While this is written in straight jig time, it's much more effective played
in a 'dotted' manner. Also, make sure the dotted crotchets are given their
full value. Tom Clough's advice to sing the song in your head is relevant
here to help with the phrasing.
Ooops, sorry! Got the Champion of Champions at Bellingham mixed up with
Crufts - sorry to interrupt the doggy talk ;-)
Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ged Foxe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 5:48 PM
Subject: [NSP] Re: old Towler
Maybe, or else related to Towser, also a common name for a dog.
Towser is originally rough-haired (as tousled)
or, as implied in Dictionnaire Royal Anglois-Francois 1768, a turbulent or
nosy person.
Jeremy
----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 4:10 PM
Subject: [NSP] Re: old Towler
My 1994 OED has:
towl v. dial.
To yowl.
The two examples of use are from 1906 (Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill), and
a Punch article of 1930.
So, a noisy hound then.
Pedantically,
Richard Leach
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 02:05:19PM -0000, Colin has written:
Oh, as a PS, this is from thefreedictionary.com
Jowl´er
n. 1. (Zool.) A dog with large jowls, as the beagle.
Colin Hill
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To: "Dru Brooke-Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "nsp" <nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 6:36 PM
Subject: [NSP] Re: old Towler
> What does the word "towler" mean? I've looked it up on a couple of
> on-line Scots and Geordie dictionaries, but found nothing. For me the
> tune title conjures up an image of an oldster wrapped in a soggy towel
> having just emerged from his bath. I'm happy to replace it with that
> of a
> beagle or stag hound leaping over hill and dale.
>
> John
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>
>
> Dru Brooke-Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 12/11/2007 10:20 AM
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> To
> nsp <nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu>
> cc
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> Subject
> [NSP] old Towler
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>
> Oh dear. This is embarrassing.
>
> I hadn't thought of checking the words. As this song is linked in my
> mind, rightly or wrongly, with Yorkshire, I'd taken for granted Old
> Towler pursued foxes.
>
> Dru
>
>
> On 11 Dec 2007, at 15:39, Colin wrote:
>
> > Er, a little more than implied. The last line of the chorus is "This
> > day a
> > stag must die" which is then repeated.(I have been singing it for
> > over
> > 30
> > years anyway).
> > Colin Hill
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Ged Foxe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "nsp" <nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu>; "Dru Brooke-Taylor"
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 9:08 PM
> > Subject: [NSP] Re: old Towler
> >
> >
> >> I've missed the beginning of this thread, I think, so this may have
> > already
> >> been refuted, but the song implies that Old Towler was a stag hound.
> >>
> >> Jeremy
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Dru Brooke-Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> To: "nsp" <nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu>
> >> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 7:20 PM
> >> Subject: [NSP] Re: old Towler
> >>
> >>
> >>> Old Towler was indeed a fox hound. Hence the wintry connection.
> >>>
> >>> Dru
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 7 Dec 2007, at 17:31, Marianne Hall wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I always though Old Towler was a fox hound. We learn something new
> > every
> >>>> day>Marianne.
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