The Spaniard

[Alan Day]

 

[Alan Day]

This tune was taken from the Apted collection of English Country Dance music 

17th/18th Century. Originally recorded by Rosbif.

Al.

[Roger Hare]

11 hours ago, Alan Day said:

This tune was taken from the Apted collection of English Country Dance music..

Nice! Thank you!

 

Here is some simple ABC (from a different source, and 'tidied-up' a little by me). The transcription does not appear on the main VMP web page, but it has a VMP-style 'catalogue number', and the transcribers are (or have been) heavy contributors to other VMP transcriptions:

%%MIDI program 23
%%measurenb 0
%%notespacingfactor 1

X:11010
T:Spaniard, The
%A lightly edited tune from Thompson's Compleat Collection..., vol. 4: http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/book/
%Rudimentary accompaniment chords generated by ABCMus, setting 0.
B:Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances Volume IV. THO4.110
Z:vmp. Fynn Titford-Mock 2007, Peter Dunk 2010/11
M:6/8
L:1/8
Q:3/8=120
K:Gmaj
|: "G" G3 D3 | "G" B3 G3 | "Am" BAB c2 A | "G" B3 G3 | "G" d3 c3 | "G" B3 A3 | "G" GGG A2 F | "G" G3 G3 :|
|: "G" b3 bag | "Em" a2 f g2 e | "G" d3 dcB | "G" c2 A B2 G | "G" b3 bag | "Em" a2 f g2 e | "G" d3 dcB | "C" c2 A G3 :|

 

ABC, PDF and MIDI files attached:

spaniard.abc spaniard.pdf spaniard.mid

Edited May 21, 2025 by Roger Hare

[Alan Day]

Many thanks Roger.

Al

[Roger Hare]

20 hours ago, Alan Day said:

Many thanks...

My pleasure! All part of the service...

 

It's part of my own small efforts to put something back, in return for all the help and advice I've had from members of this community over the last ~10 years.

 

There's also an ulterior motive - this sort of thing gives me the opportunity to road-test my current project - concatenating a load of 'legacy' ABC files into one humungous ABC file, and tweaking them so that the 'database' is amenable to being queried in a generic way to spit out all versions of a particular tune (and other things). This time, the only version which was coughed up by the 'database' was the one from Thompson Vol. 4...

Edited May 22, 2025 by Roger Hare