Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on November 21st 2006 by ceolachan.
This tune has been added to 8 tunebooks.
Also known as Llewelyn Alaw's Polka, Llywelyn Alaw's Polka, The Military Schottische, The National Schottische, Polca Llewelyn Alaw, Polca Llywelyn Alaw.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: International Schottische, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: barndance
K: Gmaj
|: B>c |
d2 b2 c2 a2 | B2 g2 g>dB>G | A2 f>e d>cB>A | G>BA>c B>dc>e |
d2 b2 c2 a2 | B2 g2 g>dB>G | A2 f>e d>cB>A | G2 B2 G2 :|
|: A>G |
F>GA>B c>de>f | g2 B2 B3 g | f2 (3AAA A3 e | e2 d2 B2 G2 |
F>GA>B c2 (3def | g>B (3BBB B3 g | f3 e d>cB>A | G2 (3GGG G2 :|
|: (3ABc |
d2 B>d g2 f2 | f2 A>c e4 | d2 F>A e2 d2 | (3ded G>A B2 (3ABc |
d2 (3Bcd g2 f2 | f2 A>c e4 | d2 (3FGA e>d (3cBA | G2 B2 G2 :|
M: 2/4
R: polka
|: B/c/ |
db ca | Bg g/d/B/G/ | Af/e/ d/c/B/A/ | G/B/A/c/ B/d/c/e/ |
db ca | Bg g/d/B/G/ | Af/e/ d/c/B/A/ | GB G :|
|: A/G/ |
F/G/A/B/ c/d/e/f/ | gB B>g | fA A>e | ed BG |
F/G/A/B/ c/d/e/f/ | gB/B/ B>g | f>e d/c/B/A/ | GG/G/ G :|
"The International / National / Military Schottische" ~ & Welsh Polka
I'm not sure if this will work, but I've given the initial notation here first as a barndance/schottische and then as a polka, since there is little difference from the two melodies. While I've kown several takes on this melody, including several from North America, this particular third part given for the barndance is from Cumbria and the Lake District, the first two parts being pretty much the same as a version of this collected there and given by 'The Village Music Project', where they have it notated in 2/4, as is the second version given here from Wales. Here is 'The Village Music Project' notation for comparison:
http://www.village-music-project.org.uk/
X: 39
T: Schottische,The. HS.39
M: 2/4
Q: 50
S: Henry Stables MS,Cumbria,late19thC
R: Schottische
O: Walthwaite,nr.Ambleside.
A: England
Z: vmp.Chris Partington
K: G Major
|: B/c/ |
db ca | Bg g/d/B/G/ | Fe e/c/A/F/ | G/B/A/c/ B/d/c/e/ |
db ca | Bg g/d/B/G/ | Fe e/c/A/F/ | GB G :|
|: A/G/ |
F/G/A/B/ c/d/e/f/ | gB d2 | eA c2 | dG B2 |
F/G/A/B/ c/d/e/f/ | gB d2 | eA/B/ cF/G/ | AG G :|
|: B |
dB/d/ gf | fA/c/ e2 | dF/A/ ed | dG/A/ B2 |
dB/d/ gf | fA/c/ e2 | dF/A/ e/d/c/A/ | GB G :|
Schottisches, despite being played more usually with swing, were sometimes notated as 2/4 and without that swing showing, though more often they are notated as 4/4. In Wales and in a few other instances where I've experienced one take or the other of this 'international' melody, it can also be played straight and in the manner of a polka.
Another relative, check the B-part of the tune:
"The Glenbeigh"
Key signature: G Major
Submitted on May 4th 2002 by spoon.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/670
# Posted on November 21st 2006 by ceolachan
"The Fiddler's Companion" ~ Andrew Kuntz
"Military Schottische"
http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/MID_MILK.htm
~ For more relatives, names and information, including another transcription from America, with a different third (trio) part in C Major...
# Posted on November 21st 2006 by ceolachan
"Llewelyn Alaw: Llyfr Alawon Poced / Pocket Tune-Book"
For another transcription...
Edited & arranged by Robin Huw Bowen
Gwasg Teires, Aberystwyth, 1990
~ a collection of 32 tunes...
#13: "Polca Llewelyn Alaw" / Llewelyn Alaw's Polka
# Posted on November 21st 2006 by ceolachan
Henry Stables & William Irwin ~ Cumbrian fiddlers
Apologies, as I seem to have cut off the intended links for the first entry. For those interested, here are some direct links to Henry Stables' manuscript and related information:
http://www.village-music-project.org.uk/
http://www.village-music-project.org.uk/manuscripts.htm
Henry Stables
http://www.village-music-project.org.uk/s.htm
William Irwin, 1822-89
http://www.village-music-project.org.uk/info_files/irwin_info.htm
http://www.village-music-project.org.uk/i.htm
The Life and Times of William Irwin, 1822-89
(fiddler and tutor to Henry Stables)
http://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/irwin.htm
" ~ Irwin had another activity: music teaching. Among his fiddle pupils was Henry Stables, who was a cobbler and boot maker in Walthwaite (by Chapel Stile and Elterwater). ~
Fortunately, Irwin not only taught Henry Stables fiddle tunes, but also instilled in him the habit of writing his tunes down in a notebook. So we have the very valuable historical record of two fiddlers' collections from the same village at the same time, and we can compare similarities and differences. ~ "
~ an article by Greg Stephens, from the Boat Band's "A Trip to the Lakes" CD liner notes...
# Posted on November 21st 2006 by ceolachan
"A Trip to the Lakes: Traditional Cumbrian Tunes" ~ The Boat Band
http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/2263
# Posted on November 22nd 2006 by ceolachan