Music for common Cry Havoc dances (alto recorder, C fingering)

This book provides the dots for the music to all the dances performed by Cry Havoc. The name of the dance is given as the tune title. If the name of the tune differs from the name of the dance, the tune name is given in the subtitle.

See below if you'd like to print a book of these tunes.

Click on the tune title or first line music for a page showing the dots for the tune and giving links for downloading the tune in various formats. If you don't read music, or you'd like to work on practising learning tunes by ear, or just playing along with the tune, click on the learner icon for a page where you can listen to the tune repeatedly, either at the full playing speed or several slower speeds.

When changes to this site are made, the issue number is incremented. This is issue 439.

The tunes

Balance the Straw
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Balance the Straw first line
Banbury Bill
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Banbury Bill first line
The Banks of the Dee
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The Banks of the Dee first line
Bean Setting
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Bean Setting first line
Black Joke
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Black Joke first line
Blue Bells of Scotland
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Blue Bells of Scotland first line
Bobbing Around
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Bobbing Around first line
Bonny Green Garters
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Bonny Green Garters first line
Constant Billy
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Constant Billy first line
Country Gardens
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Country Gardens first line
Dogs of War
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Dogs of War first line
Getting Upstairs
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Getting Upstairs first line
Greenham (Long Odds)
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Greenham (Long Odds) first line
Haste to the Wedding
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Haste to the Wedding first line
Highland Mary
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Highland Mary first line
Highland Mary (Old Tom of Oxford)
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Highland Mary (Old Tom of Oxford) first line
Hunt the Squirrel
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Hunt the Squirrel first line
Jenny Lind
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Jenny Lind first line
Ladies Pleasure
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Ladies Pleasure first line
Lads-a-Bunchum
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Lads-a-Bunchum first line
Laudnum Bunches
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Laudnum Bunches first line
Lillibulero
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Lillibulero first line
Monck's March
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Monck's March first line
Mountain Goats
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Mountain Goats first line
The Postman's Knock
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The Postman's Knock first line
Rigs of Marlow
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Rigs of Marlow first line
Ring O' Bells
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Ring O' Bells first line
Shave the Donkey
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Shave the Donkey first line
Shepherd's Hey
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Shepherd's Hey first line
Shooting (Beaux of London City)
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Shooting (Beaux of London City) first line
Side Steps
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Side Steps first line
Skirmish (British Grenadiers)
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Skirmish (British Grenadiers) first line
Step Back
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Step Back first line
Step n' Fetch Her
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Step n' Fetch Her first line
Sweet Jenny Jones
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Sweet Jenny Jones first line
Valentine
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Valentine first line
Vandals of Hammerwich
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Vandals of Hammerwich first line
William and Nancy
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William and Nancy first line
Winster Processional (The Morris March)
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Winster Processional (The Morris March) first line
Young Collins
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Young Collins first line

Printing

You can download a PDF of a booklet of these tunes. There is an A5 landscape book with one tune per page, a 4x5in portrait book suitable for use with an eReader like a Kindle, Nook, Kobo etc., and an A4 book with two or more tunes per page.

If you have a printer that can do duplex (i.e. print on both sides of the paper), you might like the A5 booklet. Print this onto A4 paper using both sides of the paper, and fold in half to make an A5 booklet.

You can also now download a PDF of the Bumper Booke. The Bumper Booke contains all the Session tunes and all the Morris tunes in a single book. There is an A5 landscape book with one tune per page, a 4x5in portrait book, an A4 book with two or more tunes per page, and an A5 booklet for printing on A4 paper and folding in half.