Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on November 29th 2001 by Joerg Froese.
This tune has been added to 23 tunebooks.
X: 1
T: Miss Laura Katarina Ribeiro
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: barndance
K: Gmaj
(3def | "G".g2 (d2 d)dcd | .B2 (G2 G)GAB | "C"cded cBAG | "D".F2 (D2 D)GFG |
"C"E2c2 cdec | "G"dGBd "Em"g3e | "Am"edcB "Bm"cBAG | "C"dcBc "D"Adef |
"G".g2 (d2 d)d (3cdc | .B2 (G2 G)GAB | "C"cded cBAG | "D"GFEF DdBG |
"C"E2c2 cdeg | "G"dGBd "Em"g2ge | "C"edcB "D"dcBA | "C"(G4 "D"G)def |
"G".g2 (d2 d)dcd | .B2 (G2 G)GAB | "C"cded cBAG | "D".F2 (D2 D)GFG |
"C"E2c2 cdec | "G"dGBd "Em"g2ge | "C"edcB "D"dcBA | "G"(G4 "D"G)AFG ||
"Em"E3FG3A | "Bm"BAFG "Em"EB,EG | "Em"Be^de "Am"=dcAc | "Em"(B4 "B7"B)AGF |
"Em"E3FG3A | "Bm"BAFB "Em"EGFE | "D"Dd^cd "A7"eAce | "D"d3=c BAGF |
"Em"EDEF GFGA | "Bm"(3BcB (3AGF "Em"EFGB | "Em"gfeg "B7"fB^df | "C".e2e^d e2ef |
"C"gfge "(C#dim.)"eage | "G"e=d^cd BDGB | "Em"E2.B2 "Bm"BAFG | "Em"E4"A"^c4 |
"D"d3^cd3c | d^cdc d=cAF | d^cde d=cAF | .D2."(n. c.)"C2.B,2.A,2 ||
"G".g2(d2 "D"(3d)ed cd | "Em".B2 (G2 "G"G)GAB | "C"cded "Am"cBAG | "D".F2 (D2 "Bm"D)D^CD |
"Am"E2=c2 "C"cdeg | "G"dgfg "C"cgfg | "G"Bgfg "D"Aafd | "C"cgfg agec |
"G"dDGB "D"dcAF | "G"(G2 "C"G2 "G"G2)||
Congratulations!
It´s not a barndance really, but I didn´t want to give the impression it´s a reel or a hornpipe, which it is not...
I made it up this afternoon while driving home in my car, returning from a short concert tour…
I sang, hummed, whistled, and imagined myself playing it until I was sure how to write it down - it took about an hour but it´s pretty much like it first popped into my head -- which I did as soon as I was at home. The idea for the title (as usual this started without having one) came when I was taking a look at "The Session" to catch up with discussions I might have missed while my PC was out of reach…
Congratulations to you, Glauber, and of course to Laura´s mother. And my best wishes for little Laura. May she inspire lots of tunes and songs in the future (not necessarily all of them by her father…)
The tune is supposed to sound a little like an O´Carolan composition, not too fast (somewhere between 70 and 85 b.p.m.) and it should swing. (It sounds like a marching tune when played straight, and that´s definitely not what the composer intended…)
It came complete with chords and since not all of them are obvious I decided to give them as well. The "n.c." over one bar is short for "no chords" and means that the accompaniment stops for the rest of the bar after the D chord on the first beat. The C2B,2A,2 run in the same bar can be played an octave higher by flutes and whistles and the like, but the resulting jump might not be as impressive as on fiddle or mandolin. And guitar players are of course allowed to play the bass run as well, provided they´re able to hit single strings…
And a final - hopefully encouraging - word: it is not as long as it looks on paper - there are no repeats!
Hope you like it, Laura!
Jörg Fröse
# Posted on November 29th 2001 by Joerg Froese
Wow, Thanks!
Jorg,
many, many, many thanks! This is a beautiful piece, and i'll play it for her next time she wakes up. I hope someday i can return the favor, but i doubt i could do something this good.
Thanks again!
glauber
# Posted on November 30th 2001 by glauber
Cheesy piano wins!
Everybody here was very pleased with this tune, with a twist: no matter how much swing, how much feel i put into it, my in-laws still prefer Jeremy's midi version (thanks Jeremy!).
Ah, and one friend commented (after hearing the Sesion's midi version): "but it does sound like a hornpipe!"
# Posted on December 2nd 2001 by glauber
Doesn't the gif of the sheet music above cut off the last part of the tune? The image of the notation I see here just stops before the abc of the tune is finished.
Alice
# Posted on December 2nd 2001 by aliceflynn
Great tune, Jörge - my son is playing it on the mandolin right now, from the sheet music... a little faster than the midi. Sounds great.
Alice
# Posted on December 2nd 2001 by aliceflynn
Thanks from the composer
Well, first of all, thank you all very much for the praise, it´s always a welcome compliment to the composer to find that other musicians like it as much as he does himself....
Another test will take place tonight when I introduce it to my session... I´m curious what they will have to say about it (and I will have a couple of pints on both the newborns - Laura and the tune!).
Don´t worry about giving something back, Glauber (you have done that already!). Give all your love to your family and make them happy, get happy in return and that will be all the thanks I´m asking for. It´s like Toni wrote in the thread: there´s so much bad news being thrown at us at the moment that it´s good to know that life goes on, and that there are happy people out there as well. You are letting all of us share in your joy and that is wonderful and encouraging. (And maybe I manage to come up with a recording of it to convince your in-laws of the swinging version...!)
As to the tempo: I am playing it a little faster now myself as I´m getting better at it. I really had to learn it because, as I wrote earlier, I composed this one without any instrument. Some of my best tunes "happened" this way. I think it´s because I don´t tend to fall back on familiar patterns as much as I would with an instrument. As a fingerstyle guitar player once said in an interview: "I didn´t compose it. I was just the first who played it ..." It happens often enough that I´m not the first one to play something, as I find out later when somebody tells me "It has the same A-part as ...." or "It sounds like ..." That´s life, probably. I really enjoy composing like this, and it´s always a great feeling when something like this one here comes out it. It doesn´t happen very often. Pure magic... the "Harry Potter-way" of composing. Anyway, I´m very glad that you all like it. (And in case somebody doesn´t, don´t let all the praise here keep you from telling me. I am one of the artists that reads
reviews - both sorts...)
And it certainly has a hornpipey flavour about it, I agree. If it had consisted of the usual repeated eight bar phrases I would have called it one, too. But the somewhat unorthodox form it took left me in thin air. In some collections I have found the expression `Listening Tune´. It´s not very descriptive, besides saying that the collector probably didn´t know what to call it, but actually that´s what it is. Or maybe somebody will choreograph a dance to it turning it into a set dance? ("Back to earth, Jörg!") It´s in the same category as many O´Carolan tunes that don´t fit the common traditional dance rhythms and tempos (though they maybe did when he wrote them?)
The "cheesy piano" version sounds real funny. I´m not saying it´s wrong, Jeremy, it just differs so much from the sound of it that I keep hearing in my head... Not that it has the sound I´m aiming for when I play it on my fiddle, seems like I will have to put some real work into it. What your MIDI version actually achieved is teaching me that a straight version does not necessarily sound as "marchy" as I thought it would. I have never imagined a piano playing it!. Well, like Laura, the tune was just born. Let´s see what it will grow into.
(By the way: as Alice pointed out, the missing last line. Jeremy, do you have the size of the gif restricted to keep us from posting Italian operas? Personally I don´t mind, because I am using the gif´s only to get an idea of the tune and then I process the ABC file into my own sheet music when I need it. But I´ve seen it happen with the recently posted O´Carolan opus as well. Just out of curiosity...)
Jörg
# Posted on December 3rd 2001 by Joerg Froese
Great tune - missing line
Hi, Jörg, my son played it last night at our session (on the mandolin). Everyone liked it. The first few notes begin like an old WWI song, "K-K-K-Katy", which is fitting for a Katarina! It has a bit of a Carolan sound as the tune progresses, and we really like it. I think I mentioned my BarFly software just doesn't seem to want to load this abc to print it (could be because it's Mac?) so we printed the sheet music from this page and then just read the abc to get the last line.
Alice Flynn
# Posted on December 3rd 2001 by aliceflynn
GIF: first page?
I wonder if the problem with the GIF is that it's generating only the first page of output? I wasn't able to get this tune to print in only one page (but i use abcm2ps). BTW, if anyone would like sheet music, just send me an email through the Session, include your return email address, and i'll send you a PDF (or specify a different format if you can't read PDFs).
# Posted on December 3rd 2001 by glauber
Update!
Don´t know if it passed the test on Monday night. The only one who offered an opinion said: "Sweet theme!" But probably your son did a better job of playing it than I did myself, Alice. I could play it alright when I was alone, but when the others were listening it didn´t go too well. ("Vorführeffekt" is the German term for it, don´t know what it would be in English, but I´m sure some of you know what I´m talking about...)
Alice, I´ve been looking for the song called "K-K-K-Katy" and couldn´t find it yet. I´m very curious about it of course! If it´s available somewhere on the net, could you please point me towards it? Thank you in advance.
My problem with the gif´s here is exactly the other way round: I get an error message (like "document contains no data") whenever I try to download any of them. There have been no problems with the ABC files so far. I am using ABC2Win, and that even leaves room for another tune on the page. Though when I transferred this one into my tunebook here on the site the last line was missing as well. I´ll try my luck with the O´Carolan tune next...
Jörg
# Posted on December 5th 2001 by Joerg Froese
Magificent Tune
I cant believe I missed this tune when ot was posted - it is a fantastic tune that I can't stop playing now - do you have any other gems that you have written - or a CD / recording I could buy.
I love the tune - thanks very much
# Posted on November 10th 2002 by Enob