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Job Jenkins

Barrel of Pork, The

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I Went to Market

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William Arthur Newman

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Turnpike Gate, The (Tune from Greet Manuscript)

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Source: Greet Manuscript
Place Collected: Littleworth
Date collected: 1974

Greet manuscripts

The Greet manuscripts are a set of 21 tunes found, when working in his loft, by Peter Hill who was then living at Littleworth, Greet, near Winchcombe. They were entitled “a few favourite airs adapted for the German (ie transverse) flute”. Many are dance tunes.

Turnpike Gate The Turnpike Gate: A Musical Entertainment, in Two Acts by T. Knight, printed by Thomas Burnside Dublin, 1800

Notes by Charles Menteith and Paul Burgess

Media & Downloads

See the song/tune as collected (PDF file)
Hear the song/tune (midi file)

Modern recording performed by: The Green Willow Band play the Sicilian Peasant and the Turnpike Gate

Song/tune as collected (abc file)
See the manuscript.