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'''KIT WHITE'S NO. 2'''. AKA and see "[[Donal Don]]," "[[MacGregor's March]]," "[[Maurice O' | |f_annotation='''KIT WHITE'S NO. 2'''. AKA Swaledale Lasses and see "[[Donal Don]]," "[[MacGregor's March]]," "[[Maurice O'Keeffe's (5)]]," "[[Rob Roy's March]]." English, Polka. B flat, today usually transposed to D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). Paul de Grae finds this tune to be nearly identical to an untitled polka from fiddler Maurice O'Keeffe. Scottish versions seen to predate all others. | ||
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Peter Kennedy, presumably during the fifties, recorded five tunes from melodeon player Kit White of Swaledale, Sussex, that were released in 1975 on the Folktracks cassette "Butter'd Pease." This one, that coupled with "Drunken Sailor" was used for the Circassian Circle, was later on transcribed and published by Dave Townsend in his '''A Second Collection of English Country Dance Tunes''' in 1983, then reprinted in his '''English Dance Music Vol. 1''' in 1993. Townsend named it simply "Kit White's No. 2", and the title stuck among the English revival players, but according to the Kennedy's sleeve notes should in fact be called "Swaledale Lasses". | |||
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'' | |f_printed_sources=Townsend ('''A Second Collection of English Country Dance Tunes'''), 1983. | ||
Townsend ('''English Dance Music Vol.1'''), The serpent Press 1993. | |||
|f_recorded_sources=, Kit White - "BUTTER'D PEASE Yorkshire country Dances" (1975). Folktracks FSC-60-211, The Glowworms - "Running Joak" EFDSS CD14 (2007). | |||
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Latest revision as of 11:47, 17 March 2024
X: 1 T: Swaledale Lasses T:Kit White's No. 2 M:2|2 K:D S: Kit White, as recorded by Peter Kenney A2 AB A2 AB | A2 d2 d2 c2 | B2 Bc B2 Bc | B2 e2 B2 cB | A2 AB A2 AB | A2 d2 d2 c2 | c2 ec B2 c2 | d4 d4 :|| f3 e f3 e | f2 e2 B4 | e3 f e3 f | e2 dB A4 | f3 e f3 e | f2 e2 B3 d | c2 ec B2 c2 | d4 d4 :||
KIT WHITE'S NO. 2. AKA Swaledale Lasses and see "Donal Don," "MacGregor's March," "Maurice O'Keeffe's (5)," "Rob Roy's March." English, Polka. B flat, today usually transposed to D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). Paul de Grae finds this tune to be nearly identical to an untitled polka from fiddler Maurice O'Keeffe. Scottish versions seen to predate all others.
Peter Kennedy, presumably during the fifties, recorded five tunes from melodeon player Kit White of Swaledale, Sussex, that were released in 1975 on the Folktracks cassette "Butter'd Pease." This one, that coupled with "Drunken Sailor" was used for the Circassian Circle, was later on transcribed and published by Dave Townsend in his A Second Collection of English Country Dance Tunes in 1983, then reprinted in his English Dance Music Vol. 1 in 1993. Townsend named it simply "Kit White's No. 2", and the title stuck among the English revival players, but according to the Kennedy's sleeve notes should in fact be called "Swaledale Lasses".
