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Tunes I can't find

Tunes I can't find

These are tunes I can't find: Mullins Fancy, The Raveled Hank of Yarn, Gilbert Clancy's, The Wounded Hussar, Slieve Russel, McGettricks, The Whinny Hills of Leitrim. Does anyone know where I can find these or could they submit them to the tunes list in here? Thanks ahead.-Tom

# Posted on July 20th 2002 by lilpiper87

Re: Tunes I can't find

Try under "Sliabh Russell" for Slieve Russell...

zls

# Posted on July 20th 2002 by Zina Lee

Re: Tunes I can't find

Henrik Norbeck's site. You'll find most of them there - look in the index.

http://home.swipnet.se/~w-11382/abc.htm

I don't think he has any airs, so you won't find the Wounded Hussar there. I learned it from a tape of an LP of Séamus Ennis years ago but I can't find it on any of my 3 CDs of him. Tony McMahon recorded it also on his solo record decades ago. I can't imagine anyone getting this tune down convincingly from sheet music - it's in a very free metre.

Gilbert Clancy's is perhaps better known as Sean Reid's, but it's there on Norbeck's site as Gilbert Clancy's.

There are probably several tunes known as McGettrick's - there's one on Norbeck's site but it's not the one I know, which is on Contentment is Wealth by Matt Molloy & Sean Keane. (McGettrick was a whistle player admired by Matt Molloy.)

Another good place to look is

http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/FindTune.html

Steve

# Posted on July 20th 2002 by Jeeves Tones

Re: Tunes I can't find

I have the music for some of these tunes but I don't know how to put them into ABC. I can scan in the sheet music and e-mail them to you if you wish

# Posted on July 22nd 2002 by An Boscadoír

Wounded Hussar

This is also in Chris Norman's CD "Man With The Wood Flute".

# Posted on July 22nd 2002 by glauber

Re: Tunes I can't find

Yes! I would like sheet music. I can't read ABC.
-Tom

# Posted on July 23rd 2002 by lilpiper87

The Wounded Hussar

"The Wounded Hussar" and 117 other airs can be found in Tomas O Canainn's "Traditional Slow Airs of Ireland" (Ossian Publications, Cork, Ireland). A pair of demo cassettes are available with a CD version supposedly coming soon. The book is around $20. The tapes, about $15.

# Posted on July 24th 2002 by gan ainm

Wounded Hussar

I just posted a version of Wounded Hussar to the tune list (as learned from the Peter Cooper book) along with some comments from the book about where the tune came from and what it was about. Don't know if it is the one you were looking for or not...

# Posted on July 25th 2002 by chicagofiddler

Re: Tunes I can't find

Here are the results of my search

Wounded Hussar : Cooper book p.102
Mullin's Fancy ; Oneil p.124
Slieve Russel's : Fuchs book p.93;
Whinny Hills : Fuchs p. 125

couldn't find your others

-dogma

# Posted on July 28th 2002 by dogmageek

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