Gan Ainm

reel

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on December 5th 2008 by D.J.F..

This tune has been added to 16 tunebooks.

Also known as An Dro, An Droiou, Breton Tune, En Dro.

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A Breton Tune

I'm sorry I don't know the name to this sweet, sweet, SWEET tune, it deserves a fine name that's all I can say.

If you want to hear this tune played for real then I recommend you listen to THIS:

http://eacsummerschool.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/september-breton-tune.mp3

It's quite a long sound clip because the musicians (Chris Wood's English Acoustic Collective Summer School students) started playing outside of the room where the microphone was and gradually marched in to the room.

How do I know this? Well I was one of the people playing! I have so many great memories of that Summer School! :-)

# Posted on December 5th 2008 by D.J.F.

Thanks to the anonymous person who put An dro/en dro as an alternative name coz it's now been forwarded to about 20 recordings of which I seriously doubt it is on

great work

10/10

# Posted on December 5th 2008 by D.J.F.

They forgot An Droiou - a set of 5 tunes on Play On by the Celtic Fiddle Festival. It's not exactly the same as the first in that set, but very similar. I think I remember reading that those were Cape Breton tunes that Johnny Cunningham liked to play.

# Posted on December 5th 2008 by airport

Breton An Dro / En Dro

Duh! ~ It's an An Dro. Having that in the alternate title means that, since there is no category for that Breton dance form, one can do a search and see all those that are here on site, for example:

http://www.thesession.org/tunes/index/search?name=An+Dro&type_id=&mode_id=

& a hell of a lot more useful than 'Breton Tune'...

And ~ I have been trying to find a title for it, as I suspect others may also once they know what form they're looking for... :-/

# Posted on December 6th 2008 by ceolachan

'An Droiou' = more than one An Dro, i.e. the plural form, and 'not' from Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia...

# Posted on December 6th 2008 by ceolachan

I didn't realize "An Droiou" was plural - good to know. I was only thinking in terms of linking the name to the tune. I'm intrigued that you're hiding over here in the tunes section doing useful work - you're becoming the keeper of the grail, or maybe more like the phantom of the session!

# Posted on December 6th 2008 by airport

Who luvs yuh airport? ;-)

Poor Dan, I was worried this might wind him up a bit. He's alright when he's getting enough music, but when he's suffering withdrawal, well, let's just say I'm glad there's a digital ocean between us...

# Posted on December 6th 2008 by ceolachan

It is pretty ridicoulous to submitt tunes here as "an dro" - Irish tunes we have no name for we do submit as "Gan Ainm" and not as "the reel" ;-)
What is breton for "no name"?

# Posted on December 6th 2008 by swisspiper

Ne Anv

Alright Swiss, you know the problem ~ no category. The only way to create one is to name it for the form it is. The idea of additional categories has been raised over and over and over and over again ~ and it ain't going to happen. So, adding 'march', at leat in the alternate titles, means we can search for marches. Adding the two spelling for this Breton tune form means we can do a search for it, so in a sense creating a category in the absence of an official one. It also means that anyone doing an online search for the form will also find themselves drawn here.

# Posted on December 6th 2008 by ceolachan

Alright c. Gan Ainm is correct, but it makes the tune invisible, so Dan should name it in the traditional way by adding the source's name to the tune, so i.e. "Chris Wood's An Dro" would be an intelligent solution.
But then no more links to any record will beshown...but that might be correct!

# Posted on December 8th 2008 by swisspiper

I think on this we'll just have to disagree...

Many 'An/En Droiou' are just that, and listed as such and no more, and I have half a dozen Breton collections that show it that way, even when a composer is known. So, I will continue to take their way with it, and to favour being able to see a 'hidden' category here where I can do a search.

Also, I really dislike the slap dash practice of naming the unnamed after the last person someone heard play it, or who happened to record it. In this case there's more than one source for this and I'm not so sure Chris Wood himself would think favourably toward someone naming this after him, but he might be able to give you his source, which I'm sure he'd gladly do if he knew... I would not be surprised if there is a known composer for this one, or a place of origin. In the later case, naming if for its geographic origin, such as a village or valley, great. That would be nice and it would still show up under a general search for the tune form... ;-)

# Posted on December 8th 2008 by ceolachan

Vannitaise?

http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/7746

# Posted on December 9th 2008 by swisspiper

# Posted on December 13th 2008 by ceolachan

I may (add) a take on one of them later. :-/

# Posted on December 13th 2008 by ceolachan