| |f_annotation=<span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" bold="" font-style:="" normal="" top:="" 2450px="" word-spacing:="" -3px="">'''PENCARROW''' (Deer's Head or Camp's end). English, Air (3/4 time). D Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. </span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" top:="" 2536px="" word-spacing:="" -2px="">Baring Gould heard this tune from John Bennet of Menheniot. </span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" top:="" 2521px="">[ 12]</span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" top:="" 2536px="" word-spacing:="" -2px="">It was given for the words to <span class="w6" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:=""></span>the 'Pencarrow Hunt' or </span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" top:="" 2623px="" word-spacing:="" -2px="">'Lord Arscott of Tetcott' but is different from the melodies associated with this song elsewhere. In Songs And Ballads of teh </span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" top:="" 2710px="" word-spacing:="" -3px="">West Baring Gould provides the following notes: </span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" italic="" top:="" 2798px="" word-spacing:="" -2px="">“The same tune is found <span class="w6" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" italic=""></span>in Wales to the words " <span class="w7" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" italic=""></span>Difurwch gwyr Dyfl " (E. Jones'Musical Relicks of <span class="w6" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" italic=""></span>the W^elsh Bards, 1794, </span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" italic="" top:="" 2885px="">I., p. 129). It—or rather half of the t<span class="l6" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" italic="">une—was introduced by D'Urfey into his " Pills to purge Malancholy," to the words " </span></span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" italic="" top:="" 2972px="">Dear Catholic Brother " (Ed. 171<span class="l6" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" italic="">9-20, Vol. VI., p. 277). From D'Urfey it passed into the "Musical Miscellany" (1731, Vol. </span></span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" italic="" top:="" 3059px="" word-spacing:="" -1px="">VI., p. 171), to the words " Come, take up your Burden, ye Dogs, and away." D'Urfey was a Devonshire Man, and he </span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" italic="" top:="" 3146px="">probably picked up the tune w<span class="l6" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" italic="">hen a boy in the West, and used as much of it as he wanted to set to his song. The air is much </span></span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" italic="" top:="" 3233px="" word-spacing:="" -1px="">older than the age of D'Urfey ; it probabl</span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" italic="" top:="" 3233px="">[ y ]</span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" italic="" top:="" 3233px="" word-spacing:="" -2px="">belongs to an early stock common <span class="w6" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" italic=""></span>to the Celts of Wales <span class="w6" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" italic=""></span>and Cornwall. A very </span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" italic="" top:="" 3320px="">fine variant from J. Benney<span class="l6" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" italic="">, Menheniot.”</span></span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" italic="" top:="" 3304px="">[ 13]</span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" italic="" top:="" 3320px=""></span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" italic="" top:="" 4976px="">5</span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" italic="" top:="" 4991px="" word-spacing:="" -1px="">Robert Morton Nance, Ms. box 4, <span class="w6" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" italic=""></span>Courtney Library, Royal Institute of Cornwall, River Street Truro.</span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" top:="" 4991px=""></span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" top:="" 5055px="">6</span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" top:="" 5069px=""></span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" italic="" top:="" 5070px="">Baring Gould Heritage Project/Wren Trust, Fair Copy Manuscript, <span class="w" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" italic="" width:="" 13px=""></span>page 204, <span class="w" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" italic="" width:="" 17px=""></span>song 79</span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" top:="" 5069px=""></span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" top:="" 5133px="">7</span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" top:="" 5147px=""></span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" italic="" top:="" 5148px="">Dunstan, Ralph. Cornish Dialect and Folk Songs. (Truro, Cornwall: Jordan's <span class="l6" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" italic="">Bookshop, 1932). P5.</span></span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" top:="" 5147px=""></span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" top:="" 5211px="">8</span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" top:="" 5226px=""></span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" italic="" top:="" 5226px="" word-spacing:="" -1px="">Sharp, Cecil, 'Folk Song Journal' no 20 <span class="w6" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" italic=""></span>p 286-9</span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" top:="" 5226px=""></span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" top:="" 5289px="">9</span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" top:="" 5304px=""></span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" italic="" top:="" 5305px="">Baring-Gould, Rev. Sabine., and Rev. H. Fleetwood Shepherd. Songs and Ballads of the West: A Collection Made from the Mouths of </span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" italic="" top:="" 5383px="">the People (London: Methuen & Co, 1891) p xxvii </span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" top:="" 5446px="">10</span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" top:="" 5461px=""></span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" italic="" top:="" 5461px="">Baring Gould Heritage Project/Wren Trust, rough <span class="w" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" italic="" width:="" 14px=""></span>copy manuscript , Vol 2, page 28.</span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" top:="" 5461px=""></span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" top:="" 5525px="">11</span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" top:="" 5539px=""></span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" italic="" top:="" 5540px="">Allen, John, and William H. Paynter. The History of the Borough of Liskeard. (Marazion,m Wordens, 1967)</span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" top:="" 5539px="">.</span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" top:="" 5534px=""></span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" top:="" 5604px="">12</span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" top:="" 5620px=""></span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" italic="" top:="" 5626px="">Baring Gould Heritage Project/Wren Trust, Fair copy manuscript , Page 6 Song no 2.</span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" top:="" 5620px=""></span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" top:="" 5691px="">13</span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" top:="" 5707px=""></span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" italic="" top:="" 5713px="">Baring-Gould, Rev. Sabine., and Rev. H. Fleetwood Shepherd. Songs and Ballads of the West: A Collection Made from the Mouths of </span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" italic="" top:="" 5792px="">the People (London: Methuen & Co, 1891) p xiii.</span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" top:="" 5786px=""></span> | | |f_annotation=<span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" bold="" font-style:="" normal="" top:="" 2450px="" word-spacing:="" -3px="">'''PENCARROW''' (Deer's Head or Camp's end). English, Air (3/4 time). D Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part.</span><span class="a" times="" new="" roman="" serif="" font-weight:="" normal="" font-style:="" top:="" 5786px=""></span> |
