Back Side Of Albany.wmv

Comment by Wes Merchant on August 17, 2013 at 11:25am

Nice Tim, you may already have these but here are some words.

Comment by Tim Twiss on August 17, 2013 at 11:40am

I've not seen this one...thanks.

More good stuff in there?

Comment by Wes Merchant on August 17, 2013 at 11:59am

Yeah,it's a cool little book, I didn't save the link, but it's on the Internet Arrchives.

Comment by Strumelia on August 25, 2013 at 11:10am

Well played, Tim!   I like this tune since hearing it a few months ago on one of your tutor CDs.  Sounds intensely Scottish (or Irish?).  Nice haunting mood to it.

Wes, that's a great early song resource!  Can someone maybe find and post the link here?

Maybe Im wrong but is that shape note singing notation?  Love the look, and the hand set letterpress of the staff lines, note by note....each note is a separate little press block, with its own short staff lines already in it.  So cool.   :) 

Wow, that 'slave dialect' is really, um... 'out there'...barely even decipherable.   =8-\ 

Comment by Tim Twiss on August 25, 2013 at 12:10pm

Thanks! Did you mention that you had not used Levy's?

By all means, go check it out. It is a first stop in referencing tunes....

http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/

Comment by Tim Twiss on August 25, 2013 at 12:11pm

My understanding is that it is taken from a 17th century Irish Ballad.

Comment by Strumelia on August 25, 2013 at 12:19pm

Thanks Tim, I have Levy's bookmarked now.

I'd love the link to the "My Own Songbook" that Wes has shown above.  Or is that in Levy's?- I cannot find it there.

Comment by Wes Merchant on August 25, 2013 at 12:36pm

http://archive.org/details/myownso00harr  Here you go, you can download the whole thing as a PDF. I thought the shape note stuff was cool too. Of course the Battle was in the War of 1812, but certainly the tune could predate that.

Comment by Strumelia on August 25, 2013 at 11:12pm

Thanks Tim, I got it.

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