Issue 3586: Tune "None so Pretty"

Object

None so Pretty (Tune)

Submitter

Finlay Forbes

Assigned to

—

Priority

Normal

Disposition

New

Description

Despite what the CD/record label says, the tune that Jimmy Shand plays under this name is “Johnnie in Nether Mains” (The tune recommended by the RSCDS in Book 21). Jimmy has tweaked the cadences to make it sound more like a dance tune and less like a speeded up slow air (which in fact it is) and he has transposed it up from F Major to G major but in essence, it is the same tune.

There are at least two other tunes called “None so Pretty” - one is a jig and the other is Thomas Wilson’s rather humdrum original for this dance.

As a point in passing The English Folk Dance and Song Society published an exact copy of Jimmy Shand’s version under the title “None so Pretty” in a publication called “Band Call” (London 1972 - a long time after the maestro first recorded it)

Previous Actions