After every practice or dance-out, the musicians of Cry Havoc Botley Morris like to have a little music-playing session.
Havoc musicians come in all shades of experience and ability. This collection is intended to help those like me who are inexpert with instrument and folk music generally, but have a little musical background.
Being folk tunes, many of the tunes herein have many variations. The music presented here is my attempt at reflecting what is actually played at Havoc sessions. I'm in no way suggesting that they are in any way correct. This is just how we go about them.
The tunes we play tend to vary over time. So this collection is not static, but will change over time. I'll probably not delete tunes, but at some stage may get round to marking some as less used.
Of course, not all instruments are suited to playing music written in concert pitch in the treble clef.
To help those with such instruments get started, I've done some simple transpositions for requested instruments. These are not proper arrangements; I lack the time and the knowledge or ability to do that. Instead, they are automatically generated from the concert pitch originals using a typically very simple method.
I hope you find them useful.
Transpose up a fifth, or down a seventh depending on the range in the tune. To avoid scaring less able horn players such as myself, the transposed score will prefer going below middle C to going above the top G on the stave. Able horn players can transpose in their heads anyway, so don't need this.