Old Tom of Oxford
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Old Tom of Oxford" is an English morris dance tune in 4/4 time and G Major.<br> The parts are played ABCBCB. <br> It was collected from the village of Bampton, Oxfordshire, in England's Cotswolds.<br> 'Old Tom' is the name of a famous bell in Christ Church College, Oxford, which hangs in<br> Tom Tower (designed by Christopher Wren). Old Tom, or Great Tom, dates from the sixteenth<br> century and is still sounded each night 101 times, to signify the 100 original scholars of<br> the college (plus one, added in 1663). It is the loudest bell in Oxford and weighs six and a<br> quarter tons.<br> A 'D' minor version of the tune under the title "Old Oxford" appears in Daniel Wright's<br> Extraordinary Collection of Pleasant and Merry Humours etc. (c. 1713), and as "Peace and<br> Plenty: or, Old Oxford", in John Young's Second Volume of the Dancing Master (1719). <br> It was printed in Bacon's The Morris Ring (1974) and Mallinson's Mally's Cotswold Morris<br> Book (1988). <br> It was recorded by Francis Shergold on Greeny Up (1988).<br>
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