"This funeral March should be performed tempo grave I think"
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Melancholy tunes...
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Transatlantique by Tarrent Bailey Junior
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A couple of Christmas tunes...
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"It's a funeral March. Interesting."
"This march seems dramatic and a bit melodramatic too but it doesn't make me feel sad. It is sombre, subdued, formal. More like grief repressed than expressed. Good banjo tune though! I like the hornpipe as well."
"Here is a "dead march".
https://archive.org/details/517-continental-hornpipe-dead-march-the-drummer-boy"
"Cammeyer's 'Ballade No 1' and Hunter's 'Romance' (published in his tutor book) are a bit melancholic. 'Romance' is supposed to be played in tremolo style but sounds good without all the finger wagging. "
" A sad schottische is a funny idea to contemplate. They are typically relentlessly jolly."
"I may have a couple Song and Dance Schottisches that might fit that. Oh, how about a Dead March? CB"
"Yeah, the old Scottish music book was probably printed for a sponsor. That was the way for the composer/fiddlers. No recordings to sell at a gig. So, contribute to the printing of a new tune book and the author will compose (or steal) a reel…"
"When I started you had to get your sheet music from eBay where it was usually sold as "suitable for framing". Full of character and with that distinctive musty smell.
But I work from my own copies or downloads, partly because I want to…"
"Steve Walker In the accompanying booklet to the CD "Twilight Echoes/ English Ragtime in the 20s" writes about Olly Oakley's 1927 re-recording of some of his old discs "......he proceeds to play the andante of SWEET JASMINE with…"
"This is a really interesting video on the topic of why music notation developed the way it did and why it's still the most effective way to transmit musical information for musicians. The title is click bait and the audio alone will work for…"
"I mean unless you want to revert to neumatic notation I don't think there's a better option for actually visually representing music"
"There's no reason to have time signatures either. Anyone can count beats. Why have those fractions? Can't we just go metric?
All orchestral instruments assume formal training and hide aspects from the unwashed. I think we're…"
"Oh yes, elitism and secret knowledge at the highest level of gate keeping. It is so secret that Bradbury waited until page 7 to tell you about it.
Austin, there are other instruments than the banjo that sound an octave lower than they are…"
"Publishers won't let you use regular notation anyway without tab according to Clarke."
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A Joe Morley Pilgrimage
I took advantage of a trip to a client in South London today to pay a visit to Joe Morley's grave.
I've written it up in a post on my blog at Walthamstow Folk Club - http://www.walthamstowfolk.co.uk/blog/?p=206
The accompanying text is probably of limited interest to you specialist expert types here but thought I'd share it anyway!…
I've written it up in a post on my blog at Walthamstow Folk Club - http://www.walthamstowfolk.co.uk/blog/?p=206
The accompanying text is probably of limited interest to you specialist expert types here but thought I'd share it anyway!…
Posted on September 29, 2009 at 18:07 — 1 Comment
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- At 19:58 on September 7, 2014,
Hal Allert said…
Thanks for considering me your friend, Russ.
- At 13:39 on February 26, 2023,
Jake Glanville said…
I wonder if there is any truth in the family legend that my distant relative Alfred Peck Stevens aka Alfred Glanville Vance aka The Great Vance, played a William Temlett Snr. zither-banjo shortly before his death on stage at The Sun Music Hall in 1888?
Black Jake of Norwich.
- At 7:48 on February 28, 2023,
Richard William Ineson said…
Wikipedia : Vance suffered from heart disease, and died on 26 December 1888, at the age of about 49, while performing on the stage of the Sun Music Hall, Knightsbridge.[1][3] He is buried in Nunhead Cemetery, although his headstone no longer exists.
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