gcoover Posted September 5 Share Posted September 5 (edited) Here's a sneak preview of a lovely harmonic-style Anglo tune from the upcoming book, The Anglo Concertina Music of Phil Ham. Although Phil is known mostly for Morris tunes, especially from little-known traditions like Ascot-under-Wychwood, he has also worked up classical, sea songs, Geordie songs, and madrigals like this one by Thomas Ford (1580-1648) titled "Since First I Saw Your Face", first published in 1607. He's 92-years-old and still going strong, and I'm really looking forward to meeting up with him next week to preview a preliminary test print of the book. It will be a high point of a 2-week 1000-mile concertinistic mad dash across the length and breadth of the English countryside, powered no doubt by good tunes and pints of best! Gary Since-First-I-Saw-Your-Face-PH-ANGLO.pdf Edited September 8 by gcoover 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Taylor Posted September 5 Share Posted September 5 No chord symbols for the non-Anglo players? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gcoover Posted September 6 Author Share Posted September 6 Sorry, my friend, but this is a note-for-note transcription of Phil's playing and I don't put in the chords unless I know what all of them are. I can tell you it starts out with C, Am, and G, and the B-part starts with D7 and then has a G and some C's. But with luck you might come up with something totally different! Gary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Taylor Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 OK, Gary, thx for the pointers - I like the melody. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtotani Posted September 10 Share Posted September 10 (edited) Thank you Gary, for a good news. I look forward to the new tune book by you and Phil Ham. I gave a try. Such a lovely piece! Edited September 10 by gtotani Re-uploaded the video 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Posted September 10 Share Posted September 10 Cannot see you video. It's marked 'private'... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtotani Posted September 10 Share Posted September 10 (edited) 42 minutes ago, Leonard said: Cannot see you video. It's marked 'private'... Sorry for the trouble, Leonard. I have re-uploaded the video. It should be OK now. Edited September 10 by gtotani 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIMON GABRIELOW Posted September 17 Share Posted September 17 I enjoyed that performance, and even more so, because it was a tune I played a lot when I got my first concertina (20 key Anglo).. and the 30 key model..later on. Such a timeless melody, and suits concertinas very well. A lot of Elizabethan stuff seems to work very well on free reed instruments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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