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Theme of the Month for June 2019: 48 Bar Tunes
Clive Williams:
... or 3 part tunes, or whatever! Jigs, polkas, waltzes - doesn't matter; just needs to be (roughly) 48 bars long. I could do with expanding my repertoire of these, so what do you know?
Cheers,
Clive
george garside:
from memory Hamilton house, gallopede, scartarglen polka, 6.20 two step (40 bars)
george
Ransom:
I actually do have a favorite 48-bar tune off the top of my head: it's a tarantella that I got from an old book of tunes for english concertina. I might transcribe the ABC or render it on the concertina if there's a general clamor, but I'm not very interested in squeezing it onto my two-row just now -- it moves between E minor and E major, and I'm not sure I have accidentals in the right octaves to make it work.
Ransom:
What's that I hear? The people crying out for a transcription of my favorite tarantella?
... No? Just my imagination? Could be tinnitus. Well, I made one anyway. And since you almost asked for it, here it is:
--- Code: ---X:1
T:Tarantella di Bravura
C:Daniel Auber
R:Tarantella
H:From 'La muette de Portici' (or 'Masaniello')
H:Arranged by Joseph Warren
H:http://www.concertina.org/2011/04/08/the-concertina-book-of-music/
Z:Ransom Smith
M:6/8
L:1/8
Q:"Presto"
K:Emin
!p!(ef).g | !<(! (ga).b (bc').d' !<)! | !>(! (d'c').b (ba).g !>)! | (gf).e (ef).g | !>(! (f^dB) !>)! (ef).g | !<(! (ga).b (bc').d' !<)! |
!>(! (d'c').b (ba).g !>)! | (gf).e (^de).f | e3 (gag) | !>(! (^cdc) !>)! (fgf) | !>(! (BcB) !>)! (efe) | (^df).e .d.e.f |
!>(! (gfe) !>)! (gag) | !>(! (^cdc) !>)! (fgf) | !>(! (BcB) !>)! (efe) | (^df).e .d.e.f | e3 (ef).g | !<(! (ga).b (bc').d' !<)! |
!>(! (d'c').b (ba).g !>)! | (gf).e (ef).g | !>(! (f^dB) !>)! (ef).g | !<(! (ga).b (bc').d' !<)! | !>(! (d'c').b (ba).g !>)! | (gf).e (^de).f |
e3 |: [K:Emaj] "_dol." (ga^a | b2) b (ba).g | !>(! (e'3b2) !>)! b | b2 b (ba).g | !>(! (b2af2) !>)! f | a2 a (ag).f |
e2 e (gf).e | f2 f (^ag).f | b3 :| [K:Emin] (ef).g | !<(! (ga).b (bc').d' !<)! | !>(! (d'c').b (ba).g !>)! | (gf).e (ef).g |
(f^dB) (ef).g | !<(! (ga).b (bc').d' !<)! | !>(! (d'c').b (ba).g !>)! | (gf).e (^de).f | e3 |]
--- End code ---
Dynamic markings per the source, although midi playback sounds better if you strip them out-- I imagine it's not intended to fade into oblivion, even though it's all decrescendos, all day.
Divisible into three parts, but not strictly three sections of eight, repeated twice-- which you might have been looking for.
folkbluesnbeyond:
https://youtu.be/ZHEgCrwmfPw
Gaztelugatxeko martxa by Kepa Junkera. This journey started with the notation and then moved to the original recordings and DTN's excellent melnetter take on that from 2013. I have simplified the order of parts and perhaps over 'anglicised' parts of the tune but .... DTN's version is highly recommended.
All the best
Bill
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