The theme of the variations slow movement of Beethoven's Quartet in C sharp minor. The Aria from Bach's Goldberg Variations. The finale of Mozart's Piano Concerto no 22 in E flat (though, admittedly, that last one is there for its sentimental value - the missus bought me a recording of that concerto, played by Murray Perahia, for my birthday in 1983).
Been a bit resistant to Gould. He was brilliant but played a bit fast and loose. Shame he didn't play diddley. I have Schiff's Goldberg recording, but, frankly, I'll listen to anything with an open mind. I'm with you fully on the Schubert quintet and I love that late sonata too. Beethoven 7 is what got me going on classical music, way back in the early 70s. I should have mentioned the finale of Beethoven's Op. 110 sonata in A flat, with its operatic start and wonderful fugue. I love Trip To Durrow too.
Well, seeing how diverse some of the entries are here, I have to admit that I have always loved that guitar solo Amos Garrett played in the middle of Maria Muldaur's Midnight at the Oasis.
At the moment...my favorites are
Paddy Fahy's in d mixolydian(and it goes great following any other jig known to man!)
Tea or Coffee jig(by Jim/ fiddle4u-a cool little catchy/quirky tune that is fun to play in the key of G on banjo)
Red Crow
I can't stop at just three! Shackelton's Whisky(reel), Pull the Knife(jig), Gallaghers Frollic(jig),69th street (polka)Man of the House(reel)!
Typically, I would say "the last three tunes I learned", but I'll be nice and try to come up with a list (which would likely vary from day to day, if not session to session, or hour to hour).
Trip To Nenagh
Fly in the Porter
Hunter's House
On a more curious note, why would you look for inspiration for new repertoire from people you have never met? Why not find the inspiration from your local session mates, or even recordings that catch your fancy? Within the last 2 days, I have learned 3 tunes that caught my ear while driving back from a festival. (Paddy Glackin's version of Hand Me Down The Tackle, Paul McGrattan's setting of The Sporting Days of Easter transposed up to D, and Planxty's really great playing of The Ladies Pantalettes). I suppose that inspiration is wherever you find it... But an internet forum seems like a bit of a weird place to me, since it's not like you can hear any of the tunes that people are suggesting...
Wait, I changed my mind about my favorite tunes... Ahhh screw it.
Don't listen to Reverend - he doesn't know what he's talking about. The worst thing you could possibly do is waste time trying to figure out all the tricky notes from recordings or simply copy the playing of session players (what if they're shoddy players playing all the wrong notes?!)
No. The quickest and easiest way is to go to the tunes section of this website, choose 3 random tunes and learn them. That way you're 100% guaranteed that a) you'll be able to learn all the right notes and b) the tune will be one that is played at sessions (that's why it's called "thesession.org").
for me, one of the defining characteristics of this music is that the tunes I like to play more than most are not the ones I'd normally start. There's a joy to being able to sit back and feck about with the tunes a bit more when you don't have the responsibility of carrying it. This is in a normal session, of course ... the ones where there's a bit of ego floating around. In the best sessions, where there's no ego and everybody are best mates and everybody listens hard to everyone else, it doesn't matter who starts the tunes, 'cause everybody knows where they are and everybody's fecking about with the tunes.
I'm wondering what Glen Gould would have said if he heard the Goldberg Variations referred to as tunes....!
The use of the word 'tune' to describe some works mentioned above on a site where people get upset about mixing up songs and tunes is kind of amusing.
Personally I don't care as long as people enjoy the music.
The Goldbergs are full of tunes. I know. Many of them are my earworms. Gould would tell you the same. After all, he used to sing them whilst he was playing. Famous for that, he was. Sussed you are, lucy farr.
Here's my numero uno earworm. Just listen to the first one and a half minutes of the clip. I find this music almost too painfully good to listen to. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46WZrE8xm9A
Your top 3 tunes...
Your top 3 tunes...
Would everyone be so kind as to share their top 3 tunes of all time! I need some new repertoire ;)
Just 3 is enough, thanks!
# Posted on October 24th 2011 by gnomebottom
Re: Your top 3 tunes...
Ohohohoooo... Well.
I'd say Jock Broon's is well up there, played more as a slow reel than a hornpipe. Then there's my all time favourite, Andy Broons, which goes well after the shameless crowd pleaser MacArthur Road.
So that's
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/10023
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/3919
http://66.216.73.96/tunes/display/2221
# Posted on October 24th 2011 by Fred Holden
Re: Your top 3 tunes...
Gnomebottoms no1, followed closely by Denis Murphys no 1,
no 3, The Kinnegad Slashers
# Posted on October 24th 2011 by Joseph Tailyour
Re: Your top 3 tunes...
Mist Covered Mountains, Roscommon Reel, and Johnny Harling's.
# Posted on October 24th 2011 by pipersgrip
Re: Your top 3 tunes...
The theme of the variations slow movement of Beethoven's Quartet in C sharp minor. The Aria from Bach's Goldberg Variations. The finale of Mozart's Piano Concerto no 22 in E flat (though, admittedly, that last one is there for its sentimental value - the missus bought me a recording of that concerto, played by Murray Perahia, for my birthday in 1983).
# Posted on October 24th 2011 by Steve Shaw
Re: Your top 3 tunes...
1) Zoot Horn Rollo's introduction to 'Moonlight on Vermont'.
2) Thelonius Monk - 'Brilliant Corners'.
3) Augustus Pablo - 'East of the River Nile'.
# Posted on October 24th 2011 by MacCruiskeen
Re: Your top 3 tunes...
Schubert's piano sonata in A
Schubert's string quintet (the one with two cellos)
Beethoven's 7 & 8
Bach's violin and viola concerto
Doh, that's four
Steve, do you like Glen Gould's Goldberg? The later one?
# Posted on October 24th 2011 by ...
Re: Your top 3 tunes...
Reggatta De Blanc - The Police
Jill's America - Ennio Morricone
End Titles (Miller's Crossing) - Carter Burwell
Avi's Declaration - Snatch Soundtrack
Put 4 because Avi's Declaration is really short.
Honorable Mention - Miserlou - Dick Dale
# Posted on October 24th 2011 by MorganYYZ
Re: Your top 3 tunes...
Been a bit resistant to Gould. He was brilliant but played a bit fast and loose. Shame he didn't play diddley. I have Schiff's Goldberg recording, but, frankly, I'll listen to anything with an open mind. I'm with you fully on the Schubert quintet and I love that late sonata too. Beethoven 7 is what got me going on classical music, way back in the early 70s. I should have mentioned the finale of Beethoven's Op. 110 sonata in A flat, with its operatic start and wonderful fugue. I love Trip To Durrow too.
# Posted on October 24th 2011 by Steve Shaw
Re: Your top 3 tunes...
That's Thelonious. Sorry to be a pedant.
# Posted on October 25th 2011 by prestonian
Re: Your top 3 tunes...
The Glenside, Galway Belle, Maggie in the Woods. My favorite set of polkas.
# Posted on October 25th 2011 by AlBrown
Re: Your top 3 tunes...
Well, seeing how diverse some of the entries are here, I have to admit that I have always loved that guitar solo Amos Garrett played in the middle of Maria Muldaur's Midnight at the Oasis.
# Posted on October 25th 2011 by AlBrown
Re: Your top 3 tunes...
At the moment...my favorites are
Paddy Fahy's in d mixolydian(and it goes great following any other jig known to man!)
Tea or Coffee jig(by Jim/ fiddle4u-a cool little catchy/quirky tune that is fun to play in the key of G on banjo)
Red Crow
I can't stop at just three! Shackelton's Whisky(reel), Pull the Knife(jig), Gallaghers Frollic(jig),69th street (polka)Man of the House(reel)!
# Posted on October 25th 2011 by shanty
Re: Your top 3 tunes...
My three favorites are The Blackthorn Stick, Father Kelly's, and Humors of Ennistymon.
# Posted on October 25th 2011 by Greg the Piano Tuner
Re: Your top 3 tunes...
Typically, I would say "the last three tunes I learned", but I'll be nice and try to come up with a list (which would likely vary from day to day, if not session to session, or hour to hour).
Trip To Nenagh
Fly in the Porter
Hunter's House
On a more curious note, why would you look for inspiration for new repertoire from people you have never met? Why not find the inspiration from your local session mates, or even recordings that catch your fancy? Within the last 2 days, I have learned 3 tunes that caught my ear while driving back from a festival. (Paddy Glackin's version of Hand Me Down The Tackle, Paul McGrattan's setting of The Sporting Days of Easter transposed up to D, and Planxty's really great playing of The Ladies Pantalettes). I suppose that inspiration is wherever you find it... But an internet forum seems like a bit of a weird place to me, since it's not like you can hear any of the tunes that people are suggesting...
Wait, I changed my mind about my favorite tunes... Ahhh screw it.
# Posted on October 25th 2011 by Reverend
Re: Your top 3 tunes...
Don't listen to Reverend - he doesn't know what he's talking about. The worst thing you could possibly do is waste time trying to figure out all the tricky notes from recordings or simply copy the playing of session players (what if they're shoddy players playing all the wrong notes?!)
No. The quickest and easiest way is to go to the tunes section of this website, choose 3 random tunes and learn them. That way you're 100% guaranteed that a) you'll be able to learn all the right notes and b) the tune will be one that is played at sessions (that's why it's called "thesession.org").
Good luck!
# Posted on October 25th 2011 by Dr. Dow
Re: Your top 3 tunes...
"Been a bit resistant to Gould"
Steve, if you care to give him another try, here is everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask:
http://glenngould.ca/home/2011/9/23/cbc-releases-a-definitive-10-disc-dvd-boxset-of-rare-gould-r.html
# Posted on October 25th 2011 by oldstrings
Re: Your top 3 tunes...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7LWANJFHEs&feature=fvsr
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPIS5yvvT2Y&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thk_Xap-Isw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1CDzn_7aLs&feature=related
I've never been able to find 25-32 (not a problem 'cause I've got the CD)
# Posted on October 25th 2011 by ...
Re: Your top 3 tunes...
But ...
for me, one of the defining characteristics of this music is that the tunes I like to play more than most are not the ones I'd normally start. There's a joy to being able to sit back and feck about with the tunes a bit more when you don't have the responsibility of carrying it. This is in a normal session, of course ... the ones where there's a bit of ego floating around. In the best sessions, where there's no ego and everybody are best mates and everybody listens hard to everyone else, it doesn't matter who starts the tunes, 'cause everybody knows where they are and everybody's fecking about with the tunes.
# Posted on October 25th 2011 by ...
Re: Your top 3 tunes...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clDtiewclmg
Try this llig.
# Posted on October 25th 2011 by gam
Re: Your top 3 tunes...
Just 3, really?
Okay, the top *one* is O'Farrell's Welcome to Limerick: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/879
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzi7OhSzysw
And everything else is 2nd or 3rd.
# Posted on October 25th 2011 by mulcreevy
Re: Your top 3 tunes...
The Boy In The Gap
The Fly In The Porter
Kiss The Maid Behind The Barrel
# Posted on October 25th 2011 by browndog
Re: Your top 3 tunes...
Ooops.... ...I forgot:
The Spike Island Lasses
Tommy McCarthy's Jig
The Humours of Derrycrossanne
# Posted on October 25th 2011 by browndog
Re: Your top 3 tunes...
Oooops... ...and I almost forgot:
Paddy Fahy's
Paddy Fahy's
Paddy Fahy's
# Posted on October 25th 2011 by browndog
Re: Your top 3 tunes...
The Long Acre
Emily's reel
A.A. Cameron's
# Posted on October 25th 2011 by an fidleir
Re: Your top 3 tunes...
Haste to the Wedding
Leslie's Hornpipe
The German Beau
Oops was that 3 tunes or the 3 tunes?
# Posted on October 25th 2011 by MorganYYZ
Re: Your top 3 tunes...
The Monaghan Jig
The Merry Blacksmith
Boil the Breakfast Early
# Posted on October 25th 2011 by Ailin
Re: Your top 3 tunes...
"Lament For Oliver Goldsmith"
"Kiss The Maid Behind The Barrel""
"Caberfeidh" [ strathspey ]
# Posted on October 25th 2011 by Kenny
Re: Your top 3 tunes...
I'm wondering what Glen Gould would have said if he heard the Goldberg Variations referred to as tunes....!
The use of the word 'tune' to describe some works mentioned above on a site where people get upset about mixing up songs and tunes is kind of amusing.
Personally I don't care as long as people enjoy the music.
# Posted on October 25th 2011 by lucy farr
Re: Your top 3 tunes...
Wild Swans at Coole by Ed Reavy and the two Fahy tunes that the Kane sisters play in front of it.
# Posted on October 25th 2011 by FiddleTramp
Re: Your top 3 tunes...
The Goldbergs are full of tunes. I know. Many of them are my earworms. Gould would tell you the same. After all, he used to sing them whilst he was playing. Famous for that, he was. Sussed you are, lucy farr.
# Posted on October 25th 2011 by Steve Shaw
Re: Your top 3 tunes...
Whenever anyone says "earworm" this one pops into my head. As it has done for more than 40 years. You have been warned...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpnKgcVGy70
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TW5UF3bH7s
...now try to forget it. Just try.
# Posted on October 26th 2011 by Jack Campin
Re: Your top 3 tunes...
Here's my numero uno earworm. Just listen to the first one and a half minutes of the clip. I find this music almost too painfully good to listen to.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46WZrE8xm9A
# Posted on October 26th 2011 by Steve Shaw
Re: Your top 3 tunes...
Well said Steve...re those Goldberg tunes!
# Posted on October 26th 2011 by lucy farr