Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on September 28th 2009 by kmforst.
This tune has been added to 15 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Setting Sail
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmaj
def |: fef fed | a2 f def | fed gab | a2 f def |
fef fed | a2 f def | fdf ece |1 d2 d def :|2 d2 a abc' ||
|: d'2 d' d'=c'b | =c'2 c' c'ba | b2 b bag |1 a2 a abc' :|2 a2 f def ||
|: g2 b bag | a2 f def | g2 b bag | a2 a agf | e2 a age | d2 d def :|
Setting Sail
This is a track from The Chieftians album Film Cuts. Tracks 4-11 on Film Cuts were written/arranged by Paddy Maloney for a 1990 TV movie version of Treasure Island starring Charleton Heston as Long John Silver, Julian Glover as Dr. Livesy, and a 16-year old Christian Bale as Jim Hawkins. Many feel it is the finest film adaptation of the book thus far.
This tune is the Setting Sail track. I played the recording for a very gifted Donegal musician friend of mine who said he'd never heard it before, although he said it sounded Galecian in style. His thought was that it may have been composed by Paddy Maloney specifically for the film, as is possible with several other, if not all of the other tracks from the film.
Unfortunately, the tracks on the recording are labeled with the usual sountrack action descriptors, not with the names of the actual tunes used (although if you look, Cup of Tea has been correctly identified). The Treasure Cave track is Langstrom's Pony, although it hasn't yet been identified on the site. Further, not all of the music in the film made it onto the soundtrack album (I've identified at least three tunes that haven't). Nevertheless, these arrangements (usually with full orchestra) are unanimously my favorites of all The Chieftains material that I own.
Have a go at playing this tune, it's quite fun. If you've heard this tune before, do you know what it's called?!
Coming Soon: be on the lookout for transcriptions of both versions of Loyal's March that appear on the album (tracks 5 and 11), Island Theme (a three part 2/4 march with a fun form), Blind Pew (an unidentified a minor reel with an arrangement VERY similar to The Chieftains arrangement of Morning Dew), and a short b minor 2/4 march that didn't make it onto the album that I will call The Sign of the Spyglass March.
Thanks all for any help identifying these tunes. -K
# Posted on September 28th 2009 by kmforst
Also on Santiago
I just saw that this tune also appears on The Chieftains Santiago CD, an exploration of the Galician tradition. This confirms my friend's notion that it is a Galician tune, although it is still unclear if it is traditional or was composed by of The Chieftians.
# Posted on September 28th 2009 by kmforst
Fixed C natural
the first bar of the second repeated section should be a C natural instead of a C#. corrected in the ABC, but not in the sheet music.
# Posted on September 30th 2009 by kmforst
Muiñeira de Freixido
It is a very famous muiñeira (sort of galician jig) always played in every foliada or session. It is usually played before another muiñeira, A camposa, composed by Os Rosales de Rianxo. Freixido belongs to the tradition. IMHO I think it was recovered by the group Berce.
# Posted on December 22nd 2009 by Manu Novo