Wait, today’s tune is called New Year’s Eve? What a coincidence.
Month: December 2015
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.
Epping Forest
“So, Graham, why did you choose this tune?”
“Is it not obvious? I hadn’t done one beginning with E yet.”
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).
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…
Christmas Cheer
I’m not sure what they found cheery in this tune, maybe it was named ironically by puritans.
Toss the Duchess
I wasn’t willing to let Christmas go past without doing this bransle (a French dance) from Arbeau.
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.
Little Burnt Potato
Who names these things?
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.