Come Let's Be Merry

  1. Martin Jonas
    Martin Jonas
    This is an English country dance, first published in John Young's Third Volume of the Dancing Master, 2nd edition (1726, p. 127), and Walsh & Hare's New Country Dancing Master (3rd book, London, 1728), reprinted in Walsh's Compleat Country Dancing Master vol. 3 (London, 1749).

    My trio recording on two mandolins and mandocello is based on an arrangement by David M. Brown from:

    http://www.larkinam.com/EnglishTunesHarmony.pdf

    It isn't quite a Christmas song, but certainly festive in the title and the mood -- merry carousing to everybody in the SAW Group!

    1898 Giuseppe Vinaccia mandolin (x2)
    Suzuki MC-815 mandocello



    Martin
  2. Bertram Henze
    Bertram Henze
    Exactly the kind of merriment Mr Scrooge would firmly refuse to attend, until he's visited by that trio...
  3. Frithjof
    Frithjof
    Nice!
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