This is a really fun one to learn if you want to practice playing a melody around a chord shape. Also your alternate picking! #Medieval #Renaissance #Baroque
John and I did The Bear Dance years ago. It has bears in it. It sounds a bit different than yours Jason, which is really good - but yours doesn't have bears in it.
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As Ginny, says, your version differs from the one Ginny and I played three years back, Jason. Interesting to find how many variations of a tune can exist, and even which one might be the original. Here is a link to our version from back then. https://youtu.be/v_JLw0TKe9E
Yes, I remember there was a challenge from John to play the Bear Dance together with The Wren. Your improvisation on this theme sounds great! The old thread is here: https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/g...596&do=discuss
Interesting tune aka Danza del Orso! One I’ll going to have to have a go at. As to origin I’ve read a lot of suggestions from French to Flemish and bagpipes but listening to those versions, parts sounded to me a lot like Fairport Convention’s song Matty Groves. I believe that itself can be traced back to to at least 1613 under the title ‘Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard’ but again the tune sounded a bit like the Chieftains shady grove …which has an Appalachian root as well. So to my ears it might be a tribute to an English Morris dancing bear that got a little lost on route from the southern Appalachian mountains to the mainland Europe. Course I may be just the owner of cloth ears!
