Anybody know this tune? I've ABC'd the A part. I learned it by ear from a recording maybe 15 years ago when I was young and careless and now I have no idea what its named or what record it was on, except it was played solo on the banjo.
It sounds like a version of the old time tune "Santa Anna's Retreat". Here's how I play it.It's in 4/4 but it begins with half a bar.
Dmix
2/4|:ABcd|4/4|e2 a2 e2 a2|edef g4|
B2 g2 f2 gf|edB^c d2 cd|
e2 a2 e2 a2|edef g2 a2|
b2 e2 gfeB|c2 A A4:||
|:ABAG EGAB|c2 A2 e2 A2|
c2 d2 edef|g2B2 A4:||
It looks like it's in either A mixolydian or A dorian, not D mixolydian. Judging by the C# accidental in bar 5 of Dafydd's version, all the other Cs must be natural, so it should probably be A dorian. Of course, the key signature for Ador is the same as that for Dmix, but it throws one a bit when the key or mode given doesn't match the tune, so I thought I should point it out.
Shay's March
Quick March
Johnny Cope
Nights of Gladness Quadrille
Spring
NOTES
Antonio López de Santa Anna (1794-1876) was both general of the army and president of Mexico when Texas declared its independence from Mexico. He led the expeditionary force in 1836 that fought at the Alamo, and he was subsequently defeated and captured by Sam Houston, interviewed by U.S. President Andrew Jackson, and returned to Mexico. During the Mexican War in 1846-7, he again led the Mexican forces and was defeated by the United States.
Henry Reed said--presumably on the authority of his fiddling and fifing mentor Quince Dillion, who was a fifer in the Mexican War--that this march was used by Santa Anna's army to retreat from the American forces during the Mexican War. Since the tune is a venerable British air, it seems more likely that it was played by the American contingent, though there were in fact Irish (or Irish-American) participants in the Mexican army.
See the "Manuscript Collection of Dance Tunes [ca. 1775-1800]" (Newberry Library, Chicago), p. 54 "Shay's March"; Riley's Flute Melodies (ca. 1814), p. 47 "Quick March"; O'Neill's Music of Ireland #1812 "Johnny Cope--Irish version"; Roche, Collection of Irish Airs (1909), vol. 3, 74 (#196, Part 4, Section 3) "Nights of Gladness Quadrille," vol. 3, 78 (#202) "Jonny Cope" (in a group of marches). An American hymn setting is Carden, Missouri Harmony (1825), p. 113, "Spring."
what's this tune?
what's this tune?
Anybody know this tune? I've ABC'd the A part. I learned it by ear from a recording maybe 15 years ago when I was young and careless and now I have no idea what its named or what record it was on, except it was played solo on the banjo.
X: 1
T:
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmix
|e2a2 e2a2|edda g2gg|ffga ffga|edc2 d2da|
e2a2 e2a2|edda g2ga |b2e2 edg2|edB2 A2Aa|
# Posted on April 10th 2007 by stoner420
Re: what's this tune?
It sounds like a version of the old time tune "Santa Anna's Retreat". Here's how I play it.It's in 4/4 but it begins with half a bar.
Dmix
2/4|:ABcd|4/4|e2 a2 e2 a2|edef g4|
B2 g2 f2 gf|edB^c d2 cd|
e2 a2 e2 a2|edef g2 a2|
b2 e2 gfeB|c2 A A4:||
|:ABAG EGAB|c2 A2 e2 A2|
c2 d2 edef|g2B2 A4:||
# Posted on April 10th 2007 by dafydd
Re: what's this tune?
It looks like it's in either A mixolydian or A dorian, not D mixolydian. Judging by the C# accidental in bar 5 of Dafydd's version, all the other Cs must be natural, so it should probably be A dorian. Of course, the key signature for Ador is the same as that for Dmix, but it throws one a bit when the key or mode given doesn't match the tune, so I thought I should point it out.
# Posted on April 10th 2007 by ragaman
Re: what's this tune?
thanks dafydd and spoon!!!
# Posted on April 11th 2007 by stoner420
Re: what's this tune?
okay, in the off chance that somebody besides me is interested here is some info about this tune:
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?afcreed:1:./temp/~ammem_fgXo::
ALTERNATE TITLE(S)
Shay's March
Quick March
Johnny Cope
Nights of Gladness Quadrille
Spring
NOTES
Antonio López de Santa Anna (1794-1876) was both general of the army and president of Mexico when Texas declared its independence from Mexico. He led the expeditionary force in 1836 that fought at the Alamo, and he was subsequently defeated and captured by Sam Houston, interviewed by U.S. President Andrew Jackson, and returned to Mexico. During the Mexican War in 1846-7, he again led the Mexican forces and was defeated by the United States.
Henry Reed said--presumably on the authority of his fiddling and fifing mentor Quince Dillion, who was a fifer in the Mexican War--that this march was used by Santa Anna's army to retreat from the American forces during the Mexican War. Since the tune is a venerable British air, it seems more likely that it was played by the American contingent, though there were in fact Irish (or Irish-American) participants in the Mexican army.
See the "Manuscript Collection of Dance Tunes [ca. 1775-1800]" (Newberry Library, Chicago), p. 54 "Shay's March"; Riley's Flute Melodies (ca. 1814), p. 47 "Quick March"; O'Neill's Music of Ireland #1812 "Johnny Cope--Irish version"; Roche, Collection of Irish Airs (1909), vol. 3, 74 (#196, Part 4, Section 3) "Nights of Gladness Quadrille," vol. 3, 78 (#202) "Jonny Cope" (in a group of marches). An American hymn setting is Carden, Missouri Harmony (1825), p. 113, "Spring."
# Posted on April 11th 2007 by stoner420