Tansys Golowan as played at the Seiners Session Oct 2021
See Cornish Session Tunes Project
As played by Francis Bennett in January 2024 as part of a series of play-through’s of Cornish tunes aimed at promoting and enabling players of all abilities to improve their knowledge of Cornish music. Courtesy of Sounds Like Cornwall Today
As sung by Jon Mills / Pyba St Clements Church Withiel 1995.
The Cornish is based on the English lyrics to “Cornish Midusmmer Bonfire Song” : Bell, Robert, and James H. Dixon. Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England: Taken Down from Oral Recitation and Transcribed from Private Manuscripts, Rare Broadsides and Scarce Publications. (London: J.W. Parker and Son, 1857) p169.
As played by Radjel at Lowender Peran 2010
See also:
Keur Eledh for discussion of Cornish tunes and “Kabm Pemp” dances using 5/4 time signature
Tansys Golowan- Midsummer bonfires
For more about Cornish Session Tunes
Racca: Cornish Tunes for Cornish Sessions Project 1995-97
Fooch 1 & 2 Favourite Cornish Session and Dance Tunes – Neil Davey
Prys Ton: Cornish Session Tunes – An Daras Folk Arts Project
Various people have attempted to transcribe, not always correctly, the recording that I made with Pyba in the early 1990s. The transcription that you give here is not quite correct. The song begins with an anakrusis of three crotchets, “dhe’n glas-en”. “hons” is a minim and begins on the first beat of the bar. This is evident when you listen to the recording here; and assumes that you are writing it in crotchets rather than quavers.
Many thanks for that Jon, duly corrected and we have taken the liberty of putting a link in to your Sound Cloud site while we were at it.