Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on March 21st 2007 by ceolachan.
This tune has been added to 7 tunebooks.
Also known as The Redford Cottage.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Redford Cottage
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmaj
|: d2 e | fef ABA | B<dc BAB | ABA fed | ced cBA |
fef ABA | B<GB g3 | Bed cBc | d3 :|
|: dfg | aAa fed | f<ag fed | gag fed | efd cBA |
[1 aAa fed | f<ag fed | Bed cBc | d3 :|
[2 f2 A ABA | B<GB g3 | Bed cBc | d3 ||
"Neil Taylor's" ~ ? ~ another tune by Willy Taylor
HELP!? ~ needed... I am in doubt about this one. I have another set of notes with the name "Neil Taylor" attached to it. This transcription is from the recording "Northumberland Rant", which is given here on site, and from the following featuring "The Shepherds", Willy Taylor on fiddle, Joe Hutton on Northumbrian smallpipes & Will Atkinson on harmonica:
Track 7: "Dance de Chez Nous" / "Aunt Mary's Canadian Jig" / "Neil Taylor's"
So, you might say, what's wrong? Well, that middle tune ain't "Aunt May's", at least I don't think so, not the one that comes to mind. So, is the third tune, a jig, and this transcription, really "Neil Taylor's Jig"? I don't doubt it may very well be one of Willy Taylor's compositions, but I am feeling unsure in general. Any help from the Northumbrian contingent, including Dow, as this is another for his birthday, since I'll be away on the date... Anyway, Geoff, Noel, Dow, anyone???
# Posted on March 21st 2007 by ceolachan
"Aunt Mary's"...
# Posted on March 21st 2007 by ceolachan
I may be adding that later if it isn't already here...or unless someone else beats me to the draw, in which case I'll add it into the 'Comments'...
# Posted on March 21st 2007 by ceolachan
There is further comment to go with this tune, but I'll hold off until I hear from those more informed on Northumbrian music than me, with regards to the title and provenance of this melody...
One point, Noel has reminded me, whether or not the title is right for this particular melody, Neil Taylor is Willy Taylor's son...
# Posted on March 22nd 2007 by ceolachan
I doubt there are 2 jigs named Neil Taylor's. I have a photocopy of Willy's own transcription right in front of me, and Neil Taylor's is in G. I'll post it now.
# Posted on March 22nd 2007 by Dow
On 2nd thoughts maybe he did write 2 tunes called Neil Taylor's...
# Posted on March 22nd 2007 by Dow
Redford Cottage
Nope, on 3rd thoughts, I was right the 1st time. The tunes are mislabelled on Northumbrian Rant. They did the same set on a recording called Harthope Burn. On that recording, the march that starts fe|d2f2 A2B>c|d4 A... is Captain Norman Orr Ewing, and this jig that comes after it is called Redford Cottage. Don't know if it's trad or whether Willy Taylor wrote it tho'.
# Posted on March 22nd 2007 by Dow
On Harthope Burn this is a 4-part tune. The 2 parts 'c' has given us are the 3rd and 4th parts of the tune, which are essentially variations of the 1st two parts:
X: 1
T: Redford Cottage
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmaj
e|:f2A ABA|B<GB Aef|g2e f2d|efd cBA|
f2A ABA|B<GB g3|Bed cBc|1 d3 d2e:|2 d3 dfg||
a2f g2e|fag fed|g2e f2d|efd cBA|
a2f g2e|fag fed|Bed cBc|d3 dfg|
a2f g2e|fag fed|g2e f2d|efd cBA|
f2A ABA|B<GB g3|Bed cBc|d3 d2e||
|:fef ABA|Bdc BAB|ABA fed|efd cBA|
fef ABA|B<GB g3|Bed cBc|1 d3 d2e:|2 d3 dfg||
aAa fed|f<ag fed|gag fed|efd cBA|
aAa fed|f<ag fed|Bed cBc|d3 dfg|
aAa fed|f<ag fed|gag fed|efd cBA|
f2A ABA|B<GB g3|Bed cBc|d3- d3||
# Posted on March 22nd 2007 by Dow
Hallelujah!!! ~ a result, thank you Dow!!!
Yes for that march too, as I'd suspected, but have no prior knowledge of "Redford Cottage" or of the march. I was sure the whole set was wrong but couldn't find anything anywhere to fit the transcription I'd made, which proves to be incomplete. As the notes in the booklet for the recording seemed to loosely fit the description I chopped up the tracks visually into three from a digital readout, having just a quick listen, and MP3-ed that last third. The middle, having just processed it, is the first two parts you've given, and as I'd said, definitely not "Aunt Mary's Canadian Jig". It bothered me that I'd caught some similarity between that and the last. Yes, it is just a set of two tunes and only once through the last, which is as you've given it, 4 parts.
I ended up believing the source, the notes as given. Though I really didn't believe it I trusted it over my own common sense. I ended up transcribed the last third of the track, which was just parts 3 & 4 once through. My other suspicion is as Noel put it, it didn't have Willy's usual two-step feel to it, which is what I was to understand his composition "Neil Taylor's" was supposed to be... I should have asked first and acted later... Will I ever learn?
We have been in a bit of a rush here having acted on a whim and put down our money on a flight to Austria. 'You-know-who' said she was looking for a holiday with sun and beaches ~ hmmmmm...
At least now I can transcribe the march if nobody beats me to it first. Is that recording still available anywhere ~ "Harthope Burn"... I so love their music, all three of the "Shepherds", that I'd welcome anything by them into listening range...
Thanks again Mark, and Noel too ~ much appreciated. Knowing me, you'll also know I think the tune should have its full representation rather than this chop shop job...
# Posted on March 22nd 2007 by ceolachan
"Redford Cottage" ~ well, I told Jeremy, but it remains, which is OK
As you said Dow, it really is a 'variation', or 'variations'... I did go ahead and backtrack, redigitize it and transcibed both the march and all 4 parts for this. since it is already here I will also add a few gentle nudges worth of other ways with it. I love listening to these guys, I wish they played things more than once though... Anyway, here goes ~
K: D Major
|: d2 e |
f2 A A>BA | B<GB Aef | g2 e f2 d | efd cB<A |
f2 A A>BA | B<GB g3 | Bed c>Bc | d3 :|
|: dfg |
a2 f g2 e | f/g/ag fed | g2 e f2 d | ef/e/d cBA |
[1 aff gee | fag fed | Bed cBc | d3 :|
[2 fAA A>BA | B<GB g3 | Bed c>Bc | d3 ||
|: d2 e |
fef A>BA | B<dc BAB | A>BA fed | cf/e/d cBA |
fef A>BA | B<GB g3 | Bed c>Bc | d3 :|
|: dfg |
aAa fed | f<ag fed | gag fed | efd cBA |
[1 aAa fed | f<ag fed | Bed c>Bc | d3 :|
[2 f2 A A>BA | B<GB g3 | Bed c>Bc | d3 ||
# Posted on March 23rd 2007 by ceolachan