I'd love to find the sheet music of the second one which is said to be "drowsie maggie" (?). but I didn't find it on the session, does anyone know an other name for it, and does anyone happen to know where I can find it?
Could it be a variation of The Galway rambler? at least in the second part? They play "Sailing into Walpole's Marsh" after, but not like we play it or is it us who are playing strange mystical variations
Yeah, good playing, ta, I enjoyed that. The first is a great Reavy tune. Not familiar with the middle, and the last is Sailing into Walpole's Marsh pretty much exactly how I have it.
I'm curious though, This is a pretty good recording, Why do you need the sheet music?
Sometimes I think I understand what llig is saying, as the tune is not a skeleton to which ornaments are added, or a fixed set of notes to be memorized, but when you're done, the tune is what you just played, if you've learned it...and you can't learn it until you know it... like you can't begin to learn it until you know it really well. I am thinking you can't learn a tune until after you can play it: that THEN is when you begin to learn it. I use the dots to get me to THAT point more quickly because I'm lazy and impatient, but there is something very rewarding about listening to a tune enough times that when I finally do try to play it, it just comes out right. Did I get that right?
tune identification...
tune identification...
hi!
I just found a great extract of Geantrai on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kto29f5Ukc&feature=related
I'd love to find the sheet music of the second one which is said to be "drowsie maggie" (?). but I didn't find it on the session, does anyone know an other name for it, and does anyone happen to know where I can find it?
thanks a lot
Laure
# Posted on June 4th 2009 by laure
Re: tune identification...
It sounds like a variation of Drowsy Maggie to me, I doubt there is sheet music for it coz many variations will exist.
# Posted on June 4th 2009 by I ♥ Dow
Re: tune identification...
Could it be a variation of The Galway rambler? at least in the second part? They play "Sailing into Walpole's Marsh" after, but not like we play it or is it us who are playing strange mystical variations
# Posted on June 4th 2009 by Steamwilkes
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It's a Donegal version of Drowsy Magie. It's on Harvest Storm by Altan and they mention Con Cassidy, James Byrne and John Doherty as their sources.
# Posted on June 4th 2009 by Henk Bos
Re: tune identification...
Yeah, good playing, ta, I enjoyed that. The first is a great Reavy tune. Not familiar with the middle, and the last is Sailing into Walpole's Marsh pretty much exactly how I have it.
I'm curious though, This is a pretty good recording, Why do you need the sheet music?
# Posted on June 4th 2009 by ...
Re: tune identification...
'Maggie'
# Posted on June 4th 2009 by Henk Bos
Re: tune identification...
There are several Donegal versions of this tune in The Northern Fiddler by Feldman/O'Doherty.
http://www.nigelgatherer.com/books/nf.html
# Posted on June 4th 2009 by Henk Bos
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Altan's version of Drowsy Maggie
E2Bd cABE|E2BG FADF|E2Bd cABc|1 dfec dAFD:|2 dfec dAFA|
d2fe dcBd|(3cBA ed ceAc|defe dcBc|def^g aecA|
defe dcBd|(3cBA eA ceAg|fdec dcBa|^gbeg aecA||
# Posted on September 2nd 2004 by dlowder
# Posted on June 4th 2009 by Henk Bos
Re: tune identification...
Llig, perhaps they want sheetmusic in order to learn the tune their way?
Just a thought.
# Posted on June 4th 2009 by I ♥ Dow
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You mean they don't want their playing to be influenced by playing on the video?
# Posted on June 4th 2009 by ...
Re: tune identification...
Sometimes I think I understand what llig is saying, as the tune is not a skeleton to which ornaments are added, or a fixed set of notes to be memorized, but when you're done, the tune is what you just played, if you've learned it...and you can't learn it until you know it... like you can't begin to learn it until you know it really well. I am thinking you can't learn a tune until after you can play it: that THEN is when you begin to learn it. I use the dots to get me to THAT point more quickly because I'm lazy and impatient, but there is something very rewarding about listening to a tune enough times that when I finally do try to play it, it just comes out right. Did I get that right?
# Posted on June 5th 2009 by justjim
Re: tune identification...
Yep. Spot on
# Posted on June 5th 2009 by ...