Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on November 5th 2006 by nicholas.
This tune has been added to 10 tunebooks.
Also known as 21st Of August, The 21st Of August, Charles Of Sweden, Come Jolly Bacchus, Dydd Cyntaf O Awst, Fflat Huw Puw, The First Day Of August, Frisky Jenny, The Gallant Weaver, In My Cottage Near A Wood, In My Cottage Near The Wood, Twenty First Of August, The Twenty First Of August.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Weavers' March, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
F/G/|:A/B/A/G/ FA d/c/d A2|B/c/d cd gf eF/G/|A/B/A/G/ F/G/A B/c/d/B/ A2|
dd cd/e/ f/e/d/c/ B/A/F/G/:|B/c/d cd/e/ f/e/d/c/ B/c/d/e/||
|:fg/f/ ef/e/ d/f/e/c/ d/c/B/A/|B/c/d cd gf e2|A3G/ F/G/A B/c/d A2|
B/c/d c/d/e e2 dd/e/:|B/c/d c/d/e e2 d2||
The Weavers' March
This is not a reel but is at the tempo of, say, "Roddy McCorley" or "The Dawning Of The Day", if not more laid-back. I got it from a recording of the ace English melodeon player from Norfolk, Tony Hall. The tune derives from that of the Scottish song "The Wark O' The Weavers", used by Billy Connolly in his song about welly-boots.
# Posted on November 5th 2006 by nicholas
Nicholas! I feel that this would be better written as 2/4, keeping the same note values but with twice the number of bars. Alternatively keep the time sig. as 4/4 but change values to crotchets & quavers but again doubling the number of bars. It would read better and then not give the impression that it is a reel. I would also give it a Polka label relating it, in the notes, as being of a more marchy tempo. You can also indicate the first and second time repeats by putting a 1 or 2 at the beginning of bars 4 & 5, e.g. | 1 dd cd etc. and | 2 B/c/d etc. hope that is of some help for future occassions. It's a nice tune and I enjoy playing it.
# Posted on November 5th 2006 by hetty
You're right, Hetty, another balls-up. The Midi sounds like a pygmy shrew on speed, not Tony Hall dreaming...but I'll have another go at it sometime in 2/4; at least different timings give one a loophole for second-chance entries on this board!
# Posted on November 5th 2006 by nicholas
"The Weavers' March" / "Flatt Huw Puw" / "Come Jolly Bacchus"
"I submitted this as a reel a day or two ago, and am submitting it here as a 2/4 to make (I hope) the sheet music more user-friendly..."
# Posted on November 6th 2006 by nicholas
~ the 2/4 would have been balls up too... Here's an attempt to make sense of your transcription, keeping it in the 'usual' 4/4 for this tune, and without touching your notes, which I also find a bit off. I may return with some other transcriptions, like one of the Welsh versions. It's a very old tune...:
K: D Major
|: FG |
ABAG F2 A2 | dc d2 A4 | Bc d2 c2 d2 | g2 f2 e2 FG |
ABAG FG A2 | BcdB A4 |1 d2 d2 c2 de | fedc BA :|
2 Bc d2 c2 de | fedc Bcde ||
|: f2 gf e2 fe | dfec dcBA | Bc d2 c2 d2 | g2 f2 e4 |
A3 G FG A2 | Bc d2 A4 |1 Bc d2 cd e2 | e4 d2 de :|
2 Bc d2 cd e2 | e4 d2 ||
# Posted on November 6th 2006 by ceolachan
More roots are showing ~ I've sung magrigals and sea shanties, including the Welsh ditty "Flatt Huw Puw"...
# Posted on November 6th 2006 by ceolachan
"The Weavers' March" ~ courtesy of Richard Robinson's site
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/Info/RRTuneBk/tunebook.html
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/Info/RRTuneBk/gettune/000000ae.html
Nice and basic, for comparison...
K: D Major
ABAG F2 GA | B2 B2 A4 | Bcdc B2 B2 | g2 f2 e4 |
ABAG F2 GA | B2 B2 A4 | BcdB c2 de | E4 d4 ||
|: f2 gf e2 fe | dfed c2 BA | Bcdc B2 B2 g2 f2 e4 |
GBAG F2 GA | B2 B2 A4 | BcdB c2 de | e4 d4 :|
# Posted on November 6th 2006 by ceolachan
Well, Ceolachan, that sorts that one out! You're really raking through the Welsh stuff at the moment - territory (literal and musical) where I've very seldom set foot.
# Posted on November 7th 2006 by nicholas
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Hi Nicholas, hope you don't mind the 'extensions', you look rather elvish with those silver strands mixed in there, a bit, but I don't see any similarity with Orlando Bloom. Can you handle a bow? Heh, heh, heh...
# Posted on November 7th 2006 by ceolachan
Hey Nicholas, how about some Northern tunes, give 'The Whitehaven Volunteers' a go. It's a kick to play, or can be, and it makes a good dance set with any of those mentioned in its comments...and it cam work with this one too...
# Posted on November 7th 2006 by ceolachan