Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on March 13th 2007 by hetty.
This tune has been added to 12 tunebooks.
Also known as Britannia Two Step, The Britannia Two Step, Britannia Two-Step, The Britannia Two-Step, Brittania Two Step, The Brittania Two Step, Brittania Two-Step, The Brittania Two-Step, Looking For A Partner.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Searching For The Soap
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmaj
F2F FED | A2A A2F | G2G GFE | B2B B3 |
c2=c ^c2d | e2d cBA | d2c d2e | fed cBA |
F2F FED | A2A A2F | G2G GFE | B2B B2c |
d3 dcB | A3 AGF | EFG ABc | dAB cde ||
f3 f3 | fed A3 | dcd e2d | c3 B3 |
g3 g3 | gfe B3 | c2=c ^c2d | e2d cBA |
f3 f3 | fed A3 | dcd e2d | c3 B3 |
g3 gfe | d3 dcB | A3 c3 | d3_d3 ||
Searching for the Soap
I've submitted this tune as a companion piece for "The Hogmany"
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/6917
'we start the set with "SFTS" then go to "The Hogmany", which we play in the key of 'G' for a dance called 'John of Paris' we then return to "SFTS" to finish on a resounding last two bars of | A3 c3 | d6 || with great emphasis.
I recently heard "SFTS" on a website (cannot remember what it was) played by a scottish band with another tune. the title given was 'Brittania Two Step' but I reckon that was possibly reference to a dance and not the tune.
No doubt 'c' will start some research.
# Posted on March 13th 2007 by hetty
# Posted on March 14th 2007 by ceolachan
Damn, I just ran this by ~ I know this from somewhere. Uh oh, that's maybe not a good thing?
I have lead a checkered life...and people like you tease me with bits of melody like Chinese torture... 
# Posted on March 14th 2007 by ceolachan
Missing #?
Should the third c in bar 5 (and it's repeat) be sharp?
# Posted on March 14th 2007 by muspc
Yes, you are right and also bar 7 in the 'B' music. I had forgotten to #pen it within the same bar. Naughty me forgetting my music theory. Hope you try the combination. But then they are good Melodeon tunes. Do you play one?
# Posted on March 14th 2007 by hetty
Have ammended the ABC.
# Posted on March 14th 2007 by hetty
"Brittania Two Step" did click, but I want to check around. It is a two-step / quickstep and may have in it's earlier from been repeated, or 64 measures...
# Posted on March 14th 2007 by ceolachan
For the 'dance', and dance related forms, 6/8 marches are also favoured...
# Posted on March 15th 2007 by ceolachan
Wears the soap - yes it does!
I don't know if the title was a bit "tongue in cheek"? (don't know if that is a choice phrase either - jokes about nuns in baths come to mind?)
Anyway, the tune is actually called "Looking For A Partner" and its by our old friend Angus Fitchett and has a third part below.
Because two-steps need a 32 bar tune and two-steps tunes are often three parters, they are often played ABAC, (although some, like this one, have a 32 bar C part, so that doesn't hold). Like various other "rules", I wonder if people play them like that because Jimmy Shand did on his early recordings?.
K:C
[|(E3 E3)|F3 ^F3|G2^F G2F|(G3 G3)|
E2F ^F2G|A3 G3|(B,3 B,3|B,2)G, B,2D|
(F3 F3|F2)E D2E|(F3 F3|F2)E F2G|
B3 A3|G3 F3|(^D3 D3)|EG,A, B,CD|
(E3 E3)|F3 ^F3|G2^F G2F|(G3 G3)|
E2F ^F2G|A3 G3|(B3 B3|B3) GAB|
c2c cBA|c2c cBA|G2G GFE|"A"A3 G3|
FEF GFG|AGA BAB|c2G AGE|C3 "D7"D3|]
# Posted on March 16th 2007 by geoffwright
They were also played as 64 bars, two parts, and with a 'trio'...
Angus Fitchett eh, that somehow makes sense in my muddled brain...
# Posted on March 16th 2007 by ceolachan
"Looking for a Partner" (2-step) / "The Primrose Polka"
The Primrose Polka
Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on November 12th 2004 by ceolachan.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/3860
Where did you find it Geoff? Do you have his collection? If so, does it say anything else? I gather it is from the 1950's and that Angus Fitchett and his band played it in a set with "The Primrose Polka", a favourite pairing... Curious that, 6/8 into 4/4, but it isn't a new way with mixing tunes and is still a popular direction for dance bands, in England & New England...
It wouldn't matter the length of a tune for the basic 2-step or quickstep, as it is akin to waltzing, not generally a pattern of specific bars-length, so parts and the number of measures wouldn't really matter, as long as they fitted some combination of 4 and 8 bar phrases...
# Posted on March 16th 2007 by ceolachan
I have to admit some confusion regarding that C-Major third part you've given, aside from it fitting into my memory, it doesn't seem to make sense in other ways. Please tell us more...
There is an Angus Fitchett collection...though I don't know if it is still available. I also know there was a Kerr publications that was his tunes and dances composed for them...
# Posted on March 18th 2007 by ceolachan
Damn, I meant to say ~ " ~ aside from it NOT fitting into my memory ~" Which I fully admit is quirky anyway...
# Posted on March 18th 2007 by ceolachan