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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(e) Hornpipe. One member of the [Dorset Trio] described it as his "grandfather's tune", whence the popular title of the version now in circulation."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Wade (Mally's North West Morris Book), 1988; p. 28.

Recorded sources: Flowers and Frolics - "Bees on Horseback" (2008).

Tune properties and standard notation

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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 has identified the tune as "a simplified ('disarpeggiated') and rather zippy version of the Cliff(e) Hornpipe.  One member of the [Dorset Trio] described it as his "grandfather's tune", whence the popular title of the version now in circulation."
+'''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(e) Hornpipe.  One member of the [Dorset Trio] described it as his "grandfather's tune", whence the popular title of the version now in circulation."
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