Season 5 Episode 18: Mr. Preston’s Hornpipe & I am Asleep Don’t Wake Me with Music from Pete Stewart, Rob Turner and Simon Chadwick

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Tunes: Thomas Marsden: Mr. Preston’s Hornpipe Fitzmaurice: I’m Asleep and Don’t Wake Me, Mount the Stage, Donald Bran, Loose the Belt, Fitzmaurice’s Trip to Rosline Castle Walsh: Petticoat Loose, Petticoat Tight Nixon: Petticoat Loose Allan Ramsay (Stuart): Cha mi ma chattle Wright: Past One O’Clock McGibbon: Cold Frosty Morning Oswald: Cold Frostie Morning (performed by Rob Turner) Milligan-Fox (Joyce): Lament of a Druid O’Farrell: Past One O’Clock Edward Bunting (Higgins): Tá Mé Mo Chodladh (I’m Asleep Don’t Waken Me) (Performed by Simon Chadwick) Please Consider Joining Patreon to Support the Show: https://www.patreon.com/wetootwaag Special Thanks to Pete Stewart, Rob Turner and Simon Chadwick for being On the Episode this week. Pete Stewart has some great videos uploaded to his Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbihXksKCthLa2FGmI-piBQ He Sells three of his books on his website: http://www.hornpipemusic.co.uk/ He is also the editor of the Common Stock Journal from the LBPS which you can read even if not a member (apart from the most recent issues): https://lbps.net/j3site/index.php/common-stock Rob Turner has glorioius renditions of many tunes from the same collections I have to rip apart and adjust to play, hear them how they were intended by subscribing to Rob’s Youtube page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMNv7YozytBYTZHjyMGxO1A Simon Chadwick also is a must follow on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/simonmchadwick Simon’s Website is filled with valuable articles and comments on a huge variety of topics, but also many of the printed music sources I play on the podcast: http://simonchadwick.net/ XXX+++XXX+++XXXXX+++XXX+++XXX 1690s: Mr. Preston’s Hornpipe: You can buy a lovely print of Thomas Marsden’s “A Collection of Original Lancashire Hornpipes” as part of Pete Stewart’s Book, “Three Extraordinary Collections”: http://www.hornpipemusic.co.uk/index.php/publications/three-extraordinary-collections The ABC is also available on Traditional Tune Archive: https://tunearch.org/wiki/Mr._Preston%27s_Hornpipe_(1) Mr. Preston’s Hornpipe Played by Pete Stewart: https://youtu.be/6TXJphyjFfw XX+++XXX+++XX 1805: Mount the Stage: From Fitzmaurice’s New Collection of Irish Tunes No 2: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Fitzmaurice_s_New_Collection_of_Irish_Tu/vq4Fb5TyTK4C?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PP6&printsec=frontcover 1805: Donald Bran: From Fitzmaurice’s New Collection of Irish Tunes No 2: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Fitzmaurice_s_New_Collection_of_Irish_Tu/vq4Fb5TyTK4C?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PP7&printsec=frontcover 1805: Fitzmaurice’s Trip to Rosline Castle: From Fitzmaurice’s New Collection of Irish Tunes No 2: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Fitzmaurice_s_New_Collection_of_Irish_Tu/vq4Fb5TyTK4C?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PP7&printsec=frontcover +++XXXX+++ Petticoat Loose: 1748: Petticoat Tight: from Walsh’s Caledonian Country Dances: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/90248459 1748: Petticoat Loose: from Walsh’s Caledonian Country Dances: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/90247895 1805: Loose the Belt: From Fitzmaurice’s New Collection of Irish Tunes No 2: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Fitzmaurice_s_New_Collection_of_Irish_Tu/vq4Fb5TyTK4C?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PP7&printsec=frontcover ++XX++ 1778: Petticoat Loose: From Thomas Nixon Jr’s Music Book http://www.framinghamhistory.org/framinghamhistory/Default/exhibit4/e40080b.htm For More information on The Nixon Manuscript see here: https://exhibitions.framinghamhistory.org/home/top-ten/tunebook-1/ Exploring the manuscript is not particularly easy, you have to use two websites to browse by tune title. This site can give you the titles and what page they are on: https://www.cdss.org/elibrary/Easmes/TOC/St053752.htm# This page allows you to click on the page by number but doesn't have any other information on it: http://www.framinghamhistory.org/framinghamhistory/Default/exhibit4/vexid4.htm ++X++X++ I didn’t play these settings but you can look at them if you want: 1776: William Vickers’ Petticoat Loose: http://www.farnearchive.com/farneimages/jpgs/R0305300.jpg 1812: John Bell’s Petticoat Loose: http://www.farnearchive.com/farneimages/jpgs/R1009400.jpg +++XXXX+++ I’m Asleep and Don’t Wake Me/Past One O’Clock/Cold Frosty Morning: 1805: I’m Asleep and Don’t Wake Me: From Fitzmaurice’s New Collection of Irish Tunes No 2: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Fitzmaurice_s_New_Collection_of_Irish_Tu/vq4Fb5TyTK4C?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PP6&printsec=frontcover 1720s: Cha mi ma chattle: Musick for Allan Ramsay's collection of 71 Scots songs (Set by Stuart): https://digital.tcl.sc.edu/digital/collection/rbc/id/3002 You can Buy Paddy Keenan’s Na Keen Affair Album to listen to the entirety of Johnny’s Song for the Avalon here: https://www.paddykeenan.com/nakeenaffair 1740s Past One O’Clock: Wright’s Compleat Collection of Celebrated Country Dances both Old and New: https://www.vwml.org/topics/historic-dance-and-tune-books/Wrights https://media.vwml.org/images/web/Wrights/37530048.jpg 1750s Cold Frosty Morning: William McGibbon’s Tune 119 in Volume IV https://imslp.org/wiki/A_Collection_of_Scots_Tunes_(McGibbon%2C_William) Many Thanks to Rob Turner for his excellent playing of Oswald’s Cold Frostie Morning: https://youtu.be/IOW168FRkLo 1745-1760s Cold Frostie Morning: James Oswald’s Caledonia Pocket Companion: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/91499924 1806: Past One O’Clock: O’Farrell’s Pocket Companion: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87780446 1900 (1792) Lament of A Druid: From Charlotte Milligan-Fox https://www.google.com/books/edition/Journal_of_the_Irish_Folk_Song_Society_L/0-o2AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA16&printsec=frontcover 1792: Tá Mé Mo Chodladh (I’m Asleep Don’t Waken Me): From Edward Bunting’s live notes of Hugh Higgins’playing: https://digital-library.qub.ac.uk/digital/collection/p15979coll9/id/97/rec/8 You Can Watch Simon’s Performance here: https://youtu.be/5iH3-Ebv0lE Simon’s further Notes: http://simonchadwick.net/2020/05/ta-me-mo-chodladh-from-hugh-higgins-in-1792.html Willie Clancy Playing Tá mé mo chodladh, nár dhúisce mé can be listened to here: https://youtu.be/3Gq8BQ0VKmo?t=1858 ++X++X++ I didn’t play these settings or they aren’t Tunes but here are links for your convenience: 1733 The Words from Charles Coffey’s Irish Ballad Opera, “The Beggar’s Wedding” Air X: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Beggar_s_Wedding/UA1EAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA33&printsec=frontcover 1748 Past One O’Clock (Scottish Section) It is in Thurmoth’s Twelve Scotch and Twelve Irish Airs: https://archive.org/details/imslp-irish-and-12-scotch-airs-with-variations-thumoth-burke/page/n17/mode/1up 1762: Cold Frosty Morning: Francis Peacock’s Fifty Favorite Scotch Airs: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105810724 1840: I Am Asleep and Don’t Waken Me: From Edward Bunting’s The ancient music of Ireland https://archive.org/details/ancientmusicofir00bunt/page/74/mode/1up For More information I recommend the Following Tune Annotation Pages from Traditional Tune Archive: https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:I_Am_Asleep_and_Don%27t_Waken_Me_(2) https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Past_One_O%27Clock ++X++X++ Please take advantage of the Tune Collection tab: https://www.wetootwaag.com/tunesources Also Please take a minute to leave a review of the podcast! 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