Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on August 29th 2003 by dafydd.
This tune has been added to 14 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Da Brig
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmaj
|:d3 A3|AFE D3|d3 A2F|D2g f2e|
d3 A3|AFE D3|E2F G2A|B3 ABc:|
|:d2e fed|c3 cde|d2e fff|g3 f2g|
agf gfe|fed edc|dBA FGA||B3 ABc:|
A Shetland tune, I think. I've never heard anyone play it except myself. It appears in Richard Robinson's Tunebook (see Links at The Session).
# Posted on December 1st 2003 by ragaman
Da brig
Freeland barbours Occasionals do it,The Angels of the North useit with Da Shaalds o' Foula, amongst other tunes fora Foula Reel.
Noel
# Posted on December 1st 2003 by noelbats
Da Brig
U transcribed the tune from an album by the Shetland band Home Bru.They play it in a set with Gaster's Dream and The Sooth End.
# Posted on March 1st 2003 by dafydd
I know this is a bit of a stray from the subject but why do they play a jig for a reel? I mean why do they play sets of jigs for the Foula reel, if that makes more sense?
# Posted on December 1st 2003 by fiddlefeet
Fiddlefeet, reels come in all shapes and sizes. I'm no very little about dancing, but I would imagine that what Shetlanders call a reel might be very different to what the Scots, Irish or English call a reel. In fact, I know that the Foula Reel is a different dance to the standard Shetland Reel (as distinct form the various types of Scots reel) - and presumably works better accompanied by tunes in 6/8 than 4/4. Why not?
# Posted on December 3rd 2003 by ragaman
Re: why do they play a jig for a reel?
In concert, Aly Bain commented that the 'Old Foula Reel' actually was a jig, but that the old Shetlanders didn't know the difference! I guess that David comes close to the truth in his answer.
# Posted on December 7th 2003 by lars
yeah that maks sense. i know thre was a fairly "logical" explanation for it all. It sounds like a good excuse to go to the Shetland Islands though
# Posted on December 7th 2003 by fiddlefeet
Reeling through the dance ~
The term 'reel', while known by most of us as being associated with the 4/4 tune form, is also a general term for 'dance', and in this case does not necessarily define the music played for the 'reeling'. So that could be just about anything. We'll dance a reel to a reel, or a jig, or whatever... The same could be said for 'jig', in that 'jigging', as applied to stepping, could be done to a 'reel', etc... So, reeling through a jig and jigging through a reel... YAHOO!!!
# Posted on December 6th 2005 by ceolachan
Hmmm, that could be rude...
# Posted on December 6th 2005 by ceolachan
"Da Foula Reel" ~ another couple of jigs for the 'reel'
Da Fields O' Foula
Submitted on July 21st 2003 by fifer.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/1834
"Da Shaalds o' Foula"
Submitted on June 17th 2005 by domnull.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/4606
# Posted on December 7th 2005 by ceolachan
"Maggie O'Ham" ~ and yet another jig for the 'Foula Reel'
Key signature: A Major
Submitted on November 14th 2007 by ceolachan.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/7968
# Posted on November 14th 2007 by ceolachan