Fiddle Music
A Book of Maggots
CM210
This is a book devoted to the musical maggot, a particularly or peculiarly English dance tune. This new collection of 92 tunes is taken from publications ranging over 70 years, starting with Mr Farmer’s Magot (sic!) from ‘Apollo’s Banquet’ from 1687. There are notes on individual tunes and the volume ends with a duet version of Dubourg’s Maggot.
56 pages of music, spiral bound with clear acetate covers
£12.00
George Butterworth
A Collection of Playford Tunes CM142
These 62 tunes come from the whole range of Playford publications of the ‘Dancing Master’.
Some are transposed, some are altered very slightly, and his version of the ‘Tithe Pig’ is quite a mystery! These are single line pieces suitable for any melody instrument, but particularly the violin. (19 pages of music)
£6.00
Carolan
Sheebeg and Sheemore CM012A
for violin and piano
£2.00
[see also String Orchestra page]
Carolan
A Carolan Suite for violin and piano CM078B
Carolan’s Air - Carolan’s Draught - Carolan’s Concerto - Carolan’s Dream
score and part £4.00
[see also String Orchestra page]
John Clare
A Collection of Songs, Airs and Dances for the Violin (1818)
Book One (Northampton MS 12) CM100
tunes 1-83 (30 pages of music)
£8.00
John Clare
Songs, Airs and Dances for the violin
Book Two (Northampton MS 13) CM130
tunes 84-263 (60 pages of music)
£12.00
John Moore
Tunes and duets collected by a Shropshire fiddler, ‘Nursery Man and Seeds Man’
Book One
63 tunes and 3 duets (30 pages of music) - spiral bound with clear acetate covers
£8.00
John Moore
Tunes and duets collected by a Shropshire fiddler, ‘Nursery Man and Seeds Man’
Book Two (taken from Moore’s 2nd and 3rd Books)
160 tunes and a duet (64 pages of music) - spiral bound with clear acetate covers
£12.00
John Moore was born at Wellington, Shropshire on 18 August 1819, the son of a brick maker. Three volumes of his manuscripts survive. Two are classic fiddlers’ tune books, while the third, dated 11 April 1839, in which he describes himself as a ‘Nursery Man and Seeds Man’, contains mostly sacred music.
see our John Moore page for list of tunes in these volumes and a specimen page
Pepusch
Tunes from the Beggar’s Opera CM009
violin part £5.00
score (with piano part realised from Pepusch’s bass parts)
£8.00
set of score and part £10
see our Pepusch page for details
Tommie Potts
Four recently discovered Jigs CM129
see my blog for details of these fine jigs
£2.00
The Dancing Master
Volume 2
Part 1 CM175 (Tunes 1 - 180) and Part 2 CM201 (Tunes 181 - 360)
360 tunes published by J Young c. 1728 (first modern edition?)
Each part £12.00 [both parts £20.00]
The Dancing Master
Volume 3 CM004
200 tunes published by J Young c. 1726 (first modern edition?)
£10.00
The Dancing Master, Volume 3 (c. 1726) is one of the last volumes to be published in the great series of dance books started by John Playford in 1651, continued by his son Henry and later still by John Young. This seems to be the first modern publication of one of Young's two extra volumes, all the rest being covered by Jeremy Barlow's edition of 1985.
It is possible that John Gay rifled through this volume to find some of the tunes for his ‘Beggar's Opera’ (Nos. 44, 77, 97 - this being the only source, 98, 102 and 170).
I consulted an original volume in making this edition.
Below is a preview of the first page of music:
sheet music for fiddle
