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'''HORSE AND AWAY TO NEWMARKET'''. AKA and see "[[Newmarket Races]]," "[[Fenwick O' Bywell]]." English, Jig. England; Northumberland, Cumbria. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. Bears similarity to the Irish jig "[[Garryowen]]" in the first part. The melody appears in a number of musicians' manuscripts from the north of England | '''HORSE AND AWAY TO NEWMARKET'''. AKA and see "[[Newmarket Races]]," "[[Fenwick O' Bywell]]." English, Jig. England; Northumberland, Cumbria. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. Bears similarity to the Irish jig "[[Garryowen]]" in the first part. The melody appears in a number of musicians' manuscripts from the north of England, and is a core melody of the Northumbrian piping repertoire (under the alternate titles). It appears in William Vicker's c. 1770 Northumbrian ms., James Biggin's (Leeds) 1779 manuscript collection, John Peacock's Northumbrian piping collection (1800), and Cumbrian musician John Rook's music manuscript collection of 1840. Stokoe ('''Northumbrian Minstrelsy''', 1882) "gives the song line 'Fenwick o' Bywell's off to Newmarket', connecting the different titles of the tune" (Seattle). Matt Seattle also believes the tune is derived from the older "Johnny Cock Thy Beaver", and notes "the structure is displaced by two bars but much of the melodic material is shared." | ||
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Revision as of 16:20, 17 November 2011
Tune properties and standard notation
HORSE AND AWAY TO NEWMARKET. AKA and see "Newmarket Races," "Fenwick O' Bywell." English, Jig. England; Northumberland, Cumbria. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. Bears similarity to the Irish jig "Garryowen" in the first part. The melody appears in a number of musicians' manuscripts from the north of England, and is a core melody of the Northumbrian piping repertoire (under the alternate titles). It appears in William Vicker's c. 1770 Northumbrian ms., James Biggin's (Leeds) 1779 manuscript collection, John Peacock's Northumbrian piping collection (1800), and Cumbrian musician John Rook's music manuscript collection of 1840. Stokoe (Northumbrian Minstrelsy, 1882) "gives the song line 'Fenwick o' Bywell's off to Newmarket', connecting the different titles of the tune" (Seattle). Matt Seattle also believes the tune is derived from the older "Johnny Cock Thy Beaver", and notes "the structure is displaced by two bars but much of the melodic material is shared."
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Northumbrian Piper's Tune Book, vol. 1; p. 12 (appears as "Fenwick o' Bywell"). Peacock's Tunes, c. 1800; No. 48 (Appears as "Newmarket Races"). Seattle (William Vickers), 1987, Part 2; No. 288.
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