a trivial task transcribing it :-)

Cheers,

Clive

[risto]

  I gather it's not a trivial task transcribing it :-)

Cheers,
Clive

They don't sound too difficult to be transcribed but it would be awful lot of work and time consuming. If time is valuable then it would be better to buy them as sheet music. Some of his works can be downloaded for free from www.classicalarchives.com in midi format.