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An Dro Mouy'ton Mayo

reel

Key signature: Eminor

Submitted on September 17th 2007 by Mario.

This tune has been added to 38 tunebooks.

Also known as An Dro Mouy'ton Mayo, En Dro Mouy'ton Mayo, En Dro Mouytonmayo, Mouilles Ton Maillot, Mouy'ton Mayo.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

Fest-Noz by Pennou Skoulm
Five by Old Blind Dogs

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En Dro 'Mouy'ton Mayo'

This is a Breton En Dro (or An Dro), written by Pennou Skulm fiddler Jacky Molard, recorded on and transcribed from the album 'Fest Noz'

On the album, they play the tune at a faster pace than you would usually hear an En Dro being played at a Fest Noz (mind the dancers!), giving it an almost Reel-like quality.

The chord change between Em and F is a real cracker!

# Posted on September 17th 2007 by Mario

All that outlandish stuff...

I really hope you don't mind me submitting up all that non-irish stuff to the tune database...

We do actually play quite al ot of the tunes (French, Breton, Swedish and Balkan tunes) at our sessions (especially in Hannover!).

# Posted on September 17th 2007 by Mario

Damn German musicians, you're so multi-national... I love it... 8-)

Note on tempo, the recording was, as I remember it, sped up in production too...at least the recordings I have, much too fast for a decent dance...

# Posted on September 17th 2007 by ceolachan

En Dro 'Mouy'ton Mayo'

What does the name mean (I gather the En Dro is the named of the dance) - something about sheep?

# Posted on September 17th 2007 by spindizzy

Mayo Mutton? :-) ('mouton')

# Posted on September 17th 2007 by ceolachan

En Dro 'Mouy'ton Mayo'

"Mayo Mutton" ....
so sheep from Mayo, sheep with mayonnaise (no gerkin please), big sheep, my sheep ...... Baah :-)

# Posted on September 17th 2007 by spindizzy

Umph...

Yeah, I figure this is the linguistic session...

Honestly, I don't have the foggiest notion what it could possibly mean. It's Breton, and I take it that the real meaning has nothing to do with what the (however) familiar look of the words might suggest.

Never mind, the tune rocks and that's what matters. One day someone in a session in Lorient will tell me what it actually means, so I'll let you all know.

# Posted on September 17th 2007 by Mario

Howdy Mario, is it Breton? I'm not finding anything close or comparable in my Breton sources for that first bit ~ mouy', but it could be French 'dialect'... 'ton' could also just be that, 'tune', leaving Mouy' to be figured out... :-/ Who ever makes it back to Brittany first can ask the locals. Hey, we have a few of them on site here regularly. Maybe this bit of honey will bring them around, eh?

# Posted on September 17th 2007 by ceolachan

# Posted on September 18th 2007 by swisspiper

Funny bretons

It is a pun,

“Mouilles ton maillot” this expression means “to work hard, to sweat with work”

When one is called Jacky Molard, Maillot is written “Mayo" inevitably.

So funny is the voice preceding the tune on Pennou Skoulm recording.

"A quelle heure vous faites les andros" (“When play you to them andros?”).

That feels lived.

# Posted on September 18th 2007 by Fred Saur

Swisspiper: just as i've transcribed it: E-Minor.

Hi Fred, thanks for shedding light on this. So it's written the way it is pronounced?

# Posted on September 18th 2007 by Mario

Mouille ton maillot

Hi,

I still can't see what that French stuff is doing here, if tunes from every region of the country is downloaded here there won't be any room for the Irish, Scots, Québecois tunes for which this site was intended for...
"Mouille ton maillot" is French and means something like "Get your shirt wet (from dancing of course)"

# Posted on September 23rd 2007 by bayram

Other roots tunes

"there won't be any room for the Irish, Scots, Québecois tunes for which this site was intended .."

Oooohhh nooo ... are we running out of space?!

I always look here as the first resource for session tunes. I'm afraid that the sessions I go to aren't "Pure Drop" and I really appreciate it when people post these tunes from other roots that crop up at sessions and give them a lift. (why should you include Scots and Quebecois but exclude Breton, Welsh ....etc)

# Posted on September 23rd 2007 by spindizzy

The 'pure drop' ~

Huh? What are Scots & Québecois music doing here. This is supposed to be an I.T.M. site exclusively... Where are the tune police when we need them? Oh damn, I'm one, I forgot my uniform. Hey spin, am I supposed to be jingoistic and start bashing anything that isn't certifiably Irish? Oh damned, that's an impossible task, there's all those borrowed melodies, and ~ damn, are mazurkas OK, are polkas? Aren't those dreaded foreign influence, and someone said hornpipes are English, damn, damn, damn. I'm going to resign my post. I can't possibly deal with this... It's impossible... 8-)

# Posted on September 24th 2007 by ceolachan

There's always this for an alternate mix ~ ;-)

http://domren.free.fr/

# Posted on September 24th 2007 by ceolachan

Ooohh...I can feel them Bourrées coming....Deux temps? Trois temps?

Oh my, this will be the day St. Chartier hit The Session...is this something like Godzilla vs. King Kong? ;)

# Posted on October 1st 2007 by Mario

More like Mothra! ~ ;-)

# Posted on October 1st 2007 by ceolachan

Coming to the big screen again this year:

Mosura tai Gojira (Mothra vs. Godzilla)

Come and see the smash hit from 1964!

# Posted on October 2nd 2007 by Mario

Irish music?

So if hornpipes come from England, jigs from Baroque music, polkas and mazurkas from central Europe and reels from Scotland. What else is for ITM? Barndances?...
Enjoy good music where ever comes from...

# Posted on January 6th 2011 by javivr