Easter tunes...

[Roger Hare]

I was getting fagged-out 'tidying-up' a large selection of Swiss tunes, so I decided to have a rest, and see if I could find any Easter tunes.

 

I could only find one tune posted in the recent past - 'Easter Thursday' by 'Ptarmigan' a while back...

 

There are surprisingly few (at least I was surprised). I came up with only about a dozen with some tenuous claim to an Easter connection (I left out a couple of obvious ones such as 'Week Before Easter'). ABC attached - make of them what you will...

 

Anyone got any more Easter-related tunes?

easter.abc

Edited April 20 by Roger Hare

[Peter Laban]

I am not convinced the mention of easter is enough to make a tune an Easter tune if there isn't  any further connection to the celebration but I got a tune from Micho Russell at some point which he called 'the Happy days of Easter'.

And perhaps a werk early but I also gave a jig 'Palm Sunday'.

 

There is slso the sir "Easter snow', which has no connection to Easter but refers to a place in Roscommon instead.

Edited April 20 by Peter Laban

[David Barnert]

Here’s one that appears in Barnes 1.

 

X:1
T:Easter Eve
C:Unknown composer, 1721
M:C|
L:1/8
S:Barnes: English Country Dance Tunes (Book 1)
K:Gm
g2^f=e/f/g2d2 | b2ag^f2d2 | g2d2cdcB | A6^f2 |
g2d2d2cB | ABAG^F2d2 | B2AGA2^F2 | G4G4 :|
B2d4cB | ABc2c2d2 | B2AB cBAG | ^F6d2 |
e2c2^f2d2 | b2ag^f2d2 | e2c2d2^f2 | g4g4 :|

 

[wunks]

"Her comes Peter Cottontail....."🐇

[Steve Schulteis]

 

 

Tablature

Lyrics

Also included in Praise the Lord and Pass the Concertina.

 

Perhaps not what you had in mind, but this is the most obvious one I've got.

[Roger Hare]

Thank you folks! Already nailed 'Easter Hymn' (Buttrey MS) and 'Easter Eve' (Walsh, Compleat Country Dancing Master, 4th Ed., 1754). I'm now trying to track down Peter Cottontail...

 

...found it:

 

 

Brilliant! Thank you!

 

I've just realised I don't know how to post a link to a video - I do now...

Edited April 20 by Roger Hare

[Steve Schulteis]

1 hour ago, Roger Hare said:

I've just realised I don't know how to post a link to a video which throws up the opening screen in my message, as opposed to a simple URL. How, please...

 

I just paste the URL on its own line, hit enter, and after a moment it's automatically replaced with the embedded video.

 

Depending on what privacy measures you have in place (e.g. disabling JavaScript), it's possible those might interfere.

[Roger Hare]

10 minutes ago, Steve Schulteis said:

I just paste the URL on its own line, hit enter, and after a moment it's automatically replaced with the embedded video...

Easy when you know how! Thank you very much!!!

[Leonard]

If Easter Thursday is OK, Easter Tuesday should do as well:

 

X:31
T:Easter Tuesday
B:Dancing-master, or, Directions for dancing country dances (London; Printed by W.Pearson; 14th edition; 1709) 
S:NSL, Glen Collection of printed music. https://digital.nls.uk/89753429
N:"Longways for as many as will."
N:Each Strain is to be play'd twice over.
Z:Leonard 2017
M:6/4
L:1/4
R:
K:C
c>dcB>AG|A2AG>FE|F>GFG2G|c3c3:|
|:eggg>fe|f/g/aaa>gf|e/f/gge>dc|d3G3|
EGGG>FE|F/G/AAA>GF|A/B/cAB/c/dB|c3C3:|]
 

Edited April 20 by Leonard

[Roger Hare]

7 hours ago, Leonard said:

If Easter Thursday is OK, Easter Tuesday would do as well...

Indeed! I had spotted a different 'Easter Tuesday' in Playford Vol.2 (and in Walsh, Compleat Country Dancing Master, Vol. 3) with the alternate title 'White Hard Cabages'. 

 

The version you mentioned had passed me by though, so thank you for that!

Edited April 21 by Roger Hare

[wunks]

" In your Easter Bonnet with all the frills upon it...."

[David Barnert]

1 hour ago, wunks said:

" In your Easter Bonnet with all the frills upon it...."

 

 

[wunks]

Thank you David!  The bridge seems quite a challenge even for duet.  Can anyone play it?

[David Barnert]

17 hours ago, wunks said:

Thank you David!  The bridge seems quite a challenge even for duet.  Can anyone play it?

 

By “bridge,” I assume you mean the part that starts at 1:05 in the above video, with the words “On the avenue.”

 

Judy is singing the song in Eb, which is a key I try to avoid on the 46-key Hayden, since it doesn’t have any real Eb’s (only two D#’s, one on each side, an octave apart, in awkward places for flat keys).

 

So here’s what she sings (with chords and rhythm simplified—she’s actually singing in 12/8):

 

X:1
T:Easter Parade bridge in Eb
C:Irving Berlin
M:4/4
L:1/8
K:Ebmaj
e3/2e/2|"Bb"f3/2f/2 f6- | f6e2|f3/2f/2 f6- | f6f3/2f/2 |
"C7"g3/2g/2g4f2 | "F7"=a2a4f2 | "Bb7"b2bBa2a2 | g3/2g/2_g2f2^f2 |

 

And here it is down a half-step to D, how I would play it.

 

X:2
T:Easter Parade bridge in D
C:Irving Berlin
M:4/4
L:1/8
K:Dmaj
d3/2d/2|"A"e3/2e/2 e6- | e6d2|e3/2e/2 e6- | e6e3/2e/2 |
"B7"f3/2f/2f4e2 | "E7"^g2g4e2 | "A7"a2aAg2g2 | f3/2f/2=f2e2^e2 | 

 

[wunks]

Thanx David.  The melody's easy enough in any key, even Eb.  I like it in Bb and D works as well.

 

Erik