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Oxford Ramble

Speed the Plough

Wassail

Jack-in-the-Green

A Taste of Ale

Six for Gold

Knock at the Knocker, Ring at the Bell

The Robber Bird

Three Quarter Time

The 25th


Miscellaneous

Sources

Streets of Oxford (The Malchair Medley)

Speed the Plough track 22

Three tunes noted down by John Baptist Malchair.

Source for all three: John Baptist Malchair MS 'Vol 3 The Third Collection of Tunes', Vaughan Williams Memorial Library

Early One Morning
"from the singing of a poore woman" May 1794

Early One Morning - as noted by Malchair

 

La Rochelle
"Played by a Piedmontese girl on a Cymbal in Oxford streets December 22. 1784"

La Rochelle

 

Irish Militia March
"Irish tune noted down from the playing of the Oxford Militia Band, Oxon March 1800"

Irish tune from Oxford Militia Band, March 1800

Watch Video
Malchair medley
Holywell Music Room, Oxford, 3rd May 1993.