Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on November 17th 2006 by nicholas.
This tune has been added to 8 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Whittingham Green Lane
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
R: waltz
K: Gmaj
BA|:G3 B d2|g4 f2|f6 |e4 G2|F3 A c2|e4 d2|B6 |
B4 BA|G3 B d2|g4 f2|f6 |e4 G2|F3 A c2|e2 d2 F2|G6 |1 G4 BA:|2 G4 d2||
|:d4 A2|A2 B3 c|B6 |B4 d2|d2 A3 A|A2 d3 c|B6 |B2 c2 d2|
e4 e2|c3 B c2|d3 e d2|B2 A2 G2|F2 A3 c|e2 d2 F2|G6 |1 G4 d2:|2 G4||
Whittingham Green Lane (Waltz - Air)
This tune was apparently found in a manuscript and then given its submitted name by Northumbrian piper Jack Armstrong many years ago now. (There were two prominent pipers in the last century called Jack Armstrong - I don't know which one found this tune.)
Whittingham is a little village at the head of the River Aln which in due course flows past Alnwick Castle in Northumberland. The tune has probably been around, and I shouldn't be surprised if it's in the database under another name. I've put it down more or less as Kathryn Tickell plays it on her album "The Northumberland Collection". I've always heard it played as a rhythmic slow air rather than as a real waltz, and certainly prefer it that way.
# Posted on November 17th 2006 by nicholas
It was also recorded by Northumbrian mountain dulcimer player, the late Phil Ranson.
# Posted on November 17th 2006 by granama
Whittingham Green Lane
See also "The Northumbrian Piper's Tune Book"
# Posted on November 17th 2006 by alexboydell
Whittingham Green Lane - mistake in music transcription
Bar 9 should read: G3 B d2 - the same as Bar 1 of the tune.
(Not what's gone into the sheet music - D3 F A2)
I've changed the ABC's.
# Posted on November 17th 2006 by nicholas