LEWES FAVOURITES DOWNLOAD

The Lewes Favourites are available in a variety of computer readable forms; ABC, Noteworthy Composer or MIDI. Shareware is available to play these files from abc music notation :: introduction and The Noteworthy home page
They are also available as PDF files which can be read with the free Adobe Reader
Mike Ainscough has transcribed the tunes for tenor banjo in standard C-G-D-A tuning, available here.
For historical reasons, the collection is organised as seven volumes. On this page there are also a supplement of another 37 titles and a collection of tunes from the playing of Scan Tester of Horsted Keynes.
Click on a tune name to hear it immediately. The tunes for a whole volume can be downloaded in Noteworthy, ABC or MIDI format.
Tune Index  including usual combinations in which they are played in Lewes area sessions.
The files on this page are free for personal use. Please do not post them elsewhere without consulting us and do not use them for any commercial purpose.
Page Contents
Volume 1
Volume 2
Volume 3
Volume 4
Volume 5
Volume 6
Volume 7
Supplement
Scan Tester


Lewes Favourites Volume 1
Cotillion Flowers of Edinburgh The Foggy Dew
Foul Weather Call From Night till Morn Jacky Tar
The Kingston Hornpipe Pretty Maggie Morrisey The Quaker
Scan Tester's No 1 Scan Tester's No 2 Soldier's Joy
St. Anne's Reel Star of the County Down Tarpaulin Jacket
Three around Three Tipsy Parson Walter Bulwer's No 1
Walter Bulwer's No 2

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Lewes Favourites Volume 2
Brighton Camp Brothers in York Captain Lanoe's Quick March
Cochin China Enrico Heel and Toe Polka (12345)
Jack Come Kiss Me Now Knutsford (J . B. Milne) Man in the Moon
Michael Turner's Waltz Redowa Polka Redwing
Rig A Jig Rinkatink Runcorn (Mona's Delight)
Salmon Tails up the Water The Sloe The Tank
Tekili Weaver's March

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Lewes Favourites Volume 3
Bang Upp Curly-headed Ploughboy Davy Davy Knick Knack
Dingle Regatta Double Lead Through Down with the French
Garryowen Grandfather's Dance Grandmother's Dance
Hunt the Squirrel Litchfield Tattoo Over the Hills and Far Away
Oyster Girl Paddy Carrey Spaniard
Speed the Plough Sussex Bonny Breast Knot Sweets of May
Uncle's Jig Welch's Four-Part Polka Winster Gallop
Woodland Revels

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Lewes Favourites Volume 4
Bonny Kate Buttered Peas Captain O'Cain
Captain White Dark Girl Dressed in Blue Family Jig
Fiery Clockface French Assembly George Green's Slow (College) Hornpipe
Harper's Frolic Haste to the Wedding Hot Punch
Huntsman's Chorus Johnny Micky Barry La Russe
Lady Anne Hope's Reel New Sylph Nutley Waltz
Perfect Cure Rakes of Mallow Rochdale Coconut Dance
Rogue's March Steamboat Hornpipe Villagers
Waterloo Dance

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Lewes Favourites Volume 5
Astley's Ride Basket Hornpipe Blue-Eyed Stranger
Bluebell Polka Boys of Oak Hill Boys of School Hill
Clee Hill Dashing White Sergeant Donkey Riding
Jenny Lind Ka-Foozalum Keel Row
Lemmy Brazil's No 1 Lemmy Brazil's No 2 Lemonville Jig
Maggie in the Wood Michael Turner's Jig Morgan Rattler
Morpeth Rant Nae Luck Aboot the Hoose New Rigged Ship
News of the Victory Old Rosin the Beau Sherbourne Waltz
Smash the Windows Trip to Brighton Triumph
Uncle Bernard's Polka Untitled Polka Welch Family Jig

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Lewes Favourites Volume 6
Black Nag Blackberry Quadrille Fairy Dance
Girl with the Red/Blue Dress On Harry Cox's I Wish They'd Do It Now
Indian Queen Jamie Allen King of the Cannibal Islands
Laura Marmalade Polka Moll of the Wood
Monk's March My Love She's but a Lassie Yet Nelly's Hat
New Moon Off She Goes Off to California
Parson's Farewell Portobello Hornpipe Princess Royal
Professor Blackie Redesdale Hornpipe Rose Tree
Scan Tester's Schottische No. 2 Tip-Top Polka Trumpet Hornpipe
Waterloo

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Lewes Favourites Volume 7
Adderbury Black Joke The Ball The Barren Rocks of Aden
Bielbie's Hornpipe Brighthelmstone Hot Bath Caddam Wood
Carolan's Quarrel Carr Lodge Polka Corn Rigs
The Darling Waltz Ditchling Carol Dorset Four Hand Reel
Gipsy's Hornpipe Horse's Brawl John of Paris
Kurakin The Leeds Polka Little Burnt Potato
Metal Man The Moon Shines Bright Nancy's Fancy
Northern Schottische Oats, Peas and Beans Orotaba Waltz
Percy Brown's Polka The Pilgrim Planxty Fanny Power
Pleal's Allemand Ragtime Annie The Rights of Man
Rosalie The Prairie Flower Shepherds Arise Shepherds Hey
Strike The Bell What a Beau My Granny Was When Daylight Shines
Whinham's Reel

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Lewes Favourites Supplement
Auvergne Polka No. 1 Auvergne Polka No. 2 Battle of the Somme
Beatrice Hill's 4 part reel The Bedbreaker BobbyShafto
Bromsberrow Heath The Dannish Waltz The Dragon
Elsey's Waltz Galopede Herbert Smith's 3-part polka
Hogmanay Jig Hullichan Jig Irish Molly Barn Dance
Italian Schottische Jump at the Sun Kerry Polka-Egan's Polka
King of the Fairies Leather Away the Wattle O Old Black Joe-Umsi the Gumsi-Playing on the Old Banjo
Planxty Irwin The Quarryman The Rattling Bog
Ring the Banjo The Smith's A Gallant Fireman The Sweetness of Mary
Tarantella Calabria Tom Bigbee Tom Tolly's Hornpipe
Willy Taylor's High Tea Woodland Flowers

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Lewes Favourites Scan Tester
Scan Tester - Nelly's Hat Scan Tester - No. 2 Scan Tester - Oyster Girl
Scan Tester - Schottische No. 1 Scan Tester - Nice Waltz Scan Tester - 2 part polka
Scan Tester - 2 part polka (another version) Scan Tester - No. 7 Scan Tester -Schottische (hi-lo)
Scan Tester - 3 part polka Scan Tester - Schottische No. 2 (lo-hi) Scan Tester - Stepdance

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