Key signature: Aminor
Submitted on December 18th 2001 by seara.
This tune has been added to 199 tunebooks.
Also known as Frailock, Freilach, Freylach, Itzikel.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Frailach
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Amin
^D2|"Am"EAcA Acec|"Dm"d2dc dec2|"C"cege cege|"G7"d2dc "C"dec2|
"E7"cddc cBB_B|"Am"A4 Adc2|"E7"cddc cBB_B|"Am"A6:|
|:e2 |"Am"a6 gf|e6 e2|aeae a2{ba}gf|e6 e2|
a6 g2|b6 a2|aeae "Dm"a2{ba}gf|"Am"e4 e2|
"C"cdef efef|efef "Dm"e2d2|"Dm"dAAd dAAd|dAAd "C"d2{ed}c2|
"E7"cddc cBB_B|"Am"A4 Adc2|"E7"cddc cBB_B|1 "Am"A2A2 c2:|2 "Am"A2z2 a2||
Seara
Is not a Hornpipe -> Is a Freilach
Lunasa "Lunas" -> Track 7 -> Iuil
# Posted on December 18th 2001 by seara
What's a Freilach?
Is is Irish? This tune has an 'exotic' feel to it....
# Posted on June 18th 2002 by andagda
Isnt it some kind of hungarian dance(?)
# Posted on June 18th 2002 by bb
Jewish
Freilach(s) are Jewish.
# Posted on June 18th 2002 by B Rad
oopps - totally wrong then
# Posted on June 19th 2002 by bb
Freilachs are wedding dances, but I thought they came more out of the Yiddish tradition, specifically in eastern european traditions (which would indeed allow for the hungarian flavor). I'm not sure though... ?
# Posted on October 19th 2002 by Trinil
Hah HA!
I've been looking for this freylach a good while. Go raibh MILE maith agat!
It's also named Itzikil on Burke's In Concert collection
P
# Posted on December 27th 2003 by Pádraig
Frailach
Someone played this on the fiddle at a session two or three weeks ago. He had learnt off someone else several years ago and didn't know its name or anything about it except that it wasn't Irish. A banjo player at the session thought it sounded Jewish. Anyway, thanks to TheSession it's now tracked down and we can all sleep easy in our beds!
Trevor
# Posted on December 28th 2003 by Trevor Jennings
Farilachs are Klezmer Dance Tunes
Freilachs (Feailachs or Freylachs) is a general yiddish word meaning a "happy tune" and is one of the standard tune types from the klezmer (Eastern European Jewish instrumental) tradition. it is a 4/4 dance tune.
Klezmer dance tunes don't usually have names. They are just known by their general (dance) types.
Names such as Itzikel were only probably given for the sake of convenience and differentiating tunes on recordings. This tune can be found along with many other freilachs in a book called "the Ultimate klezmer" first published/collected by Nat Kostakowsky in New York 1916 and re-released by Joshua Horowitz.
Many recordings exist- old & new
# Posted on January 16th 2004 by richardl
Frailach
The version of this tune in the L
# Posted on January 16th 2004 by Trevor Jennings
Klezmer - Romanian - and in the repertoire of various Gypsy groups...
# Posted on June 3rd 2005 by ceolachan
Blech... I would love this tune if I weren't for that little chromatic part.
# Posted on May 19th 2008 by JosephC
A different setting
I've been working on a different setting of this tune. Here's the work in progress: http://malcolm.schonfield.free.fr/zik.php?tune=iuil&lang=en
# Posted on May 21st 2009 by GoPlayer
Another key
X: 1
T: Frailach
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K:G
|"Em"BEEB BEBE|"A,m"A2AG ABG2|"G,"GBdB GBdB|"D7"A2AG "G,"ABG2|
"B,7"GAAG GFF=F|"Em"E4 EAG2|"B,7"GAAG GFF=F|"Em"E6:|
|:B2 |"Em"e6 dc|B6 B2|eBeB e2dc|B6 B2|
e6 d2|f6 g2|eBeB "A,m"e2dc|"Em"B4 B2|
"G,"BcBc BcBc|BcBc "A,m"B2A2|"A,m"AEEA AEEA|AGAB "G,"A2G2|
"B,7"GAAG GFF=F|"Em"E4 EAG2|"B,7"GAAG GFF=F|1 "Em"E2E2 G2:|2 "Em"E2z2 e2||
from this version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfuVXqzGqys&feature=channel_page
# Posted on June 21st 2009 by chansherly212
i can feel a waltz brimming just under the surface (tap _ tap, tap_tap every three crochets...) It wouldn't take much would it?
# Posted on June 23rd 2009 by birlibirdie
Freilach as a waltz
Interesting comment birlibirdie. Maybe as a mazurka? I can think of one setting now but no time to jot it down.
# Posted on June 25th 2009 by GoPlayer
A setting in 3-time
I finally got around to putting it online, together with a recording:
http://malcolm.schonfield.free.fr/zik.php?tune=iuil_mazurka&lang=en
# Posted on September 13th 2009 by GoPlayer
Malcolm's Mazurka
I'm glad I suggested a 3/4 arrangement, because your piano arrangement sounds absolutely wonderful, 'GoPlayer'!
Well, or, er... at least the last two thirds of it only:
For there is a but: your first part doesn't flow naturally at all (melodically) and betrays the dance step, I feel. (some of the cadences are short of being perfect either (you mustn't stop until you get it perfect here, it's too precious and you're really close!)
Now, I wish I could contribute more positively/practically to your effort but I'm afraid I don't have your talent. (The only suggestion I can make is that perhaps a 'translator's approach' might be helpful here, where one moves away from the 'letter' of the text to get closer to the 'spirit' of it..) Perhaps you'll post a reviewed version at some stage? That would be fantastic. In the meantime, could you make the left hand part of the piano score available on line as well? That would be great. Many thanks.
# Posted on March 28th 2012 by birlibirdie