Neil, Thanks for this. You don't seem to have got access to all the tunes on the site. There are thousands - most on open access.
Barry Say, Maureen and I had got a partial listing of the George Atkinson tunes, (search 'George Atkinson') but I wanted to make sure everyone was agreed and the gaps filled, before putting it up on the site. To my ear, De'il amang the Tailors was preceded by the 2nd half of The Mason's Apron; the first half is on another segment, following Roxburgh Castle. Whinshields is similarly split. Glen Aln is sadly split into one segment of fragments, another of the first half, followed by a few bars of Oh Dear., and another of the 2nd half. The rest of Oh Dear is on another segment, otherwise complete. John -----Original Message----- From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of neil smith Sent: 09 September 2009 12:36 To: Dartmouth Subject: [NSP] BL Smallpipe recording archive Just a few clarifications on what the tunes are. Page one, passing over the stuff about jazz, which it won't let me see anyway as I'm not academic enough, items headed: Air (Boulavogue) or hornpipe The air is indeed Boulavogue, the tune to a patriotic Irish song about an uprising in Wexford. The following tune is Wade Hampton's Hornpipe, named after a Confederate general of the American civil war and attributed to one Frank Livingston. Air, or Waltz, or Rant The air is known in Northumberland as Whittingham Green Lane, though it is thought to come from elsewhere originally. The waltz is Archie's Fancy by Billy Pigg and the final tune is the Hesleyside Reel, composed by T. Elliot. High Level Hornpipe Is indeed just that, with variations. Hornpipe, Dance Tune, Reel, Reel of Stumpy The first (incomplete) tune is the Scottish reel De'il amang the Tailors, followed by the border jig Lambskinnet, then another jig known in Northumberland as Hexham Races and finally the Scottish 6/8 march Atholl Highlanders. So the "hornpipe" is in fact part of a reel, the "dance tune" is a pair of jigs and the "reel" is in fact a 6/8 march. Some lads these academics, eh? Hornpipe/Hornpipe First one here is in fact the tune known in Scotland as (the reel of) Stumpie but known to Northumbrian pipers as Buttered Peas or sometimes Border Fray. It is followed by (only the first part of) the Whinshields Hornpipe, composed I believe by a man called J.L. Dunk. Hornpipe and variations This is a set of five different hornpipes, Remember Me by Robert Whinham, the Barrington Hornpipe by Thomas Todd, the Marquis of Lorne, the Navvy on the Line and the Friendly Visit. But perhaps any hornpipe is a variation on every other hornpipe. There's a topic for the academics to get their teeth into, award each other degrees etc. and squabble about. Hornpipe A sad attempt to play the Glen Aln Hornpipe by Will Atkinson (the player's father). Hornpipe Here he takes on the second part of the Whinshields Hornpipe alluded to above. --------- That's all I've got time for at the moment. If John Gibbons is interested I can do some more, and I hope he manages to get the information into that ivory tower. Cheers, Neil Smith __________________________________________________________________ Have more than one Hotmail account? [1]Link them together to easily access both. -- References 1. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/167688463/direct/01/ To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
