Key signature: Ddorian
Submitted on August 29th 2003 by dafydd.
This tune has been added to 7 tunebooks.
X: 1
T: Landslide Village
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Ddor
d>A|:c>AG>A F>DD>D|C>DD>D F>DD>D|C>DG>A F>DD>D|C>DB,>G, A,2 d>A|
c>AG>A F>DD>D|C>DD>D F>DD>D|C>DF>G B>dc>A|1G>ED>C D2 d>A:|2G>ED>C D2 A>B||
|:c>de>d c>AG>E|F>DC>D F>DD2|D2 D>E F2 F>G|A2 A>B c>df>g|
a>fd>f g>ec>e|d>ef>e d>cA>c|d2 d>e d>cA>G|1F>DD>C D2 A>B:|2F>DD>C D2 d>A||
Landslide Village
Transcribed from The Melbourne Scottish Fiddle Clubs' cd, "Teenagers Go Nuts", and not copied from a book,although I can't see what difference it would have made.
# Posted on March 1st 2003 by dafydd
Well, it's some assurance that you've transcribed it *as played,* rather than merely "as transcribed by someone else."
Here's a possible solution to our disagreement: when you post a tune based on a written source, how about providing us with two versions, one that regurgitates the written source (labeled "As written"), and the other to include how you yourself play it (labeled "As played")--assuming that there are differences.
This would work well too for tunes lifted off recordings--provide a relatively plain setting ("Basic tune") and then one with all the ornaments shown ("As played"). I'm guesing, for instance, that in Landslide Village, they play scratch triplets on all those DDD bits, which you transcribed as you did for the sake of keeping it plain and simple. But I don't know that for sure.
I'm coming at this from the standpoint that if we're going to take the time and care to post tunes here--and this archive is becoming one of the better ones on the web--then why not really do the tunes justice? See my recent post of McGovern's Favorite as an example--mind you, I wish someone had thought of this approach three years ago.
# Posted on January 29th 2004 by Will CPT
Landslide Village
I transcribed to the best of my ability as they played it. They don't scratch any DDD triplets,they slide the F's into the no man's land between F natural and F sharp,and the c's have a quarter tone slide too,which gives it sort of Scandinavian feel.In fact,they play the piece with minimal decoration,and a lazy swing which really appeals to me.There's a broader point too.Should just the bare bones of the tune be submitted,or with a plethora of ornamentation?I've been working on assumption that the majority of people who use this site know how to ornament a tune,and we all know that when a ITM player turns a tune three times,he or she will ornament it differently every time.So which version do you post? When play back some of the over-ornamented tunes with my abcwin2 program it doesn't sound too good,and wouldn't give a beginner any idea of how the tune should sound.
# Posted on March 1st 2003 by dafydd
Again, see McGovern's Favorite, and I just posted Derry Craig Wood in both plain and gussied up versions.
# Posted on January 29th 2004 by Will CPT
Landslide Village
Would it be a good idea to always post two versions,plain and spiffed up?
# Posted on March 1st 2003 by dafydd
Y'know, I don't know how Jeremy feels about it (maybe it creates more work for the poor lad), but I plan on posting a plain and spiffy version from here on out, unless he tells me otherwise.
The thing I struggle with in the plain versions is finding some convention for showing those dotted quarter note bits where a roll or triplet would normally fall. The ornaments are sorta crucial for getting the timing right. I hate to think of newbies learning to play tunes the way the Boston Pops orchestra does them--no ornaments at all, like Irish Muzak.
# Posted on January 29th 2004 by Will CPT
Landslide Village
That's true.I still shudder when I think about the James Last Orchestra's "Irish" album.
# Posted on March 1st 2003 by dafydd