Robin Harrison Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 A couple of months ago a melodeon friend on mine had and continues to have some serious medical issues to accommodate. He is one of these people who you are delighted to know.................and by being with them makes you feel a better person than you probably are ! To cheer him up and as a homage, I recorded these tunes and used my Covid-time to learn a new and very simple video editing programme. Anthony, an ex-pat Brit like myself living in Southern Ontario, spent some very happy years at school at Ampleforth. The first two tunes are from the Ampleforth sword dance, so in his honour I named the set the "Ampleforth set" It combines a number of my passions...............trad. music., two sorts of concertina and bird photography. If you make it through to the end, in the very last bar the yellow warbler gives a graphic description of what it think's of my playing............I only noticed it long after the editing was done. Everything keeps you humble ! Regards all Robin Ampleforth set 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Wild Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 (edited) Well I have to disagree with the yellow warbler.🙂 Well done. Can you name the individual tunes? Edited December 17, 2020 by John Wild Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Harrison Posted December 17, 2020 Author Share Posted December 17, 2020 Thank you, John.....nice of you. At second 7 in the video I have named them but they are............ Lyke Wake Dirge Old Woman of Coverdale Morpeth Lasses New Road to Alston. I did three on EC and one on anglo but I can't remember which at the mo. Robin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Wild Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 Thank you Robin. I recognised 2 of them. Hard to tell which was the anglo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Besser Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 Great stuff, as always, Robin. I always enjoy playing for Ampleforth, but we use a slightly different set of tunes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little John Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 Very nice! I particularly enjoyed the second tune. I am a bit puzzled about the name of the first tune. It's not the Lyke Wake Dirge I'm familiar with and yet, when I looked on The Session, your version is the only one shown. A similar search on YouTube yields several renditions of the tune I know by that name; for example this one by the Young Tradition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Barnert Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 2 hours ago, Jim Besser said: I always enjoy playing for Ampleforth, but we use a slightly different set of tunes. When Cecil Sharp collected the dance 100+ years ago, it had different tunes. It was Sharp who matched the dance to the tunes (which he called “T’Auld Wife of Coverdill” and “Morpeth Lasses”). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Wild Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 (edited) Re Lyke wake dirge, I first heard it in this version by Pentangle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wck1MvKqYSw Edited December 18, 2020 by John Wild typing correction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Harrison Posted December 18, 2020 Author Share Posted December 18, 2020 Hmmm.............interesting. I too heard the Pentangle version years ago but knew the song tune was different the tune I played. The fellow I got it from got it from Dave Shepherd of Blowzabella......he said he would ask Dave. I'll report back if any more info comes along. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Besser Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 (edited) 21 hours ago, David Barnert said: When Cecil Sharp collected the dance 100+ years ago, it had different tunes. It was Sharp who matched the dance to the tunes (which he called “T’Auld Wife of Coverdill” and “Morpeth Lasses”). YEah, that's what we use. And I think there's a short segment of a third tune somewhere in there. But we haven't done it in a few years, and memory is fading. Ah, here's a video of us doing it. We only dance 1 sword dance each year, and basically practice it on the day of the dance out Edited December 18, 2020 by Jim Besser Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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