Annotation:More for Beauty than Gear

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X: 1 T:More for Beauty than(?) Gear. JBa.45 M:4/4 L:1/8 Q:1/4=120 S:Joseph Barnes MS,Carlisle,1762. R:.Country-dance O:England A:Carlisle N:I don't know what key signature to choose It seems to vary between 5/4 N:and 7/4. Or so. 1 - written over this bar is"note down" and the bar is N:written a note above the transcription, so it has been written a note N:down..CGr...I,ve had a go at this, but beware that it is only my N:guess..CGP. H:See Paul's notes. Z:vmp.C.Graebe. K:C major %"_No time/key sig,see note" d2 (3(fga) f2d2 (fg)(af) | d2 (fga) e2c2 (ef)(ge) |d2 (fga) f2d2 (fg)(af) | g2 (ag)f2 (gf) | "1"ec (ef)(ge)||! fd Ad fd (fg)(af) | fd Ad ec (ef)(ge) |fd Ad fd (fg)(af) |g2 (ag) f2 (2(af) e2c2 (ef)(ge) ||! d2 a2 (fg)(af) ad (fg)(af) |d2 a2 (fg)(af) ec (ef)(ge) | d2 a2 fgaf ad (fg)(af) | g2 (ag) f2 (gf) ec efge ||! P:"^Suggested interptetation-CGP" M:4/4 d2 (f/g/a) fd (f/g/)(a/f/) | d2 (f/g/a) ec (e/f/)(g/e/) |d2 (f/g/a) fd (f/g/)(a/f/) | g(a/g/) f(g/f/) ec (e/f/)(g/e/)||! fd Ad fd (f/g/)(a/f/) | fd Ad ec (e/f/)(g/e/) |fd Ad fd (f/g/)(a/f/) |g(a/g/) f(a/f/) ec (e/f/)(g/e/) ||! da (f/g/)(a/f/) ad (f/g/)(a/f/)|da (f/g/)(a/f/) ec (e/f/)(g/e/)|da (f/g/)(a/f/) ad (f/g/)(a/f/) | g(a/g/) f(g/f/) ec (e/f/)(g/e/) |]



MORE FOR BEAUTY THAN GEAR. English, Reel (whole time). D Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC.


Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Matthew Betham music manuscript collection (1815, Towcett, Cumbria) [Offord].

Printed sources : - John Offord (Bonny Cumberland), 2018; p. 12.






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