An Dro

reel

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on April 28th 2004 by Mandolman.

This tune has been added to 86 tunebooks.

Also known as En Dro.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• Ae Spark O Nature's Fire by Deaf Shepherd
• À L'Olympia by Alan Stivell
• Galorn (1979) by Galorn
• General Humbert 2 by General Humbert
• Happy Daze by Battlefield Band
• Imeall by Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh
• Joe Can't's Reel by Gwendal
• La Harpe Irlandaise - The Irish Harp by Katrien Delavier
• O'er The Moor, Among The Heather by Deby Benton Grosjean
• Premiere by Kornog
• Pulling Out The Stops by Dan Possumato
• Raise The Rafters by Molly's Revenge
• Re-echo by Finlay MacDonald
• Riverdance And Other Famous Irish Songs And Dances by Various Artists
• Still Juggling by David Wilcox
• The Crooked Stair by Cran
• The Gloup by Mark Roberts

X: 1
T: An Dro
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
fedc d2Ad|BAGB A3G|~F3G A2BA|GABG ~E3g|
fedc d2Ad|BAGB A3G|~F3G A2BA|GFEF D4:|
DEFG ADDA|BDDB ADDA|BDDB ADDA|GABG ~E3F|
DEFG ADDA|BDDB ~A3G|~F3G A2BA|GFEF D4:|

Very famous An Dro in Brittany play sometimes in Ireland in the session :

There is 2 other Tunes after, i can post if you want

Good for work your rolls on the bottom D

# Posted on April 28th 2004 by Mandolman

Is the nameless Breton tune I posted last year also An Dro? http://thesession.org/tunes/display.php/1456 Is there any difference between Irish or Scottish reel and An Dro?

# Posted on April 28th 2004 by slainte

It's a Kas ha Barh

A lot of Breton tunes haven't got a name, because it come from Song and the Breton don't like name the same tune with the same name.

Because the musician translate and modify the original tune for his instrument " Bombarde, accordion, fiddle, clarinette...."

It's funny to ear the same tune played in different part of Brittany but with always some changes indo the tune"

# Posted on April 28th 2004 by Mandolman

The melody doesn' sound too Breton!
-a recent adaptation to the repertoire??
Any melody (almost) can (was, in trad. times) reshaped by the instrumentists to suit a particular step pattern.
Kas abarh has theoretically the en dro rhythmic pattern but the repertoire is often set apart

Also, Slainte, there is no way a reel is like an other reel is like an en dro!: (thoug,h again, nothing prevents you to turn one into the other)
the time signatures we use in notation are a classical adjunct (added junk!) It's the original melo-rhythmic (step) pattern that counts:
try dance a few (even in your own way) and you'll <<see>>!!!

# Posted on September 27th 2006 by birlibirdie

No doubt, this tune is not an An Dro

As said Birlibirdie: try to dance an an dro on it, and you'll see.
It is impossible. And I agree again, this tune doesn't sound Breton. Maybe a recent composition?

Another point : "an dro" is NOT a reel, like a reel is not a tango.

Last but not least : "an dro" refers to a kind of dance, like "waltz" or "hornpipe".
Collecting all the songs having the name "an dro" on one page is like collecting all the existing reels or all the jigs on one page: it is irrelevant.

# Posted on September 1st 2010 by Hanternoz