Pete's Compositions

As well as teaching and collecting folk music, Pete was a composer and poet in his own right. This page gathers his original tunes, poems, hymns, and musical settings — all available to download and use freely under a Creative Commons licence.

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🎵 Pete's Tunes

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📝 Pete's Poems

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⛪ Pete's Hymns

Pete composed an original hymn tune for Aslackby church — a village near Bourne in Lincolnshire where he was closely connected to the community and the Greenwood Quire.

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🍂 Music to John Clare Poems

John Clare (1793–1864) was a Northamptonshire farm labourer and poet, celebrated for his vivid, deeply personal verse about the rural landscape. Pete wrote musical settings for some of Clare's poems — bringing together two rural Lincolnshire/Northamptonshire voices across the centuries.

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These words and music are covered under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. They may be freely downloaded and copied for amateur use.