Back to this chestnut, before MsTickell's award takes the airwaves up :)
Especially since Colin Hill posted the link
http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/old-time-music/midi/005200.MID
to that amazing rendition on accompaniment with bit of tune showing
through , it's been occasionally surfacing again & again in my head.
(Hmmm, thanks, Colin!!!)
I'm prepared to get flayed on this, as I'm nowhere near as experienced
in specifically Northumbrian music as most of you, but I suddenly began
to wonder - how much is it Northumbrian shaped?
Scholarly people have analysed, for example with Irish music, what makes
a characteristically typical tune in a particular vernacular. I haven't
got time to pursue it to that length, but I'm just humming a few other
tunes from the tradition in my head, piping tunes especially, and
wondering if it fits the same mould of characteristic figures of rhythm
or note movement, or whether indeed it feels more like the sort of tunes
which were created around the 60's/70's folk revival time - excellent
tunes too, many of 'em.
Just a thought.
Richard.
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