>> Greenholm >> Jig >> A 6/8 set of "Believe Me if all those Endearing Young Charms". > I find this hard to 'believe'; to my ears there's not that much similarity > in those 2 tunes. I may have missed it, but what's your source for this? > The transcription of Greenholm I have indicates it comes from Kerr's IV.
The tune by that name in Kerr's IV (which I hadn't looked at before) is obviously the same to me; in fact it's closer to the usual song set of "Endearing Young Charms" than either of them is to the parent tune, "My Lodging Is On The Cold Ground". Isn't "Endearing Young Charms" usually written in 6/8 anyway? (3/4 would be another possibility, with waltz-time tunes it makes little difference). I think you've been misled by the difference in tempo and a few added expressive touches. An even better example of disguising a familiar tune that way is Dick Gaughan's tune for "Both Sides the Tweed"; it's really "Rosin the Beau" slowed down. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU; 0131 6604760 <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack> * food intolerance data & recipes, Mac logic fonts, Scots traditional music files and CD-ROMs of Scottish music. ----> off-list mail to "j-c" rather than "scots-l" at this site, please <---- Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
