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[Mike_L]

Shenandoah Falls in A major Thanks to Wash!

http://www.ludgatefarms.com/YFN_sheet_music/YFN_PageR13.pdf

Everywhere I travel away from Ithaca I hear "you guys play it in D?" ... so here it is in A maj, the way the rest of the world plays it ... At Dance Flurry 2009, I sat with some young "fiddle geniuses" who played it in 6 different keys ... but they started and came back to A maj ... we also played Chorus Jig in a minor key in the same session ... that was fun. -Mike
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[Mike_L]

3 new (to YFN) jigs ...

http://www.ludgatefarms.com/YFN_sheet_music/YFN_PageJ6.pdf

Out On The Ocean (Trad) - G
The Sailor's Wife (Trad) - Dm
Coral's Caper (by Megan Beller) - E

thanks again to Wash.

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[Mike_L]

http://www.ludgatefarms.com/YFN_sheet_music/YFN_PageR14.pdf

Mike,

Here's a new page for the YFN tune book: "Colored Aristocracy" (very similar to the fake book version) and "The Wren". It would be fun to work these up for the commons.

-wash

http://www.ludgatefarms.com/YFN_sheet_music/YFN_PageR14.pdf


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[Mitch_W]

[Mike_L]

I am getting requests for this tune "Tamlin" ...

This version is adapted from the recording "Newfield Sessions" produced by Curt Osgood and played by John Kirk on fiddle (Albany area). Transcribed by one of the YFN fiddlers and then by Wash.

http://www.ludgatefarms.com/YFN_sheet_music/YFN_TamlinTiMe.pdf

It is not an official part of the YFN tune set as yet.

-m
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[Mike_L]

New Waltz "Serendipity" by Sarah Stark

"Serendipity, a waltz I've given to my waltzing buddy Phil for his
birthday. It's this Saturday, the 13th. Wish him a happy birthday,
too!"

http://www.ludgatefarms.com/YFN_sheet_music/YFN_PageW2.pdf

Thanks once again to Wash for the transcription!


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[Mike_L]

I've been meaning to write you about Chorus Jig.
[see http://www.ludgatefarms.com/YFN_sheet_music/YFN_Page9.pdf ]

I heard a typical 6/8 jig called "The Chorus"
and it has enough similarity that I could believe that the reel was adapted from it. I know there
are some articles on the origins of tunes (from a fiddler magazine?) so perhaps there is an article
about Chorus Jig and its relatives. You can see the jig at http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/5314

I first noticed this jig's name this past year and was amazed I hadn't run into this before. On a CD, I
saw "The Chorus Jig" listed, but couldn't recall hearing the usual Chorus Jig anywhere on it.
I tracked down the cut and tune and it was this other jig tune. Ironically, I've heard the jig before but
never paid attention to what it might be called or noticed any resemblance.

On "The Session", they also list other jigs and reels that seem to be variants of the same tune, some
of which are virtually identical tunes under different titles. One of them, "Cross Reel" is another tune
I've heard, but never associated with the familiar Chorus Jig Reel.

John Wobus
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[Mike_L]

This will not likely clear anything up, but here is what Francis O'Neill had to say about Chorus Jig in his book "Irish folk music: a fascinating hobby, with some account of allied subjects including O'Farrell's Treatise on the Irish or union pipes and Touhey's Hints to amateur pipers," published in 1910:

"Up to a century ago the term "jigg". was not infrequently applied to any lively music; but one would hardly expect to find obsolete classifications persist so late as the year 1840, when Bunting published his third and last collection, "The Ancient Music of Ireland."

"One of Bunting's numbers is ''The Chorus Jig," in two-four time, which he notes he obtained from McDonnell, the piper, in 1797. This tune is identical with "The Rocks of Cashel," printed as early as 1782. An early and simple version of it under the latter name is to be found in McGoun's "Repository of Scots and Irish Airs," printed about 1800, and in Aird's Selection of Scotch, English, Irish, and Foreign Airs, volume 4, published about 1791. In "A Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland," published in 1778, the author, Dr. Campbell, says, "We frog-blooded English dance as if the practice was not congenial to us; but here they moved as if dancing had been the business of their lives. The 'Rocks of Cashel' was a tune which seemed to inspire particular animation." An entirely different composition, in six-eight time, called also "The Chorus Jig," we obtained from Timothy Dillon, a native of County Kerry, and included in "The Dance Music of Ireland" [1907]. A variant of Dillon's tune, under the same name, I find is printed in Dr. Joyce's late work, "Old Irish Folk Music and Songs" [1909]. Mr. Dillon was a fine violinist of the old traditional school, whose memory was stored with many rare strains.

"There was still another "Chorus Jig," in two-four time, found in an American piano publication; but a much better version of that tune in four strains was contributed by James Kennedy, of County Leitrim, and printed as "The Chorus Reel" (which it was, in reality) in O'Neill's Music of Ireland" [1903].

John Henderson


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[Mike_L]

This isn't really a YFN tune. But it is locally written and inspired by a couple of upstate NY contra dance bands. The level is more advanced than the typical YFN tune as it is in Gm and has no guitar chords written out ...

New dance tune from Tim Ball: "A symmetrical convergence of ridiculousness that deserved a tune. Now it has one. By way of explanation, Tunescape plays a ridiculous tune called LES TROIS CANARDS (can't you just hear the french accent?), and a very beautiful Swedish waltz called the Sea Duck, which we of course call LE CANARD DE LA MER. Mike Ludgate, Alice Boyle, and Robert Rosenberg have been gigging recently as LES CANARDS SINISTRES. 'nuff said." http://timballviolin.com/

MP3 http://canaaninstitute.org/music/LesCanardsSinistres.mp3
PDF http://canaaninstitute.org/music/LesCanardsSinistres.pdf
ABC http://canaaninstitute.org/music/LesCanardsSinistresABC.txt

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