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A Collection of Jigs, Slip Jigs, Reels, Polkas, Hornpipes, "Double"
Hornpipes, Waltzes and Fancies from the North West of England.
Including rare tunes from the Ellis Knowles Manuscript, Lancashire/Yorkshire
c. 1847.
Printed Edition 64 Pages, over 160 tunes.
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A.J. Doyle |
117 Huddersfield Rd |
Diggle, Saddleworth |
Oldham |
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The Wrapper Band play : Melodeon, Fiddle, Piccolo, Electric Bass, Keyboards and Percussion.
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The Wrapper Band perform traditional
English dance music, mainly from the North West (Manchester, Cheshire,
Lancashire) with some Yorkshire, Shropshire, Scottish and American thrown
in for variety. The band has appeared on TV, at the Beverley Folk Festival,
and also appears at premier dance venues such as Poynton, WiggInce,
Mythenroyd.
This site has, information on Traditional Composers and Collectors, articles on the Double or 3/2 Hornpipe, and various midi and gif versions of tunes. We have also written a program which can be used to search for the origin or source book for tunes, which is shareware, but is available for free download. There is also links to interesting Traditional Dance music information and more general Saddleworth/North West resourses.
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The Manchester Quadrille - Ellis Knowles 259
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[ Tunes to play on this page
- Pots and Pans, Wounded Hussar ]
This site contains a number of scored tunes from manuscript sources which you can print and play yourself.
We have also converted some Mod files to Midi for those that can't read music music you can have a listen, these are a bit crude at the moment and, of course, they are no replacement for live music. The Wrapper Band hope to expand the site and will be adding Links, midi and score tunes when we can.
If you've not played a midi before, your browser will ask for an application to play it, e.g. mplayer.exe in Windows, Netscape has npaudio.dll. To get reasonable results you will also need a sound card (at least). Try some of the Links for further info /FAQ etc.
Once the tune starts playing you should be able to return to the browser and carry on surfing!
The Plain Brown Tune Book [ Go Top ]
[ Sample tunes from Ellis Knowles MS. ]
[ The Manchester "Festival" Quadrille - Ellis
Knowles 259 ]
The Plain Brown Tune Book is a result of various searches of local libraries, manuscripts and material contributed by band members. Where possible I have included the more unusual or hard to get tunes, in order not to clash with other publications that are available such as the excellent "Northern Frisk" series by Jamie Knowles. The main idea was to collect tunes known to have been played in the area (such as Double Hornpipes), tunes with connections to the North and North West of England for the period 1650-1850 (gleaned through a study of Broad sheet ballads) and to put some of the [ Ellis Knowles manuscript tunes ] into readable format. This was done primarily done to increase the bands knowledge of the music of the 17th 18th and 19th Centuries, but has now grown into this book.
The Ellis Knowles manuscript would to have been compiled in the first half of the 19th Century, probably in Radcliffe, Lancashire England. It is dated on various pages between 1845 - 1848, and is also stamped by Edmund Eddows music shop. As well as Ellis Knowles some of the tunes, in particular a number of classical pieces, are signed by James Knowles Copyist. The manuscript remained with the a fine fiddle until it was rediscovered in Sheffield in 1979.
Although fading now, and therefore difficult to read in places, the tunes were obviously written by a talented, and perhaps classically trained musician in the style of Scott Skinner or [ Neil Gow.]
Scott Skinner was known to have studied in Manchester, as a youth, in the 1850's. It is interesting to note that the unattributed tune "Madame Sylvain" in Skinner's "The Scottish Violinist " appears as "Radford Hornpipe" in the Ellis Knowles manuscript. Another fine tune in a similar vein is [ Ellis Knowles no. 4 ]
As well as a variety of Hornpipes the book contains Jigs, Reels, Polkas, Songs tunes, strathspeys and classical pieces. There is also a large selection of Slip Jigs, so perhaps Strip the Willow was as a popular dance.
The band has a policy of promoting local music and the Ellis Knowles tunes are very interesting from that point of view alone, however we feel that Ellis Knowles has created a document that is of interest to anyone studying English, Irish or Scottish traditional music.
Thanks to Ralph Smethurst for [ Pots and Pans ] a tune named after a local rock formation in the Penines, click on the score and hear a MIDI rendition..
Tony Doyle - Diggle, Saddleworth.
Until then, here are some samples :-
(Search around for more)
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The Wounded Hussar
[ Play the Wounded Hussar MIDI ]
From WM. C. Honeyman - The Young Violinist's Tutor and Duet Book. Circa
1913
Described by Honeyman as :-
This quaint and pathetic old melody forms
a pleasing and easily mastered exercise for the third position. As this is
one of the few tunes formed on the old Caledonian scale which will not bear
tinkering according to our modern ideas of the Minor scale, the seventh of
the scale, A, is natural throughout, never sharp. The copy here given is
taken from a very ancient MS., and I have every reason to believe is correct.
The pupil has now to accomplish the feat of descending from the shift without
the aid of an open string, rapidly enough to cause no perceptible break in
the melody ; and to be able to do so by the wrist, and in a graceful
manner. There must be no hasty throwing down of the bow on the string at
the last moment; the hair must be placed on the string, allowed to rest there
at least for a fraction of a time before it is moved, the first note of a
soloist being as important as the first of a public speaker.
From Lesley Nelson - Ancient Music Web Site
"I have a site devoted to Turlough Carolan and the Wounded Hussar is actually
his tune - Captain O'Kane.
"The Wounded Hussar" words were later added by Thomas Campbell".
You can compare the tunes by visiting Lesley's Site of Ancient Music
- [ Music of Turlough
Carolan ]
"The Plain Brown Tune Book" By Tony Doyle - [ Notes on the Plain Brown Tune Book ]
"Northern Frisk", Jamie Knowles first book with Ian (Sam) McGrady and Pat Knowles. Jamie is a well known local fiddler was with The Rising Sun Band, named after a pub where monster sessions used to be held in Mossley.
Sadly out of print.. [ Dave Mallinson
Publications ]
Latest gossip is that Dave Mallinson has bought the rights and may
reprint.
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"A Northern Lass" is the title of the second book by Jamie Knowles
- of Tunes from the North West of England.
[ Dave Mallinson Publications ] 3 East
View, Moorside, Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire, UK BD19 6LD
Telephone +44 (0)1274 876388 / facsimile +44 (0)1274 865208
[ Contents of "A Northern Lass" by Jamie Knowles ]
Music of Cheshire, Lancashire, Yorkshire and the Lake District from the last
four centuries
(Note. Along with "Northern Frisk" by Jamie and "John of the Greeny Cheshire
Way" by John Offord, it is essential reading for anyone studying English
music.) ISBN 1 899512 16 0
"One Too Many" £3-50p , 22 tunes by excellent local (Mossley) melodeon player, Ian Ball.
"John of the Greeny Cheshire Way" (The Famous "Double" Hornpipes of
Lancashire and Cheshire.) by John Offord. Sadly out of print, although
I did hear John was trying to re-publish.
[ John of the Greeny
Cheshire Way - abc music format ] [
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"Joseph Kershaw's Manuscript" By INWAC (In With A Chance), local manuscript published in full.
Joseph Kershaw was a fiddle player who lived in the Oldham / Saddleworth
area in the Nineteenth century. Water marks on the paper indicate that the
tunes were written down from 1817 onwards. Several "Double" Hornpipes are
included, showing that theory that this form of dance music had died
out were premature, at least in the North West of England. The Manuscript
is currently held at the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library.
Local Musicians are (including the Wrapper Band) are keen to revive the "Double"
Hornpipe. It is mostly used for sessions and "listening tunes" between dances,
however there are also a number of more adventurous callers using them for
dances.
"A First Collection of Yorkshire Dance Music" Ashton and Dyson,
reprinted by InWaC.
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E-Mail me if you want the INWAC publications and I'll contact Jenny Coxon. Or try [ Dave Mallinson Publications ]
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Other good books for English Traditional Music [ Go Top ]
"Lincolnshire Collection Vol. 1 - The Joshua Gibbons
Manuscript" ISBN 0 9530117 0 4
by Peter Sumner
Tunes from a variety of sourse, collected in Tealby, Lincolnshire between
1823 and 1826 by Joshua Gibbons 1778-1871 a papermaker.
Excellently presented collection of tunes from Tealby Lincolnshire - A Must
have book! I will be providing a link to more information on this book as
soon as it becomes available.
P. D. Sumner 41 Hainton Avenue, Grimsby, DN32
9AS. England U.K. Cheque for £10.95 plus £1.50
p&p
"South Riding Tune Book" - South Riding Folk
Network ISBN 0 9529857 0 5
by Paul Davenport
There are now two volumes of the South Riding tune books, from Yorkshire, which are very good and are well worth having. They can be obtained from, The Secretary, SRFN, 24 Chapel Street, Mosborough, Sheffield S20 5BT. The cost is £6.95 + £1.00 P&P, each.
"Joshua Jackson Manuscript - 1798 from North Yorkshire" ISBN 1 897925 17 4
Geoff and Liz Bowen , Robin and Rosalind Sheperd have done a fantastic job
to produce the Joshua Jackson Book. An absolute must for anyone interested
in English Traditional Music. Produced in association with the Yorkshire
Dales Workshop.
Obtain your copy from YDW, 14 Oakburn Road, Ilkely, LS29 9NN UK
Cost £12 + £1.50p Postage.
[ Visit the Yorkshire Dales Workshops Web Site www.btinternet.com/~ydw ]
Wm Mittell His Book - 1799 New Romney, Kent ISBN 1 898512 00 0
A collection of Hornpipes, Reels. Country Dances for the Violin & German
Flute. Progressive for Practice.
"Being a collection of Dancing Tunes for the flute, violin oboy, with figures
to each tune as performed overleaf"
80 tunes Transcribed out of 147 in the original manuscript by Dave
Roberts. Includes 3 Double Hornpipes.
Contact - Timespan Music Publications, East Timewell Cottage,
Morebath, Tiverton, Devon
EX16 9BY UK . Cost £7-50p + p&p ( £1.50p)
A Sussex Tune Book - Anne Loughran and Vic Gammon EFDAS
Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Rd, London, NW1 7AY
Collected from various manuscripts 1796 - 1852, in particular Michael Turner, bootmaker.
The Great Northern Tune Book - William Vickers manuscript 1770 by
Matt Seattle Dragonfly.
Parts 1, 2 and 3 Dragonfly Music- 10 Gibson St Newbiggin-by-the-sea,
Northumberland NE64 6PE UK
580 tunes from the Vickers manuscript, Sadly out of print. Contact Matt Seattle
at Dragonfly, if a few people want it he may do a re-print (hope!) Even I
haven't got Part 1. (anyone with a spare copy please contact me)
Matt Seattle ( pronounced Seetle) website,
http://dragonflymusic.co.uk/
James Merryweather sent this German site that does Matt a good job. [ DragonFly Sheet Music http://www.spielleute.de/dragonf.htm ]
His address these days is Matt Seattle - PO box -- 13772, Peebles, EH45 8YE.
The Fiddler of Helperby - Lawrence Leadly manuscript
ISBN 1-872277-18-7
by James Merryweather & Matt Seatle
Dragonfly Music- 10 Gibson St Newbiggin-by-the-sea, Northumberland NE64 6PE
UK
[ The York Waits (James Merryweather - http://www.intr.net/bleissa/lists/yorkwait.html) ]
e-mail James Merryweather for further details/copies -- jwm5@york.ac.uk (Merryweather, J.W.)
The life and music of a Yorkshire Fiddler, from Lawrence Leadly architect c1850. Lawrence also lived in Bradford.
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A few weeks ago, Jonny Brown, guitar wizard, songwriter and spokesmen in Oldham rock'n'roll newcomers The Children, received a phone call from none other than Paul Weller. Being a huge worshipper and life-long fan of the self-styled 'Modfather', Jonny was understandably excited about talking to his idol.
Kyla Brox and Danny Blomiley - Victor Brox's daughter and brilliant young Bass and Guitar player Danny. Their Blues Band now includes Marshall from Stone and Tony Marshall on Sax - They tour Australia regularly and play at top festivals. In UK Danny runs an open night session at Roaches Lock Mossley, on Sunday. As well as gigging as duo with Kyla performing their original material.
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