Annotation:Old Morpeth Rant

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OLD MORPETH RANT. English, Reel or Hornpipe. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. One of many versions of the well-known Northumberland tune "Morpeth Rant (1)," different especially in second strain. The 'rant' of the title refers to a dance step. See note for "Annotation:Morpeth Rant (1)" and "Annotation:Morpeth Rant (2)" for more. Paul Hardy finds a version of "Old Morpeth Rant" in an untitled hornpipe in the 1858 music manuscript collection of William Clarke [1] (Feltwell, Norfolk) (No. 113, p. 52). The Morpeth Rant was the name of a dance, for which various tunes and tune variants were played over many years; thus there are a number of tunes called "Morpeth Rant" or "Old Morpeth Rant" that have varying degrees of similarity.

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Recorded sources: Park Records PRKCD 42, Kathryn Tickell - "The Northumberland Collection" (learned from a relative, Henry Robson).



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