Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on September 11th 2008 by Conway.
This tune has been added to 11 tunebooks.
Also known as Dic Y Cymro, Dick The Welch Man, Dick The Welchman, Dick The Welsh Man.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Dick The Welshman
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Dmaj
|:A|FE DF|GB AF|Bd AF|GE EA|
FE DF|GB AF|Bd AG|FD D:|
|:A|Bd cd|Ad cd|GB AF|GE EA|
Bd cd|Ad cd|GB AG|FD D :|
Dick the Welshman
Best played with a bit of swing, best heard on the Kilbride Brothers CD.
# Posted on September 11th 2008 by Conway
Isn't it in A on the Kilbrides's album?
# Posted on September 16th 2008 by dafydd
Dic y cymro in A (Kilbride Key)
X:1
T:Dic y Cymro
M:2/4
L:1/8
R:Polka
K:Amaj
|:e| cB Ac | df ec | fa ec | dB Be |
cB Ac | df ec | fa ed | cA A :|
|:e| fa ga | ea ga | df ec | dB Be |
fa ga | ea ga |df ed | cA A:|
# Posted on February 17th 2010 by Abram Wood
Here's link for Cambro-Brython
On Kilbride's album the first tracks are vicey versey, but here's the link for the first tune on track 1.
http://www.thesession.org?tunes?display?10279
# Posted on February 17th 2010 by Abram Wood
O.K. lets try that again without shift, yma link,
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/10279
# Posted on February 17th 2010 by Abram Wood
"Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, Volume 2"
London, 1765
Also to be found arranged for piano, 4/4, two hands, in Hugh Mellor's little booklet "Welsh Dance Tunes", 1935, under the same title, "Dick the Welshman", from the source given in the heading, where it is for a specific country dance... Mellor's transcription is,based on those given, AAB, not AABB. Here are the ABCs for the earlier source, changed to 2/4 for easier comparison ~
X: 2
T: Dick the Welshman
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: country dance
K: Amaj
|: e |\
cB Ac | df ec | fa ec | dB Be |
cB Ac | df ec | fa ed | cA A :|
|: e |\
fa ga | ea ga | (3def ec | dB Be |
fa ga | ea ga | (3def ed | cA A :|
Except for the triplets, (3def, it is identical to Abram's contribution given above...
Also find it here as 4/4,
courtesy of "The Fiddler's Companion", Andrew Kuntz
http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/index.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/DIA_DIM.htm
# Posted on February 18th 2010 by ceolachan
"Dick the Welch Man" ~ as titled in Thompson's
Publishers: Thompsons, Charles & Samuel, London, 1765
"Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, Volume 2" ~ dots and ABCs
The Village Music Project
http://www.village-music-project.org.uk/
http://www.village-music-project.org.uk/pcroom.htm
The Dots ~
http://www.village-music-project.org.uk/pcroom/thompsonsvol2.pdf
The ABCs ~
http://www.village-music-project.org.uk/pcroom/abc/Thompson200Vol2.abc
# Posted on February 18th 2010 by ceolachan
"Dick the Welch Man" ~ Thompson's
II. 92. Dick the Welch Man
X: 3
T: Dick the Welshman
B: "Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, Volume 2"
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: country dance
K: Amaj
|: e |\
{d}cBAc dfec | faec dBBe |
{d}cBAc dfec | faed cAA :|
|: e |\
faga eaga | (3def ec dB-Be |
faga eaga | (3def ed cA-A :|
# Posted on February 18th 2010 by ceolachan
Oops! ~ T: Dick the Welch Man
# Posted on February 18th 2010 by ceolachan