Annotation:Welcome to the Town Again
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WELCOME TO THE TOWN AGAIN. AKA Annotation:Eight men of moidert, Annotation:I won't go a gossiping, Annotation:I'll gae nae mair to your town, Annotation:I'll gang nae mair to yon town. English, Reel. England, Northumberland. G Major. Standard tuning. AAB.
The FARNE site records that the title "Ill gang Nae Mair to Yon Town" is the one most commonly employed, although with many variants. FARNE also concludes that the version printed by Peocock is entirely compatable with 8-note smallpipe playing, and that it appears to be the basis for the Clough family variation set.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Peacock (Peacock’s Tunes), c. 1805/1980; No. 2, pg. 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 (8th) and Over the Border (9th)
and 11(th) where there is a rhythmic inconsistency.
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]
Evident mistakes, have been corrected and underlined with "analysis brackets" as shown in the
following 34th measure of Felton Lonning:
STANDARD ABC NOTATION
X: 2 T: Welcome to the Town again B: Peacocks' Tunes L: 1/8 M:C Z: Valerio M. Pelliccioni K: G f|g2 dc A2 Gc|(3Bcd GA cBBf|g2 dc A2 Gc|(3Bcd|GA cBBf:][:c2| AGdG eGdG|Bd e/d/c/B/ cAAc|BGdG eGdG|(3Bcd Ac BGGc| BGdG eGdG|Bd dc/B/ cAAc|BdcB cdef|gdec BGG ]]