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Jan. 2017 F lklife Quarterly 52 Bywyd Gwerin yn Chwarterol Ion. 2017
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ers FQ cov one is vary; th al is typic fo: in • More left From Kraków to Bourton w folklife.org.uk see belo 1 On 2 August 1907 Cecil Sharp noted the following tune from John Mason at Stow-on-the-Wold. clubs, sessions, concerts, performers, services, festivals diary, workshops diary, societies, folklife studies, local traditions
See www.glostrad.com/bourton-six, where you can hear the musical examples.
Tunes: From Kraków to Bourton Charles Menteith The BourtonbySix
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Mason's 6th bar is anomalous, as other versions have it identical to the 14 th.
New Folklife member, Prince of Wales My interest was aroused when I found the same tune in Kerr's Merry Melodies, named The session, Ledbury, Herefordshire, every Wed. Krakowiak Photos © Edenin Tanner 2017collection 2, and “Cracovienne” Polka in his 4th3. Since I know Kraków, his first
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The Krakowiak, in its Polish spelling, is not a single tune, but a type of dance and the tunes which accompany it. I have a CD by a Polish village band 4 in which every other track is a Krakowiak, and none of them is this one. On the other hand, I was recently at a cross-border cultural gathering at Muszyna on the Polish-Slovak border, and a Polish school group danced a Krakowiak to this tune, in its Polish version. Apart from its use for dancing, the tune is also the used for the popular jingle, Krakowiaczek Jeden.5 See: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dguWExlH0Zg or www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoTTcEjlAWk New Folklife members include Blarney Stone and The English Dulcimer Duo see Directory Updates page
Krakowiaczek Jeden
New CDs from our Members: Chris Stewart , see Worcs News pages Johnny Coppin , see Glos News pages
Buff Blow
A New Year Song: Buff Blow, collected Gwilym Davies
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