Newcastle Waites

A 3/2 hornpipe from 1798

 

Here is a tune that about which Will Spires says:

"This is the tune from the beginning of Polanski's Tess,  great old Thomas Hardy fare. ."

There are various versions of it about.  This is, perhaps, one of the English ones.

Thanks Kevin and Michael for turning me on to this compelling tune!

Here's a nice version from Blowzabella's Bobbityshooty recording:

I learned it from this midi file:
and the corresponding dots:

By popular request, a favorite Schottische by Cliff Stapleton, originally performed in D by The Duellists on English Hurdy-Gurdy Music.

Here's the sheet music in E:

And here's the original recording pitch shifted to E:

And slowed:

Here's a nice version, sandwiched between some other favorites.

Here it is the proper key:

Here is a French tune which is in an ABCB form, although the person who notated this did as ABCD with the B and D parts being the same.

The first tune(Skaloval) is a recent composition by Maarten Decombel, who seems to be Dutch. The second(Neverending Jig) is cited as being Irish.  Here is a youtube video and links to the music. 

Kevin H sez: We were hipped to these from a memory stick of Boombal tune from Rita Bixby on what turned out to be the last time I saw her  

 

A new pal. Alina, was kind in  doing this transcription of Neverending from the pdf

And Michael did one for Skaloval:

Tune by Nigel Eaton. 

A 3/2 hornpipe that has a lot of drive:

Here is a Bellowhead version. It has got some nice brass:

 

A great tune from Andy Cutting of Blowzabella.

I extracted the audio from Track 9 of their "Vanilla" album, and slowed it down 25% to make it easier to learn.