Annotation:Lord of the Northern Sea

Find traditional instrumental music
Revision as of 18:44, 2 January 2013 by Andrew (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Back to [[{{BASEPAGENAME}}]]''' ---- <p><font face="garamond, serif" size="4"> '''LORD OF THE NORTHERN SEA.''' American, Air and Contra Dance Tune (6/8 time). A Major. Stan...")
(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)

Back to Lord of the Northern Sea


LORD OF THE NORTHERN SEA. American, Air and Contra Dance Tune (6/8 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. The title of the tune is from John Jacob Niles' The Ballad Book of John Jacob Niles (1961, No. 7a, p. 48), a variant of the Child ballad "The Twa Sisters" (No. 10). The song was collected in 1933 from a 13 yr. old informant, Miss Doanie Fugate of the Lost Creek community of Breathitt County, Ky., who was "quite fat and gay." Laufman employed the tune for a contra dance.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Laufman (Okay, Let's Try a Contra, Men on the Right, Ladies on the Left, Up and Down the Hall), 1973; p. 25.

Recorded sources:




Back to Lord of the Northern Sea