I think you might be better off writing the contributor / creator of that little video. They'd be able to give you the source too, the recording...
On a one-off listen, there's nothing even vaguely Irish about it, or Celtic for that matter. I would guess it is the work of someone's imagination. I doubt it is here on site as a transcription of for that matter anywhere else online. So, as is true with many things, if there is a living source ~ give that a try first.
I imagine there are some huge eclectic collections of recordings owned by the mass of folks on site here, and maybe you'll luck out and someone will recognize it. At a quick move toward categorization ~ it seems to be, if anything, a 2/4 march, but from where and what name or by who I can't help you, except to direct you to other possible places to turn for an answer... Good luck...
Sounds jig-time to me, and the parts are repeated. The composer's probably got at least a vague idea what Irish music sounds like. I'd put it somewhere in that vast penumbrous zone called "Celtic" - the musical equivalent of the Russian forests, perhaps, populated by all manner of strange beasts but producing little you'd actually want.
But if this was written to a deadline for tots to do their thing to without being duly disturbed, I'm sure this piece fitted the bill better than The Pogues might have done...
Yeah, something about it reminded me of Riverdance.
Maybe the composer saw riverdance once and was inspired to write something which ended up sounding vaguely irish.
That's what I get for just catching it and leaving, it turned 2/4 in my head. Damn, it's doing it again... Yes nicholas, it is 6/8, but that still doesn't excuse it from being daft...worse me because I'm about to transcribe it for the sin of comment...
When all the computers have gone dead and all the tunebooks have rotted away and the oral tradition is extinct, someone will find it and say: "At last! A find of great importance! This may be our one extant representative tune of the last great era of Irish traditional musical culture!"
This is what I like to call a 'Nothing Tune' The sort of thing you would hear playing in the background of a film showing peasants cavorting in a market scene from Tudor times or thereabouts..
Can you identify this tune..
Can you identify this tune..
I was looking for a website on folding paper aeroplanes for my 4 year old when I happened upon this tune playing in the background. I would like to know the name of it if anyone can help thanks. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2gmgn_how-to-fold-a-paper-catamaran-origa_creation
# Posted on February 2nd 2008 by StevieE
Re: Can you identify this tune..
I think you might be better off writing the contributor / creator of that little video. They'd be able to give you the source too, the recording...
On a one-off listen, there's nothing even vaguely Irish about it, or Celtic for that matter. I would guess it is the work of someone's imagination. I doubt it is here on site as a transcription of for that matter anywhere else online. So, as is true with many things, if there is a living source ~ give that a try first.
I imagine there are some huge eclectic collections of recordings owned by the mass of folks on site here, and maybe you'll luck out and someone will recognize it. At a quick move toward categorization ~ it seems to be, if anything, a 2/4 march, but from where and what name or by who I can't help you, except to direct you to other possible places to turn for an answer... Good luck...
# Posted on February 2nd 2008 by ceolachan
Re: Can you identify this tune..
Sounds jig-time to me, and the parts are repeated. The composer's probably got at least a vague idea what Irish music sounds like. I'd put it somewhere in that vast penumbrous zone called "Celtic" - the musical equivalent of the Russian forests, perhaps, populated by all manner of strange beasts but producing little you'd actually want.
But if this was written to a deadline for tots to do their thing to without being duly disturbed, I'm sure this piece fitted the bill better than The Pogues might have done...
# Posted on February 2nd 2008 by nicholas
Re: Can you identify this tune..
Yeah, something about it reminded me of Riverdance.
Maybe the composer saw riverdance once and was inspired to write something which ended up sounding vaguely irish.
# Posted on February 2nd 2008 by session savage
Re: Can you identify this tune..
Here's a good paper airplane site though
http://www.paperairplanes.co.uk/planes.php
# Posted on February 2nd 2008 by tracywag
Re: Can you identify this tune..
Yes, let's see more paper airplane sites!!! Yee Ha!!!
# Posted on February 2nd 2008 by ceolachan
Re: Can you identify this tune..
That's what I get for just catching it and leaving, it turned 2/4 in my head. Damn, it's doing it again... Yes nicholas, it is 6/8, but that still doesn't excuse it from being daft...worse me because I'm about to transcribe it for the sin of comment...
# Posted on February 2nd 2008 by ceolachan
Re: Can you identify this tune..
X: 1
T: How to Fold a Paper Catamaran
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jiggy ditty on a simple scale exercise in D Mixolydian
K: D Mixolydian
|: A2 A AFG | ABc dcB | cBA BAG | AGF EFG |
A2 A AFG | ABc dcB |[1 cBA BAG | AGF D3 :|[2 FGA cde | faf d3 ||
|: aaa fga | bbb gab | agf efg | fdB Adf |
aaa fga | bbb gab | agf efg | faf d3 :|
# Posted on February 2nd 2008 by ceolachan
Re: Can you identify this tune..
Here's an approximation of what was going through my head on just the short visit I'd initially made. Maybe it was watching the folding paper?
X: 2
T: How Not to Fold a Paper Catamaran
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: marching through the jiggy ditty on a simple scale exercise in D Mixolydian
K: D Mixolydian
|: AA AF/G/ | AB/c/ dc/B/ | cA BA/G/ | A/G/F/E/ D/E/F/G/ |
AA AF/G/ | AB/c/ dc/B/ |[1 cB/A/ BG | AF D3 :|[2 FG/A/ c/d/e/g/ | fa/f/ d2 ||
|: aa fg/a/ | bb/b/ gb | ag/f/ eg | fd/B/ Ad/f/ |
a2 fg/a/ | b2 ga/b/ | ag/f/ e/f/g/e/ | fa/f/ d2 :|
# Posted on February 2nd 2008 by ceolachan
Re: Can you identify this tune..
Think twice before you engrave that in stone.
When all the computers have gone dead and all the tunebooks have rotted away and the oral tradition is extinct, someone will find it and say: "At last! A find of great importance! This may be our one extant representative tune of the last great era of Irish traditional musical culture!"
# Posted on February 3rd 2008 by nicholas
Re: Can you identify this tune..
There is nothing tieing it to the Emerald Isle... 32 bars and 6/8 does not an 'Irish Jig' make...
~ or 2/4...
# Posted on February 3rd 2008 by ceolachan
Re: Can you identify this tune..
This is what I like to call a 'Nothing Tune' The sort of thing you would hear playing in the background of a film showing peasants cavorting in a market scene from Tudor times or thereabouts..
# Posted on February 3rd 2008 by Free Reed
Re: Can you identify this tune..
Pheasants?
# Posted on February 3rd 2008 by ceolachan
Re: Can you identify this tune..
... I heard 'Donald Pleasance' ...
# Posted on February 3rd 2008 by ethical blend
Re: Can you identify this tune..
Thanks - I thought it wasn't easily identifiable as such, and thanks for the plane site tracywag I never quite got the hang of that catamaran.
# Posted on February 4th 2008 by StevieE