Black and the Grey
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Black and the Grey", also known as "New Market Jig" is a Northumbrian jig in 6/8<br> and G Major. The parts are played AB (Bruce & Stokoe).<br> The title, which is an English renaming of the Scottish melody "John Patterson's<br> Mare," appears in Henry Robson's list of popular Northumbrian song and dance tunes,<br> which he published c. 1800. A similar tune called "Black and All Black" appears in<br> John Johnson's A Choice Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 6 (1751).<br> The titles "Black and Grey" and "Black and All Black" refer to racehorses. The tune<br> (as "Scotch Black and Grey" to distinguish it from the English version) was contained<br> in the Northumbrian music manuscript collection of John Smith, dated 1752, which is<br> now lost. The contents were copied by 19th century folk-music collector John Stokoe<br> in 1887, when the manuscript was in the possession of Lewis Proudlock. Stokoe's<br> volume Northumbrian Minstrelsy had been printed five years prior and his interest<br> in Smith’s ms. demonstrates Stokoe's continuing commitment to older Northumbrian<br> music.<br> It was printed in Bruce & Stokoe's Northumbrian Minstrelsy (1882) and<br> Peacock's Peacock's Tunes (c. 1805).<br>
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