This week's winner is Hole in the Wall. Sorry for the delay in posting! I know everyone is itching to get to it, and I'm rushing to head off for a camping trip, so I will let some of our members post links to notation and video!
Henry Purcell (1695): Abdelazer Suite 8. Hornpipe ("Hole In The Wall") Arranged by Evelyn Tiffany-Castiglioni This hornpipe was written by Purcell as part of a suite of incidental music for the play "Abdelazer", most famous for the Rondeau. The hornpipe was taken up almost immediately by folk and dance musicians and only three years after its premiere appeared in the ninth edition of Playford's "Dancing Master" in 1698 under the name "The Hole In The Wall". Under this title, it has remained a popular session tune for over three centuries ever since. I have played the tune in a setting by Evelyn Tiffany-Castiglioni, using two mandolins, mandocello and tenor guitar. We play this setting with our group. Mid-Missouri M-0W mandolin (x2) Suzuki MC-815 mandocello Vintage Viaten tenor guitar For a Hollywood treatment of the tune, here it is in a dance scene from the movie "Becoming Jane" with Anne Hathaway as Jane Austen: Martin
Great playing Martin and a lovely arrangement. Here's my solo mandolin version taken from Playford's "Dancing Master".
Nice solo mandolin playing, Callum. It's the first day of double week #532. Now you have plenty of time to add second mandolin, mandocello and tenor guitar to follow Martin. Or wait which instruments David will chose out of his arsenal. But I myself have to start learning the melody first.
Two very fine versions of this Purcell Hornpipe. Martin with a multi-string arrangement and Callum on solo mandolin. Now I have to to look for a sheet music version including chord symbols.
Thanks Frithjof! I lost track of what week it was I'll try find and record a nice harmony part!
Fine versions, both of you.
Your video won't play, Mike.
Mike: If you're embedding the video using the [YOUTUBE] tags, you need to paste only the part of the URL that is after the "=" sign. In your case that's "ghJIzjO0J4A". This should work: Very nice playing, Mike! Martin
Sorry for the error.
These are all so nice. I enjoyed them all.
Nice one, Mike.
Another nice version of this beautiful tune, Mike,
Very clean playing, Mike. I especially like the second run where you throw in some double stops and chords.
I don't have much time at the moment for SAW challenges, but I really like this tune. So I played just one minute of "Hole in the Wall".
This is a lovely recording, Christian. Lovely balance between your two instruments.
Thanks for your rendition, Christian.
Nicely done Christian. Here's my attempt, it's sounds simple but it's not or at least for me it wasn't. I tried to play a harmony part but I s%$K at that so I stayed in my own wheelhouse. With tenor guitar GDAE, guitar, concertina, cello & bass.
It's not an easy tune to play, which is why I probably won't manage this one. But I think your version sounds great as usual. I always look forward to those arrangements around the concertina. The other renditions in this thread are a joy, too. You all did really well to get this melody under the fingers.
With all your accompaniment instruments I don't miss the harmony part in your arrangement, David. Beautiful and faithful as ever.
Fine performance, David.
They are all excellent. I'm with Dennis, maybe another day...for me anyway.
Great, colourful version, David!
Nice performances Mike, Christian and David and good to hear it played in a variety of different instrumentations.