The Inishowen

waltz

Key signature: Gmajor

Submitted on October 1st 2009 by Jürgen.

This tune has been added to 16 tunebooks.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

Play It By Ear by Dinny McLaughlin

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The Inishowen

Composed by Dinny McLaughlin.

# Posted on October 1st 2009 by Jürgen

Abc formatting

Jeremy, do you have some kind of automatic formatting script installed? The grouping of the 8th notes has changed to three per beam (c2D EFG|ABc def etc.) which makes it look like a jig. IMO that's confusing, as it's not the way a waltz is phrased.

# Posted on October 2nd 2009 by Jürgen

Is that not how you wrote it then Jurgen?
perhaps L: 1/8 should have been written as L:1/4 with length of notes in the abc adjusted e.g. bar 1 of the 'B' music would be written as; | B G/B/ D/G/ | thus retaing your needed three groups of notes in each bar (3 beats).

# Posted on October 2nd 2009 by hetty

I've changed the notation back to what I wrote, which had all subsequent 8ths in each bar grouped together, i.e. up to 6 on one beam.
Obviously, three groups of two 8ths per bar is also possible. Personally I like my dots less chopped up, because I tend to think (and play) longer phrases. YMMV, of course.

# Posted on October 3rd 2009 by Jürgen

Grouping

wow, that is crazy. If you want to make this read in 3/4 you would have to put spaces inbetween the beats in the abc notation.

# Posted on October 4th 2009 by Earl Cameron

'what I wrote'

It's not surprising then that the notation turned out as it did. Music is a language, a universal one when we all follow the same principals. One of my pet hates is when people write abc notation without bothering to learn how to use it properly and in so doing cause musical confusion. Thank goodness most of us keep to normal notation principals for the sake of good communication.

# Posted on October 5th 2009 by hetty

'what I wrote'

Hetty what do you mean? Perhaps I wasn't clear, I meant I had changed back the *abc* notation. The sheet music wasn't updated though.

I can assure you I do know how to use both abc and standard notation, what with 20 years of classical violin under my belt.
FWIW, this is how the tune is displayed on my system, as usual processed through abc2mtex, MusiXTeX, and dvipdf:
http://www.thefiddler.de/tmp/test.pdf
Not confusing at all. If you prefer "AB cd ef" instead of "ABcdef", that's fine with me, but purely a matter of preference, not of correctness.
Why "ABcdef" came out as "ABc def" I have no idea - if this was done by a script then it's a bug, not a feature.

# Posted on October 6th 2009 by Jürgen

well, I've looked at your abc system and have to say it does make an interesting jig. Sorry but my comment stays and as a musician of some 50 years plus, having started piano at the age of 8, and having submitted numerous tunes to the session "AB cd ef" works every time so why do something else. I believe I work on the side off logic and if a waltz is based around three beats to the bar it makes sense to write your abc in such a way.
"ABcdef" might work for you but it does not seem to be successful. I also think that L: 1/8 doesn't help amd I'm sure that there may be others here of a similar opinion.

# Posted on October 14th 2009 by hetty

Never mind the abc notation...

It's a nice waltz!

# Posted on January 29th 2012 by hh

"The Inishowen Waltz"

# Posted on January 29th 2012 by ceolachan