Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on April 22nd 2011 by cferrie.
This tune has been added to 7 tunebooks.
X: 1
T: Gan Ainm
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Dmaj
(3ABc|:d2fd cdBc|ABAG FDFA|BGBd cA(3cde|dfaf gfec|
d2fd cdBc|ABAG FDFA|BGBd cA(3cde|1dfec d2 (3ABc:|2dfec d2 A2||
~f3f afdf|~g3e ceA2|~f3f afdf|(3efe (3dcB A2de|
~f3f afdf|~g3e bgfg|abge fgec|d2f2 d4:|
Welsh Hornpipe
A lovely hornpipe I picked up while playing with the Slovak band Keltieg - I believe it's of Welsh origin but unfortunately I don't have a proper name for it.
# Posted on April 22nd 2011 by cferrie
Maybe Scottish
I've trawled the web looking for anything resembling this tune and this is the closest I've found http://abcnotation.com/tunePage?a=trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/home.quicknet.nl/scotland/0185
maybe I've got the origin wrong...
# Posted on April 22nd 2011 by cferrie
It could well be a Welsh tune. There are a few melodic details in common with the Scottish tune linked to above, but the structure is different. Anyway, let's not forget that the traditional musics of the British Isles (the word 'Celtic' is not really relevant here, as I include the 'Norse' music of Shetland and the 'Anglo-Saxon' music of England) are all interconnected and the fact that this tune may have variants or relatives in Scotland, Ireland and/or England (which it very likely does) does not make it any less Welsh.
# Posted on April 23rd 2011 by CreadurMawnOrganig
...I have been building up a bit of a Welsh repertoire over the last few years, and there is, to my ear, something in the way this tune flows that makes it sound Welsh.
# Posted on April 23rd 2011 by CreadurMawnOrganig
Thanks for the feedback CMO. The reason I though it was Welsh was because it was played at the start of a set followed by the Miners Hornpipe and the Monmouth Hornpipe either side of this one http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1245
# Posted on April 23rd 2011 by cferrie
Another relation?
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1310
# Posted on April 23rd 2011 by cferrie
This tune is found in an MS in the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. NLW20067A folio 20.verso. It is un-named, di enw, gan ainm. It appears in a book marked "Mr W. S. Clark's Old Music Book. William Thomas Lewis, Mardy, Aberdare, 1869" William Southern Clark was a mining agent on the estate of the Marquis of Bute, and William Thomas Lewis was an assistant engineer under him. I recorded the tune here, and called it William Southern Clark's Hornpipe. http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/2245.
# Posted on July 28th 2011 by cerimatho