Matt, Going back to Bewick (98) which I didn't have in the office, I see why you prefer the 3-strain Reavely version as more consistent, but the Crawhall strain 4 is worth having - perhaps better if tweaked to fit the others from Reavely.
I have been thinking about this, and Lord Randal, since the discussion started. The tune is obviously a good fit to the metre, but if this is right, then the tune is to be played andante, not as a jig. The idea of Billy Boy as a parody of Lord Randal had never occurred to me, but the worried mum and the emphasis on the girlfriend's culinary abilities are common to both. John ________________________________________ From: Matt Seattle [[email protected]] Sent: 01 November 2010 12:35 To: Gibbons, John Cc: Richard York; NSP group Subject: Re: [NSP] Re: Tune hunt: OT but I hope interesting! Same tune, different version. The one I give is from Reavely, as the title but not the tune is given by Bewick, and Reavely is the one I found for the 1998 edition; it's also structurally more consistent than Crawhall's. It's not in the 1986 edition. The 2010 edition is an update of the 1998 edition which was a quantum leap from the 1986 edition. If you only have the 1986 edition you owe it to yourself to get the new one. On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Gibbons, John <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Is that the same/similar tune to the one in Crawhall on FARNE? I should get the new edition too... To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
