Topic: Theme of the Month for May 2019: Morris Music (Read 21990 times)

Howard Jones · « **Reply #60 on:** May 08, 2019, 07:13:39 PM »

I wonder whether it should be "Barley Bree" which apparently is a Scots term for whisky?

Mcgrooger · « **Reply #61 on:** May 09, 2019, 01:26:34 PM »

I'm looking forward to seeing and hearing your recording of the tune, Hugh, now you've established it's various names. That's what ThOTM is all about after all.

baz parkes · « **Reply #62 on:** May 09, 2019, 03:01:34 PM »

Quote from: Hugh Taylor on May 08, 2019, 04:59:34 PM

I don't normally quote The Session web site, but needed some help after the above, thinking myself ignorant on the name of this tune since the 70's. The site says - Also known as Barley Brae, Two Sisters, Upton-on-Severn, Upton-on-Severn Stick Dance, Upton-upon-Severn.
So maybe I should have said Barley Brae not barley Break!

You may be many things, but ignorant is certainly not one of them...

Mcgrooger · « **Reply #63 on:** May 09, 2019, 04:44:12 PM »

I thought I'd post a cheeky link to a YT video I made ages ago which fits the theme. I didn't record it for Melnet, but for the BBC Folk programme Cecil Sharp project. I've recorded quite a few other morris tunes but they've been on TOTM or (in one other case I think) ThOTM. This one's Laudnum Bunches (with Country Gardens). It also illustrates how to post a sound recording on YT without having to film yourself or show your phizog.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKOfAQ6BTks

Jesse Smith · « **Reply #64 on:** May 10, 2019, 03:38:00 AM »

Great stuff Mcgrooger, even if your unresolved ending chords make my eyelids twitch. My favorite bit of Laudnum Bunches is the "Scotch snap" in the slows and you play it quite deftly.

boxcall · « **Reply #65 on:** May 10, 2019, 10:55:14 PM »

Not Morris

but the tune is !
Jesse you may not even want to watch! , my bass is horrid

melody not much better.
“Never try, Never win!”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c7JSJcdCS-8
Ty a Gardd

Ellison · « **Reply #66 on:** May 10, 2019, 11:02:31 PM »

Quote from: Mcgrooger on May 09, 2019, 04:44:12 PM

I thought I'd post a cheeky link to a YT video I made ages ago which fits the theme. I didn't record it for Melnet, but for the BBC Folk programme Cecil Sharp project. I've recorded quite a few other morris tunes but they've been on TOTM or (in one other case I think) ThOTM. This one's Laudnum Bunches (with Country Gardens).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKOfAQ6BTks

Lovely!

Tone Dumb Greg · « **Reply #67 on:** May 11, 2019, 09:28:45 AM »

Quote from: boxcall on May 10, 2019, 10:55:14 PM

Not Morris but the tune is !
Jesse you may not even want to watch! , my bass is horrid melody not much better.
“Never try, Never win!”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c7JSJcdCS-8
Ty a Gardd

That's really nice. Familiar, but I can't quite place it.

george garside · « **Reply #68 on:** May 11, 2019, 03:19:55 PM »

looking through this interesting thread border , north west and rapper don't seem to be getting much of a look in!. ??

george

boxcall · « **Reply #69 on:** May 11, 2019, 03:25:57 PM »

Quote from: Tone Dumb Greg on May 11, 2019, 09:28:45 AM

Quote from: boxcall on May 10, 2019, 10:55:14 PM
Not Morris but the tune is !
Jesse you may not even want to watch! , my bass is horrid melody not much better.
“Never try, Never win!”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c7JSJcdCS-8
Ty a Gardd

That's really nice. Familiar, but I can't quite place it.

Ty a gardd
It’s one I got off Lester’s tune of the day blog, he could tell you about it

Tone Dumb Greg · « **Reply #70 on:** May 11, 2019, 04:40:52 PM »

Quote from: george garside on May 11, 2019, 03:19:55 PM

looking through this interesting thread border , north west and rapper don't seem to be getting much of a look in!. ??

george

I think Upton-Upon -Severn counts as border. I'm sure there's plenty more to come. I was hoping for a bit more molly.

Lester · « **Reply #71 on:** May 11, 2019, 09:01:40 PM »

Quote from: Tone Dumb Greg on May 11, 2019, 04:40:52 PM

I think Upton-Upon -Severn counts as border. I'm sure there's plenty more to come. I was hoping for a bit more molly.

The Twin Sisters/Chingford version of the UoSSD has been absorbed by the Cotswold crew and is mostly danced in a Cotswold style.

Tone Dumb Greg · « **Reply #72 on:** May 11, 2019, 09:22:02 PM »

Quote from: Tone Dumb Greg on May 11, 2019, 09:20:53 PM

Quote from: Lester on May 11, 2019, 09:01:40 PM
Quote from: Tone Dumb Greg on May 11, 2019, 04:40:52 PM
I think Upton-Upon -Severn counts as border. I'm sure there's plenty more to come. I was hoping for a bit more molly.

The Twin Sisters/Chingford version of the UoSSD has been absorbed by the Cotswold crew and is mostly danced in a Cotswold style.

Plenty of border sides dance it down our way. S'pose it doubles up as both [Edit: We don't mind variants, it's all morris]

penn · « **Reply #73 on:** May 11, 2019, 11:19:03 PM »

Yes we in the Essex/Suffolk borders dance Chingford in a Border Style.
Back by popular demand, this is really a Border tune - the tune we use for the original Upton-upon-Severn Stick Dance – The Girl I Left Behind a.k.a Brighton Camp. The A part only goes round once to fit the dance. I go round during the second B part because that’s what we do.

https://youtu.be/k9nZL6py6IE

Gren

Lester · « **Reply #74 on:** May 12, 2019, 08:56:29 AM »

Morris music in the wild.

The Valentine Field Town, recorded, at a jaunty angle, on my phone in my shirt pocket at the Westminster Day of Dance yesterday outside Westminster Abbey. High spot was ending the dance in a hail storm :)

https://youtu.be/UyOpuEQElww

Clive Williams · « **Reply #75 on:** May 12, 2019, 06:13:14 PM »

Here's my contribution this month; taken from an exquisite piece by John Dipper and Dave Malkin's album Tricks of the Trade, here's Fidler's Morris

https://youtu.be/O8em_udYF5U

A quick google suggests it's a traditional tune, but it does appear that John and Dave have *completely* rewired it. I've struggled to get the musicality John and Dave make of it into my version, but I've at least got a bit now. Plenty more to work on though.

Played on the Van der Aa in G/C, though that's really just a tone/sound choice than actually needing all those buttons.

george garside · « **Reply #76 on:** May 12, 2019, 08:53:47 PM »

Quote from: penn on May 11, 2019, 11:19:03 PM

Yes we in the Essex/Suffolk borders dance Chingford in a Border Style.
Back by popular demand, this is really a Border tune - the tune we use for the original Upton-upon-Severn Stick Dance – The Girl I Left Behind a.k.a Brighton Camp. The A part only goes round once to fit the dance. I go round during the second B part because that’s what we do.

https://youtu.be/k9nZL6py6IE

Gren

Brighton camp works well for north west. I used to play it followed by rattling boag and british grenadiers as a set

george

Helena Handcart · « **Reply #77 on:** May 13, 2019, 07:37:00 AM »

Quote from: george garside on May 11, 2019, 03:19:55 PM

looking through this interesting thread border , north west and rapper don't seem to be getting much of a look in!. ??

george

I was actually wondering about posting a suggestion of having sword dance (as opposed to solely rapper) tunes as a future theme of the month but I think perhaps it's too narrow a definition. Pity though, my box is obsessed with longsword tunes at the moment.

Mcgrooger · « **Reply #78 on:** May 13, 2019, 11:05:09 AM »

What are your longsword tunes, Helena? They sound like something I'd like to have a go at.

Hugh Taylor · « **Reply #79 on:** May 13, 2019, 01:02:06 PM »

What are your longsword tunes, Helena?

Two tunes in 9/8 -
Old Wife of Coverdale - Ampleforth
Papa Stour - Papa Stour

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