Key signature: Fmajor
Submitted on November 22nd 2004 by CC.
This tune has been added to 22 tunebooks.
Also known as New Land.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: New Land, The
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
R: waltz
K: Fmaj
CDE|:F4FG|Ac3d2|c3AG2|F3G(3AGF|B3AGA|Bd3f2|
d3BG2|G3G(3AGF|A3FAF|A2c2f2|a3gf2|d3efg|
a3gf2|ge3c2|d4-de|[1d3cAG:|[2d3efg||
|:a3gab|a2g2f2|B4Bc|B2d2f2|g3fga|g2f2e2|A4AB|A2c2e2|
f3efg|f2e2d2|G4GA|G2F2D2|cA3F2|GE3C2|D4-DE|D6:|
Otis Tomas
H:Composed by Otis Tomas
N:Recording by Touchstone, The New Land (Green Linnet SIF1040)
N:Transcribed by Bruce Thomson
As well as creating such beautiful melodies, Otis Tomas also crafts very fine musical instruments in Cape Breton.
# Posted on November 22nd 2004 by CC
http://www.cranfordpub.com/otis/
# Posted on November 22nd 2004 by ceolachan
Otis Thomas ~ further on ~
"Imagining the Real: Theorizing Cultural Production and Social Difference in the Cape Breton Back-to-the-Land Community"
by Amish C. Morrell, 1999
A thesis submitted - University of Toronto,
National Library of Canada, Ottowa
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ45866.pdf
These interviews were published by "Cape Breton's Magazine", Ron Caplan editor, Wreck Cove...
Otis Thomas ~ continues to live in Cape Breton and builds musical instruments using locally grown wood. ~
"Of the 1960's ~ a lot of us were sort of rejecting that type of society that just sort of provides you with everything. That was part of my challenge to that, to see tha I could be myself and have nothing, and still have strength that I could survive..."
Thomas traveled around North America, working, playing music, and briefly being part of different communal living arrangements. Thomas eventually came to Cape Breton where he and his family lived in a tipi, surviving on minimal financial resources. In talking about a song that he wrote when they were just starting out in Cape Breton, a waltz called "The New Land", he describes what it was like then.
"I wrote it...September...We were in the teepee again, we sere just kind og getting settled there. I an remember the afttertnoon, a nice kind of sunny, Fall sort of day, just playing the fiddle. Just the whole idea of the new land...in a new country, a new land. And we had our own land, our little piece of property we were starting at. It was just kind of a sense of leaving behind all the things...and all the things that were opening up at the same time. Just that whole, that kind of sense, I think, is sort of what's in that tune."
# Posted on February 2nd 2007 by ceolachan
"Bill Nicholson's 67th" ~ a jig by Otis Tomas
Key signature: G Major
Submitted on February 2nd 2007 by Dow.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/6737
# Posted on February 2nd 2007 by ceolachan
"Emily's Reel" ~ Otis Tomas
Key signature: D Major
Submitted on June 15th 2002 by gian marco.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/763
# Posted on February 2nd 2007 by ceolachan
"Fiddle Tree: Stringed Instruments by Otis A. Tomas"
http://www.fiddletree.com/
# Posted on February 2nd 2007 by ceolachan
Great Tune!
This is more close to the recording by Touchstone I have (from a collection CD called "Celtic Women in Music and Song"). This sounds good on mandolin, but when playing on fiddle or whistle, I'd tie the first note to second one, in each bar if they are the same. (like in bar 3).
X: 1
T: New Land, The
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
R: waltz
C: Otis Tomas
K: Fmaj
|: F3 E FG | A c2c cd | c2 cA G2 | F2 FG AF | B2 BA GA | Bd2 d df | d2 dB G2 | G2 GA (3BAG |
A3 F AF | Ac2 c fg | (3aaa ag f2 | d2 de fg | (3aaa ag f2 | ge3 c2 | Ad d2 c2 |[1 d2 dc AG :|[2 d2 de fg ||
|: (3aaa ag ab | a2 g2 f2 | B2 BA Bc | B2 c2 d2 | g2 gf ga | g2 f2 e2 | A2 AG AB | A2B2c2|
f2 fe fg | f2e2d2 | G2 GF GA | G2 F2 D2 | cA3F2 | GE3C2 | A,D D2 C2 | D6 :|
# Posted on November 16th 2007 by middlefaster