Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on February 3rd 2004 by weefreefidler.
This tune has been added to 36 tunebooks.
Also known as Portsmouth.
X: 1
T: Portsmouth, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Gmaj
|:D2|G3A BAGF|E4e4|d2B2cBAG|A6D2|
G3A BAGF|E4e4|d2B2cBAB|G6:|
|:D2|g3a bagf|g2d4B2|d2B2cBAG|A6 D2|
G3A BAGF|E4e4|d2B2cBAB|G6:|
Porstmouth
This is the version that comes from John Playford's 'English Dancing Master'. I think it comes from the 13th version.
# Posted on February 3rd 2004 by weefreefidler
Was this not a "hit" for Mike Oldfield about thirty years ago? He dabbled with one or two old hornpipes as I recall including the "Blue Peter theme"? At least he didn't record "Get down Shep"! :>))
I've already learned this tune by ear but I'll download it anyway.
John
# Posted on February 4th 2004 by Johannes J
Mike Olfield's!
# Posted on February 4th 2004 by gian marco
Yes. Recorded but not written by him. I know it's an old tune.
# Posted on February 4th 2004 by Johannes J
I remember very well the Olfield's recording.
I'm old (sigh!).
# Posted on February 4th 2004 by gian marco
Portsmouth
This is an English country dance tune rather than a hornpipe, but obviously there's no option to submit the former
This is *old*! I think it's amazing that people still play these tunes. Playford's date is 1701. There's a version in an older manuscript from 1694-5 which I think is nicer:
K:F
|:C2|F3G AGFE|D4 d3e|f3c dcBA|G6 C2|
F3G AGFE|D4 d4|cdcA GFGA|F6:|
|:c2|f3g agfe|d3c A2GF|f2c2 dcBA| G6 C2|
F3G AGFE|D4 d4|cdcA GFGA|F6:|
# Posted on August 13th 2004 by Dow
It does my head in to think that at the time that this tune appeared in manuscripts, people like Mozart and Beethoven weren't even born, and Bach was just an ankle-biter.
# Posted on August 13th 2004 by Dow
Portsmouth pairs up well with Newcastle (how apt) which is another Playford tune / country dance.
# Posted on August 13th 2004 by Tish
Sorry, that d in the 2nd bar of the B-part should have been an f. Aussies will recognise this as the tune that used to come on the ABC as an interlude before the news. I'm told there were morris dancers with bells and tambourines and stuff!
# Posted on August 19th 2004 by Dow