This tune has quite a history. Here goes... The melody started off as a French dance tune called "Le Carillon National". During the French Revolution, the tune was adapted for a Revolutionary anthem called "Ça ira". "Ça ira" means, "It'll be OK" - which...
Full disclosure: This is one of the first tunes I learned out of the Ash collection when I first got a photocopy of it in 1982. I've been playing it ever since. As I'm going through my now-battered copy of the manuscript in 2016, I find I've lost the page...
From the Allen Ash Manuscript. The complete title for this seems to be "Hey Dance To The Fiddle and Tabor". (A tabor is a little drum) The tune is described as and Irish air on the cover of a piano arrangement by English songwriter and composer James Hook...
This 6/8 March is a setting of the common-time tune usually called La Bastringue in Canada. This melody is most often associated with the French-Canadian circle dance of the same name. In British sources of about the same era it is sometimes called "Portu...
