Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on November 4th 2004 by Kenny.
This tune has been added to 13 tunebooks.
Also known as Tuaim Na Farraige.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Atlantic Roar, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Gmaj
(3DEF |: G2 GF G2 Gf | gefd e^cAG | F2 FE F2 D2 | G2 GF GDB,D |
G2 GF G2 Gf | gefd e^cAG | F2 FE F2 DF |1 AB (3AGF GDEF :|2 AB (3AGF GABc ||
de (3d^ce d2 B=c | (3def ga bgdc | Be (3d^ce d2 =cB | A2 F2 A2 FA |
de (3d^ce d2 B=c | (3def ga bgdc | (3BdB GB (3AcA FA |1 G2 GF GABc |2 G2 GF G4 :|
Atlantic Roar
This is a transcription of "The Atlantic Roar" from "The Northern Fiddler”.
In the mid/late 1960s, Aberdeen Folk club produced a small magazine called “Chapbook”, and one of the issues in 1967 had a short article on Johnny Doherty. The hornpipe “The Atlantic Roar” was mentioned in that
particular article as follows:
“Far and away the most remarkable tune of John Doherty’s collection is “The Atlantic Roar”, a tune in hornpipe time that John Mosie McGinley of Glencolumkille composed. This is the story of it’s composition.
John Mosie McGinley was a fiddler and a friendly rival of John Doherty’s father. One night he was returning from a wedding party and being overcome with fatigue [!] he lay down on a sand dune on the seashore and fell asleep. As he slept, the sea kept shouting its’sad mysterious and lonesome story and when John Mosie woke, he reached for his fiddle and composed this tune. It is a tune full of the great voice of the Western Ocean and of the swell and wash of the waves on a shingly strand.”
# Posted on November 4th 2004 by Kenny
Atlantic Roar
Thanks for this Kenny
There was a discussion about a submission of the Reel by same name recently (posted as the hornpipe) where I posted the info from Fiddler's Companion and suggested someone get the tune from the Northern Fiddler so that the correct hornpipe be included. The Tune and my comments were all deleted. So I didn't know if anyone else read that before its implosion into cyberspace.
# Posted on November 5th 2004 by Donough
A Roar
3rd bar B section - last note of triplet is an octave too low I think.
# Posted on November 5th 2004 by Donough
Yaaaaaay!
# Posted on November 5th 2004 by Dow
Key ?
With all the C#'s in this tune, isn't it in D?
# Posted on November 7th 2004 by 2situla
Spelling!
The spelling in Irish is wrong, as usual. It's "Tuaim na Farraige" which just means "the sound of the sea"
# Posted on February 17th 2005 by LongNote
Composer
I was playing this recently. Although it has been many years since I learned this from an old CCE LP of Doherty's playing, I am sure he introduces the tune and names "an old fiddler" Anthony Helferty, as the sleeper-composer, not John Mhosai. A mighty tune and one "perfectly composed snippet of abstraction" which really does echo its inspiration. I am giving my version of it here, but be warned, I never learned to read / write music. A key for me is still something you open doors with, or sardine tins in the old days. However, by looking at ABCs and knowing what it should all sound like when it comes together, I think this is reasonably accurate, at least according to the ABC converter I tried it on. If it is a complete FU, I will cite Tansey as my excuse "Tis only an experiment".
X: 1
T: Tuaim na Farraige / The Atlantic Roar
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: G
DEF|G2 {A}GF G2 ef|gefd e^cAG|F2 {G}FE F2 D2|G2 {A}GF GDB,D|
G2 {A}GF G2 ef|gefd e^cAG|F2 {G}FE F2 DF|AB A/G/F GABc||
|:d^cde d2B=c|d/e/f gbab gd|Bdde d2=cB|AFDF AFDF|d^cde d2B=c|
d/e/f gabg d=c|B2GB A2FA|1 G2GF GAB=c:|2 G2GF G|
# Posted on July 10th 2005 by LongNote