Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on August 20th 2006 by cesarpim.
This tune has been added to 19 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Homesteaders
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Gmaj
D | GAB2G2D2 | E4 GAB2 | G2d2d4 | gfe6 |
d4c2B2 | c2d2A4 | GAB2G2e2 | d4 BAG2 | A2B2E4 |
|: GAB3AG2 | G2E3DD2 |[1 E2G2A4 :|[2 E2G2G4 ||
|: gfe3fg2 | e4dcd2 | A2c2B4 | GAB2e3B |
[1 B2d2BAG2 | A2B2A4 :|[2 B2A2G2E2-| E4G3 ||
About this tune...
Since I first heard this song (in the album "Song of The Irish Whistle 2" by Joanie Madden") I love it. I read it is also in the soundtrack of the movie "The Way West".
I searched everywhere but couldnt find the tune so I decided to make it myself, as Joanie plays it (except for the ornaments). The only difference is that, given my limited scale variety of tin whistles, I decided to make it for the key of G (Joanie plays it in another key), but I guess you guys can transpose it if you want to.
I am not sure about the time signature and I am quite sure it is not a hornpipe but then again The Session doesn't allow for much flexibility in choosing the rythm, does it? I guess it is a... Slow Air? By the way when can something be called a Slow Air? Can something be for example a jig and a slow air simultaneously? I know that for example the "The South Wind" (haunting, by the way) is known as a waltz and simultaneously as a slow air...
# Posted on August 20th 2006 by cesarpim
Best way to play it
By the way, in my opinion, the best way to play this tune is (as Joanie Madden does it):
- Slowly
- In legato and almost no tonguing (e.g., for tin whistle players)
- With little or no ornamentation
# Posted on August 20th 2006 by cesarpim
Correct ABC
Oh dear, just came upon this. The ABC is substantially wrong. The tune should be in 3 not 4, and shifted by one beat:
T:Homesteaders, The
C:Brian Keane
M:3/4
K:G
DGA|B2 G2 D2|E4 GA|B2 G2 d2|d4 gf|e6|
d4 c2|B2 c2 d2|G4 GA|B2 G2 e2|d4 BA|
G2 A2 B2|E4 GA|B3A G2|G2 E3D|D2 E2 G2|
A4 GA|B3A G2|G2 E3D|D2 E2 G2|"Fine"G4|]
gf|e3f g2|e4 dc|d2 A2 c2|B4 GA|B2 e3B|
B2 d2 BA|G2 A2 B2|A4 gf|e3f g2|e4 dc|
d2 A2 c2|B4 GA|B2 e3B|B2 A2 G2|E6|"DC al Fine"F3|]
It's an orchestrated tune by Brian Keane from the soundtrack of the documentary film "The Way West". Played by Joanie Madden in G fingering on a G whistle, for a concert key of C Major.
# Posted on July 21st 2011 by Rumgut