Annotation:Frisky (1)

Tune properties and standard notation

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FRISKY. English, Reel. England, Northumbrian. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The title appears in Henry Robson's list of popular Northumbrian song and dance tunes which he published c. 1800. There are other period tunes that go by the name "Frisky" or "The Frisky", but this particular melody appears unique to Peacock's publication [1].

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Peacock (Peacock’s Tunes), c. 1805; No. 1, p. 1.

Recorded sources:

UR-TEXT Editorial annotaton:

     When the Copyist has made a choice, this has been marked with brackets "[ ]" or parenthesis "( )".
     For example in Frisky, where there is no time signature in the original edition, or in Meggy's Foot (8^th) and Over the Border (9^th) and 11(^th) where there is a rhythmic inconsistency.

<lilybook> \version "2.10.33" \header { %book = "Peacocks' Tunes" %composer = \markup { \teeny {collected by:} \small {John Peacock (c. 1754 - 1817)} } %crossRefNumber = "1" %footnotes = "" tagline = ##f } voicedefault = { %%%% START PASTE AREA  %%%% \key g \major \override Staff.TimeSignature #'stencil = #(lambda (grob) (bracketify-stencil (ly:time-signature::print grob) Y 0.1 0.2 0.1)) \time 2/4  %\override Staff.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f \set Staff.instrumentName = "1." \relative c { \stemDown d16^\markup{ Frisky } b g' d\bar"|" \stopStaff s4 \startStaff b16^\markup{Meggy's foot} c \parenthesize d8 \staccatissimo g,8\staccatissimo r8\bar"|" } } %%%% END PASTE AREA  %%%% \score{ << \context Staff="default" { \voicedefault } >> \layout { \context { \Score \remove "Bar_number_engraver" } } } </lilybook>

     Peacock's contemporaries (e.g. Thomas Bewick), who referred to Peacock's style as having "his lilts, his pauses, and his variations" [L.Jessop], suggested to the copyist that ornaments, dotted notes, slurs, staccatos and graces must be left unaltered in this Urtext because they are expressions of the author. Nevertheless, the trill signs have been subsituted with the inverted mordent. This ornament is sometimes called a transient shake because it is really only a part of the more elaborate grace known as the "perfect trill". [K.W.Gehrkens]

<lilybook> \version "2.10.33" \header { %book = "Peacocks' Tunes" %composer = \markup { \teeny {collected by:} \small {John Peacock (c. 1754 - 1817)} } %crossRefNumber = "1" %footnotes = "" tagline = ##f } voicechange = { %%%% START PASTE AREA  %%%% \key c \major \time 4/4 \override Staff.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f \override NonMusicalPaperColumn #'line-break-permission = ##f  %\set Staff.instrumentName = "34." \relative c{ e16.[\trill d32 e16 f] \stopStaff s1_\markup{changes to} \startStaff e16.[\prall d32 e16 f]\bar"|" } } %%%% END PASTE AREA  %%%% \score{ << \context Staff="default" { \voicechange } >> \layout { \context { \Score \remove "Bar_number_engraver" } } } </lilybook>

     Evident mistakes, have been corrected and underlined with "analysis brackets" as shown in the following 34^th measure of Felton Lonning:

<lilybook> \version "2.10.33" \header { %book = "Peacocks' Tunes" %composer = \markup { \teeny {collected by:} \small {John Peacock (c. 1754 - 1817)} } %crossRefNumber = "1" %footnotes = "" tagline = ##f } voicemistake = { %%%% START PASTE AREA  %%%% \key g \major \time 6/8 \override TupletBracket #'direction = #UP \override Staff.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f \override NonMusicalPaperColumn #'line-break-permission = ##f  %\set Staff.instrumentName = "34." \relative c{ \once \override HorizontalBracket #'direction = #UP %\override NoteHead #'color = #grey g'16[\startGroup fis e fis g e]\stopGroup %\override NoteHead #'color = #black d16[ c b c d b]| } } %%%% END PASTE AREA  %%%% \score{ << \context Staff="default" { \voicemistake } >> \layout { \context { \Score \consists "Horizontal_bracket_engraver" \remove "Bar_number_engraver" } } } </lilybook>

STANDARD ABC NOTATION

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X: 1 
T: Frisky
M: 2/4
L: 1/16
K: Gmaj
dBgd edcB| ABcd cBAG|dBgd edcB| AcBA G2G2:| 
AcBd dcBA|Adce edcA|dBgd edcB|AcBA G2G2:|

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Tune properties and standard notation