The
Isle of Wight Tune Book
The
aim is to continue the Village Band Tradition of having an Isle of Wight
manuscript of tunes and
airs
available for dances, weddings, parties and other gatherings. No old IOW
village manuscripts
have
as yet been found. We have gathered together some of the IOW and related tunes
from a
variety
of sources. This is a living document with new material being added all the
time.
We
are looking for new tunes without copyright to include in the manuscript.
Please send the music
/
score or an mp3 with a clear tune from which we can write out the music. More
details are
available
about this in "New songs and tune ideas" below. Use our email to send tunes.
We
hope you enjoy playing the music. Thanks to all those so far that have freely
provided tunes, given
their
time to checking them out and those that have given us so much encouragement.
Here
are some of the tunes so far.
Isle
of Wight Carole Dance Music 6 (Long Term Project)
“I've
just been playing through the Isle of Wight tunes and they are great. I
particularly like Sailor's
Return
and the Isle of Wight Hornpipe. Both very jaunty. The British Man-of-War tunes
are nice, as is
Autumn
on the Isle of Wight which has a lovely melancholic simplicity to it. The
Clowns Courtship and
Crockery
Ware are both cute and Golden Gorse is a lovely reflective song. It reminds me
a bit of
Foster
and Allen (way back in the day). Lumps of Pudding is sweet and I also like
Roger and Dolly
followed
by the Parson of Chale, the latter of which is quite quirky and really appeals
to me! The song
of
Sixpence is quite mediaeval sounding I thought. I tried it whilst playing a
low drone on the G and it
works
really well.”
KG