Annotation:Sussex Polka (2)

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X: 1 T:Sussex Polka [2],aka. JMP.026 M:2/4 L:1/8 Q:1/4=80 C:"27" B:John Miller MS. Perth, 1799.(for the fife) A:Perth N:Quick Step in Walsh MS(1800), H:1799 Z:Village Music Project, C. Graebe F:http://www.cpartington.plus.com/Links/Miller/MILLER(12-4-2016).ABC K:G Major G/A/ | BB B/d/c/e/ | dGGG | G/A/B A/B/c | e/d/c/B/ AG/A/ | BB B/d/c/e/| dG G g/f/ | (e/d/)(c/B/) (c/B/)(A/G/) | A2 G :| |:B/c/ | ddd e/f/ | gdd e/f/ | (g/f/)(e/d/) (e/d/)(c/B/) |(c/B/)(A/G/) A G/A/ | BB B/d/c/e/ | dG G g/f/ |(e/d/)(c/B/) (c/B/)(A/G/) | A2 G :|



SUSSEX POLKA [2]. AKA - "Aylmore's Polka," "William Aylmore's Polka," "Belfast Volunteers." English; Polka, Hornpipe, March (4/4 or 2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune appears in at least three music manuscript collections dating (at the earliest) from the last decade of the 18th century. The melody can be found earliest as an untitled tune in the 1796-1818 manuscript collection of William Aylmore, a clarinetist from West Wittering. The Aylmore manuscript is held in the archives of the Sussex Archaeological Society, Barbican House, Lewes, as part of the MacDermott collection of Sussex Music[1]. . and from the Welch Family Manuscript (Bosham, Sussex).

"Sussex Polka [2]" was also printed in Vic Gammon's Sussex Tune Book (No. 52. OOP).


Additional notes



Printed sources : - Encyclopaedia Blowzabellica - The Blowzabella Tune and Dance Book, Dragonfly Music, Northumberland, 1987; p. 23 (appears as untitled hornpipe).

Recorded sources : - TMM1912CD, The Posh Band – “English” (1999).




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  1. As stated in The Musical Times, vol. 95 No. 1338 (August 1954) pp. 436-438.