Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on October 31st 2002 by lazyhound.
This tune has been added to 15 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Joys Of Wedlock, The
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Gmaj
|:GAG GBd|gfe d2c|Bdg dBG|FAA A2D|
GAG GBd|gfe d2c|BdB cAF|GAG G3:|
|:Bdg dBG|Bdg d2c|Bdg dBG|FAA A2c|
Bdd def|gfe fdc|B/2c/2dB cAF|GAG G3:||
This version of the tune comes from an old collection of New England fiddle music.
# Posted on November 7th 2002 by lazyhound
Which Collection of NE Music?
I found an old collection of New England tunes at the Providence Library where I saw this tune. The book was black & may have been re-bound, I couldn't find any title info on it. I'll have to check it out to find out more info on it, but it seemed like a good reference as to what was going on with the music of New England in the early part of the 1900's.
# Posted on November 7th 2002 by Mad Baloney
Source
Brad, many thanks for your research on this one.
My source is an old ring-bound soft-covered volume of 168 tunes which I found for a few pence in a second-hand bookshop. I would guess it is at least 20-30 years old. The front cover and first few pages are missing, and there is nothing printed on the back cover or elsewhere to indicate its origin or date, so I don't know who compiled it. All the tune pages are intact but only 1 (I think) of the contents pages is still there. Someone has pencilled on the first page of tunes "New England Fiddle Music". It is a useful source because many of the tunes don't seem to be readily available elsewhere. I'm in the process of submitting many of these little-known tunes to The Session.
-m
# Posted on November 10th 2002 by lazyhound
"New England Fiddler's Repertoire" ~ credit where credit is due
Randy Miller & Jack Perron, 1983,
2nd edition 2003:
http://www.randymillerprints.com/
http://www.randymillerprints.com/fiddletunebooks.htm
Another of their publications: "Irish Traditional Fiddle Music"
# Posted on November 26th 2005 by ceolachan