Version 1, January 2004 Prepared by Lead Musician, Nick Hooper Performance Notes For Wayzgoose, the music is an essential part of the performance, which is why it is important to us that musicians are also dancers. The purpose of the music is to lift the dancers and to add to the colour and enjoyment of the dancing. This means being willing to move and not standing stock-still. We readily allow other musicians to join in - even banjo players (honest). When we are dancing alone musicians need to be ready to play tunes to cover the changeovers. DRUMMING is an important part of the music - the speed of the dance is set by the melodeon player who starts the tune. YOU MUST WATCH HIS/HER FEET and keep to that tempo, not take it from the sticking. Anyone who is not dancing picks up the drum or a tambourine. Music The tunes we use are as follows: Tune Dance Brighton Camp East Acton Stick Dance Buttered Peas Northumberland East Acton Stick Dance Fanny Frail Fanny Frail Jenny Lind Brimfield (at the moment) Lord of the Dance Big Bang Not for Joe Dilwyn Rochdale Coconut Dance Wantage Speed the Plough Upton Stick Dance / Muckiarse Tell Me Ma Muckiarse Three Jolly Sheepskins Three Jolly Black Sheepskins Upton Stick Dance Upton Stick Dance (Chingford version) Tune Dance Bay Horse Brawl Peopleton Buttered Peas Grassington East Acton Stick Dance Fairy Dance Datchet Jack's the Lad Divine Wind Long Long Ago Cluster of Nuts Marmalade Polka Bay Horse Raggle Taggle Gypsies Molly Dance Shropshire Reel Much Wenlock Steamboat Hornpipe Coleville Theme Vannitaise Twiglet Twin Sisters Fiddler's Lock Waterddy Lane Common as Muck The notation for all the Wayzgoose tunes can be downloaded in ABC format. If you haven't got this fab bit of software you can download it from the ABC2WIN site. Alternatively, you can download a readable Wayzgoose TuneBook in PDF format (the size of the file is 6Mb). For this you will need Adobe Reader which can be downloaded for free.