Wild Blue Morris tunes
The abc and PDF files linked below contain tunes that are or might be used for Wild Blue Morris dances. Many of them in fact are not in use and probably will never be, but are there in case we decide to use them.
The sources of these tunes are:
- The Morris Ring’s abc file linked from their Ilmington page, except for:
- “Haste to the Wedding” which is taken with modifications from the Ring’s abc file linked from their Headington Tunes page.
- “The Lollipop Man” which is taken with modifications from the Adderbury version linked from Steve Allen’s Morris Tunes page.
(“Evesham” apparently isn’t a collected Ilmington dance — it’s an Ilmington-ized version of a border morris dance — and it’s not mentioned on the Ring’s Ilmington page, but the tune is in the Morris Ring’s abc file.)
Some of the tunes have been transposed into possibly more melodeon-friendly keys, although that of course is subjective and in some cases the choice was based on just a very quick try-out. WBM musicians reserve the right to play them in other keys! Note also that a couple of tunes seem fairly melodeon-hostile no matter what key they’re in.
abc tunes file is here: Wild Blue tunes transposed.abc (on Google Docs)
PDF tunes file is here: WildBlueTunes.pdf
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