Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on September 25th 2004 by gian marco.
This tune has been added to 26 tunebooks.
Also known as Branle Dei Cavalli, Horse's Brawl, Horses Bransle.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Horse's Bransle
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Gmaj
GABB | cB A c | B A G F | E2 E2 |
G A B B | c B A c | B G A A | G2 G2 ||
d c/B/ A A/B/ | c B/A/ G B | A G F G | A2 A2 |
d c/B/ A A/B/ | c B/A/ GB | A G G F | G2 G2 ||
_B A/G/ B A/G/ | F G A2 | D E F G | A _B A G |
_B A/G/ B A/G/ | F G A2 | DE F G | G F G2 |]
Horse's Bransle ( Bransle des Chevaux )
not precisely an irish reel
# Posted on September 25th 2004 by gian marco
Is the rhythm of this straight or is there some swing?
# Posted on September 25th 2004 by Dow
straight
# Posted on September 25th 2004 by gian marco
Horse's Branle
It's very often played with a low F natural in the last part.Opinion is divided.
# Posted on March 1st 2003 by dafydd
We play this alot for some reason, with a bit of 'swing' and a low F nat in the third part apart from the last one. The third part always sound a bit ropey, but on the whole it has a nice Eastern European feel. Goes well with the Bear Dance and/or Man in the Brown Hat.
# Posted on September 25th 2004 by Conway
The Horse's Branle
Is ther a mistke in the fourth bar?It's always played E D,not E E.
# Posted on March 1st 2003 by dafydd
The Horse's Branle
There
# Posted on March 1st 2003 by dafydd
The Horse's Branle
Mistake
# Posted on March 1st 2003 by dafydd
Jocklet, that's the way I know it, ED in bar 4.
(Never played it at a session but have crumhorn-ed it in silly costume many a time.)
# Posted on September 25th 2004 by Tish
The horse's mistatke
I play ED in bar 4 too, but I found in the net that ABC file with EE, and I liked it.
# Posted on September 26th 2004 by gian marco
The Horse's Branle
I've never heard it played that way,and it's played at every session that I attend here in Belgium.
# Posted on March 1st 2003 by dafydd
About the "Horse Branle"
In fact this melody is a médiéval street music from the 13th century.
It's real name is : Le bransle des Chevaux
with a "S". It's a dance called "Bransle".
# Posted on September 26th 2004 by loic
Branle/bransle/brawl has different spellings in different countries. The spelling "branle" is used throughout the Evans/Sutton Dover edition of Arbeau's Orchesographie (which is kind-of the "O'Neill's" of dance in that period) but it's one of those words that gets around.
"Horses" is given in Orchesographie as a mimed branle (danced with miming and gestures) and if anyone's interested, there's a full description and tabulation of the dance there along with the basic tune. The book can be quite entertaining reading anyway, even if you're not a dancer.
# Posted on September 27th 2004 by Tish
We draw out the first eighth note in the first and fifth bars to a dotted eighth. As in: G>A BB | cB Ac etc. Also we play E2 D2 in the fourth bar.
# Posted on September 27th 2004 by Kerri Brown
"Le Vent du Nord" did a great rendition of this along with Daniel Thonon and his brother Luc at Calixa-Lavallee, QC, CA recently. I think it sounds best with the hurdy-gurdy at least accompanying.
# Posted on September 27th 2004 by vonnieestes
vonnieestes, doesn't everything?
# Posted on September 27th 2004 by Kerri Brown
Le bransle des Chevaux / The Horse's Bransle - with swing, little and large:
T: Horse's Bransle
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: bransle
K: Gmaj
G>A BB|cB Ac|BA GF|E2 D2|
G>A BB|cB Ac|BG AF|1 G3 D:| 2 G3 d||
|:dc/B/ AB|cB/A/ GB|AG FG|A3 d|
dc/B/ AB|cB/A/ GB|AG GF|G3 d:|
K:Gdor
BA/G/ BA/G/|FG A2|DE FG|AB AG|
BA/G/ BA/G/|FG A2|DE FG|GF G2:|
# Posted on October 4th 2004 by ceolachan
How Blowzabella blow it:
track 4: Branle de borgogne / Horse branle
on their album "Bobbityshooty"
Another transcriptions in 2/2 can be found on page 50, 'Horses' Branle', of the publication:
"Encyclopaedia Blowzabellica: The Blowzabella Tune and Dance Book"
Dragonfly Music
# Posted on October 4th 2004 by ceolachan