Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on April 22nd 2003 by lazyhound.
This tune has been added to 150 tunebooks.
Also known as George Brabazon, George Brabazon, 2nd Air, George Brabizon, Second Air, Prince Charlie's Welcome To The Isle Of Skye, There Were Twa Bonnie Maidens, Twa Bonnie Maids, Twa Bonny Maidens.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Planxty George Brabazon
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
ge|d2G2 cBAG|d2G2 cBAG|e2A2 ABcd|e2A2 ABcd|
|edcB g2fe|edcB cBAG|BAGE DEGA|B2G2 G2||
||ga|b2gb a2fa|g2eg edcB|e2A2 ABcd|e2A2 A2 ga|
|b2gb a2fa|g2eg edcB|cBAG DEGA|B2G2 G2||
Since today (23 April) is St George's Day I thought I'd submit a tune with "George" in the title (there are already one or two in the tune list here). I did a search in JC's and found "St George for England", an absolutely dreadful cringe-making tune that I never want to see or hear again. Then I came across Planxty George Brabazon, a delightful little reel by Carolan, so it's Irish and that's ok then. I believe I've heard it played once or twice in sessions.
Trevor
# Posted on April 22nd 2003 by lazyhound
Which came first?
This tune apaers in Scottish collections as "Prince Charlie'sWelcome To The Isle Of Skye". Which is the original ?
There's a song to this tune , "Twa Bonny Maidens", about Prince Charlie fleeing to Skye after the battle of Culloden dressed as a woman to foo lthe Goverment "redcoats". A traditional Scottish song of transvestitism !
# Posted on April 23rd 2003 by Kenny
Not a reel but a march
I'm sorry Trevor, but this is not a reel but a march; BTW there are two George Brabazon Planxty's.
# Posted on April 24th 2003 by Henk Bos
Not a reel but a march
Henk, as Jeremy has recently pointed out, there is no specific category for a "march" on this website, because a march can be in any of a number of time signatures - 2/4, 6/8, 4/4. There are probably some in 3/4, and modern "classical" composers have even used 5/4 (e.g. "Mars" from Holst's "Planets" Suite).
Tunes can only be categorized as far as the software on this website is concerned by the time signature. The same reasoning applies to free-form tunes such as slow airs; we have to submit a slow air as a waltz or jig or whatever, and in the comments tell everybody to ignore the tune type and play it as a slow air.
Trevor
# Posted on April 25th 2003 by lazyhound
Despite the limitations of posting the ABC notation, you also called it a reel in your comments--so he might be responding to that. Given that, the correction seems on the mark.
# Posted on May 3rd 2003 by pchaffee
WHOA! SLOW DOWN THERE GUYS
Henk Bos, this is most certainly NOT a march either. You might more closely describe as an air, but you're way off with the whole march bit. This tune is often attributed to O'Carolan.
# Posted on August 1st 2007 by MartySmith
How do you know O'Carolan didn't compose it as a march ? If he composed it at all. Jack Campin's CD-ROM of Scottish flute music has a version of this - as "Prince Charlie's Welcome To The Isle Of Skye", as I said above, - but with 4 parts. If that was the original, being Scottish, it could well be a march.
# Posted on August 1st 2007 by Kenny
Well there Kenny, that's why I said it is *often attributed* to O'Carolan, and not *this was written by O'Carolan*.
You could be right about the whole march thing though Kenny. Who knows what came first. Maybe somebody does, but I certainly do not. I've just never heard it played as a march is all, even by Scottish bands who call this tune Twa Maidens, or Twa Bonnie Maidens. But that doesn't mean it didn't start out as a march, and surely, if someone played it as a march, I wouldn't be an ass about it.
# Posted on August 2nd 2007 by MartySmith
George Brabazon, second Air
To be clear, there are two George Brabazon tunes. This entry is the "second Air". The first was written as a dance in 6/8 time.
http://www.contemplator.com/carolan/complt.html
# Posted on November 11th 2007 by joebowbeer