{"id":412,"date":"2016-03-03T17:42:40","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T17:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.village-music-project.org.uk\/?page_id=412"},"modified":"2016-03-03T17:42:40","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T17:42:40","slug":"clews-john-ms-info","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.village-music-project.org.uk\/?page_id=412","title":{"rendered":"CLEWS, John ms INFO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Clews, John. MS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Date uncertain, possibly c1800 (see below), though it contains the date 1832. Stoke on Tern, Shropshire. Currently owned by Mr John Hardy, Audlem, Cheshire (together with 2 more handwritten books of hymns and psalms marked Ash Church, 1837. 48 tunes comprising mainly military marches, Scottish airs, minuets. A number of tunes are for 2 or 3 instruments. J.Clews thought to be a fiddle player.<\/p>\n<p>Transcribed into ABC by Neil Brookes, 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Introduction by Neil Brookes:-<\/p>\n<p>A tunebook from the family of Mr John Hardy, fiddler and retired farmer from Audlem, Cheshire. He also has a fiddle which was possibly owned by the author, Mr John Clews of Stoke upon Tern, N. Shropshire.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Clews was not related to JH, but the book was passed on to JH&#8217;s grandfather who was also a fiddler.<\/p>\n<p>The signed (in two hands) book is dated 1832. Some of the tunes were possibly added at a later date. The tunes near the end of the book show an interest in Scottish airs.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Clews was obviously a skilled musician and wrote the tunes accurately, with the inclusion of grace notes etc.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the marches are arrangedfor 2 or 3 voices.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery of this book led to further research and the discovery of the four &#8220;Ash&#8221; manuscripts belonging to Mr R. Hughes.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to John Hardy for the loan of photocopies of the MS.<\/p>\n<p>Neil Brookes 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clews, John. MS Date uncertain, possibly c1800 (see below), though it contains the date 1832. Stoke on Tern, Shropshire. Currently owned by Mr John Hardy, Audlem, Cheshire (together with 2 more handwritten books of hymns and psalms marked Ash Church, 1837. 48 tunes comprising mainly military marches, Scottish airs, minuets. A number of tunes are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.village-music-project.org.uk\/?page_id=412\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CLEWS, John ms INFO<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-412","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.village-music-project.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/412","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=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.village-music-project.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":413,"href":"https:\/\/www.village-music-project.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/412\/revisions\/413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.village-music-project.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}