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[Steve_freereeder]

My wife and I are looking for the name of a tune used in ITV's 2003 mini-series 'The Mayor of Casterbridge' based on the novel by Thomas Hardy. The tune comes in episode 2 of the two-part series. There is a Youtube version of the episode here and the tune itself starts at 0:56':35" into the recording. It is played several times by the town band marching through the street at the mayor's parade. It's a great tune and would go very nicely on melodeons.

I don't know whether or not it is a traditional/old tune, or one written, or possibly adapted, by Adrian Johnston who composed the incidental music for the series (he is a prolific television music composer).

I've made an ABC transcription of the basic tune (there are a couple of minor rhythmic variants which I have ignored for now). I've also attached a PDF of my transcriptions.  The tune as played is in the key of F, but I've given a transposed version in G as well. Any help in identifying the tune would be greatly appreciated. NB - I've tried many of the usual resources/search options but so far no results . It's possible that the tune may come from one or other of the Thomas Hardy manuscripts, but that's only a guess and I don't have access to any copies to check.

Here's hoping the wonderful collective melnet wisdom can please assist me...

X:1
T: Mayor of Casterbridge Tune
C:Unknown/Adrian Johnston?
S:Mayor of Casterbridge TV Movie 2003
M:4/4
Q:1/4=120
K:F
C | C2 C2 F2 F2 | GABc A2 GA | B2 D2 E2 F2 | G3 F F3 :|
G | G2EF G3 A | GFEF G3 A | GFEF G3 A | D3 D C4 |
c2 cB A2 GF | GABc A2 GA | B2 D2 E2 F2 | G3 F F3 |]

X:2
T: Mayor of Casterbridge Tune
T:Transposed version
C:Unknown/Adrian Johnston?
S:Mayor of Casterbridge TV Movie 2003
M:4/4
Q:1/4=120
K:G %Transposed from F
D | D2 D2 G2 G2 | ABcd B2 AB | c2 E2 F2 G2 | A3 G G3 :|
A | A2FG A3 B | AGFG A3 B | AGFG A3 B | E3 E D4 |
d2 dc B2 AG | ABcd B2 AB | c2 E2 F2 G2 | A3 G G3 |]

[Lester]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN55RceP41c

[Steve_freereeder]

When the King Enjoys His Own Again

Thank you Lester!
This forum is amazing     

Of course, now I know the name of the tune, I have found it in my copy of 'Hardcore English'. I didn't look closely enough first time round 

[Chris Ryall]

Gosh, what a sweet little tune Casting my mind back, Ive certainly heard it as a song, possibly when Civil War re-enacting. That last line resonates.

As for finding it in HCE when you didn't know what title you were looking for? Better man than me, Steve, though melnet is a truly wonderful network, albeit running unusually slowly today at 6 minutes … Lester to the Resc'er yet again!

[Anahata]

Also known (with slightly different 1st time end bar to the each half) as The World Turned Upside Down

[911377brian]

Someone play it please, preferably on a one row...Anahata? Pikey? Please......

[Ebor_fiddler]

Pedant Alert!!

"The World Turned Upside Down" along with "Yankee Doodle" was played by the rebels at the time of the Surrender of the British Army at the end of the American Revolution.

Chris B. 

[tjsmithdog5]

"The World Turned Upside Down" along with "Yankee Doodle" was played by the rebels at the time of the Surrender of the British Army at the end of the American Revolution.

Check out pedant-in-spades:  http://www.colonialmusic.org/Resource/Schrader.htm

More than we needed to know, perhaps, but fun to read.

[Steve_freereeder]

Someone play it please, preferably on a one row...Anahata? Pikey? Please......

Rough and ready, single take, recording here, played on a Hohner Club I C/F melodeon. (Sorry Brian, it's not on a one-row  )

[911377brian]

Thanks Steve, and exactly the right speed for me to absorb the tune. Wish I could do right hand chords like that....

[Steve_freereeder]

Thanks Steve, and exactly the right speed for me to absorb the tune. Wish I could do right hand chords like that....

Thanks Brian!

Regarding RH chords, I tend to do a mixture of (a) playing the melody with my 1st to 3rd fingers and using my little finger to 'ghost' additional notes above the melody, or (b) playing the melody with 2nd - 4th fingers, using my 1st (and sometimes 2nd fingers) to add in notes below. The latter is especially useful when playing up at the dusty end of the keyboard.

Another useful technique is to use fingers 1 and 4 to give an octave chord and 'see-sawing' that with fingers 2 and 3 which will give the third and fifth notes of the chords - and then incorporating all 4 fingers into the melody as required. Difficult to explain in words; much easier to demonstrate.

Finally, a technique I first learned from superb one-row player Jeannie Harris, is to play much of the melody in the upper part of the keyboard using the 4th, little finger, shifting the hand around as the notes change. Whilst doing this, fingers 1, 2 and 3 are then available to play counter-melodies. This takes a bit of learning but when done properly, it can sound like two instruments playing a duet.

I tend not to think too hard about what notes I add in to make the RH chords - to paraphrase Tony Hall (an absolute master of RH chords and counter-melodies), I just 'poke around a bit' and if it sounds OK I use it.

[911377brian]

Thanks for that Steve ....''use finger 1 & 4 and seesaw that with fingers 2 & 3......'' Almost played that a few minutes ago but lost it as soon as I realised I was doing it.. I'm going to hammer away at it 'till I get it onboard. Your steady playing make this march the ideal platform for learning right hand chords..

[Chris Ryall]

This tune is presently in use as theme for Peter Day's 2 part review of economic change over the past 25 years - Global Business, BBC World Service, "World turned upside down" 4'20" and at the end.

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01jns0b

[Steve_freereeder]

This tune is presently in use as theme for Peter Day's 2 part review of economic change over the past 25 years - Global Business, BBC World Service, "World turned upside down" 4'20" and at the end.

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01jns0b

Thanks Chris. I immediately recognised the performance and tracked it down straightaway to a CD which someone gave me years ago: 'Hang Up Sorrow and Care' performed by Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band. The World Turned Upside Down is track no. 3 on the CD.

So I had this tune all along, but initially failed to remember where it came from! 

[Daddy Long Les]

Someone play it please, preferably on a one row...Anahata? Pikey? Please......

Rough and ready, single take, recording here, played on a Hohner Club I C/F melodeon. (Sorry Brian, it's not on a one-row  )

Lovely Steve!  Beautiful tone.  Any reason for choosing a Club?

[Steve_freereeder]

Rough and ready, single take, recording here, played on a Hohner Club I C/F melodeon. (Sorry Brian, it's not on a one-row  )

Lovely Steve!  Beautiful tone.  Any reason for choosing a Club?

Thanks, Les!
My wife and I just love the mellow sound of C/F instruments and we often play them in preference to D/G. This particular instrument was being sold by Rees at Witney last year and I just fell in love with it. It has been refurbished with Cagnoni reeds on the RH side, which suit the instrument very well indeed and it still sounds just like a vintage Hohner ought to. On the LH side are original Hohner reeds.