 Conkers to Conquer- a New Collection of Old Chestnuts |
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| File: | tradfid.zip (February 2006) 40 kB |
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| Full name of work: | Conkers to Conquer- a New Collection of Old Chestnuts |
| Composer: | Traditional Fiddle Tunes |
| Music category: | North American contra dance and other fiddle tunes |
| Instruments: | violin |
| Name of file creator: | Bill MacLeod |
| e-mail address: | williebeeswing "at" charter "dot" net |
| Running time: | 00:43:28 |
| Comments: | These tunes are mostly old chestnuts, tried and true veterans of the fiddling tradition. They will be familiar at most sessions or jams, certainly in the New England area. Old-timey tunes and bluegrass favorites are under-represented here, merely because we don't know that many of them. Just about every tune in the collection is a dance tune. Played at the proper lively tempo, they are meant to give lift to the dancers' feet, and mark the figures of the dance. This is why many of them are 32-bar jigs or reels, when played AABB. A good contra-dance caller knows when the dancers have got the feel of any particular dance, and so when to stop hollering at the dancers, to let the music tell them what is going on. A good dance band will use the phrasing of the tune to help the dancers stay aware of where they are in every flying moment. Good dancers may listen to the melody for cues, but they pay more attention to the pulse that drives that melody, so they can fit into each pattern that comes their way.Please keep in mind that music is pulse and sound, and lines with spots on paper are only inky paper. For now let's call the inky paper "notes," and save the word "music" for what we make with our hands, ears and hearts. The notes are a reminder, a way to remember how a tune goes. Once you can play the tune without looking at the book, and can make it sound interesting, and maybe even notice that other people around you are moving with your sound, then you are making music. Remember that the written notes are only a starting place, a group of ideas for keeping a tune together, and not the only "right way" to play the tune. All the same, if you play a tune exactly as it is written here, very likely someone else will recognize it, maybe even call it a different name, and show you how they play it. Happy listening!(Sorry about the long lines, but I didn't know how to wrap them without possibly breaking something.) |
| Contents: | Amazing Grace Angeline the Baker Arkansas Traveler The Ash Grove Barrowburn Reel Batchelder's Child Grove Coleraine Cooley's Reel The Dark Isle De'il Amang the Tailors Devil's Dream Farewell to Whiskey Fisher's Hornpipe Flop-eared Mule The Flowers of Edinburgh The Girl I Left Behind Me Green Mountain Petronella Harvest Home Haste to the Wedding The High Road to Linton The Irish Washerwoman Kesh Jig Kitchen Girl The Lea Rig Liberty Mairi's Wedding Mason's Apron Miss MacLeod's Miss Shepherd's Morrison's Jig My Love is But a Lassie Yet Nancy Off She Goes Old Aristocracy Old Grey Cat Old Joe Clark Petronella Planxty Fanny Power Planxty Irwin Pot-House Jig Reel des Jeunes Mariés The Rights of Man The Road to Boston The Road to Lisdoonvarna The Rose Tree Ryan's Polka Ste. Anne's Reel Sally Gooden Scollay's Reel Sí Bheag, Sí Mór Simple Gifts Smash the Windows Soldier's Joy Swallowtail Jig Swinging on a Gate Tam Lin Ten Penny Bit Tobin's Jig Whiskey Before Breakfast The Wind That Shakes the Barley Woodchoppers' Reel This NoteWorthy file uses non standard fonts. These can be obtained as follows: Patrick - Scriptorium download at http://nwc-scriptorium.org/fonts/patrick_regular.ttf Boxmarks - Scriptorium download at http://nwc-scriptorium.org/helpful/boxmarks.zip Toccata - Scriptorium download at http://nwc-scriptorium.org/fonts/tocfug.zip |
