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Apollo's Fire

Scarborough Fayre-Traditional Tunes from the British Isles and the New World

By Apollo's Fire

Label: KOCH Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Tullochgorum - Miss Dundas' Reel (traditional Scottish/Cape Breton); St Claire's Defeat (traditional Ohio ballad); Far Away (after Peter Jung) - Cambleton Snows (after T.K. Kelly); Cawdor Fair (Strathspey by Mr. Campbell of Budyet) - Over the Isles to America (traditional reel); Jockey Loves his Moggie Dearly (anon., Pills to Purge Melancholy, 1719); The Flowres of the Forest (anon. Skene MS., c.1620) - Flowre Rownde (Sorrell); Scarborough Fayre (anon. Barry MS., c.1580); Down Yon Bank (anon., Skene MS., 1620); Scotch Cap (John Playford, The English Dancing Master, 1651); Garfield's Blackberry Blossom - Poplar Bluff (traditional American); Lumps of Pudding (anon., Pills to Purge Melancholy, 1719); Morning Dew - George White's Favourite (traditional Irish reels); Farewell & Adieu (after "Farewell to the Spanish Ladies", 17th-century English sea-shanty).

Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell: Scarborough Fayre-Traditional Tunes from the British Isles and the New World

by C. Michael Bailey
March 31, 2005

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century popular music provides a unique prism through which to view how our present structures have evolved. Scarborough Fayre-Traditional Tunes from the British Isles and the New World is a cleverly programmed cycle of songs and song types common in Britain and America before and after American independence. It is enlightenment, for example, ...