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JOHN CLARE MS<\/strong>
\nHelpstone, Northamptonshire.
\nEarly 19th C., Died 1864.
\nTwo tune books, and assorted loose leaves.
\nMost tunes written down between 1820 and 1834, but see notes to Redowa polka.
\nN’hampton MS.12, Here given as tunes Nos.1 to 83 inc.
\nN’hampton MS.13, Here given as tunes Nos.84 to 247 inc.
\nAlso some written in pencil on loose leaf and inserted into MS.13, Here given as tunes Nos. 248 to 263 inc.
\nJohn Clare was a working class rural labourer and poet of considerable fame, both then and now.
\nHe was very interested in the vernacular culture of his village and left a very important record of this in his various papers, etc.
\nHe was also an enthusiastic fiddle player, who collected tunes from a variety of sources.
\nThese tunes include both dance and song tunes.
\nMany of the song tunes have corresponding sets of words elsewhere in J.Clares Manuscripts.
\nMany other tunes have words elsewhere, but not in Clare. Deacon provides some texts but it is not certain that Clare knew these as anything other than fiddle tunes. It is equally possible that he did of course, given his interest in song.
\nSeventeen of the dance tunes have dance instructions attached, and it is evident that these tunes at least were taken from printed sources.
\nFor an analysis of this material please refer to..
\n“John Clare and the folk tradition” by George Deacon. ISBN 0-86300-008-8,.
\nEssential reading for anybody interested in vernacular music, as it contains much from one of the few first hand accounts by an actual contemporary practitioner.
\nThis book is still in print and copies may be had from the author.\u00a0(LINK<\/a>)
\nAll the material presented in our current Jclare file is taken from this book.
\nThe tunes were transcribed and edited for the book by Marion Ross, who also did the artwork.
\nThey were pricked out in ABC by Phil Headford.
\nNotes on the editing…
\nI have generally left out references to changes in rest lengths.
\nI have generally left out references to missing bar lines.
\nI have included references to changes in note lengths.
\nOne or two tunes are exactly duplicated in the MS, and have been omitted, which accounts for the missing tune numbers.
\nWhere no title exists in the MS I have provided one where known and marked it as such with “aka”(“Also Known As”).
\nWhere I know of extra titles I have provide these as “aka”.
\nWhere a song text exists, I have indicated this.
\nWhere dance instructions are given in the MS, I have indicated this. Refer to Deacon for them.<\/p>\n

Chris Partington.<\/p>\n

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JOHN CLARE MS Helpstone, Northamptonshire. Early 19th C., Died 1864. Two tune books, and assorted loose leaves. Most tunes written down between 1820 and 1834, but see notes to Redowa polka. N’hampton MS.12, Here given as tunes Nos.1 to 83 inc. N’hampton MS.13, Here given as tunes Nos.84 to 247 inc. Also some written in … Continue reading CLARE, John ms INFO<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-393","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.village-music-project.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.village-music-project.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.village-music-project.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.village-music-project.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.village-music-project.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.village-music-project.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461,"href":"https:\/\/www.village-music-project.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/393\/revisions\/461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.village-music-project.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}