The Spot

hornpipe

Key signature: Cmajor

Submitted on July 8th 2008 by gravelwalks.

This tune has been added to 4 tunebooks.

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Huddswell.. untitled.

This appears twice in the Huddswell MS, which is retained as part of the Village Music Project. As it appears in Huddswell's, it is untitled. The VMP cites Kidson's Hornpipe MS as another source, dating from the early 20th century.

http://www.village-music-project.org.uk/

The high C's in the B part may pose a challenge to some instruments, maybe fiddles, but I did not want to change the key. I couldn't find anything like it on the net (Kuntz, JC's, Google..).

I think the leaps add character, but if they bother you, you can always transpose it to a new key, and play in a different position.

I like the snaps quite a lot! They just don't write 'em like they used to, I guess...

# Posted on July 8th 2008 by gravelwalks

I should add that the reference to Kidson's is noted by the archivist, and the Huddswell MS itself credits "Swallow's MS" as the source of the tune.

# Posted on July 8th 2008 by gravelwalks

Rewriting Hollywood... a little with endings

The ending of the first part is so tiresome... three crotchets to signify the ending of all those hornpipes, which to me either suggest a compulsory triplet, or other somesuch ornamentation that the unseen hand has chosen to omit for the sake of clarity. Is their function a signal to dancers, as Shakespeare's couplet was (and still is, thank goodness) to players, and thus lost on my ignorant feet?

So, provided that you're not directing bustling bodies and at the risk of crashing them into one another, you can replace

|c2 c2 c2:| with

If you're playing a box, then I suppose the three crotchets can be interesting enough by themselves, given the instrument's capabilities to provide rhythmic interest, you might play 3 successive staccato notes, or open up the bellows for a bass chord and then abruptly apply the brakes, maybe some right hand chording or half-chords.. but that's one-row business. You half-steppers would be on your own..

# Posted on July 10th 2008 by gravelwalks

....and some fun beginnings

Same goes for the other end...

scratch the "lone" |G2| at the beginning of the A-part and instead, throw in a triplet like |(3GAB| or maybe |e>d|.

# Posted on July 10th 2008 by gravelwalks

More. .

Why repeat yourself?

Bar 3 of the A-part as it appears here is redundant:
| c>Bc>d e2 d>c |

spiffed up a little, adding interest... you might try playing
|c>Be>d f>ed>c |

yes, reverse the notes of the second snap, and play the second G2 an octave higher:
| B<d G2 d<B g2 |

I might save the new snaps and the leap for the second time around, wake everybody up.. knowing my luck, this is probably another tune that already exists in the database. .

# Posted on July 10th 2008 by gravelwalks

so the whole A-part (maybe)

is a little easier to handle.

# Posted on July 10th 2008 by gravelwalks

B-part

Filling in the gaps..
Walk the end of the A-part up to the B-part:.
|2 c>Ge>d c>ef>^f||

and fill in the quarter notes of Bar 5 & 6
g>eg>e c'>ag>e | b>fb>f c'>bg>f |

provide a charming little ending, back to a new twist on those crotchets:
|2 c2 E2 C2||

and the whole thing might look something like this

M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Cmaj
(3GAB | c>Bc>d e2 d>c | B>cd>e f2 e>d | c>Be>d f>ed>c | B<d G2 d<B g2 |
c>Bc>d e2 d>c |B>cd>e f2 e>d | e>ge>c d>fd>B |1 c>Ge>d c2 :|2 c>Ge>d c>ef>^f||
g>eg>e c'2 g>e | b>fa>f c'2 b>f | e<g c2 e<g c2 | B<d G2 B<d G2 |
g>eg>e c'>ag>e | b>fb>f c'>bg>f | e>ge>c d>fd>B |1 c>Ge>d c>ef>^f :|2 c2 E2 C2||

To keep the melody consistent with itself, I'd hesitate to reverse the order of the notes in the A-part's snaps, although it does liven it up...

# Posted on July 10th 2008 by gravelwalks

Whew! ~ your on a slide gravel...nice work...

Ouch! I just reminded myself of wiping out on gravel and ending up with stones embedded in both kness...

# Posted on July 10th 2008 by ceolachan

"The Stone Bruise" / "The Spot" ~ You started this!

# Posted on July 10th 2008 by ceolachan

B-part, bar 4 ~ | c<eA>^G A2 f>=g |

Oops! ~ missed that change back to natural...

# Posted on July 10th 2008 by ceolachan

Scraped knees.. er, fingers

wow, and to think I intended on transposing it down A to avoid those masochistic high notes in the B-part : )

Gravel roads were my favorites as a boy. If I hit the brakes on my bicycle and shifted my weight on an extended leg then I could fishtail the rear end, and spin all the way around. A little like a hockey player... hmm..

# Posted on July 13th 2008 by gravelwalks

A maj

Here is the whole thing as it appears here, and in the MS, but notated "straight" and transposed down to A:

# Posted on July 13th 2008 by gravelwalks

A chip off the old spot.

A new take on the snaps... why not?

X: 4
T: Spot, The
T: Other Spot, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Cmaj
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Cmaj
(3GAB | c>Bc>d (3efe d>c | B>cd>e f2 e>d | c>Be>d f>ed>c | B<dG>^F G>fe>d |
c<AF<A c>ef>e | d<BG>B d>gf>d | e>ge>c d>fd>B |1 c2 e2 c2 :|2 c2 e2 c>ef>^f||
g>eg>e (3c'ba g>e | b>fa>f c'2 b>f | c>Be>d f>ed>c | B<dG>^F G2 e>f |
g>eg>e (3c'ba g>e | b>fb>f c'>bg>f | e>ge>c d>fd>B |1 c>Ge>d c>ef>^f :|2 c2 E2 C2||

# Posted on July 13th 2008 by gravelwalks

C, I especially like what you've done with the first 8 of the B part

# Posted on July 13th 2008 by gravelwalks