Key signature: Gminor
Submitted on September 23rd 2004 by ceolachan.
This tune has been added to 16 tunebooks.
Also known as The Dancing Dogs.
X: 1
T: Otters', The
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
R: waltz
K: Gmin
|: D2 G2 B2 | e4- ed | d6- | d6 |
D2 G3 B | e2 d3 =B | c6- | c6 |
D2 ^F2 A2 | d4- d=B | c6- | c6 |
d2 c3 A | D2 c3 A | B6- | B2 A2 G2 |
D2 G2 B2 | e4- ed | d6- | d6 |
G2 =B2 d2 | g2 f3 d | e6- | e6 |
g2 e2 c2 | G4 e2 | e6 | d6 |
D2 ^F2 A2 | d2 c2 A2 |1 G6- | G6 :|
2 G2 GA G^F | G2 g3 ^f ||
|: f6 | fa gf ed | e2 d3 ^c | d6 |
d6 | a^f dc BA | c2 B3 A | B6 |
d2 A3 B | c2 B2 A2 | d2 G3 A | B2 A2 G2 |
D2 ^F3 A | c2 B2 A2 | G2 G^F GA |1 G2 g3 ^f :|2 G6 ||
Seeing as we're in a waltz moment, here's a bit of shmaltz...
# Posted on September 23rd 2004 by ceolachan
Will this shmatlz suit you Jamie T?
# Posted on September 23rd 2004 by ceolachan
Hmmmmm...
Heh, heh! - and have you read that book by the Chinese seer 'Who Flung Dung'? So give the masses the key in G...? But it is in 'g'... Do you mean 'e' minor (#)?:
K: Emin
|:B,2 E2 G2|(c4 c)B|(B6|B6)|B,2 E3 G|c2 B3 ^G|(A6|A6)|
B,2 ^D2 F2|(B4 B)^G|(A6|A6)|B2 A3 F|B,2 A3 F|(G6|G2) F2 E2|
B,2 E2 G2|(c4 c)B|(B6|B6)|E2 ^G2 B2|e2 d3 B|(c6|c6)|
e2 c2 A2|E4 c2|c6|B6|B,2 ^D2 F2|B2 A2 F2|
1 (E6|E6):|
2 E2 EF E^D|E2 e3 ^d||
|:d6|df ed cB|c2 B3 ^A|B6|B6|f^d BA GF|A2 G3 F|G6|
B2 F3 G|A2 G2 F2|B2 E3 F|G2 F2 E2|B,2 ^D3 F|A2 G2 F2|E2 E^D EF|
1 E2 e3 ^d:|2 E6||
I can't say where this evolved from, and I don't feel completely comfortable with saying anymore than it just happened, bubbling out of the quagmire of my mind - credit goes to Moskovskaya, a river bank an otters...all favoured company...I think it was originally in Irish, but I'd have to down some more Moskovskaya to see it that was really the case or if it was French or Russian, but sadly I've only a large empty bottle on the windowsill to remind me of my lack...hmmmmm...
# Posted on September 24th 2004 by ceolachan
However, and hold yourself from disbelief, I only had a D whistle with me when all present 'possessed' me...and miles away from any priest...
# Posted on September 24th 2004 by ceolachan
Actually, as I'm listening to it now and noting the melancholia, there's the history too, not just the Moskovskaya (I never liked vodka until someone initiated me with this, mmm, mmm!)...
Holding back on specifics, not sure if I'm past being prosecuted, I used to sneak into this zoo after hours, to visit the animals, but not so foolish as some. I've no interest in petting pumas or teasing tigers. I'd made a friend, so there was reason, and you may have guessed it already, an otter, a female. There were all kinds of warnings on the cage, but she just looked so lonely and folorn, all on her own. We used to talk, or I did, and she made sounds, especially mournful ones when I had to leave her. She also had mange, and I used to comment about this to the keeper during the day. Part of the play was her biting me, but never giving the weight she was capable of, always playful and soft. She died, and I never climbed that fence again.
So, on a river bank, seeing otters free and 'dancing', and curious, and the Moskovskaya - well, 'Moscow Nights' - and I'm getting all morose again...it's the 'lack'...
# Posted on September 24th 2004 by ceolachan
And the Indian theatre critic,Pandit Unmercifully
# Posted on March 1st 2003 by dafydd
Well gang, I found the root of my inspiration:
The gongs were going, as this creation that came over me, under various influences, had a ring of similarity to it, anyway, as the dyslexic memory works, a few days later the name came up, a Finnish one, and a damned nice three part waltz. Now Jeremy doesn't want non-Irish here, but as this is the obvious root to my sojourn for the waltzing otters, it seems only fair to give you that lovely Finnish waltz, first learned waltzing to it and later learned from a Finnish box player on one of those funky box systems some call 'International'. I've written it as follows so the four bar phrases line up. , This still one of my favourite shmaltzes though I haven’t played it in ages…:
T: Metsäkukkia
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
R: waltz
K: Gmin
|:
D2 G2 A2|B2 A2 G2|(d6|d6)|
D2 G2 A2|B2 A2 G2|(e6|e6)|
c2 d2 e2|e2 d2 c2|(d6|d6)|
D2 ^F2 A2|c2 B2 A2|(G6|1 G2) z4:|
2 G2) g3 f||:
(f6|f2) g3 e|(d6|d2) e3 d|
(c6|c2) d3 c|(B6|B2) d2 d2|
(d6|d2) c2 B2|(A6|A2) B2 A2|
D2 ^C2 D2|B4 A2|(G6|1 G2) g3 f:|
2 G2) z2 g^f||:
g2 z2 d^c|d2 z2 BA|B2 z2 G^F|G2 z2 d2|
e4 d2|c2 e2 g2|(d6|d6|
d2 ^f3 g|a6|d2 g3 a|b6|
d2 ^f3 a|b4 a2|(g6|1 g2) z2 g^f:|
2 g2) z4||
# Posted on September 25th 2004 by ceolachan
Metsakukkia
is played by the "Boys of the Lough", by many IrTRad bands and even a few sessions, so it is traditional, isn't it?
# Posted on September 27th 2004 by swisspiper
I like your argument 'urs', but I've tried before and had stuff just disappear - "POOF!" - so I've added it back here. The connection was hammering for release in my head, but it took awhile for my misfiring brain cells to dig it out. I hope 'Otters' is different enough, at least steeped in the Moskovskaya, to exist on its own, for the sake of all inspiration involved...
# Posted on September 27th 2004 by ceolachan
Metsäkukkia - done URS!
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/4585
# Posted on June 10th 2005 by ceolachan