Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on February 27th 2003 by gian marco.
This tune has been added to 43 tunebooks.
Also known as An Piobaire Ar Strae Sa Mhoinear, Piper In The Meadow, The Piper Through The Meadow Straying.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Piper In The Meadow Straying, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Gmaj
Bc|dedc B2BA|GFGA B2Gd|ABcA GAFA|~G2B2 B2 A2|
dedc (3Bcd BA|~G3A B2Gd|ABcA GAFA|G2BA G2:|
|:G2|~A3B c2A2|BGBc d3B|cAcd e2A2|d2de f2fe|
dedc B2BA|GFGA B2Gd|ABcA GAFA|G2B2 B2 A2|
dedc B2 BA|~G3A B2Gd|ABcA GAFA|G2BA G2:|
Piper In The Meadow Straying - set dance
Source. Finbar and Eddie Furey
Transcription: Gian Marco P.
This tune is not a hornpipe. I's a SET DANCE.
# Posted on February 27th 2003 by gian marco
Not only is it a set dance, it's also near as damn it 'Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly'.
# Posted on February 28th 2003 by OrganicPeatCreature
Play "Deck the Halls etc" at other than a Christmas session and I think eyebrows would raised, but this one, the resemblance probably wouldn't be noticed all that much out of context.
# Posted on February 28th 2003 by lazyhound
hey, this was my set dance. Like i mean it was the tune i chose for my set dance. I can't actually remember the dance i did to it though...hmmmmm....good tune but.
# Posted on March 2nd 2003 by fiddlefeet
Er....a set dance can be a hornpipe. It can be both. Unless of course it's a double jig, not a hornpipe. It can't be both of those. *grin* But just because a hornpipe is a set dance doesn't mean it's not a hornpipe...
Zina
# Posted on March 2nd 2003 by Zina Lee
anyway this tune doesn't seem to me a hornpipe, and it's not played swung as a hornpipe.
# Posted on March 2nd 2003 by gian marco
Well, it's on the list of An Coimisiun's set dances as a hornpipe (which is how Fraser could dance his/her non-traditional set to it) -- I've never heard the Furey setting, but keep in mind that there are two ways to play hornpipes -- the swung way (dah dee dah dee dah dee dah) and the straight way (dit dit dit dit dit dit dit dit), and both are considered correct (or rather, both are not considered correct, depending upon whether you're a glass-full or glass-empty kind of person).
I shall leave the argument as to which way is correct up to the ethnomusicologists -- insofar as I know, the swung way originated in England and spread it's way into Ireland through Dublin in the mid-to-late 1700's and is now the most common (but not necessarily only) way to play hornpipes.
Zina
# Posted on March 3rd 2003 by Zina Lee
Even accepting Zina's points, it seems misleading to have this tune classified under hornpipes. I think few people looking for it would expect to find it in under this classification.
# Posted on October 27th 2005 by Peter K