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Believe it or not, The Musical Priest is actually a very old Scottish reel - the original name of which escapes me. Many of the older Scottish reels (& strathspeys) have these sorts of jumps e.g. Miss Lyall (AKA "Sweeney's Dream" in Ireland).
Anyhow, I'm sure there'll be many people out there, much more knowledgable than me who can advise you re many Irish tunes with that type of structure. (I'm not particularly good on tune names, nor am I a self-appointed expert).
Re: Looking for tunes with the special structure-> please enter
Just peeking through my Sessions.org Tunebook printout, I see these (a very small number):
Congress Reel, Cup Of Tea, Drowsy Maggie, Grieg's Pipes, Harvest Home, Langstrom's Pony, Tripping Up The Stairs, and Union Reel.
What you are looking for is called an arpeggio, or "broken chord". The individual member notes of a chord are played separately. In Mozart's day, it was called an "Alberti bass", and piano pieces of that period are filled with apreggios.
A "C" chord would be played C E G E, for example, with the melody overhead.
Such arpeggios are fun to play on the flute and whiste. I don't know about the button accordion. They lie well on the fiddle, too. There are lots of examples in ITM. There must be hundreds of tunes; I only listed a few. The fun is in the search!
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The Gravel Walks is king though it's notorious among flute players. Keep it Up and Sleepy Maggie are among other "flute-unfriendly" northern tunes. The High Reel is really fun to play on the whistle though.
Re: Looking for tunes with the special structure-> please enter
Pianotuner: I don't think you understood what Ralph & Bateman meant, it wasn't arpeggios anyway.
In the examples hi gives, every second note stays in the same octave which gives the impression of playing two different lines at the same time, or having a drone behind the melody.
Looking for tunes with the special structure-> please enter
Looking for tunes with the special structure-> please enter
like in: Eileen Curran-Feadoga Stain, and The Musical Priest etc.
The structure I mean is when you have 8 notes that when are played, sound like 4 "fast jumps".
for an example: #c, a, e, a, #f, a, e, a
b, g, d, g, e,g, d, g
I'm absolutely enchanted by this structure...please if you can recommend me some tunes with this structure I would be grateful ! ! !
# Posted on September 24th 2005 by Ralph&Bateman
Re: Looking for tunes with the special structure-> please enter
Believe it or not, The Musical Priest is actually a very old Scottish reel - the original name of which escapes me. Many of the older Scottish reels (& strathspeys) have these sorts of jumps e.g. Miss Lyall (AKA "Sweeney's Dream" in Ireland).
Anyhow, I'm sure there'll be many people out there, much more knowledgable than me who can advise you re many Irish tunes with that type of structure. (I'm not particularly good on tune names, nor am I a self-appointed expert).
# Posted on September 24th 2005 by On Sabbatical
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Yep, extremely common in Scots reels like The Mason's Apron and De'il Among the Tailors.
# Posted on September 25th 2005 by kris
Re: Looking for tunes with the special structure-> please enter
Just peeking through my Sessions.org Tunebook printout, I see these (a very small number):
Congress Reel, Cup Of Tea, Drowsy Maggie, Grieg's Pipes, Harvest Home, Langstrom's Pony, Tripping Up The Stairs, and Union Reel.
What you are looking for is called an arpeggio, or "broken chord". The individual member notes of a chord are played separately. In Mozart's day, it was called an "Alberti bass", and piano pieces of that period are filled with apreggios.
A "C" chord would be played C E G E, for example, with the melody overhead.
Such arpeggios are fun to play on the flute and whiste. I don't know about the button accordion. They lie well on the fiddle, too. There are lots of examples in ITM. There must be hundreds of tunes; I only listed a few. The fun is in the search!
# Posted on September 25th 2005 by Greg the Piano Tuner
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The Gravel Walks is king though it's notorious among flute players. Keep it Up and Sleepy Maggie are among other "flute-unfriendly" northern tunes. The High Reel is really fun to play on the whistle though.
# Posted on September 25th 2005 by slainte
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Ahem slainte..... Just like to point out that Drowsy Maggie & Greig's Pipes are probably Scottish. Keep it up is definitely Scottish.
# Posted on September 25th 2005 by On Sabbatical
Re: Looking for tunes with the special structure-> please enter
Pianotuner: I don't think you understood what Ralph & Bateman meant, it wasn't arpeggios anyway.
In the examples hi gives, every second note stays in the same octave which gives the impression of playing two different lines at the same time, or having a drone behind the melody.
# Posted on September 25th 2005 by Beheader
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Indeed.... think Mountain Road, Dinkey's, etc.... first two bars of College Groves....
# Posted on September 25th 2005 by Pádraig
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Have a look at some Northumbrian jigs if you like tunes that leap about e.g. Elsie Marley
# Posted on September 26th 2005 by geoffwright
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Perhaps Punter's Graveyard? That's the only one I can think of at the moment...
# Posted on September 27th 2005 by Fiddlekit