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Month: December 2015

New Year’s Eve

Wait, today’s tune is called New Year’s Eve? What a coincidence.

http://oneaday.dance/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/New-Years-Eve.mp3
Format AudioPosted on 31st December 201524th November 2015Categories 6/4, D-majorLeave a comment on New Year’s Eve

Blue-eyed Stranger

When we were working on the sound effects for the Discworld App, Chris Vallance bought me this, well, this stick and said “I bet you can’t get a tune out of it”. Challenge accepted. It is apparently a semitone flat, so this is the first F# major tune on the blog.

http://oneaday.dance/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Blue-eyed-Stranger.mp3

bamboo flute

Format AudioPosted on 30th December 201527th November 2015Categories 4/4, Fsharp-major1 Comment on Blue-eyed Stranger

Epping Forest

“So, Graham, why did you choose this tune?”

“Is it not obvious? I hadn’t done one beginning with E yet.”

http://oneaday.dance/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Epping-Forest.mp3
Format AudioPosted on 29th December 201524th November 2015Categories 6/8, F-majorLeave a comment on Epping Forest

Old Tom of Oxford

Another “classic” Morris tune. For some reason, while you can’t go to a session in Oxfordshire without tripping over twenty musicians all playing this tune, nobody does it around Warwickshire. Or I go to the wrong/right sessions (delete as appropriate).

http://oneaday.dance/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Old-Tom-of-Oxford.mp3
Format AudioPosted on 28th December 201524th November 2015Categories 4/4, D-major1 Comment on Old Tom of Oxford

Nobe’s Maggot

This is on the same page in my edition of Playford as yesterday’s tune so I found it when playing that. Maggot means something fanciful. As you might expect…

http://oneaday.dance/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Nobes-Maggot.mp3
Format AudioPosted on 27th December 201524th November 2015Categories 9/4, C-majorLeave a comment on Nobe’s Maggot

Christmas Cheer

I’m not sure what they found cheery in this tune, maybe it was named ironically by puritans.

http://oneaday.dance/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Christmas-Cheer.mp3
Format AudioPosted on 26th December 201524th November 2015Categories 3/4, D-minorLeave a comment on Christmas Cheer

Toss the Duchess

I wasn’t willing to let Christmas go past without doing this bransle (a French dance) from Arbeau.

http://oneaday.dance/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Official-Bransle.mp3
Format AudioPosted on 25th December 201519th November 2015Categories 4/4, G-majorLeave a comment on Toss the Duchess

A Life on the Ocean Wave

Frankly it’s a good job everybody knows this by the name of the song, and not the name of the tune.

http://oneaday.dance/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/A-Life-on-the-Ocean-Wave.mp3
Format AudioPosted on 24th December 201524th November 2015Categories 6/8, G-majorLeave a comment on A Life on the Ocean Wave

Little Burnt Potato

Who names these things?

http://oneaday.dance/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Little-Burnt-Potato.mp3
Format AudioPosted on 23rd December 201524th November 2015Categories 6/8, G-majorLeave a comment on Little Burnt Potato

Leather Away the Wattle-O

A silly name, and a silly collection of notes best played with a silly grin at about warp factor 5.

http://oneaday.dance/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Leather-Away-the-Wattle-O.mp3
Format AudioPosted on 22nd December 201524th November 2015Categories 4/4, D-majorLeave a comment on Leather Away the Wattle-O

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