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'''GRANDFATHER'S TUNE'''. AKA - "[[Grandfather's Polka]]." AKA and see "[[Sheepshearing]]." English, Morris Dance Tune (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. The tune has been employed in the North-West England morris dance tradition for a polka step. Phillip Heath Coleman [http://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/waifs.htm] has identified the tune as "a simplified ('disarpeggiated') and rather zippy version of the "[[Cliff Hornpipe]]". One member of the [Dorset Trio] described it as his "grandfather's tune", whence the popular title of the version now in circulation." The Dorset Trio consisted of musicians playing fiddle, concertina and cello. | |f_annotation='''GRANDFATHER'S TUNE'''. AKA - "[[Grandfather's Polka]]." AKA and see "[[Sheepshearing]]." English, Morris Dance Tune (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. The tune has been employed in the North-West England morris dance tradition for a polka step. Phillip Heath Coleman [http://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/waifs.htm] has identified the tune as "a simplified ('disarpeggiated') and rather zippy version of the "[[Cliff Hornpipe]]". One member of the [Dorset Trio] described it as his "grandfather's tune", whence the popular title of the version now in circulation." The Dorset Trio consisted of musicians playing fiddle, concertina and cello. | ||
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|f_printed_sources=Wade ('''Mally's North West Morris Book'''), 1988; p. 28. | |||
|f_recorded_sources=Flowers and Frolics - "Bees on Horseback" (2008). Topic Records TSCD659, Dorset Trio - "Rig-a-Jig-Jig: Dance Music of the South of England." | |||
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GRANDFATHER'S TUNE. AKA - "Grandfather's Polka." AKA and see "Sheepshearing." English, Morris Dance Tune (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. The tune has been employed in the North-West England morris dance tradition for a polka step. Phillip Heath Coleman [1] has identified the tune as "a simplified ('disarpeggiated') and rather zippy version of the "Cliff Hornpipe". One member of the [Dorset Trio] described it as his "grandfather's tune", whence the popular title of the version now in circulation." The Dorset Trio consisted of musicians playing fiddle, concertina and cello.
