The Mist-Covered Mountains Of Home

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Key signature: Adorian

Submitted on August 17th 2004 by sifudave54.

This tune has been added to 69 tunebooks.

Also known as The Mist-Covered Mountains Of Mourne.

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The Mist-Covered Mountains Of Home sheetmusic

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My first ABC attempt

This is my first attempt at an ABC. A moving slow Scottish air, I think it is traditional, I actually found it first in Dan Mozell's "The Incomplete Celtic Mandolin." Sounds really good on the low-d whistle.

How do I make it show sheetmusic?

# Posted on August 17th 2004 by sifudave54

A bit more

One more thing. This tune relies very heavily on dynamics: I guess its played best quite emotionally. I also like to add ornamentation sparingly: a short trill when moving down to an A, or splitting the dotted halfnote rises c....d... into a half-note and a quarter note each.

I couldn't believe this site did not have this: it is an absolutely hauntingly good air when played right.

I usually play it ABA and end it there, but yeah.

# Posted on August 17th 2004 by sifudave54

Last comment

Additionally, included in the book was an ornamented-for-mandolin version. However, I am not personally a big fan of slow airs played on the mandolin, and the octave mandolin isn't THAT much better, so I decided to include the "generic" version.

# Posted on August 17th 2004 by sifudave54

Nice tune. The correct mode would be A dorian.
It's played really slow, isn't it?

# Posted on August 17th 2004 by swisspiper

Slow, yes, but I find if I play it *too* slow it drags. I'd say maybe 3/4 to 1/2 the speed of the midi...or so...I'll update it with a tempo marker later (you can do that on this site right? Will it actually affect the midi?)

# Posted on August 17th 2004 by sifudave54

This was supposedly one of President John F. Kennedy's favourite tunes, and it was played at his funeral.

# Posted on August 17th 2004 by Jiml

This is a duplicated post.

This tune was already posted on this site more than 2 years ago: http://thesession.org/tunes/display.php/470 Dave's version here is quite similar to mine in the comment space.

# Posted on August 17th 2004 by slainte

Duplicate

Is it really a duplicate? I'm sorry, I didn't really think so. I did see Mist on the Mountain when I was searching, but if you actually play this tune it feels QUITE different, though I can see the similarities. Perhaps they're tunes that were once the same, and evolved differently over time, I cannot say, but I would say that in my judgement these are different tunes.

# Posted on August 18th 2004 by sifudave54

Foot in mouth

D'oh! Please excuse me, I can be rather amateurish when it comes to correct interperetations of jig-like sheetmusic in 3/4 time or whatnot. You're right, they are very similar when I actually play yours right :-P but close enough to be a dupe? I am new to this site

# Posted on August 18th 2004 by sifudave54