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Some of the tunes are not traditional and so to avoid any
complications of copyright I’ve not posted them. I can email copies to individuals if you want. bcband@hotmail.co.uk
These tunes are usually divided into A and B sections (and occasionally C, D, E...) I've indicated in the title how to play the sections. e.g. AABB. That means play the A section twice and then the B section twice, then do it all again, and again. On some of the tunes the repeat signs just duplicate these instructions.
The tunes are written out for Concert pitch instruments, and (mostly) for Bb and Eb instruments too. If your instrument is something else... just get in touch.
For a number of the tunes there’s a second part as well.
You can also find midi files to listen to at thevisiblesound - see above.
Here’s a list of the tunes we’re playing at the moment, some with a brief “description.”
A La Mode De France - Playford
Alfred Pommier - a 2/4 bourree
All Gone Home - a rattlin' shuffle
A Nakht in Gan Eydn - a Bulgar
Atholl Hiighlanders - a three part jig
Bag of Potatoes
Banish Misfortune - a jig
Bear Dance - a romp
Billy Pitt - a reel from Cumberland
The Bishop - Playford
Blackthorn Stick - a jig
Blarney Pilgrim - a jig
Bonny Cumberland - another reel from Cumberland
Bottom of the Punchbowl
Bouffard's Waltz - a waltz
Bourree Tournante - a 3/8 bourree
Bulgar Kishinev - a Klezmer tune from Eastern Europe.
Calliope House - a jig
Carree De Vouvray - a 2/4 bourree
Chavennee Waltz - a waltz from Mike
Chelsea Reach - Playford
Cheshire Rounds - original old-style, 3/2 hornpipe
Childgrove - Playford
Chinese Breakdown
Cock O' The North
Connaught Man's Rambles - a jig
Cook in the Kitchen
Cooley's - a hornpipe; sometimes referred to a "step-hop"
Cumberland Reel
Dashing White Sergeant
Dear Tobacco - yet another reel from Cumberland
Donegal Mazurka - a bouncy, 1-2-hop dance
Dorset 4-Hand Reel 1
Dorset 4-Hand Reel 2
Drops Of Brandy - a slip-jig in 9/8 time
Duckmanton Lodge - 9/8, by Mike
Duke of Perth
Evelyne's - a 3/8 bourree
Far From Home - a Shetland Reel
Four Potatoes
Gallopede
Grasshopper Sittin' On A Sweet Potato Vine
Grimstock - Playford
Ham Street
Hanter Dro - a Breton dance tune with 6 bars in each section
Harvest Home - a hornpipe
Hundred Pipers
Hunsdon House
I'm Going To Leave Old Arkansas Where The Irish Potatoes Grow
Jack Robinson - a cracking good polka
Jack's Maggot - Playford
Kopenitsa - another Eastern European tune, this time in 11/8
La Chapka - a beautiful waltz (suggested by Mike)
Last Chance - a 2/4 bourree
Laurieston - a mazurka written by Peter Darling
Lillibulero - Playford
Little Burnt Potato
Long Room at Scarborough
Marienne - a waltz
Match of the Day - a march
Morgan Rattler - a jig
Morpeth Rant
Mrs Farquhuson's Reel
Napoleon Crossing the Rhine - Polka (suggested by Peter)
New French Schottishes 1 & 2 - from France
Nonesuch - Playford
Off To California - a hornpipe
Old French
Old Lancashire Hornpipe - original old-style, 3/2 hornpipe
Old Rosin The Beau - a jig
Old Wife of Coverdale
One Hundred Thousand Welcomes - a steady reel
Oswestry Wake
Parson's Farewell - a stately dance from the 17th Century
Phoenix
Polska Nabben
Potato Crisp Rant
Pugwash - a hornpipe/step-hop
Reel de Montreal
Robert
Rochdale Coconut Dance - a polka
Scotland The Brave
Schottische - a French dance with a "laid-back" feel
Scottishe Virmoux - from Mike
Sir Roger de Coverley
Slow Sunday
Soldier's Joy - a reel
Sonny's Mazurka - a bouncy, 1-2-hop dance
Speed The Plough - a reel
Spootiskerry - a reel from Shetland
Star Of County Down - a waltz (and also a song in 4/4 time!)
Stoke Golding - another slip-jig in 9/8
Swallow's Nest - a jig
Tenpenny Bit - a jig
Throw Another Potato On The Fire, Edith
Tip Top Polka - a polka (natch!)
Tripping Upstairs - a jig
Twiglet
The Waterloo Dance - A polka (suggested by Mike)
The White Knight's Song - a waltz (from Peter)
Willa Fjord - a reel from Shetland
Woodland Revels - another romp
Would But I Dare Not - a waltz from Jack
Yan Mijn Man - a Dutch tune
The tunes are written out using a programme called Noteworthy Composer. It's very flexible and a lot cheaper than Sibelius.
Go to www.noteworthysoftware.com for details.
If anyone wants, I can email these "dots," in concert pitch or transposed, as Noteworthy files or as .pdf files. Just get in touch. bcband@hotmail.co.uk.
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