Key signature: Aminor
Submitted on January 14th 2010 by swisspiper.
This tune has been added to 12 tunebooks.
Also known as La Sansonette, New French Schottishe.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: New French Schottische
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Amin
|:A2 ^GA =GAFA|EGFE DA,A,D |DEFG (3 ABA GA|c2 d2 A2 (3AAA|
A2 ^GA =GAFA|EGFE DA,A,D |DEFG (3 ABA GF|EFGA DA (3AAA:|
|:A2 FA _BFAB|A2 FA _BFAB|E3 A _BFAB|E3 A _BFAB|
FA FA _BFAB|FAFA _BFAB|E_BAG FGEF|DEFA DA (3AAA:|
Source Aisdair White
via dots from Vanessa Loerkens of Elandir fame
# Posted on January 14th 2010 by swisspiper
Alasdair White
# Posted on January 14th 2010 by No Cause For Alarm
Sorry for typo!
Alasdair is known also as the fiddler of the Battlefield Band.
# Posted on January 14th 2010 by swisspiper
Alasdair White
Alasdair is also a super guy and very modest.
I was at a session up in Stornoway (Isle of Lewis, Scotland) last August and this red haired chap came and sat next to me. It soon became obvious that this guy could play, but rather than becoming the tune hog decribed in another current thread, he quietly asked some of his neighbours if they knew such and such tunes - when some common ground was reached, away we went.
A lot of the locals knew him (he's from Lewis himself), so I foolishly asked him if he played in a local band or anything - he replied that he did most of his playing down in Edinburgh these days, and only when I pressed him, did he mention his Battlefield Band involvment! Also invited me to call him if I was in Edinburgh, to play some tunes, and take me through some others.
Great lad, great sense of humour (oh, and can he sup some ale??!!)
# Posted on January 15th 2010 by domnull
Yes indeed Domnull, and an absolutely deadly player. He came across to Ullapool from Lewis for the annual tune in the Arch on the 2nd. A very drunken but tuneful affair.
# Posted on January 15th 2010 by bogman
Whistle friendly version
K:G
B2 _B=B ABGB|FAGF EGFE |EFGA (3 BcB AB|d2 e2 B2 (3BBB|
B2 _B=B ABGB|FAGF EGFE |EFGA (3 BcB AG|FGAB EB (3BBB:|
B2 GB cGBc|B2 GB cGBc|F3 B cGBc|F3 B cGBc|
GB GB cGBc|GBGB cGBc|FcBA GAFG|EFGB EB (3BBB:|
# Posted on January 15th 2010 by swisspiper
I met these guys on a bus somewhere between Belfast and Dundalk (my hometown) when the train was aaah discouraged from travelling (this was the late '70's and bombs on the line were a regular occurrence). We struck up a session at the back of the bus and several bottles were opened. The snow-storm became a blizzard and the trip took hours - some of the best of my life. WHAT a session we had.
To end it I approached the bus driver who was blindly following the other buses in front. I asked to be let off as I was 100m from home and the train station (end point) was another mile. We crashed into the bus in front and I think another crashed into our rear. - Doors opened, I sprang, (I bear the scar to this day) - alas I never saw the Battlefield band again. My loss.
# Posted on January 17th 2010 by Peter O'Connor
Peter - if you met the "Battlefield Band" in the late 1970s, the only member still playing with them when Alasdair White was a member is Alan Reid. I don't think Alasdair - who's being discussed here - was even born in the "late 70s". Good story though.
# Posted on January 17th 2010 by Kenny
The Battlefield Band Nua
I picked up their latest album in an Oxfam shop three days ago, out of curiosity: I was ready for anything... To my surprise there wasn't even a hint on it of the slightest (mis)use of the screwball keyboard that used be part of their sound. Happy days! That keyboard could kill a tune! (or joy!)
About this scottische: See if you like it with f# and c# throughout. Or in the first part just. Nice tune, though I find French music too often 'self-indulgently 'morose''!
# Posted on January 21st 2010 by birlibirdie
F# and c#?
I agree that f# instead of f can make some sense here, but c# ??
# Posted on January 25th 2010 by swisspiper
This tune has been composed by Gilles Chabenat, the french hurdy.gurdy player. It was played at the time (somewhere around the mid-80ies)by a wonderful group called "Les Ecoliers de St Genest". I just can't remmeber it's name for now, but I'll look...
# Posted on February 21st 2010 by Nikita Pfister
Correct name
This is actually a French dance tune called 'La Sansonette', composed by Dominique Forges. It was very popular in Edinburgh in the late 90s, partly through the playing of Ewan MacPherson, from whom I learned it, and from whom I suspect Alasdair learned it as well.
Have a look here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhAD2hbQIWI&feature=related
# Posted on May 26th 2010 by Chris_Wright