Key signature: Aminor
Submitted on June 12th 2008 by justjim.
This tune has been added to 14 tunebooks.
Also known as New Road To Alston.
X: 1
T: New Road To Alston
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Amin
A3B c2c2|AGAB c2c2|edcB A2Ae|dcBA BAG2|
A3B c2c2|AGAB c2c2|e2ef edcB|ABAG A2A2:|
|:e2e2 c2ce|a2a2 e2ef|edcB A2Ae|dcBA BAG2|
e2e2 c2ce|a2a2 e2e2|e2ef edcB|ABAG A2A2:|
New Road to Ashton
I transcribed this from Blowzabella's "Octamento". Is it ITM? I like the way it breaks up the phrases into non-standard lengths, sort of . Reminds me of some non-square old-timey tunes. On the album, follows and precedes "Lottie's"
# Posted on June 12th 2008 by justjim
New roads
I know this as "The New Road to Alston" (we follow "The Bear Dance" with it as long as we start them in the right keys - both tunes get played in a multitude of keys, and the New Road sometimes gets repeated several times in a key progression that I can never remember!
# Posted on June 12th 2008 by spindizzy
New Road To Alston
From Fiddler's Companion:- NEW ROAD TO ALSTON. English, Country Dance Tune (4/4 time). England, Northumberland. A Minor. Standard. AABB. Kidson noted that Alston, at the time of his writing, was a “wild and remote district of Cumberland.” The melody is from a Northumbrian piper’s MS of about 1816. Knowles thinks the tune has “more of a French feel to it.” Source for notated version: A Kidson MS [Knowles]. Kidson (Old English Country Dances), 1890; pg. 22. Knowles (A Northern Lass), 1995; pg. 5.
# Posted on June 15th 2008 by Chrisp
YAYYYY more Blowzabella tunes!!
I'll transcribe Lottie's later today...
# Posted on June 16th 2008 by mehitabel23
Too late mehitabel!
Lotties:
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/9060
# Posted on November 13th 2008 by justjim