tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2892825405965726460.post1700358976977209439..comments2024-03-27T11:23:08.577+00:00Comments on Lester's Tune-a-Day: Tune 459 - Royal Burlesque HornpipeReasonably Accurate Melodeonisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10457793685091172845noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2892825405965726460.post-9191339375008135332016-10-12T00:41:17.502+01:002016-10-12T00:41:17.502+01:00It sounded familiar, so I went on a hunt. It wasn...It sounded familiar, so I went on a hunt. It wasn't easy to find (especially since it doesn't seem to be online in ABC form before yesterday ;-), but I eventually tracked it down in a book on one of my shelves: the Northern Frisk collection (Knowles, Knowles & McGrady, 1988), tune 121. Except for the dotted (>) notes, it's identical to your version. And now it's in my collection, too.<br /><br />There seems to be no information about its origin. Not even tunearch.org knows anything about it, though its predecessor at http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/ does list it and the above info. The foreword to the book implies that tunes without info are "traditional" in the English North. Some tunes list a composer and/or copyright info, but this one doesn't. I wonder if we can track down where it came from ...<br />jchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04926070339759890021noreply@blogger.com