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Note: The tunes below are recorded in what
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WHICH WAY DID SHE GO?
Irish, Slow Air (3/4 time). E Flat Major. Standard tuning. AB. Both ‘A’
and ‘B’ parts are nine measures long. O'Neill (O’Neill’s Irish Music), 1915; No. 84, pg. 49.
X:1
T:Which
Way Did She Go?
M:3/4
L:1/8
R:Air
S:O’Neill
– O’Neill’s Irish Music (1915)
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:E_
E>G
B2 c>B | Ge G2 F>G | EG B2 ce | f4 g>e | G2e2 e>d | c3d c>B |
B>G Bc e>c |
B>G
F>E FG | {E/F/G/}EE E4 || G>E GB c2 | B>G e2 B>G | F>E GB c>e
| f4 g>e |
f4
g>e | f2d2 e>c | B>G Bc e>e | c>B GE F>G | EE E4 ||
WHICH WAY SHALL I TURN ME. AKA and see "Tom Tinker's my true love."
English, Air. The tune appears under this title in John Gay's Beggar's Opera of 1728.
WHIDDON'S FAVORITE. American, Reel. A Major. Standard.
AABB. Probably the W.H. Whiddon whose name is listed as composer for several Ryan’s Mammoth Collection tunes. Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; pg. 3. Ryan’s Mammoth Collection, 1883; pg. 25.
X:1
T:Whiddon’s
Favorite
M:2/4
L:1/8
R:Reel
S:Ryan’s Mammoth Collection (1883)
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:A
E/D/ |
(C/D/^D/E/ F/E/C/A,/) | .A/.E/.B/.E/ .c/.E/.A/.E/ | (C/D/^D/E/ F/E/C/A,/) |
{c}B/A/B/c/ B/A/F/E/ |
(C/D/^D/E/
F/E/C/A,/) | .A/.E/.B/.E/ .c/.E/.A/.E/ | (C/D/^D/E/ F/E/C/A,/) | {c}B/A/B/c/ A
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|: e |
{b}a/g/a/b/ a/g/f/e/ | f/e/d/c/ B/A/G/B/ | {b}a/g/a/b/ c’/a/f/e/ | d/c/B/A/
G/B/E |
{b}a/g/a/b/
a/g/f/e/ | f/e/d/c/ B/A/G/B/ | A/^A/B/^B/ c/d/^d/e/ | ^e/f/g/^g/ a :|
WHIDDON'S HORNPIPE. English, Scottish, American;
Hornpipe. B Flat Major (most versions): G Major (Miller). Standard. AABB. Lisa Ornstein
points out the second strain is something of a ‘floater’, similar to the first
strain of “Norfolk Hornpipe [1]” printed in Ryan’s
Mammoth Collection (c. 1883) and credited to W.H. Whiddon, and to that of “The Wily Old Bachelor.” Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; pg. 85. Craig
(The Empire Collection of Hornpipes), c. late 19th cent.).
Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 2; No.
386, pg. 43. Miller (Fiddler’s Throne),
2004; No. 322, pg. 189. Ryan’s Mammoth
Collection, 1883; pg. 119.
X:1
T:Whiddon’s
Hornpipe
M:C
L:1/8
R:Hornpipe
S:Adam
Craig – The Empire Collection of Hornpipes (c. late 19th
cent.)
Z:AK/Fiddler’s
Companion
K:B_
F2 |
B2 (BA) BFDF | Bcde fgab | BFcF dFeF | dcBd cBAc | B2 BA BFDF | Bcde fgab |
{g}f=efg
f_ecA | Bbfd B2 :: (FD) | B,DFB dBFD | EGcd ecAc | Bbab fdBd |
(3cdc
(3BAG (3FGF (3EDC | B,DFB dBFD | EGcd ecAc | Bbab gecA | (3Bdf (3bfd B2 :|
WHIFFLE
TREE. American, Quadrille. Edison
51236 (78 RPM), 1923, John Baltzell (appears as last tune of "Old Red Barn
Medley Quadrille") {Baltzell was a native of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, as was
minstrel Dan Emmett (d. 1904). Emmett returned to the town in 1888, poor, and
later taught Baltzell to play the fiddle}.
WHIGS OF FIFE. Scottish, Reel. F Major (most versions): G Major
(Aird). Standard. AB (Surenne): AAB (Gow): AABB (Aird, Kerr, Martin): AABB'
(Athole): AABBCCDD (Marshall). John Glen finds the tune earliest published in
Neil Stewart's 1761 collection (pg. 24). The tune was published in a sheet by William Marshall, and is sometimes therefore attributed
to him. Yet, as Kate Dunlay points out, it is unlikely he composed it for he would
only have been aged 13 when the tune appeared in Stewart’s 1761 collection. It
is more reasonable, suggests Dunlay, that Marshall composed the last two parts
as variations. Marshall was a staunch
Tory all his life and so perhaps had no love for the Whigs of the County of
Fife, Scotland. John Glen finds the tune earliest published in Neil Stewart's
1761 collection (pg. 24). Aird (Selections),
Vol. II, 1782; No. 43, pg. 16. Gow (Complete
Repository), Part 1, 1799; pg. 29. Kerr (Merry Melodies), Vol. 2; No. 182, pg. 21. Marshall, Fiddlecase Edition, 1978; Kinrara Collection (1800), pg. 26.
Martin (Ceol na Fidhle), Vol. 2,
1988; pg. 28. Stewart-Robertson (The
Athole Collection), 1884; pg. 205. Surenne (Dance Music of Scotland), 1852; pg. 126. Rounder
7059, Alex Francis MacKay with Gordon MacLean – “Gaelic in the Bow” (2005).
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See also listings at: Alan Snyder’s Cape Breton Fiddle
Recording Index |
X:1
T:Whigs of Fife,
The
M:C|
L:1/8
R:Reel
B:Stewart-Robertson
– The Athole Collection (1884)
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:F Major
f|cF F/F/F
AGGA|cF F/F/F fgag|~fF F/F/F AGGA|FDE^C D2D:|
|:e|fccf gdde|fccd fgag|fccf gdde|1 fagf
d2d:|2 fagf defd||
X:2
T:Whigs
of Fife, The
M:C|
L:1/8
S:Aird,
Vol. II (1782)
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:G
(g |
g)G G/G/G BAAB | gG G/G/G gaba | gG G/G/G B(AA)B | GEFD (E2E) :|
|: f | gddg aeef | gdde g/f/g/a/ ba | gddg aeef |
(g/a/b) a>g e2e :|
WHIGSBOROUGH HUNT. AKA and see “Hunting
the Hare [2].” Irish, Hop Jig (9/8 time). From the Levey collection. See
also note for “Do it Fair.”
WHILE FOR SOME PAWN THEIR... AKA and see “My Nanny-O.”
WHILE GAZING ON THE MOONLIGHT (Ag Amairc Air Solas Na Re). AKA
and see "Oonagh." Irish, Air (6/8
time, "animated"). F Major/D Minor. Standard tuning. One part.
O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies),
1903/1979; No. 283, pg. 49.
WHILE MAUREEN IS FAR AWAY. Irish, Air (4/4 time). D Minor.
Standard tuning. One part. Source for notated version: "Received in
1884...from Mr. John Healy, Teacher of Smithstown National School near
Castlecomer Co. Kilkenny. He was then over 70 years of age, and had learned
these tunes in early life" (Joyce). Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 340, pg. 156.
X:1
T:While
Maureen is far away
L:1/8
M:C
S:Joyce
– Old Irish Folk Music
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:D
Minor
(3A=Bc|d>efe
dcAG|F2 F>G A2 d/c/A/F/|G>BAF D2D2|D6 FG|A3G Adde|
f2gf
e2f2|edcA c>def|d6 FG|A3G Adde|fefg e3f|d>cAG F2G2|A4 fe|
d2 ed
cAAG|F3G Addc|A2 GF D2D2|D6||
WHILE THE STARS WERE BRIGHT. Irish, Slow Air (3/4 time). G
Major. Standard tuning. AAB. Source for notated version: "(Taken) down
from Ned Goggin the professional fiddler of Glenosheen Co. Limerick (1844 to
1850)" {Joyce}. Joyce (Old Irish
Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 166, pg. 84.
X:1
T:While
the stars were bright
L:1/8
M:3/4
S:Joyce
– Old Irish Folk Music
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
N:”Slow and tender”
K:G
E/F/|G/A/B/c/
d>f ed|B/c/B/A/ B>G EE/F/|G/A/B/c/ d>e B/A/G/F/|GG G3:|
G/A/|B/d/e/f/
g2 f/a/g/f/|ee e>d BB/A/|B/d/e/f/ g>f a/g/f/g/|ee e3g|f/a/g/f/ e>d BA|
B/c/B/A/
B>G EE/F/|G/A/B/c/ d>e B/A/G/F/|GG G2||
WHIM [1], THE. AKA – “Bartholomew
Fair.” English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning. AB
(Sharp): AABB (Barnes). The tune dates to 1695 where it appears in the 9th
edition of John Playford’s English
Dancing Master. It was reprinted in 1721 in the 17th edition of
the work, with the title “The Whim, or Bartholomew Fair.” Regarding the
alternate title, Bartholomew Fair is
the name of Ben Jonson’s play, written in 1614, and refer to an annual fair
held in West Smithfield held
between the years 1133–1855 on St. Bartholomew’s Day. So famous was the fair
that aspects of it entered popular vernacular, at leas for a time. For example,
a ‘Bartholomew doll’ was a tawdry, overdressed woman, in association with a
flashy, bespangled doll that could be found for sale at the fair. A
‘Bartholomew pig’ was a very fat person, derived from the fact that one of the
chief attractions of the fair were pigs, roasted whole, and sold piping hot to
the crowd. Shakespeare makes reference to this in Henry IV (ii 4) when Falstaff
calls himself:
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A tidy little Bartholomew boar-pig.
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Bruce
Olson finds the melody also published in Walsh’s Compleat Country Dancing Master of 1718, and reprinted by the same
publisher in 1735 in his Third Book
of the same work. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of a Scottish
tune by this name in print in Robert Ross's 1780 collection (pg. 12). Barnes (English
Country Dance Tunes), 1986. Sharp (Country
Dance Tunes), 1909/1994; pg. 53. Harvest 0777 7
81428 2 9, Albion Dance Band – “The
Prospect Before Us” (1993. Orig. rec. in 1976).
X:1
T:Whim,
The
M:6/8
L:1/8
S:Sharp
– Country Dance Tunes (1909)
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:G
d|BGG
G>AB|c2B A2G|FAA A2B|c>de dBG|c>dB ABc|BGG G2d|
BGG
G>AB|c2B A2G|FAA A2B|c>de dBG|c>dB ABc|BGG G2||
B|c>de/f/
g>fe|dBc A2G|cAA A>Bc|d3 c3|B>cB A2d|BGG G2B|
c>de/f/
g>fe|dBc A2G|cAA A>Bc|d3 c3|B>cB A2d|BGG G2||
WHIM
[2], THE. American, Dance Tune (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning.
AABBCCDD. Published in John Clarkson
Junior’s American Tunes No. 1, Arranged for the Piano Forte, a single-sheet
dating from around 1805.
WHIM OF A MOMENT, THE. American, Jig. C major. Standard tuning. AABB.
Composed by R. Nagle. Cole (1000 Fiddle
Tunes), 1940; pg. 64. Ryan’s Mammoth
Collection, 1883; pg. 93.
WHIN
BLOSSOM, THE (Blat Na Aitin). Irish, Air (6/8 time,
"graceful"). D Major. Standard tuning. AB. Source for notated
version: O’Reilly [O’Neill]. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies),
1903/1979; No. 515, pg. 90.
X:1
T:Whin
Blossom, The
M:6/8
L:1/8
R:Air
N:”Graceful”
S:O’Neill
– Music of Ireland (1903), No. 515
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:D
D/E/ |
FGA GAE | DEG A2 B/c/ | dcA GAE | D3 C2 D/E/ | FGA GAE |
DEG A2
B/c/ | dcA GAE | D3 D2 || G | ABc d2 e/d/ | cdc A2 G/A/ |
dcA
GAE | D3 C2 D/E/ | FGA GAE | DEG A2 B/c/ | dcA GAE | D3 D2 ||
WHINHAM’S HORNPIPE. English,
Hornpipe. England, Northumbria. F Major. Standard tuning. AA’BB. Composed by
Robert Whinham (1814-1893). Dixon (Remember
Me), 1995; pg. 17.
WHINHAM’S JIG. AKA and see “Me
Mother’s Jig.” English, Jig. England, Northumberland. Composed by Robert
Whinham (1814-1893). The tune appears under this title in the T. Armstrong
manuscript (c. 1850, in John Armstrong of Carrick’s collection), and in L.
Baty’s manuscript (1883, Beamish Museum), as researched by Graham Dixon. Topic 12TS388, High Level Ranters – “Four in a Bar.”
WHINHAM’S REEL. AKA and see “Mrs. Thompson of Gofton’s
Strathspey,” “The Pibroch!” English,
Reel. G Major. Standard tuning. AABB: AABBCCDD’EE’ (Callaghan): AABBCCDDEAABB
(Dixon). Composed by Robert Whinham, an itinerant Northumbrian musician, fiddle
and dancing master, teacher and composer, who lived between 1814 and 1893.
Whinham ended his days in a workhouse in Morpeth where he was registered as a
“teacher of music in Morpeth (Northumberland).” The only known photograph of
him was taken there. Callaghan (2007) notes the tune is popular throughout
England, although usually only the first two parts are played. Source for
notated version: Colin Ross [Dixon]. Callaghan (Hardcore English), 2007; pg. 94. Dixon (Remember Me), 1995; pg. 17. Folktracks
30-119, Billy Ballantine – “Whistle in the Wind.” Topic Records, Willie Taylor
& Joe Hutton – “Bonnie North Tyne.”
REDE 002, Dishalagie – “Berwick Pipes.” Topic 12TS184, High Level Ranters –
“Northumberland for Ever.” Topic 12TS239, George Hepple & Donald Ridley (et
al) – “Wild Hills o’ Wannies.”
X:1
T:Whinham's
Reel
B:Northumbrian
Pipers' Tune Book volume 1
M:2/4
L:1/16
K:G