Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on March 13th 2007 by cocus.
This tune has been added to 39 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Amelia's
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
R: waltz
K: Dmaj
A,|:"D"D3 E D2|"D"D2 F3 E|"Bm"D2 F2 BF|"F#m"A3 F A2|
"G"B2 G3 B|"D"A2 F3 E|"Bm"D2 B,3 ^A,|"G"B,4 A,2 |
"D"D3 E D2|"D"D2 F3 E|"Bm"D2 F2 BF|"F#m"A3 F A2|
"G"B3 c d2|"G"d2 e2 f2|"A"e2 c2 B2|1 "A"A3 G FE :|2 "A"A3 f ag ||
"D"f2 a3 b|"D"a2 f2 df|"A"e3 c B2|"A"A3 c fe|
"Bm"d3 c d2|"Bm"f3 e d2|"F#m"c3 B A2|"F#m"F3 E F2|
"G"G2 B3 G|"D"F2 A2 d2|"A"e3 c e2|"D"f2 d2 f2|
"G"g3 f g2|"D"a2 f2 e2|"A"d2 e2 c2|"D"d4 z2 :|
Bob McQuillen
Amelia’s Waltz was written around 1980 by by Bob McQuillen. He named the tune for Amelia Stiles, Deanna Stiles’ daughter. Amelia was born in a famous packing crate, which carried Lindbergh’s airplane back to the US from Europe. Amelia herself was named after Amelia Earhart. At the time we were all living in the New England woods, making money however we were able and playing music as much as we could. Lindbergh’s crate was beside the Blackwater River and Deanna lived there for years. The crate is now the center of The Lindbergh Crate Museum, in Canaan, Maine.
Bob McQuillen is pretty much the dean of contradance musicians. He received a National Heritage Fellowship Award in September from the National Endowment for the Arts. McQuillen recently celebrated his 50th anniversary playing dances. Over the years he has been a member of Ralph Page’s Orchestra, the Canterbury Orchestra, New England Tradition, and other important bands. In addition, McQuillen has published ten notebooks containing the hundreds of dance tunes that he has written, many of which have become standards in the contradance repertoire.
Bob McQuillen plays now with Old New England, composed of Deanna Stiles on flute and fiddle, Jane Orzechowski on fiddle, and Bob on piano and accordion.
# Posted on March 13th 2007 by cocus
"Amelia's Waltz" ~ by Bob McQuillen
I was surprised this wasn't already here, which again shows I shouldn't take things for granted. This tune is always fitted to the flute or whistle, so here is a transcript with that in mind, and with a few other possibilities tune-wise. On the intro it can also go ~
|: FE | ~ with the final bar being a 1st & 2nd ending ~ |[1 A3 G :|[2 A4 ||
~ and following on to the end of the B-part ~ |[1 A4 :|[2 A3 G ||
K: D Major
|: (3GFE |
D3 E D2 | D2 F3 E | D2 F2 B2 | A4 FA |
B2 G3 B | (3ABA F3 E | D2 B3 ^A | B4 A2 |
D3 E D2 | D2 F2 (3EFE | D2 F3 B | A4 (3FGA |
B3 c d2 | d3 e f2 | e2 c2 A2 | A4 :|
|: ag |
f2 af af | a2 (3fgf d2 | e2 ed cB | A3 A fe |
d3 Bd (3Bcd | f3 e d2 | c2 cB AG | F4 F2 |
G2 BG BG | F2 A2 d2 | e2 c2 A2 | d3 e f2 |
g3 f e2 | a f3 d2 | d2 e3 c | d4 :|
# Posted on March 14th 2007 by ceolachan
Correction ( not A but d ):
~ and following on to the end of the B-part ~ |[1 d4 :|[2 d3 G ||
# Posted on March 15th 2007 by ceolachan
I heard this tune for the first time at Maine Fiddle Camp 2008, and it is now one of my favorite waltzes. Thanks for posting the tune.
Sara
# Posted on June 26th 2008 by Celtic Lass