Clee Hill

reel

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on July 25th 2008 by geoffwright.

This tune has been added to 11 tunebooks.

Also known as Clee Hill March, The Clee Hill March, Cleehill, Cleehill March, The Cleehill March, Dennis Crowther's, Dennis Crowther's No. 1.

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Clee Hill

A great polka - Clee Hill is in Shropshire UK.
Written/collected by local poet, singer, gob-iron player Dennis Crowther who sadly passed away this Spring.

# Posted on July 25th 2008 by geoffwright

"Clee Hill" ~ how I'm hearing it without changing your notes ~

X: 1
T: Clee Hill
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Dmaj
F3 G A3 F/G/ | AdcB A2 F2 | E3 F G3 A | Bc/B/ AG FDFG |
F3 G A3 F/G/ | AdcB A2 F2 | E3 F G3 A | BABc d3 e ||
fAfA f3 A/A/ | ABcd c2 B2 | gBgB g3 B | ABcd ecBA |
fAfA f3 A/A/ | ABcd c2 B2 | BcdB Adf>g | feBc d4 |]

# Posted on July 25th 2008 by ceolachan

I would be sorely tempted to repeat the parts ~ AABB...

# Posted on July 25th 2008 by ceolachan

Clee hill

Yeh!
We have a transmitter there - it sends our astronomy on it's way from a telescope at Knockin to join the astronomy from another 4 or 5 telescopes scattered across the country. Our poor engineers have spent many a tiring hour trying to fix things on that weather prone hill.

# Posted on July 25th 2008 by spindizzy

Nice dance tune by the way... ;-)

# Posted on July 26th 2008 by ceolachan

nice tune...... ta.........!

# Posted on July 28th 2008 by paulflute

Repeat bars added repeat bars added

Introduced it to the session last night (paired with The Little Diamond), agree with C. regarding repeats.

# Posted on July 30th 2008 by geoffwright

"Clee Hill" ~ a transcription courtesy of The East Suffolk Morris Men

~ with minor adjustments...

East Suffolk Morris Men / ESMM
http://www.eastsuffolkmorris.org.uk/

X: 15 Clee Hill
http://www.eastsuffolkmorris.org.uk/SITE_DIRECTORY/Downloads/ESMMC.ABC

For dots, click on Music & Dance and then from the drop down menu click on 'Morris Tunebook', then click on 'Border', and from that drop down menu, 'Clee Hill'...

C: J. Bainbridge ~ ??? (taken from another transcription)
Any information on the given composer, also taken from elsewhere, is always welcome...

Tempos:
Q: 1/4 = 100 fits the mood of a leisurely march,
and for comparision, from a different transcription:
Q: 1/4 = 140

# Posted on July 30th 2008 by ceolachan

"Clee Hill" ~ The Fiddler's Companion, Andrew Kuntz

http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/index.html
"Clee Hill"
http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/CIA_CNU.htm#CLEE_HILL

CLEE HILL. AKA – “Dennis Crowther’s No. 1.” English, March (4/4 or 2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning. One part. Clee Hill refers to both the height of Titterstone Clee, one of the highest hills in south Shropshire, or the village of Cleehill, Shropshire, which lies on the slopes. Titterstone Clee is in the range of hills called collectively the Clee Hills, and has been heavily quarried over the years. Writer J.R.R. Tolkien used to visit the area and some believe he modelled “The Shire” in The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings after the area. Dennis Crowther is a poet, singer, mouth organ player from the area. Part of the melodic material from “Clee Hill” appears in the tune “Oh, Joe! The boat is going over,” a melody used by morris/molly dancers from the Clee Hill area. Accordion master John Kirkpatrick recorded this tune (along with “Dennis Crowther’s No. 2”) at the Sidmouth Folk Festival, 1999. Source for notated version: Shropshire harmonica player and entertainer Dennis Crowther [Callaghan]. Callaghan (Hardcore English), 2007; pg. 32.

'c': That notation, adjusted for comparison with the others here, follows...

# Posted on July 30th 2008 by ceolachan

"Clee Hill" ~ from C to D, from 2/4 to 4/4

On site, the above link, you'll find this in the key of C and with the bar count doubled, the measures given here divided, so, from 2/4 in C without repeats to 4/4 in D with repeats, as the other transcripts here have it, for comparison, making a quick switch of harmonicas... ;-)

# Posted on July 30th 2008 by ceolachan

1st measure correction ~ |: F2 G A3 B | ~ to ~ |: F3 G A3 B |

Sorry, I forgot to correct that mistake in the C version given on the site...

# Posted on July 30th 2008 by ceolachan

~ ~ full correction, it was bars 1 & 5

I've started remembering this, a little different than the versions given here, and came across one closer to how I remember it, and, the more I play it the more I'm sure that as I'd come across it, way back when, it probably wasn't repeated... But it works both ways fine...

# Posted on July 30th 2008 by ceolachan

"Clee Hill" ~ with some other possibilities dragged up from the depths

X: 4
T: Clee Hill
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: march
K: DMaj
A/G/ |\
F3 G AB/A/ FG | A/B/d cB A2 F2 | E3 F G3 A | Bc/B/ AG FD E/F/G |
F3 G A2 F>G | AdcB A2 F2 | E2 EF G2 GG/A/ | BG A/B/c d3 e ||
fA/A/ fA f3 A/A/ | ABcd c2 B2 | gB/B/ gB g3 B | AB/B/ cd e/f/e/c BA |
fA/A/ fA/A/ f3 A | A/B/d cd c2 B2 | B>cdB/B/ A/B/d ff/g/ | f/g/f/e/ B/B/c d3 |]

From what I've read, I suspect I picked this up, and this way with it, somewhere around Shrewsbury, most likely to do with dance music and dear Mr. John Kirkpatrick... Though, there are even earlier possibilities... Q: 1/4 for me, dance sanity, would be from 120 - 130 bpm...

And yes, we did a lot of doubling, or A/A/ & B/B/ and the like, and things like e/f/e/c/ & f/g/f/e/...

If I were repeating the parts AABB, with some other possibilities ~

# Posted on July 30th 2008 by ceolachan