Paul Hardy's Session Tunebook 2020
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15 Sep, 2021 Paul Hardy’s Session Tunebook 2021 Introduction This tunebook contains tunes I have learned to play on my English concertina, that are played at folk music sessions: particularly around Cambridge (England) and Redlands (California), and at some UK concertina gatherings like those of the WCCP in Somerset. They should also be playable on other folk melody instruments like fiddle, whistle, flute, or dulcimer. Most are traditional tunes from the British Isles, including many English, Irish, and Scottish dance tunes, but others are an eclectic mix of session favourites. Many have been learned by ear or handouts from various sessions in the UK and US, while others have been adapted from Internet resources, in abc, midi or visual score formats. All are believed free of current copyright (unless noted explicitly), or else appear to have been placed in the public domain as part of the ongoing live folk music tradition. Please let me know if you are the owner of any that are under access restrictions and I’ll remove them, or provide appropriate attribution. Thanks go to those who gave permission for copyrights of the few modern tunes, such as Andy Cutting. Particular thanks to Kathryn Tickell of Coquetdale Music Publishing for Northumbrian tunes by herself, Billy Pigg, Willie Taylor, and Will Atkinson. I have tried to present simple versions of most tunes, without much decoration and interpretation, so add your own triplets, grace notes and variations. I have included guitar chords, sometimes refined from computer-generated ones - use these as guidance, not definitive! Tunes in 4/4 time that have the rhythm indication "Hornpipe" should usually be ’swung’ - lengthen the first and shorten the second in every pair of quavers - as in "Thursday". Elsewhere these are sometimes written as ’dotted quaver, semiquaver’, but that ratio of 3:1 seems too high - perhaps try for around 2:1. This tunebook has been prepared using the abcm2ps software, with help from abc2midi, abcmus, Melody Assistant, ABCexplorer, and EasyABC. A big thank you goes to those creative and dedicated people who give their time to create and maintain low-cost or free and open source software for abc music editing and output. Thanks also go to Greenshoots (www.greenshootsmusic.org.uk) for the slow sessions near Cambridge in England that let me learn many of these tunes, and then refined them (with special thanks to the Brind family for chord revisions); to the Chiltinas concertina group near Bedford and the WCCP Kilve weekends in Somerset that gave me concertina technique and playing confidence; the Ceili House Band in Redlands in California that opened my ears to the range of Irish music; and the celtic jam sessions at Green Valley Lake in the nearby San Bernadino Mountains that broadened my repertoire. The current version of this tunebook, in ABC and in PDF forms, is downloadable for free from Paul’s web site at www.paulhardy.net, or you can order there a printed and bound copy (via Lulu.com). Find there also Paul Hardy’s Annex Tunebook for new and improved tunes and errata since last major release of the Session Tunebook, the Basic Tunebook, with about 60 of the most common and simpler tunes, and Paul Hardy’s Xmas Tunebook with about 60 Christmas tunes and carols. Copyright Paul Hardy ([email protected]) 2004-2021. Work is licenced under a Creative Commons "Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike" by-nc-sa licence. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ - Contact Paul Hardy for commercial licensing. Original tunebook started July 2004. This 2021 edition is of 12 September 2021 with minor edits to 15 Sep 2021. Paul Hardy’s Session Tunebook 2021 © 2004-2021 cc by-nc-sa 1 15 Sep, 2021 Abbess, The Air The Abbess Andy Cutting 2010 = 100 England GEmG EmC Am D 4 4 CAmBmEmAmD7G G C Am D7 Bm Em Am D CAmBmEmAmD7G G Em Am Bm G Em Am D Bm C Am Bm Em Am D7 G 6 4 4 4 Jig Abbots Bromley Horn Dance Trad. = 60 England, Thaxted Em B7 Em B7 Em Em B7 Em B7 Em 6 8 Am D Em D Em C D B7 Em Em Am Em Am Em B7 Em3 Em Am Em Am Em B7 Em Reel Aiken Drum Trad. Before 1820 = 140 Willie Wood Scotland There’s a Man Came to our Town DGDE7A7DGA7D 4 4 DGDEmA7DGA7D Polka Albert Farmer’s Bonfire Tune Trad. = 140 England, Surrey D G A7 D G A7 D 2 2 DEmA7D GA7D 2 Paul Hardy’s Session Tunebook 2021 © 2004-2021 cc by-nc-sa 15 Sep, 2021 Alexander’s Hornpipe Hornpipe Alexander’s Hornpipe Trad. = 160 Sandlark Hornpipe Ireland DAEmDA3 4 4 3 3 3 D A Em D A D 3 DGAD 3 DGAAD 3 Reel Alexandra Park Trad. Kerr 1875 = 150 Scotland, Glasgow GCDGD 4 4 G CDGDG DEmAmBmC D DEmAmBmCD G March All in a Garden Green Trad. Playford 1651 = 90 Harwood Hall England G D Em G C Am D 2 2 C G Am D7 G GCD7GEmAmD7G Am Bm C Am D G Paul Hardy’s Session Tunebook 2021 © 2004-2021 cc by-nc-sa 3 15 Sep, 2021 Alston Clog Hornpipe Hornpipe Alston Clog Hornpipe Trad. = 120 England, Lancashire DA7EmDADA 4 4 DA7DADAD DGEA7 DA7DADAD Waltz Amazing Grace Carrell and Clayton 1831, after trad UK. = 100 New Britain USA Words by Newton 1779 GCGD 3 4 GCGEmDG3 March American Patrol F. W. Meacham 1885 = 160 USA Made popular by Glen Miller G CAm 3 4 4 GA7D G 3 C D Am D7 G CG C GCGD7 GCGD7G 4 Paul Hardy’s Session Tunebook 2021 © 2004-2021 cc by-nc-sa 15 Sep, 2021 Angeline the Baker Polka Angeline the Baker Trad. = 100 Angelina Baker USA DGDGD 2 2 DGDGD Jig Anne Fraser MacKenzie Trad. = 100 Scotland GD GD GD G D 6 8 GD GAmD G GCGD Em D G Am D G March Ap Shenkin Trad. AABA The Tempest Wales = 100 A GCG AmD7 6 8 GCGD7GFINE B GD G C G D7 GD G D G EmD Em March Apley House Trad. Playford 11a 1702 = 90 England GAmD7GG 2 2 D A D G A7 D C G Em D71 G2 G Paul Hardy’s Session Tunebook 2021 © 2004-2021 cc by-nc-sa 5 15 Sep, 2021 Appelbo Ganglat March Appelbo Ganglat Trad. = 80 Gånglåt Från Äppelbo Sweden Swedish Walking Tune G D 2 2 DG D G GDC DG D7 G D G Waltz Ar Eirinn Trad. = 90 For Ireland, I Won’t Say Her Name Ireland G Am7 G Em D 3 4 GC GCDCDG GCEmGEmD G C G C D Am7 D G Air Archibald MacDonald of Keppoch Trad. = 100 Scotland Em C G D Em C Bm Em 3 4 C G Am Em G C Bm Em Em G D Em G Bm Em 6 Paul Hardy’s Session Tunebook 2021 © 2004-2021 cc by-nc-sa 15 Sep, 2021 Archie’s Fancy Waltz Archie’s Fancy Billy Pigg (1902-1968) = 120 England, Northumbria © Coquetdale Music Publishing GCD7CG 3 4 3 3 GCAmDG GAmDAmDG 3 3 GEmAmDAmDG Waltz Arran Boat Trad. = 90 Scotland Em D Em D Em 3 4 Em G D Em G C Em G D Em D Em Waltz The Ash Grove Trad. = 100 Wales DG Am D G C G DG 3 4 G D7 G Em D A D GAmDGCGDG Paul Hardy’s Session Tunebook 2021 © 2004-2021 cc by-nc-sa 7 15 Sep, 2021 Ashokan Farewell Air Ashokan Farewell Jay Ungar 1983 = 80 USA D D7 G Bm D G A7 3 4 DD7GBmD A7D DGDBmGA7 D C G D A7 D Hornpipe Astley’s Hornpipe Trad. = 160 Ashley’s Hornpipe England GEmCGAmG 4 4 G Em C G Am G D7 G G D Em D G D G D GAmDEmG D GD7G Reel Astley’s Ride Trad. Clare 1834 = 160 Ashleys Rides England Philip Astley founded the modern circus DA7DGDA7 4 4 D A7 G A7 D D G A7 D Bm Em G A7 D 8 Paul Hardy’s Session Tunebook 2021 © 2004-2021 cc by-nc-sa 15 Sep, 2021 Atholl Highlanders, The March The Atholl Highlanders Trad. = 100 Scotland AGAGA 6 8 AGADA ADAGA ADADA A GA A DA AGAEm AGADA Reel Aunt Hessy’s White Horse Trad. = 200 Aunt Hessie; Aunt Hassie South Africa G D7 G D7 G 4 4 G G C G D7 D7 G March Away to the Maypole Trad. = 70 All Around The Maypole, How They Trot England DGDADDGDAD 2 2 DAEADGDAD Paul Hardy’s Session Tunebook 2021 © 2004-2021 cc by-nc-sa 9 15 Sep, 2021 Bagpipers March Bagpipers Trad. (Mittell 1799) = 80 England, Kent Em C AmD7G C Em AmD7G 2 2 G D G Em C Em Am D7 G Polka Ballydesmond Polka 1 Trad. = 100 Ireland Am G Am G Am 2 2 Am G Am G Am Polka Ballydesmond Polka 2 Trad. = 100 Ireland Am G F Em G Am G Am G Am G Am 2 2 Am G Am G Am G Am G Am Jig Bang Upp Trad. Docker m.s. = 110 Bang Up England, Cumbria DGDADGDA7D 6 8 DA D GD EmA7DA D G A7D D G A7 D G A7 D 10 Paul Hardy’s Session Tunebook 2021 © 2004-2021 cc by-nc-sa 15 Sep, 2021 Banish Misfortune Jig Banish Misfortune Trad. = 90 Ireland DC DCD C 6 8 DC D C D C D DC DCDCD DC DC D C D CDCD Waltz Ye Banks and Braes O Bonnie Doon Trad.