Resources from a research project on the early English banjo 1842-1889 including notation for the recorded tunes uploaded to our youtube research channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2ARp4V-79Qsk0dxbKvqniQ
I don't understand the slur in the Favourite Breakdown. It's a simple arpeggio 3rd, 1st, 2nd, 1st; 5th, 1st, 2nd, 1st (strings). This jig, with small variations, shows up in several American-notation banjo tutors from the 1880s-90s.
This notation for 'Favourite Breakdown' is copied exactly as-is from Roylance's original publication with all his articulations. With most vernacular tunes we typically find phrasing and structure variation occurring in different sources. This variation can be particularly noticeable in a musician's own handwritten tune book. It's also common when there is uptake of tunes acquired from popular sheet music. A commercially published schottische, polka or galop by a high-profile popular composer such as Coote Jr, Marriott or Kottaun may pop up in a hand-written vernacular tune book minus the introduction, trio, coda; simplified into two part structure, sometimes with the original key transposed. That variation and adaptation can be an informative element in regard to context.
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I don't understand the slur in the Favourite Breakdown. It's a simple arpeggio 3rd, 1st, 2nd, 1st; 5th, 1st, 2nd, 1st (strings). This jig, with small variations, shows up in several American-notation banjo tutors from the 1880s-90s.
ReplyDeleteThis notation for 'Favourite Breakdown' is copied exactly as-is from Roylance's original publication with all his articulations. With most vernacular tunes we typically find phrasing and structure variation occurring in different sources. This variation can be particularly noticeable in a musician's own handwritten tune book. It's also common when there is uptake of tunes acquired from popular sheet music. A commercially published schottische, polka or galop by a high-profile popular composer such as Coote Jr, Marriott or Kottaun may pop up in a hand-written vernacular tune book minus the introduction, trio, coda; simplified into two part structure, sometimes with the original key transposed. That variation and adaptation can be an informative element in regard to context.
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