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'''NEW ROAD TO ALSTON.''' English, Country Dance Tune (4/4 time). England, Northumberland. A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Kidson noted that Alston, at the time of his writing, was a "wild and remote district of Cumberland. | '''NEW ROAD TO ALSTON.''' English, Country Dance Tune (4/4 time). England, Northumberland. A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Victorian-era musicologist Frank Kidson noted that Alston, at the time of his writing, was a "wild and remote district of Cumberland," although it had a significant lead-mining industry in the 19th century. The inventor of modern road-building, John Macadam, made a road to Alston from Penrith in the early 1800s. Kidson found the melody is from a Northumbrian piper's MS of about 1816. Knowles thinks the tune has "more of a French feel to it." Malcolm Douglas identifies it as a relative of "[[Davy Davy Knick Knack]]." | ||
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''Recorded sources'': <font color=teal>BLOWZABELLA1, Blowzabella - "Octomento" (2007). </font> | ''Recorded sources'': <font color=teal>BLOWZABELLA1, Blowzabella - "Octomento" (2007). Wild Goose WGS392CD, Dave Townsend and Gill Redmond - "New Road to Alston."</font> | ||
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NEW ROAD TO ALSTON. English, Country Dance Tune (4/4 time). England, Northumberland. A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Victorian-era musicologist Frank Kidson noted that Alston, at the time of his writing, was a "wild and remote district of Cumberland," although it had a significant lead-mining industry in the 19th century. The inventor of modern road-building, John Macadam, made a road to Alston from Penrith in the early 1800s. Kidson found the melody is from a Northumbrian piper's MS of about 1816. Knowles thinks the tune has "more of a French feel to it." Malcolm Douglas identifies it as a relative of "Davy Davy Knick Knack."
Source for notated version: A Kidson MS [Knowles].
Printed sources: Kidson (Old English Country Dances), 1890; p. 22. Knowles (A Northern Lass), 1995; p. 5.
Recorded sources: BLOWZABELLA1, Blowzabella - "Octomento" (2007). Wild Goose WGS392CD, Dave Townsend and Gill Redmond - "New Road to Alston."