Key signature: Eminor
Submitted on March 8th 2004 by turophile.
This tune has been added to 99 tunebooks.
Also known as Bells Of Rathcoole, Garrett's Wedding, Tristan And Iseult, Tristan And Isoelde, Tristan Und Isolde.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Garech's Wedding
M: 9/8
L: 1/8
R: slip jig
K: Emin
B|:~E3e2BG2B|A2AA2GA2B|~E3G2Be2f|1gfe fedB2e:|2gfe fede2f||
g2B BABg2e|f2A AGAf2a|g2B BABg2e|fdd add fga|
g2B BABg2e|f2A AGAf2a|gfe fed efg|BcB AGFE2||
This slip jig was composed by Paddy Moloney. It was played in D minor on track 10 of Cotton-Eyed Joe (The Chieftains 10), but I transcribed it in E minor to make it easier to finger on the D whistle. Play it using the same fingering on a C whistle to put it back in the original key.
# Posted on March 8th 2004 by turophile
GW was Fiona's theme...
Once upon a time, "Garech's Wedding" was the opening theme for Fiona Ritchie's NPR radio program, The Thistle & Shamrock. Great slip jig...I'm arranging it for harp.
# Posted on May 7th 2004 by Cindyharp
I always assumed that Paddy M. played it on a C whistle. That’s the way I learned it. Does it actually work on a D whistle in D minor?
# Posted on April 13th 2005 by Bob himself
"Garech's / Garrett's Wedding" / "Tristan and Isoelde" ~ I'd duplicated
There was no way any of the several searches I made would have found this because that transcriptions is all bunched up, like so ~ B|:~E3e2BG2B|A2AA2GA2B|~ none of my attempts scored... Thanks to 'FiddleMeThis' for giving this link...
Key signature: e minor
Submitted on February 4th 2007 by you.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/6748
K: e minor
D |: E3 e2 B G2 B | A3 A2 G A2 B |
E3 G2 B e2 f |1 gfe fed B2 e :|2 g>fe fed e2 f ||
|: g2 B B^AB g2 e | f2 A A^GA f2 d |
[1 g2 B B^AB g2 e | fdd add e/f/ga :|
[2 g2 e f2 d ee/f/g | B>cB AGF E2 ||
Here's this transcription reconfigured for comparison...
K: e minor
B |:
E3 e2 B G2 B | A2 A A2 G A2 B |
E3 G2 B e2 f |1 gfe fed B2 e :|2 gfe fed e2 f ||
g2 B BAB g2 e | f2 A AGA f2 a |
[1 g2 B BAB g2 e | fdd add fga :|
[ gfe fed efg | BcB AGF E2 ||
Back in the 70's, I learned it from an acquaintance who had it from Paddy, and it was given to me and recorded in my old notes as "Tristan and Isoelde"... Curious, but we all make mistakes... I wasn't familiar with either the Chieftain recording for it or that of Danú. I did hear Paddy Maloney play it once on a D whistle and he rolled the hell out of it, for example:
|: ~E3 ~e2 B ~G2 B | ~A3 ~A2 G ~A2 B | ~
# Posted on February 5th 2007 by ceolachan
I was just a bit confused. I remembered this while enjoying JackB's contribution "Larach Alastair". The confusion is that I'm sure I had another name for this, but then, doing an initial search I found this tune called "Garrett's Wedding" what I'd taken as reputable elsewheres.
We learned this secondhand, from a harp playing friend who had it off of Paddy Maloney. I know my brain loves to play tricks on me, but I was also sure our friend had told us that it was a tune Paddy had written for a movie of some sort. For some reason I was thinking "Tristan und Isolde" / "Tristan and Iseult" ~ which I had some half baked idea might have been the name I'd originally thought this had.
I've since found my old notes, and yes, that's what I had been given as a name for it back in the 70's, at least that's what the notes say. There are only a few differences that have been my fault over the distance of time. The A-part is pretty much the same, but here's the old B-part from my old ABC's for it for comparison:
K: e minor
|: g2 B BAB g2 g | f2 A AGA f2 f |
[1 g2 B BAB g2 g | fdd add e/f/ga :|
[2 gfe fed efg | BcB AGF E2 ||
# Posted on February 4th 2007 by ceolachan
# Posted on February 5th 2007 by ceolachan
"Garech's Wedding" ~ further notes from the duplication
"It's Garech's Wedding. Paddy Moloney didn't write it for a movie, he wrote it for................Garech's Wedding! His friend Garech got married and he wrote this tune for the occassion. Very nice tune too, although I prefer Danu's version than the original Chieftain's recording."
# Posted on February 4th 2007 by iainsm
"Wonderful tune I learned from the Danú recording."
# Posted on February 4th 2007 by FiddleMeThis
# Posted on February 5th 2007 by ceolachan
Here's another way I've heard the B-part taken:
K: e minor
|: g2 B BGB g2 B | f2 A AFA f2 A |
[1 g2 B BAB g2 g | fed afd gg/f/e :|
[2 gfe fed efg | BcB AGF E2 ||
# Posted on February 5th 2007 by ceolachan
"Tristan and Iseult" ~
"Paddy's friend Garech married an Indian princess."
# Posted on February 5th 2007 by dafydd
I was actually wondering if the association with "Tristan and Isoelde" may have been an alusion, some comic element to it, which would be in the nature of Paddy Maloney...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_and_Iseult
# Posted on February 6th 2007 by ceolachan