Key signature: Amixolydian
Submitted on January 11th 2007 by The Merry Highlander.
This tune has been added to 12 tunebooks.
Also known as An Durzhunel, The Turtle Dove.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Turtledove, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Amix
cd |: e2ed c2cd | edef e2ef | g4 a4| e6 cd :|
|: e2ed c2cd | edef e2AB | c2e2 dcBG |1 A6 cd :|2 A4 A4||
Fun tune
I don't know the name of this one... I searched the Session to see if it was already here... I couldn't find it. I learned it from a Chieftans recording and don't know where that recording may
be for reference. I put it in as a reel, but it may not be a real reel. Also the key may not be the Chieftans key.
# Posted on January 11th 2007 by The Merry Highlander
Name?
I need the name of this tune... Anyone got it?
# Posted on January 13th 2007 by The Merry Highlander
Pretty sure it's not on any of the first 9 Chieftains albums, if that narrows it down any. I stopped listening to them after that, apart from "Water From The Well". Might it be from one of their Christmas albums ? Certainly sounds like a song air to me. Can't help any more than that, I'm afraid.
# Posted on January 13th 2007 by Kenny
The tune
Thanks Kenny... they recorded it as instrumental and its a really powerful arrangement with some counter melody/harmony. Your right the basic structure has been used as a song air in different forms.
# Posted on January 13th 2007 by The Merry Highlander
sound a bit like the B-part of "The Glen Road to Carrick"
# Posted on January 15th 2007 by swisspiper
Glen Road...
Thats not it...
# Posted on January 16th 2007 by The Merry Highlander
It rings a bell - probably a Breton tune from their "Celtic Wedding" LP.
# Posted on January 16th 2007 by Jeeves Tones
Celtic Wedding
Its not on there
# Posted on January 17th 2007 by The Merry Highlander
Ah - but I have a strong hunch that it is a Breton tune. What about the set of Breton tunes on Chieftains 10, I think it was, that starts with a flute solo by Molloy?
I had that LP once. Checking the track listing on here for their "Cotton-eyed Joe" (aka Chieftains 10), I see "An Durzhunel". Try that one.
# Posted on January 17th 2007 by Jeeves Tones
Thats it!
Thanks
# Posted on June 4th 2007 by The Merry Highlander
The Name
I was driving to Colorado and found this old Chieftans cassette in the storage compartment and this tune was on it! So Jeeves you wrere 100% right...
# Posted on June 4th 2007 by The Merry Highlander
"An Durzhunel" = the turtledove, who supposedly mate for life
This has also been arranged and played by Alan Stivell on several of his recordings ~
"Alan Stivell: Alan Stivell"
"Alan Stivell: Olympia Concert"
I know this as mostly a song for which there are lyrics, or played as an air... Is there a dance version too?
Lyrics:
http://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_durzhunel
# Posted on June 4th 2007 by ceolachan
Here's just a fragment of the air transcribed ~ ???
The bars are only there to keep it all from running away...
K: a minor
|: A2 c<A A4 | d2 c<A G4- | G2 G2 A<B c2- | c2 ef/e/ dc- c2- |
c2 ef/e/ d2 c<A- | A6 GF | G6 A2- | A2 B<c d4- | d2 e2 c<A- AA- | A8 :|
# Posted on June 4th 2007 by ceolachan
Song
The Chieftans did it at what Id call dance tempo... I know of songs in the USA that use this tune oe variations of its "family."
# Posted on June 6th 2007 by The Merry Highlander
This tune is not played by Alan Stivell
Somebody has put this :
"Recordings of a tune by this name:
* À L'Olympia by Alan Stivell"
This statement is wrong. The "A l'Olympia" version of "an durzhunel" refers to another song having the same name. Watch on Youtube :
"Alan Stivell A L'Olympia- 05 An Durzhunel "
You'll hear the difference.
This bird "durzhunel" is so common and so lovely that different songs in Brittany are called after it.
Being deeply involved in the Breton traditional music for decades, I've never heard of the version on this site before.
# Posted on September 1st 2010 by Hanternoz