Two discussion points here: one, is there much response to tune requests (rhetorical question)? and two, following logically, I put in a request for ABCs for Currants for Cakes and Raisins for Everything a few weeks ago and got no response. Anyone have it on ABC please?
That's a shame about not many folk answering requests if they can. I remember with delight when my request for Rambles of Spring was posted in several forms. It meant I learned to read the abcs - no bad thing at all.
Well, the feature as it works here, is a bit weakly structured. All you enter is a tune title - I mean, if you were at a session and asked someone do they know 'xyz', they'd more than likely reply .. 'well, how does it go .. play how it starts or hum it etc. and I might recognise it'
You can't even specify if it's a jig, reel whatever.
Add to that that (1) many of the requests are for non Irish trad tunes and (2) many are for tunes already here but the requester hasn't searched.
I've at times looked down and recognised a few, looked them up, sent a link by PM and that's all you hear - n'er a word of thanks or whether it was the right tune at all.
I reckon the feature should be removed from the tunes section as it just wastes peoples time and hopes.
It's little wonder there's no response to requests, seeing as people ask for tunes like "Lunasa" and "Drowsie Maggy". Most of them are obviously from some dickhead who's heard their first Irish tune and wants to learn it from the dots so that they can play it on their saxophone, only to realise they can't make it sound right, at which point they give up playing the music.
I don't know about an abc source but my friend google says this is on the Joe Burke/ Charlie Lennon CD The Morning Mist (listed on this site but no abc for this tune) However you can hear a sample of the track here- http://cdbaby.com/cd/joeburke
Looked but cannot find an abc for this tune=
Currants for Cakes and Raisins for Everything
Sounds like the old Guard type tune Very nice
though,,But in my search I found this Interesting
wee jig - Listen to first part {The Irish KeeL Row.}
X: 1
T: THE BUNCH OF CURRANTS
R: jig
B: "Rinnci na h-\'Eireann" Elizabeth Burchenal, ed. G.Schirmer (1925) p.129
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
Q: 3/8=126
F:http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/Ireland/jig/BunchOfCurrants_G.abc 2008-03-27 18:50:07 UT
K: G
d/c/ \
| "G"B2B B2d | "D"c2A A2c | "G"B2G G2B | "D"AFD D2D \
| "G"B2B B2d | "Am"c2A A2c | "G"B2G "D7"AGF | "G"G3- G2 :|
|: d/e/ \
| "G7"=f2d d2e | "G7"=f2d "Am"c2A | "G7"G2=f f2g | "G7"a=fd d2e \
| "G7"f2a "C"g2e | "G7"=f2d "Am"c2A | "G"G2B "D7"AGF | "G"G3- G2 :|
Last time Ann Conroy and Joe were here it was just before the recording with this tune on it was released. She played this tune and told me that "Currants for Cakes and Raisins for Everything" was an expression that she had heard someone say once... and if I recall it was some local musician's wife that she heard say it. But my memory's fuzzy on this.
I wish the tune search worked better. I'm trying to find the name of a tune. I put in the ABCs -- just the first 6 notes -- but I get nothing. I can't believe the tune's not in there. All I want is to find the name.
At Last! Thanks LH
What a stream of consciousness. Hindi songs? Incidentally, Currants for Cakes and Raisins for Everything is a common saying in the west of Ireland. Raisins is the Mayo way of saying reasons.
currants for cakes...
currants for cakes...
Two discussion points here: one, is there much response to tune requests (rhetorical question)? and two, following logically, I put in a request for ABCs for Currants for Cakes and Raisins for Everything a few weeks ago and got no response. Anyone have it on ABC please?
# Posted on March 27th 2008 by macbox
Re: currants for cakes...
I never got a response from my request nearly a year ago.
Cant help you out either, i dont know that one. sorry.
# Posted on March 27th 2008 by session savage
Re: currants for cakes...
Oh...I thought this was going to be about cooking. Great tune title - I'll ask around.
# Posted on March 27th 2008 by Keith Dubinsky
Re: currants for cakes...
I think it's an Ann Conroy tune - a jig. And no, I don't think many people pay attention to tune requests.
# Posted on March 27th 2008 by the wounded hussar
Re: currants for cakes...
That's a shame about not many folk answering requests if they can. I remember with delight when my request for Rambles of Spring was posted in several forms. It meant I learned to read the abcs - no bad thing at all.
# Posted on March 27th 2008 by wodeninjun
Re: currants for cakes...
.... but delayed your ear learning
# Posted on March 27th 2008 by llig leahcim
Re: currants for cakes...
Well, the feature as it works here, is a bit weakly structured. All you enter is a tune title - I mean, if you were at a session and asked someone do they know 'xyz', they'd more than likely reply .. 'well, how does it go .. play how it starts or hum it etc. and I might recognise it'
You can't even specify if it's a jig, reel whatever.
Add to that that (1) many of the requests are for non Irish trad tunes and (2) many are for tunes already here but the requester hasn't searched.
I've at times looked down and recognised a few, looked them up, sent a link by PM and that's all you hear - n'er a word of thanks or whether it was the right tune at all.
I reckon the feature should be removed from the tunes section as it just wastes peoples time and hopes.
# Posted on March 27th 2008 by the wounded hussar
Re: currants for cakes...
It's little wonder there's no response to requests, seeing as people ask for tunes like "Lunasa" and "Drowsie Maggy". Most of them are obviously from some dickhead who's heard their first Irish tune and wants to learn it from the dots so that they can play it on their saxophone, only to realise they can't make it sound right, at which point they give up playing the music.
# Posted on March 27th 2008 by Dow
Re: currants for cakes...
Ha, there's one for "Reels". Duuuuuh
# Posted on March 27th 2008 by Dow
Re: currants for cakes...
"Sleibh Lucra Polka D Major"
Oh yeah, I know that one! Ahem...
# Posted on March 27th 2008 by Dow
Re: currants for cakes...
There's even a request for "Humor". Let's have some more of that, then, shall we?
# Posted on March 27th 2008 by Dow
Re: currants for cakes...
"HINDI SONGS". I know tunes have funny names these days, but is this one what I think it is? Bollywood, here we come in our session.org flying saucer.
# Posted on March 27th 2008 by Dow
Re: currants for cakes...
I don't know about an abc source but my friend google says this is on the Joe Burke/ Charlie Lennon CD The Morning Mist (listed on this site but no abc for this tune) However you can hear a sample of the track here-
http://cdbaby.com/cd/joeburke
# Posted on March 27th 2008 by Lynn W
Re: currants for cakes...
There's one for the "Sliver Spear". Gotta laugh
# Posted on March 27th 2008 by Dow
Re: currants for cakes...
Looked but cannot find an abc for this tune=
Currants for Cakes and Raisins for Everything
Sounds like the old Guard type tune Very nice
though,,But in my search I found this Interesting
wee jig - Listen to first part {The Irish KeeL Row.}
X: 1
T: THE BUNCH OF CURRANTS
R: jig
B: "Rinnci na h-\'Eireann" Elizabeth Burchenal, ed. G.Schirmer (1925) p.129
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
Q: 3/8=126
F:http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/Ireland/jig/BunchOfCurrants_G.abc 2008-03-27 18:50:07 UT
K: G
d/c/ \
| "G"B2B B2d | "D"c2A A2c | "G"B2G G2B | "D"AFD D2D \
| "G"B2B B2d | "Am"c2A A2c | "G"B2G "D7"AGF | "G"G3- G2 :|
|: d/e/ \
| "G7"=f2d d2e | "G7"=f2d "Am"c2A | "G7"G2=f f2g | "G7"a=fd d2e \
| "G7"f2a "C"g2e | "G7"=f2d "Am"c2A | "G"G2B "D7"AGF | "G"G3- G2 :|
# Posted on March 27th 2008 by FIDDLE4
Re: currants for cakes...
Last time Ann Conroy and Joe were here it was just before the recording with this tune on it was released. She played this tune and told me that "Currants for Cakes and Raisins for Everything" was an expression that she had heard someone say once... and if I recall it was some local musician's wife that she heard say it. But my memory's fuzzy on this.
# Posted on March 27th 2008 by Phantom Button
Re: currants for cakes...
I wish the tune search worked better. I'm trying to find the name of a tune. I put in the ABCs -- just the first 6 notes -- but I get nothing. I can't believe the tune's not in there. All I want is to find the name.
Is there a secret to the ABC search?
# Posted on March 28th 2008 by sbhikes
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Nevermind. I put in a space after the first 3 letters and that seemed to do the trick.
# Posted on March 28th 2008 by sbhikes
Re: currants for cakes...
Hindi songs???
dum dara dum dara masti masti dara
dum dara dum dum
oh hum dum bin tere kyaa jeenaa
tere bina beswaadi beswaadi ratiyaan, oh sajna...
# Posted on March 28th 2008 by jasonb1985
Re: currants for cakes...
Ohhhhhh...aaj mausam bada beimann hai bada
beimann hai, aaj mausam
aane vaalaa koii tuufaan hai koii
tuufaan hai, aaj mausam
# Posted on March 28th 2008 by jasonb1985
Re: currants for cakes...
Are there any mongooses in Ireland?
Or did they follow the snakes on their way out.
# Posted on March 28th 2008 by Sir Dungsmere
Re: currants for cakes...
Ponsonby J. Britt
Theres some snakes still left in Ireland - Only they just took
on a Human Form-lol
jim,,
# Posted on March 28th 2008 by FIDDLE4
Re: currants for cakes...
Reading some of the supercilious responses on this thread makes me think some of you are aright bunch of currants.
# Posted on March 28th 2008 by wodeninjun
Re: currants for cakes...
Here's the way we play it around here - hope that helps. - Lesl
X:462
T:Currants for Cakes and Raisins for Everything
C:© Anne Conroy Burke 2001
S:Mike Rafferty
D:The Morning Mist (New Century Music, 2002). Joe, Anne Burke, Charlie Lennon.
Z:Lesl
M:6/8
L:1/8
K:D
A|:ded cec|ded AFA|DFA dAF|GEE Ez G|
FDF AFA|daf {a}gfe|dAF BAG|1 FDA D2A:|2 FDA D2B||
|:EFG AAG|FDF AFD|EFG Az G| E=cE GFE|
FDF AFA|daf gfe|dAF BAG|1 FDA D2A:|2 FDA D3||
# Posted on March 31st 2008 by LH
Re: currants for cakes...
At Last! Thanks LH
What a stream of consciousness. Hindi songs? Incidentally, Currants for Cakes and Raisins for Everything is a common saying in the west of Ireland. Raisins is the Mayo way of saying reasons.
# Posted on April 3rd 2008 by macbox