This episode features extracts of poetry from 'Love & Other Fairy Tales', written and performed by Adam Horovitz, and traditional tunes from Becky's album, 'Take Her Out and Air Her' arranged and performed by Becky Dellow on fiddles and piano, with accompaniment by Lukas Drinkwater and vocals Milly Dellow.

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Becky's album can be bought from this link: https://beckydellow.bandcamp.com

and for Adam's book, follow this link: http://adamhorovitz.co.uk/blog/shop/love-other-fairy-tales/

The order of play is listed below:

Tune: Garden of Butterflies

Poem: Some Kind of Fairy Tale

Poem: There's a Music

Tune: Rolling Wave

Poem: Seed & Stone

Poem: A Rose By Any Other Name

Song: False, False        

Poem: The Marriage of Consonant and Vowel

Poem: Fragment of a Fairy Tale

Tune: My Mind Will Never Be Easy

Poem: Love Poem Disguised

Poem: Stopping with a bicycle on a hill above Stroud

Ruskin Mill

The Thunder Mutters’ theme tune is The Gardengate

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This is our final episode featuring Clare’s ‘Shepherd’s Calendar’ and we will be having a month off in April, ready to return in May with a new project.

All the tunes in this episode have been taken from John Clare's tune manuscript books, and Becky has used the transcriptions provided by Marion Ross in George Deacon's book John Clare and the Folk Tradition (Sinclair Browne Ltd., 1983) as the basis for her arrangements.

The tunes, whose histories are discussed in the show, are listed here for your convenience, in order of appearance: St David’s Day, Way To Get Married, Kingsbridge Assembly, Capt Mackintosh, Coming Through The Rye, Archers Dance, Montrose Reel and The Irish Roodalum.

The Thunder Mutters’ theme tune is The Gardengate

References:

Deacon, George, John Clare and the Folk Tradition (London: Frances Boutle Publishers, 2002)

Kuntz, Andrew, and Valerio Pelliccioni, Traditional Tune Archive (2017) <http://tunearch.org> [Accessed 2nd January 2021]

As usual, our Ko-fi page is open for donations to help keep the podcast up and running: www.ko-fi.com/thethundermutters. Any contributions much appreciated.

We will return next month with March, our final episode from Clare’s Shepherd’s Calendar so please come back then and take a listen. 

All the tunes in this episode have been taken from John Clare's tune manuscript books, and Becky has used the transcriptions provided by Marion Ross in George Deacon's book John Clare and the Folk Tradition (Sinclair Browne Ltd., 1983) as the basis for her arrangements.

The tunes, whose histories are discussed in the show, are listed here for your convenience, in order of appearance: Lovly Nancy [sic], New Drops of Brandy, Female Drummer, The Muses, Irish Girl, Stringers Hornpipe, Charley over the water and Hornpipe.

The Thunder Mutters’ theme tune is The Gardengate

References:

Deacon, George, John Clare and the Folk Tradition (London: Frances Boutle Publishers, 2002)

Kuntz, Andrew, and Valerio Pelliccioni, Traditional Tune Archive (2017) <http://tunearch.org> [Accessed 2^nd January 2021]

As usual, our Ko-fi page is open for donations to help keep the podcast up and running: www.ko-fi.com/thethundermutters. Any contributions much appreciated.

We will return next month with February, so please come back then and take a listen. 

All the tunes in this episode have been taken from John Clare's tune manuscript books, and Becky's used the transcriptions provided by Marion Ross in George Deacon's book John Clare and the Folk Tradition (Sinclair Browne Ltd., 1983) as the basis for her arrangements.

The tunes, whose histories are discussed in the show, are listed here for your convenience, in order of appearance: Wounded Huzzar, Lincolnshire Rangers, Dorset shire March, The Storm, Top sail shivers, Lord Cathcart, Scarlet and Green, Stopford’s Reel, Wars Alarms.

The Thunder Mutters’ theme tune is The Gardengate

References:

Deacon, George, John Clare and the Folk Tradition (London: Frances Boutle Publishers, 2002)

Kuntz, Andrew, and Valerio Pelliccioni, Traditional Tune Archive (2017) <http://tunearch.org> [Accessed 2^nd January 2021]

As usual, our Ko-fi page is open for donations to help keep the podcast up and running: www.ko-fi.com/thethundermutters. Any contributions much appreciated.

We will return next year with January from Clare's poem 'The Shepherd's Calendar', so please come back then and take a listen. 

Two of the tunes in this episode have been taken from Gwilym Davies and Roy Palmer's book 'Let Us Be Merry', a collection of carols from Gloucestershire. This and other sources used are listed below.

The tunes, whose histories are discussed in the show, are listed here for your convenience, in order of appearance: The Lament of Swordy Well, The Cock Fled Up In The Yew Tree, The Bitter Willow, The Gloucestershire Wassail, The Mores.

The Thunder Mutters’ theme tune is The Gardengate

References:

Davies, G and Palmer, R, Let Us Be Merry (Cirencester: Green Branch Press, 2016)

Kuntz, Andrew, and Valerio Pelliccioni, Traditional Tune Archive (2017) <http://tunearch.org> [Accessed 2nd December 2020]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloucestershire_Wassail

As usual, our Ko-fi page is open for donations to help keep the podcast up and running: www.ko-fi.com/thethundermutters. Any contributions much appreciated.

We will return next week for a bonus Christmas episode, so please come back then and take a listen. 

All the tunes in this episode have been taken from John Clare's tune manuscript books, and Becky's used the transcriptions provided by Marion Ross in George Deacon's book John Clare and the Folk Tradition (Sinclair Browne Ltd., 1983) as the basis for her arrangements.

The tunes, whose histories are discussed in the show, are listed here for your convenience, in order of appearance: Roast Beef of Old England, Ashley’s Ride, Egg Hornpipe, Brighton Camp, We Wish You a Merry Christmas.

The Thunder Mutters’ theme tune is The Gardengate

References:

Deacon, George, John Clare and the Folk Tradition (London: Frances Boutle Publishers, 2002)

Kuntz, Andrew, and Valerio Pelliccioni, Traditional Tune Archive (2017) <http://tunearch.org> [Accessed 29^th October 2020]

As usual, our Ko-fi page is open for donations to help keep the podcast up and running: www.ko-fi.com/thethundermutters. Any contributions much appreciated.

We will return extremely shortly in ber with the next episode, so please come back then and take a listen. 

All the tunes in this episode have been taken from John Clare's tune manuscript books, and Becky's used the transcriptions provided by Marion Ross in George Deacon's book John Clare and the Folk Tradition (Sinclair Browne Ltd., 1983) as the basis for her arrangements.

The tunes, whose histories are discussed in the show, are listed here for your convenience, (using Clare’s grammar!) in order of appearance: Dull Care, Handels Gavott..(No2), Red Lyon Hornpipe, Lord Vincents Hornpipe, Peggy Band, Devils Dream, Poor Soldier. In addition to Clare’s poem, this episode also features a poem called ‘The Thunder Mutters’ by Elvis McGonagall.

The Thunder Mutters’ theme tune is The Gardengate

References:

Deacon, George, John Clare and the Folk Tradition (London: Frances Boutle Publishers, 2002)

Kuntz, Andrew, and Valerio Pelliccioni, Traditional Tune Archive (2017) <http://tunearch.org> [Accessed 29^th October 2020]

https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/91377021?mode=transcription

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jervis,_1st_Earl_of_St_Vincent

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunchurch

http://playforddances.com/dances/queens-jig/

As usual, our Ko-fi page is open for donations to help keep the podcast up and running: www.ko-fi.com/thethundermutters. Any contributions much appreciated.

We will return extremely shortly in November with the next episode, so please come back then and take a listen. 

All the tunes in this episode have been taken from John Clare's tune manuscript books, and Becky's used the transcriptions provided by Marion Ross in George Deacon's book John Clare and the Folk Tradition (Sinclair Browne Ltd., 1983) as the basis for her arrangements.

The tunes, whose histories are discussed in the show, are listed here for your convenience, in order of appearance: Daniel’s Hornpipe, Betty Brown, A Hunting We Will Go, Mother Goose, White Cockade, Kempshot Hunt and George II. In addition to Clare’s poem, this episode also features a song by Giles Watson and Simone Keane called ‘The Singing Tree’ and ‘John Clare’s Rules’ a poem by Brian Johnstone.

The Thunder Mutters’ theme tune is The Gardengate

References:

Deacon, George, John Clare and the Folk Tradition (London: Frances Boutle Publishers, 2002)

Kuntz, Andrew, and Valerio Pelliccioni, Traditional Tune Archive (2017) <http://tunearch.org> [Accessed 29^th October 2020]

As usual, our Ko-fi page is open for donations to help keep the podcast up and running: www.ko-fi.com/thethundermutters. Any contributions much appreciated.

We’ll be back in a couple of weeks with the next episode, so please come back then and take a listen. 

All the tunes in this episode have been taken from John Clare's tune manuscript books, and Becky's used the transcriptions provided by Marion Ross in George Deacon's book John Clare and the Folk Tradition (Sinclair Browne Ltd., 1983) as the basis for her arrangements.

The tunes, whose histories are discussed in the show, are listed here for your convenience, in order of appearance: The Morning Fair Hornpipe, Toast, Mrs Casy, Sadlors Baloon, Christ Church Bells and Sleepy Maggie.

The Thunder Mutters’ theme tune is The Gardengate

References:

Deacon, George, John Clare and the Folk Tradition (London: Frances Boutle Publishers, 2002)

Kuntz, Andrew, and Valerio Pelliccioni, Traditional Tune Archive (2017) <http://tunearch.org> [Accessed 25^th September 2020]

As usual, our Ko-fi page is open for donations to help keep the podcast up and running: www.ko-fi.com/thethundermutters. Any contributions much appreciated.

We’ll be taking a break for the rest of this month, but will return in September with the next episode, so please come back then and take a listen. 

All the tunes in this episode have been taken from John Clare's tune manuscript books, and Becky's used the transcriptions provided by Marion Ross in George Deacon's book John Clare and the Folk Tradition (Sinclair Browne Ltd., 1983) as the basis for her arrangements.

The tunes, whose histories are discussed in the show, are listed here for your convenience, in order of appearance: The Portugal Dance, Black Ey’d Susan, Cherry Cheek’d Patty, Coolan, Dusty Miller, Rowley, Cosy [Olwen] aka Garryowen.

The Thunder Mutters’ theme tune is The Gardengate

References:

Deacon, George, John Clare and the Folk Tradition (London: Frances Boutle Publishers, 2002)

Kuntz, Andrew, and Valerio Pelliccioni, Traditional Tune Archive (2017) <http://tunearch.org> [Accessed 5^th August 2020]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Limerick_(1691) [Accessed 5^th August 2020]

https://mainlynorfolk.info/shirley.collins/songs/blackeyedsusan.html [Accessed 5^th August 2020]

We’ll be coming back in a fortnight with John Clare’s ‘August’ from The Shepherd's Calendar but, in the meantime, please do continue to send in your recordings of tunes and poems. 

If you are enjoying The Thunder Mutters, please consider putting the price of a coffee towards production costs by sponsoring the podcast at www.ko-fi.com/thethundermutters

Here is the episode listing in order of appearance:

‘Lilac Elegies’ - Kate Noakes 

‘Remember Dear Mary’ – Clare's poem set to music by David Rowe

‘Shepherds Warnings’ - Martin Figura 

‘Brown Hare, Orkney’ - Julie-Ann Rowell 

Fieldfares – Jane Lovell 

'Grinder' – played by Becky Dellow

‘Pointings’ - Philip Gross 

‘Only Chrysalides Remained’ - Alun Hughes

'Tommy Jenkins' & 'Lady Compton's Whim' – played by Neil Brookes

‘The North Road’ - David Clarke

'Oft Have I Travelled' - Katy Evans-Bush

'Stony Steps' - played by Becky Dellow

'The poet rises...' - David Urwin

'I Am' - Clare's poem set to music by Patrick Lester-Rourke

'Stalking' - David Howard

'Songnotes for John Clare' - Tiffany Atkinson

'Peggy's Band' - played by Becky Dellow

'The Enclosures' - Alan Hill

'Royce Wood, Helpston' - Sarah Tait

'Micromys Minuta' - Rebecca Gethin

'If John Clare Was My Father' - Jessica Mookherjee

'Bard's Legacy' - played by Becky Dellow

 The Thunder Mutters’ theme tune is ‘The Gardengate’ from John Clare’s tune manuscript book

As usual, our Ko-fi page is open for donations to help keep the podcast up and running: www.ko-fi.com/thethundermutters. Any contributions much appreciated.

We’ll be coming back later this month with another episode featuring more of your responses to John Clare, so please come back then and take a listen. 

All the tunes in this episode have been taken from John Clare's tune manuscript books, and Becky's used the transcriptions provided by Marion Ross in George Deacon's book John Clare and the Folk Tradition (Sinclair Browne Ltd., 1983) as the basis for her arrangements.

The tunes, whose histories are discussed in the show, are listed here for your convenience, in order of appearance:

Paddy Wack, Gee O’Dobbin, Soldiers Cloak, Come to the Bower, Welsh Jigg, Paties Mill, Speed the Plough.

The Thunder Mutters’ theme tune is The Gardengate

References:

Deacon, George, John Clare and the Folk Tradition (London: Frances Boutle Publishers, 2002)

Kuntz, Andrew, and Valerio Pelliccioni, Traditional Tune Archive (2017) <http://tunearch.org> [Accessed 9^th July 2020]

Nelson-Burns, Lesley, The Contemplator's Folk Music and Carolan Resource Center (2014)

<https://www.contemplator.com/scotland/patimill.html> [Accessed 9^th July 2020]

We’ll be coming back in a fortnight with John Clare’s ‘July’ but in the meantime, please do continue to send in your recordings of tunes and poems.

Please consider putting some money towards production costs by sponsoring the podcast at www.ko-fi.com/thethundermutters

Here is the episode listing in order of appearance:

‘Clare’s Jig’ - Ian Duhig

‘Jigs for John Clare’ – Poem and music by Philip Rush

‘I Saw Crotchets...’ Lydia Kennaway

‘To John Clare’ - Tania Hershman

Red Pettycoat Hornpipe and Beef Stake Hornpipe – played by Neil Brookes

‘Clout’ - Helen Ivory

The Self – played by Becky Dellow

‘Enclosure’ - Chris Hall

Mrs Casey – played by Becky Dellow

‘Starlings Nesting’ - Ella Duffy

The Thunder Mutters’ theme tune is ‘The Gardengate’ from John Clare’s tune manuscript book

We’ll be coming back next month with July but the next episode will feature your own contributions, so please come back then and take a listen. Please consider putting some money towards the costs of producing the podcast by buying us a virtual coffee at www.ko-fi.com/thethundermutters

All the tunes in this episode have been taken from John Clare's tune manuscript books, and Becky's arrangements used the transcriptions provided by Marion Ross in George Deacon's book John Clare and the Folk Tradition (Sinclair Browne Ltd., 1983).

The tunes, whose histories are discussed in the show, are listed here for your convenience, in order of appearance: Jackson’s Morning Brush, Beef Stake Hornpipe, Come to the Bower, Off She Goes, Young Parker, Tink a tink, Regents Fete, The Ploughman.

As ‘June’ is shorter than many of the other poems from ‘The Shepherd’s Calendar’, we have included three further poems by Clare at the outset of the episode. In order of appearance, these are: ‘The Heat of Noon’, ‘Summer Happiness’ and Wild Bees’.

The Thunder Mutters’ theme tune is ‘The Gardengate’ from John Clare’s tune manuscript book.

References:

Clare, John, Selected Poems (London: Penguin Classics, 1990)

Deacon, George, John Clare and the Folk Tradition (London: Frances Boutle Publishers, 2002)

Kuntz, Andrew, and Valerio Pelliccioni, Traditional Tune Archive (2017) <http://tunearch.org> [Accessed 12 May 2020]

http://www.folktunefinder.com/tunes/26014

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:The_Folk-Lore_Journal_Volume_4_1886.djvu/268

https://www.regencyhistory.net/2012/06/prince-regents-fete.html

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We’ll be coming back next episode with John Clare’s ‘June’, from The Shepherd’s Calendar, so please come back then and take a listen. There’s also a sneak preview of our forthcoming episode of responses to John Clare by poets and musicians.

The tunes in this week’s episode are taken from various historic printed and handwritten sources and their histories are discussed in the show. They are listed here in order of appearance and an image of one of the tunes from William Clarke’s manuscript may be of interest too, so is shown on our facebook page The Thunder Mutters. Becky’s references are listed below.

Queen Mab, Young Jane [aka The Gallant Hussar], Lark in the Clear Air, Love For Ever, In the Fields of Frost and Snow, Drive the Cold Winter Away, Bob and Joan, King George 3rd’s Minuet, When the King Came o’er the Water, Young Jane.

The Thunder Mutters’ theme tune is The Gardengate

References:

Hornby, Andy, The Winders of Wyresdale (Andy Hornby, 2013) Kuntz, Andrew, and Valerio Pelliccioni, Traditional Tune Archive (2017) <http://tunearch.org> [Accessed 27 May 2020] Seattle, Matt, The Great Northern Tune Book : William Vickers' Collection of Dance Tunes Ad 1770 (London: English Folk Dance & Song Society, 2008) The Village Music Project, 'Manuscripts', The Village Music Project (No date) <http://www.village-music-project.org.uk/?page_id=25> [Accessed 24 April 2017]https://imslp.org/wiki/William_Clarke,_Lincoln,_Manuscript_Tunebook_1770_%28Various%29

We’ll be coming back next month with ‘June’, but will squeeze in an episode looking at Shelley in a fortnight, so please come back then and take a listen. 

All the tunes in this episode have been taken from John Clare's tune manuscript books, and Becky's arrangements used the transcriptions provided by Marion Ross in George Deacon's book John Clare and the Folk Tradition (Sinclair Browne Ltd., 1983).

The tunes, whose histories are discussed in the show, are listed here for your convenience, in order of appearance:

Ere around the huge oak, Jockey to the Fair, Cuckoos Nest [sic], Woodpecker, Lass of Richmond Hill, All around the Maypole see how they trott, Englands Glory[sic], Cuckoos Nest (repeat), Adieu my native Land Adieu, Q[u]eens March.

The Thunder Mutters’ theme tune is The Gardengate

References:

Christian, Roy, Old English Customs (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1972)

Deacon, George, John Clare and the Folk Tradition (London: Frances Boutle Publishers, 2002)

‘Jockey to the Fair’, The Session (No date) <https://thesession.org> [Accessed 10 May 2020]

Kuntz, Andrew, and Valerio Pelliccioni, Traditional Tune Archive (2017) <http://tunearch.org> [Accessed 12 May 2020]

Molnar, John W., Songs from the Williamsburg Theatre (Williamsburg, Virginia: Colonial Williamsburg, 1974)

The performance of the poems and tunes is presented as a seamless flow, from music to poetry and back, so the titles of poems and tunes, and the histories of the tunes, are given beforehand. We have also listed them in the text below, along with Becky’s sources, for your ease and listening comfort.

Tune: Morning Star / Butchers of Bristol

Poem: The Human Seasons

Tune: Camberwell

Poem: La Belle Dame Sans Merci: A Ballad

Tune: Poor Soldier

Poem: Modern Love

Tune: Maid of the Mill

Poem: Ode on a Grecian Urn

Tune: The Rising Sun

Poem: To Sleep

Tune: The Good Old Way

Poem: Bright Star

Tune: Childgrove (Such a Wife as Willy Had)

The Thunder Mutters’ theme tune is: Gardengate

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Barlow, Jeremy, The Complete Country Dance Tunes from Playford’s Dancing Master (1651-ca.1728) (London: Faber Music Limited, 1985)

Deacon, George, John Clare and the Folk Tradition (London: Frances Boutle Publishers, 2002)

Hampton, Thomas, Music Manuscript Book (Dances for Violin) (Dellow Personal Collection, c1870)

Kuntz, Andrew, and Valerio Pelliccioni, Traditional Tune Archive (2017) <http://tunearch.org> [Accessed 24 April 2020]

Menteith, Charles, and Paul Burgess, The Coleford Jig Traditional Tunes from Gloucestershire, 4th edn (Cheltenham, Gloucestershire: 2014)

Offord, John, John of the Green The Cheshire Way (Green Man Music, 2017)

Seattle, Matt, The Great Northern Tune Book : William Vickers' Collection of Dance Tunes Ad 1770 (London: English Folk Dance & Song Society, 2008)

We’ll be coming back every month for the next year with the whole of Clare’s calendar, and presenting poems and tunes by other poets and from other tune books in the meantime.

All the tunes have been taken from John Clare's tune manuscript books, and Becky's arrangements used the transcriptions provided by Marion Ross in George Deacon's book John Clare and the Folk Tradition (Sinclair Browne Ltd., 1983).

The tunes, whose histories are discussed in the show, are listed here for your convenience, in order of appearance:

The Gardengate (theme tune for the show), Bath Waltz, Moll i'the Wad, The Self, Tommy Jenkins, Fairy Dance, Paddy Carey, The Cuckoo and Woods Hornpipe.