Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on August 20th 2006 by jinksy.
This tune has been added to 23 tunebooks.
Also known as Orkney.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Orkney Slow Air
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Gmaj
B,2EF|G2FE|F2Ad|F2D|E2GA|
B3|d2AG|F3|B,2EF|G2FE|
F2Ad|F2D|E2B|A2FD|E3|E3||
d2AG|F3|defd|AF2|gfeg|
B3|efge|B3|B,2EF|G2EF|F2Ad|
F2D|E2B|A2FD|E3|E3||
Orkney Slow Air
I played this hwhen I was in Scotland August 2005 and practising with the Cardross String Orchestra (amateur group - will have to get their proper name). It is composed by Gordon Gunn and is a beautiful melody.
I was advised to play the last beat together with the first note of the exact bar - join the note groups together like a lullaby.
I have the sheet music scanned - when I work out how to attach, I will!
# Posted on August 20th 2006 by jinksy
Shoreside
Is this the tune on Gordon Gunn's recording?
http://thesession.org/recordings/display/1799
# Posted on April 19th 2007 by Ben Steen
Orkney was written by Gordon Gunn. It is usually played in 3/4. as a slow waltz. I have heard Gordon and his band a few times but haven't actually heard them play this, but it one of my all time favourite tunes.
A very good setting of it (probably Gordon's) was published in 1991 in Ceol na Fidhle Volume 4 (!SBN 1 87931 70 3)
# Posted on April 20th 2007 by kris
Orkney Slow Air
I am looking for some Scottish Slow Airs and came across this one. Just wondering about the timing of this tune. In the sheet music there are some bars in 2/4 and others in 3/8. Was this intended?
Tks
# Posted on October 2nd 2007 by Bob MacLean
Here a short snippet of an MP3 of "Orkney" as played by Gordon Gunn ~
http://www.gordongunn.co.uk/
http://www.gordongunn.co.uk/media/orkney.mp3
# Posted on October 2nd 2007 by ceolachan
"Orkney" ~ a 3/4 air by Gordon Gunn
Key signature: e minor
Submitted on October 2nd 2007 by ceolachan.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/7811
# Posted on October 2nd 2007 by ceolachan
Thanks Ceolachlan for the Orkney sound file!
Sooo good to hear the Orkney Slow Air played by no other than himself - thanks a million! It is different to how I was taught, but then that's how tunes are changed isn't it?
# Posted on February 24th 2008 by jinksy
Time Signature
I don't know this tune but am intrigued to see it posted here as a polka where some bars are 2/4 and some are 3/8. Is this the intent? Do some bars take some liberties?
# Posted on April 22nd 2008 by Bob MacLean