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Australian Traditional Dance Tunes - Double CD
recording
85 tunes arranged in 23 sets for Australian bush dances. 2 hours of music!
Performed by Wongawilli. Produced by Wongawilli Colonial Dance Club Inc.
Distributed by Shoestring Productions,
Item No. SR34
Australian Traditional Dance Tunes - The Book, 138
pages
194 tunes arranged in sets for Australian bush dances
plus information on traditional bush instruments and the music.
Australian Dance Tunes CD and Book ORDER FORM
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This recording is part of a larger project by the Wongawilli Colonial Dance Club Inc. in its ongoing aim to present Australian traditional folk dance and music. There are accompanying books of tunes and dance instructions.
The tunes are arranged in sets suitable for the suggested dances. These sets can also be used for other similiar structured dances in regards to numbers of bars and repetitions.
The majority of the tunes used are authentic tunes collected from older dance musicians by folklorists since the early 1950s. Many thanks to the following collectors for sharing the music - John Meredith, Rob Willis, Alan Musgrove, Dave de Hugard, Mike Martin, Brad Tate, Chris Sullivan, Mark Rummery, Mark and Maria Schuster and Peter Ellis.
The listing has been prepared with information on the number of bars and repititions, the speed of the music (bars per minute) and the name and origin of the tune.
This production forms part of
an extensive catalogue of traditional Australian publications and recordings available
from Wongawilli Colonial Dance Club Inc.
Other Australian Recordings & Publication
About the Book
SAMPLE PAGES in Acrobat PDF format, approx. 70kB in size.
Jigs, Pages 10 and 11 | 2/4
Set Tunes, Pages 40 and 41 | Reels Pages 74 and 75 | Waltzes Pages 90 and 91
This book forms part of a larger package consisting of this tune book and a recording with 85 of the tunes in the book. The project is presented by the Wongawilli Colonial Dance Club Inc. as part of its ongoing aim to present and preserve Australian traditional folk dance and music.
The tunes in this book are arranged in sets suitable for the suggested dances. These sets can also be used for other similiar structured dances in regards to numbers of bars and repetitions.
The majority of the tunes used are authentic tunes collected from older dance musicians
by folklorists since the early 1950s.
The tunes have been collected from a number of printed books, transcriptions and handed-on
scraps of paper!
This collection is not a complete view of the repertoire of the bush musician as many more common Anglo-Celtic tunes have not been included. Collections such as Peter Ellis’ Collectors Choice 3 volumes of 500 tunes gives a fuller picture of the tunes played by Australia’s dance musicians.
The aim of this collection is to add the existing traditional musicians repertoire and to ensure these unique tunes are given the opportununity to be played and enjoyed.
Some traditional styled contemporary written tunes have also been included to reinforce that there is a living tradition of folk music in Australia. Many thanks to those contributors. It also demonstrates the talent in the current traditional folk music scene.
Folk dance music is traditionally learned by ear. It is difficult to notate all the nuances and subtleties of the tunes. The printed music is only a guide. The tunes on the CD are decorated with slides, double stops, drones, bow tickling, scrunches, trills and grace notes that are all part of the traditional musician’s arsenal of ornaments. It is these ornaments which give the music its vitality. Listen to the recording and include as many as you can.
The accompanying double CD recording has 85 of the tunes in this book. They have been arranged in 23 sets for various dances.
This is the second CD and book production by Wongawilli Colonial Dance Club Inc. The first being the Australian Dance Tunes for Fiddle arranged by Alan Musgrove.
We are continuing to provide resources for musicians and dancers to enjoy and appreciate Australia’s rich cultural heritage.
This collection of tunes is only a portion of what is available. There many more tunes to be transcribed from recordings and to be composed also. So this is really only volume 1!Enormous thanks are due to Jane Brownlee for inputting the majority of tunes into Finale music notation software and to Alan Musgrove and John Harpley for contributions also.
Many thanks to Peter Ellis and Rob Willis for their continual contributions and expert advice on Australia’s musical and dance heritage.
We wish also to thank all the collectors, collectees and contributors whose material appears in this book and the National Library of Australia where many of the collections are held.
Thanks to the following collectors for sharing the music - John Meredith, Rob Willis, Alan Musgrove, Dave de Hugard, Mike Martin, Brad Tate, Chris Sullivan, Alan Scott, David Johnson, Mark Rummery, Bob Rummery, Mark and Maria Schuster, Fred Pribac and Peter Ellis.
In particular thanks are necessary to Jeff Corfield for providing indigenous material from Darwin and to Steve Lowry from the Cape Barren Island Aboriginal community for allowing tunes from the Island to be included.
Thanks to Peter Ellis and Bob Bolton for their informative sections on traditional music, dance and instruments in Australia. It certainly provides a good insight into the tradition.
Thanks are due to Wongawilli Colonial Dance Club for continuing to support Australian music and to the Wongawilli Band for the effort to record and perform the music.
Dedicated to the memory of John Meredith who passed away in 2001. John provided great support and encourgament to us all to preserve and perform our own music and dance.
David De Santi
| A Hunting We Will Go Across the Sea to Erin Albert Dooley’s First Set Tune Alf John’s Barn Dance Ali’s Quickstep / Going to the Barn Dance All the Nice Girls Like a Sailor Annie Shaw’s Arthur Byatt’s Schottische Athol’s Fathers Set Tune Berlin Polka, The Berlin Schottische Bert Bretz’s Heel and Toe Polka Bert Jamieson’s First Set Tune Bert Jamieson’s Lancers Tune Bert Powter’s First Set Tune Bert Powter’s Set Tune Bill Case’s Dream Bill Cooper’s Polka Bill Cooper’s Polka Bill Cooper’s Soldiers Joy Bill Gilbert’s First Set Tune Bill Gilbert’s Varsoviana Bill Gilbert’s Varsoviana No. 2 Bill McGlashan’s Two Polkas Bill Painter’s Waltz Binda Heel and Toe Polka Black Cat Piddled in the White Cat’s Eye,The Blacktown Jig Bob in the Wash House Boomerang Hornpipe Boston Bowley’s Fancy (Windy Willows) Bowral Jig Breakdown, The Brown Jug Polka Charles D’Albert’s La Tempete Chestnut Tree, The Circassian Circle Clementine Mazurka Colin Charlton’s Lancers Tune Colin Charlton’s Reel Coming Down the Mountain Coming Through the Rye Con Klippel’s Gypsy Tap Conjewai Polka Connaughtman’s Ramble Cosgrove’s Schottische Dancing Dustman, The Dooley’s Chain Tune Doran Polka, The |
Drover, The Dry Blower, The Ebb Wren’s Hornpipe Echuca Waltz Eighth of January Ernie Goodman’s Waltz Ernie Wells’ Albert Set Tune Even Quadrille Fairy Reel, The Father Last September Piggle Nor Flying Pieman Foster’s Lancers Tune Frank Collins’ First Polka Frank Collins’ Second Reel Frank Collins’ Waltz Freemantle Station Fritz Schick’s Waltz Galopede Garibaldi March Waltz Gay Charmers Set Tune God Bless You and Bugger Me Gulgong Set Tune Happy as a Big Sunflower Harry Axford’s Schottische Harry Cotter’s Set Tune Harry McQueen’s Prince Imperials Tune Harry McQueen’s Set Tune Harvest Moon Schottische Haymakers Jig He Played His Ukulele as the Ship Went Down Henry’s Waltz Herb’s Flowers Herb’s Jig I Do Like to be Beside the Seaside In and Out the Dirty Windows Jackarse Eat it on the Way, The Jack’s Waltz Jaffar’s Polka-Mazurka Jim Harrison’s Princess Polka Jim Wilkinson’s Lancers Tune Joe Cashmere’s Polka-Mazurka Joe Yates’ Reel Joe Yates’ Schottische Reel Joe Yates’ Second Reel Joe’s Polka John McKinnon’s Grand Chain Jolly Miller Promenade Kath McCaughey’s Old Dan Tucker Killongbutta Laang Barn Dance |
Le A Le A La Let’s Have Bit if Fun with Gertie Liberty Little Burnt Potato Long Weekend at Home Luedecker Polka Luke Oakley’s Polka MacGregor’s March/Mrs Bourke’s Set Tune Maggie the Cows are in the Corn, Old Jeff March of the Fairy Penguins Maxina Melbourne Polka, The Mick Murphy’s Hornpipe Midnight Waltz Moonan Flat First Set Tune Moonan Polka, The Moonlight Jig Moree Mazurka Mudgee Waltz Nariel Princess Polka New Years Day Norm McConnell’s Mazurka Och Knee Ohcen Sue Old Arrow Inn, The Old Camp, The Old Clog, The Old Joe Clark Old Schoolmaster, The Old Set, The Ollie Watts’ Schottische Orley Benson’s Stockyards Tune Orotaba Waltz Over the Garden Wall Paddy Godden’s Set Tunes Paterson’s East Neuk Paterson’s First Figure of the Lancers Phil’s Goldfields Jig Pop McKinnon’s Schottische Pretty Lips Schottische Prince of Wales Schottische Queer Fella’s Schottische, The Railway Hotel, The Ray Doran’s Step Dance Tune Redwing Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross Rita Baker’s First Set Tune Rita Baker’s Polka Rocking Chair Jig Sad the Cuckoo is Calling Sally Sloane’s Mazurka |
Sally Sloane’s Varsoviana Samuel De Santi’s Schottische Sandpit Reel, The Schaeffer’s Waltz Schaeffer’s Quadrille School Polka See-Saw Polka Set Tune Number Sixteen Shakehand Dance Sofala Cuckoo Spanish Waltz Spirits of Whiskey Stan Treacy’s First Set Tune Stan Treacy’s Polka Stan Treacy’s Schottische Stan Treacy’s Very Particular Waltz Sultan’s Grand March, The Swaggies Reel Swing Waltz Sword Dance, The Teaching Clarence McFayden to Waltz Teddy Creighton’s Step Dance Tempest, The Ten Pretty Girls The Sticks Third of January Ti Tree Waltz Tom Walsh’s Polka Mazurka Trentham Jig Turkey in the Straw Uncle Affie’s Tap Uncle Ev’s Barn Dance Under the Willow Vera Lee’s Mazurka Wa La Wop A Ping Walk Around, The Wallaby Rocks Warden Finnertys’ Watermelon Vine Wattle Flat Races Wedding of Lochan McGraw, The Weird Jig, The White Cockatoo Winster Galop |
CD Review
Review in Bush Music Club's Mulga Wire # 148, December 2001:
After all those CDs of mostly songs, Wongawilli has decided to firmly don their dance hats and record an album of dance sets – something they do rather well. Not satisfied with 23 sets of tunes (2 hours worth) to suit popular dances of the 19th and early 20th century in Australia, they have augmented the first CD of the set with a substantial extract of their web site, with information about the Wongawilli Dancers and Band as well as the history, customs, music, instruments of bush dancing.
The tunes are mostly collected from traditional musicians and serve as an antidote to the shameless pilfering from Irish and Scottish fake books that drives so many so-called bush bands. This makes these CDs of real value to any dancers and musicians who want genuine Australian music for real Australian dances.
The CD has ‘sheet music’ for 41 traditional bush tunes (mostly from the Carrawobbity book/CD Australian Dance Tunes) and dance instructions for 27 of the 33 dances on the CD (all of which can be danced to some set on the CD) and instructions for another 14 (which probably fit some set on the CD as well). There is a selection of information, articles, references, contacts and links.
Bob Bolton
There are 2 CDs with tunes arranged for specific dances.
CD 1 also includes a CD Rom featuring information about Australian folklore, the Wongawilli Band and Colonial Dancers, articles, photographs, sheet music and dance instructions for 31 dances common at Bush Dances.
CD 1TOTAL TIME 60 minutes 30 seconds 1. La Galopade / Galopde, 8 x 32 bars 2. Stockyards (Jig Set), 8 x 32 bars 3. Barn Dance, 18 x 8 bars 4. Circle Waltz, 8 x 32 bars 5. Virginia Reel, 7 times 6. Gypsy Tap, 8 x 32 bars 7. Adelaide Race Day (Single Reel Set), 8 x 32 bars 8. Prince of Wales Schottische, 7 x 24 bars 9. Polka Quadrille, 8 x 32 bars 10. Jolly Miller Promenade, 8 times 11. The Tempest, 8 x 32 bars 12. Circasssian Circle Part 2 (Jig Set), 8 x 32 bars |
CD 2TOTAL TIME 59 minutes 1. Heel and Toe Polka, 11 x 16 bars 2. Haymakers Jig, 5 x 64 bars 3. Swing Waltz, 9 x 32 bars 4. Circassian Circle Part 1 or 5, 8 x 32 bars 5. Circle Galop, 8 x 32 bars 6. Kings Waltz, 14 x 16 bars 7. Maxina, 5 x 24 bars 8. Varsoviana, 8 x 32 bars 9. Fairly Reel Set, 8 x 32 bars 10. Set Tunes, 8 x 32 bars 11. The First Set (The Quadrille) 5 figures
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Outlets - Ask for SR 34 from the Shoestring catalogue at your favourite music shop or try the ALBION PARK POST OFFICE.
The CD is also available for $35 AUS excluding postage & packaging (in Australia). Overseas rates upon application, email David De Santi.
Australian Dance Tunes ORDER FORM Full Australian Publications & Recordings Catalogue
There have been various publications presenting our Australian culture over the past few years from the work of collectors and their recorders. They have presented the tunes, songs, dances, stories and recitations of many of the real bush entertainers in an accessible form.
The Pioneer Performer Series was iniated in October 1991 by Rob Willis of Forbes and David De Santi of Wollongong and supported by the Wongawilli Colonial Dance Club Inc. from the Illawarra region of NSW. The aim is to present the tunes, songs, poetry and stories of Australia's bush entertainers in publications and recordings.
The subcommittee to arrange this is known as CARRAWOBBITY PRESS. The task in capturing this information is invaluable in the preservation of Australia's tradition. Support to date has been provided by the Australia National Library, which hold the field recordings, and the Australian Folk Trust.
To date Carrawobbity Press has published fifteen publications and four recordings featuring performers from Queensland, NSW, Victoria and South Australia. In addition Carrawobbity Press also distributes other related publications and recordings.
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email enquiries: desanti@bigpond.com
Last revised: January 31, 2004 by David De Santi