Key signature: Eminor
Submitted on August 5th 2004 by MM.
This tune has been added to 42 tunebooks.
Also known as The Boy-Girl Tune.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Boy-Girl Tune
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Emin
M:26/8
|:EB,E BBA BcBz ABc ccB GBG AAF AGFG|
EB,E BBA BcBz ABc ccB GBG AAF AGFG:|
|:EF/G/A AGA BBD ADGB AAD GDFA GAB FGF|
[1 EF/G/A AGA BBD ADGB AAD GDFA GAB FGF:|
[2 EF/G/A AGA BBD ADGD AAG F/G/AF GBG A=FFE||
|: ABc cBc e2c dedc B2D GD dD GD BcBE|
ABc cBc e2c dedc B2D GAB A2=F FGFE:|
K:Cmin
|:=EFG GFG BzG ABAG FGA AGA _eeA =BcBA|
[1 GFG GFG BzG ABAF GzC EFG FF_D DEDC:|
[2 GFG GFG BzG ABAF GzC EFG FF_D DECz||
Happy happy
written by Mick McAulney, transcribed from solas' hour before dawn.
i discoverded this tune just after my girlfriend gave me the news that there was a second baby comming (due any time now ...).
will it be a boy? girl? in the car, this tune often is on 'repeat' for several km.
i just love it, soon to be played in our sessions in ghent ...
# Posted on August 5th 2004 by MM
Key
originally 't was in F#min, but i took the liberty to put it in Emin.
i'll also put the Amin version up:
T: boy-girl tune
M: 26/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K:Amin
|:AEA eed efez def ffe cec ddB dcBc|
|AEA eed efez def ffe cec ddB dcBc:|
|:AB/c/d dcd eeG dGce ddG cGBd cde BcB|
|1 AB/c/d dcd eeG dGce ddG cGBd cde BcB:|
|2 AB/c/d dcd eeG dGcG ddc B/c/dB cec d_BBA||
|: def fef a2f gagf e2G cG gG cG efeA|
|def fef a2f gagf e2G cde d2_B BcBA:|
K:Fmin
|:=ABc cBc ezc dedc Bcd dcd _aad =efed|
|1 cBc cBc ezc dedB czF ABc BB_G GAGF:|
|2 cBc cBc ezc dedB czF ABc BB_G GAFz||
# Posted on August 5th 2004 by MM
Splitting bars
Would it maybe be easier to split some of these 26/8 bars in two. Sometimes the 26/8 can be split into two 13/8 bars - other times into two irregular length bars. If you did this then it may be clearer to see how the tune should be accented. Interesting tune nonetheless. Can you give us any insight into how you like to play it?
# Posted on August 6th 2004 by jakki S
26/8 vs. 13/8
jake,
i understand what you say, about the 13/8, and maybe you're right, but ... just as when you play any melodie, you shouldn't have to think about what key or what rythm you have to play. if you know the tune, it just IS there.
i think it would be a lot more difficult if i had devided every 26/8 bar into (10/8+12/8+4/8) next (13/8+13/8) next (9/8+7/8+10/8) and again (9/8+7/8+10/8).
accentuation is clear imho by the 3322-3333-22-division of the notes (accent on each first of a group).
i have a tendency to play these kind of tunes (5/8-7/8-11/8-etc.) different, according to the accompaniment. if there's a guitarist or percussionist that knows this rythm (beter even the tune), then i go for the complete thing, but mostly, i like play it with my foot stamping every second note (thus accually stamping 13/4 with my foot). i do this because then you get a much more flowing and steady rythm. i know it's not that easy to do, nor to explain, but if you get the hang of it, you notice that you play the tune rather then the notes.
do i make any sense?
# Posted on August 6th 2004 by MM
"If you know the tune, it just IS there"
MM, did you post this for the benefit of people who don't know the tune, and for whom the tune *isn't* there? If so, then it's very difficult to make any sense of it from your transcription because of the lack of barlines. It just looks like a long string of notes.
# Posted on August 7th 2004 by Dow
I have to agree that the length of bar may make it difficult to interpret. It doesn't just look like a long string of notes to me however. I can feel the accents you speak of. All I feel is that for the benefit of most of us who have not played this with an accompaniment it would be beneficial to think of another way of transcribing it. There's no need to fear the idea of dividing it into further bars - all it does is make things clearer.
# Posted on August 7th 2004 by jakki S
I should add that I know exactly what you mean when you say - "the tune is there". Everyone feels that about their own favourite numbers. I guess it would be there for us if we heard you play. I think I'll look out the Solas recording. Is it a good record as a whole? Would be good to know. Thanks.
# Posted on August 7th 2004 by jakki S
It's a boy !!!
sorry to have kept your questions unanswered, but ... it's a healthy boy, alexander ('sanderke' for short) born on august 7.
both he and mother are doing just great.
sorry, DOW, if it doesn't make any sense to you, maybe have a listen to the solas-track as jakki S is giong to.
anyway, shouldn't we be learning these tunes by ear? aren't the dots just a help on our way to get the tune? that was my goal anyway, not to put it up here for people to learn, but to help those who want to learn it (by ear).
as i mentioned on an earlier submitted tune: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/2745 i am always willing to send anyone a mp3 of the tune as played by me ... though for this one: if you want to learn the tune, get a hold of the soals-cd and learn it from there.
lots of tunes,
happy daddy mm
# Posted on August 10th 2004 by MM
Boy-Girl Tune
I don't like the tune.It's one of those crooked melodies written just to show off.
# Posted on March 1st 2003 by dafydd
Boy-Girl Tune
I think it's a great tune and sounds very traditional. Well, it's not Irish or Scottish though. Bulgarian? Hungarian?
# Posted on August 13th 2004 by slainte
Baby-tune
well, jocklet, it's your verry right to dislike the tune, i guess, no problem.
slainte, the tune isn't trad, but newly composed, as for origin, why does everyone think of 7/8 or 11/8 or whatever-if-not-6-or-9-or-12/8 tunes to be eastern-european? can't they just be what they are? newly composed melodies? from earth? (north-east-south-west-middle-earth...)
# Posted on August 14th 2004 by MM
Maarten, I know this is a quite recent composition. But, it's clearly an imitation of the traditional tunes from Eastern Europe. Other members of Solas also wrote some tunes imitating Galician or Eastern European tunes.
# Posted on August 14th 2004 by slainte
hi slainte,
i do agree it has an eastern-european feel to it, but that's as far as i would go, to say wether it is bulgarian, macedonian or hungarian, i wouldn't go, it's a western melody with an eastern feel to it.
just as any 'irish' tune i would write, it would still be a flemish tune, wathever feel it has (indian, african, even inuit ...). you might not agree, which is OK, but that's my point.
maybe we should go move over to the discussions-page?
# Posted on August 15th 2004 by MM
Well, I think the tune itself is more important than who wrote it. I mean this isn't an Irish tune.
# Posted on August 16th 2004 by slainte
Boy-Girl Tune
My favourite tunes are all ones that stick in your head after one hearing.I just don't think it'a memorable tune,but as MM points out,that's just my opinion.Anyway,I don't think you'll be hearing the milkman whistling it in the mornings.
# Posted on March 1st 2003 by dafydd
Great tune
I love it.
# Posted on May 3rd 2007 by Osher
it's hard to "understand" the rythm.. but.. maybe i got it
# Posted on June 15th 2008 by Henni