Tunebooks
Collections of tunes, mainly traditional. The virus pandemic of 2020 encouraged many Neemf members to play alone at home, and led to the provision of these tunebooks.
It is suggested that it would be appropriate, though not required, to make a small contribution to the Student Bursary Fund for HISS, the Historically Informed Summer School. HISS was started by NEEMF and NEEMF members have been the major contributors to the fund through the donation and purchase of second hand music. As at May 2020 over £10,000 has been raised, funding approximately 40 student places over the years.
If you wish to contribute, please do so online, using these bank details:
Name: North East Early Music Forum
Sort code: 30 93 91
a/c no.: 46 90 26 60
and citing the reference ‘Tunebook’
It is suggested that it would be appropriate, though not required, to make a small contribution to the Student Bursary Fund for HISS, the Historically Informed Summer School. HISS was started by NEEMF and NEEMF members have been the major contributors to the fund through the donation and purchase of second hand music. As at May 2020 over £10,000 has been raised, funding approximately 40 student places over the years.
If you wish to contribute, please do so online, using these bank details:
Name: North East Early Music Forum
Sort code: 30 93 91
a/c no.: 46 90 26 60
and citing the reference ‘Tunebook’
John Cousen's Bassoon Duets
The late John Cousen wrote these out in his beautiful manuscript. They are said to work well on cellos, and will also work on bass viols, especially if one of them tunes the bottom string down to C. We are indebted to Christopher Cousen, John's son, for providing this item.
The late John Cousen wrote these out in his beautiful manuscript. They are said to work well on cellos, and will also work on bass viols, especially if one of them tunes the bottom string down to C. We are indebted to Christopher Cousen, John's son, for providing this item.
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Geoff Walker's Tunebooks
Geoff Walker, one of our members, has kindly made available a large number of the tunebooks he has put together, originally for his own use. Plenty of material here!
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Five duos arranged by Margaret Watchorn
These pieces are taken, by kind invitation, from Margaret's collection Sweet and Salt Water (Embleton: Northings Music), a collection of old and new tunes arranged as duos. Although designed originally for Northumbrian smallpipes and fiddle, the arrangements will fit many other instruments. I made the choice with some difficulty because they're all good! Four of the tunes are by Margaret and one by her father; the last tune, Little Fishie, is Margaret's setting of a traditional tune. My thanks to Margaret for the offer.
Please note these tunes and arrangements are copyright. Use them for your own pleasure but do not reproduce them without permission. If you perform them in public I'm sure Margaret would be delighted and would like to be told. The notes are taken from her book.
These pieces are taken, by kind invitation, from Margaret's collection Sweet and Salt Water (Embleton: Northings Music), a collection of old and new tunes arranged as duos. Although designed originally for Northumbrian smallpipes and fiddle, the arrangements will fit many other instruments. I made the choice with some difficulty because they're all good! Four of the tunes are by Margaret and one by her father; the last tune, Little Fishie, is Margaret's setting of a traditional tune. My thanks to Margaret for the offer.
Please note these tunes and arrangements are copyright. Use them for your own pleasure but do not reproduce them without permission. If you perform them in public I'm sure Margaret would be delighted and would like to be told. The notes are taken from her book.
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By Margaret's father, Jack Dodd, and dedicated by him to her mother, Mrs Elizabeth Ann Dodd.
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Wrecked at the Burn Mouth in Embleton Bay in 1824; the shifting sands in late winter sometimes reveal the remaining timbers of what is reputed to be this ship.
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‘Sweet and salt water’ is a local description of fresh water meeting the sea.
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This lively waltz was written for Grace Devine on her 92nd birthday and played the same day at a late night musical house party in Howth, Co. Dublin, where we played in several concerts with the ‘moose man’ – Peter Hedlund, good friend, champion nyckelharpa player and keen hunter of moose.
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A 21st birthday tune requested by our good friend Lizzie Payton (now Mrs Bruerton)
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This is our version of the melody published in 'Northumbrian Minstrelsy' (1880). It is also known as 'Miss Mary Lumsdane's Favourite', attributed to Nathaniel Gow.
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