1 John Mason played the fiddle at Stow-on-the-Wold on 28 March & 2 August 1907 and 29 July, 2 & 18 August 1909, coll. CJ Sharp and some tunes on 22 June 1912, coll. Clive Carey
24 4 4
6810
12 14 16
Thimble Hornpipe (Liverpool Hornpipe)
2 4 4 4
6810
12 14 16
Liverpool Hornpipe
24 4 4
6810
14 12 16
Odd barring as in CJS manuscript ©Gloucestershire Traditions 2
Princess Royal Turlough O’Carolan 246 4 4
81012
14 16 18 20
Original Key: D dorian, one whole tone lower
Highland Quick Step
2468
8 10 12 14 16
16 18 20 22 24
Bourton Six (The Krakowiak, The Crakovienne)
24 68 4 4
810121416
Bar 6 was noted |BGG2| in the ms. "Morris Dance" ©Gloucestershire Traditions 3
Nutting Girl
246 8FINE 4 4
Da Capo 10 12 14 16
Persian Dance (Galopede)
246 4 4
810 12
14 16 18
20 22 24
Country Dance (My Love she’s but a Lassie yet)
246 8 4 4
10 12 14 16
©Gloucestershire Traditions 4
Rose Tree
2 468 4 4
12 8 10 14 16
Original in G, one fifth lower. "Country Dance"
The Sloe
2468 4 4
8 10 12 14 16
"Country Dance"
Greensleeves
2 4 6 8 6 8
10 12 14 16
"Tobacco Pipe Dance" Noted by CC as here, by CJS in D mixolydian one fifth lower. ©Gloucestershire Traditions 5
Old Heddon of Forlay (Idbury Hill, London Pride)
246 4 4
81012
Old Trunko (Trunkles)
1 2 2446 4 4
Play 3 times 8 10 12 14
"Morris Dance"
Molly Oxford
246 8 4 4
10 12 14 16
"Morris Dance" ©Gloucestershire Traditions 6
Bobbing Around
2468 4 4
810 12 14 16
Alternatives 16 Bar 1 Bar 10
"Morris Dance"
The Triumph
1 2 244 4 4
6 8 10
12 14 16
©Gloucestershire Traditions 7
Heel and Toe (Monk’s March, Belle Isles March)
24 4 4
6810
12 14 16
Untitled (Highland Mary)
24 4 4
6810
12 14 16
Bar 11 has been added to the original 7 bars of B music. "Stick Dance" ©Gloucestershire Traditions 8
The Sweet Briar
24 6 8 4 4
8101214 16
16 18 20 22 24
"Country Dance"
Shepherd’s Hey
2468 4 4
10 12 14 16
"Morris Dance"
Gallop Hey
2 4 6 8 FINE 4 4
10 12 14 16
18 20 22 24 D.C.
"Country Dance" ©Gloucestershire Traditions 9
Morris Dance 1
24 68 4 4
10 12 141 162 16
Morris Dance 2
24 6 4 4
8 10 12 14
16 18 20 22 24
Morris Dance 3
1 2 24 688 4 4
8101214
16 18 20 22 24
©Gloucestershire Traditions 10
Maid of the Mill
2468#? #? 6 8
810121416#?
"Country Dance or Morris" Transcribed as in 2235. #?: These c’s are marked "Sometimes neutral sometimes natural"; In 1376 most C’s were marked # except in bars 3, 7, 10, 11 and 15. Bar 4 was sometimes played as bar 12.
Haste to the Wedding
2468 6 8
10 12 14 16
Alternatives bar 15 bar 4 18
No.2220 is pitched in D (as printed here), but no. 1259 is in C. Its main variants are given as alternatives. "Country Dance"
Quickstep
2468 6 8
810 12 14 16
©Gloucestershire Traditions 11
Bonnets so Blue
246 8 6 8
8 10 12 14 16
18 20 22 24
"Country Dance"
Jockey to the Fair
2 4 68 6 8
8101214
16 18 20 22
Original in D, one fourth lower; "Morris Dance, a jig generally danced by two men together" ©Gloucestershire Traditions 12
Black Joker
24 6 6 8
81012 3 6 8 8
14 16
"Morris Dance; a jig for two men"
Lumps of Plum Pudding
1 2 244 6 8
12 6810
Alternatives (Clive Carey) bar 10 12bars 1,2 14 bar 13 16 bar 15
3 Clive Carey stated "Played C# almost all through."
New Rigged Ship
2 46 8 6 8
810 12 14 16
"Nice drops and raises to that tune." ©Gloucestershire Traditions 13
Swaggering Boney (CJ Sharp)
24 6 6 8
slower 81012 9 6 8 8
Swaggering Boney (Clive Carey)
24 6 8
6 8 10 12
Barring changed in bars 5 to 12
Oyster Girl
2 4 6 8 6 8
10 12 14 16
Alternative bar 6 (more often) 9 8
"Morris Dance" ©Gloucestershire Traditions 14
Hunt the Squirrel
2 46 8 FINE 6 8
8 10 12 14 16 D.C.
"Always played after Pop Goes the Weasel" "Country Dance"
Roast Beef of Old England
2 4 6 8
46 8 10
"Country Dance"
Trip to the Forest
2468 6 8
8101214 16
With my Basket on my Arm
246 8 6 8
8101214 16
©Gloucestershire Traditions 15
Susianna
2468 6 8
810 12 14 16
Variants bars 9 & 1018 bar 15
The tune given is as played in 1907. Variants indicated are as in 1909 ©Gloucestershire Traditions
Market Chorus
2468 4 4
10 12 14 16
18 20 22 24
26 28 30 32
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