ENGLISH TUNES PRACTICE
SESSIONS

'The Lewes Favourites'

If you would like to play English dance music, here is an opportunity to meet other players to learn and swap tunes regardless of what instrument you play, to what standard, and whether or not you read music. This will be a chance to nail down some of those tunes that you recognise when you hear them but can't quite remember, to put the names to familiar tunes, and to play them over slowly until you are sure of them. Printed music and computer software are available for 180 of the Lewes area's favourite tunes.
The tunes are now available as a book, price £10, illustrated with dance notations from Sussex manuscripts, anecdotes, photographs of the habitats where they flourish and an index of the combinations in which they are often played. Click here for ordering details.   Alternatively, you can obtain them in various computerised forms.  Discreet tape recorders are welcome if you don't read music. We meet in the upstairs room of the Lewes Arms, Mount Place, Lewes, at 8.00 pm on the following evenings (all Wednesdays except where marked):

2007:			21th. November	19th. December
2008:	15th. January(Tuesday)	12th. February(Tuesday)	19th. March	16th. April
	21st. May	18th. June	16th. July	20th. August
	17th. September	15th. October	19th. November	17th. December

Andy Warburton, 31, Landport Road, Lewes
tel. 01273 474836            email: Andy Warburton
Bryan Creer, Flat 12 Fife Court, 99 The Hydneye, Eastbourne, BN22 9DD
tel. 01323 505372            email: Bryan Creer
Valmai Goodyear, 20, St. John's Terrace, Lewes
tel. 01273 476757            email: Valmai Goodyear

Computer Music

The Lewes Favourites are available in a variety of computer readable forms.

The tunes can be downloaded in ABC format, Noteworthy Composer format or MIDI from here.

Shareware is available to play these files from abc music notation :: introduction and The Noteworthy home page
For software to unzip the downloaded files visit WinZip® Home Page.