Leaving Brittany

waltz

Key signature: Dminor

Submitted on January 29th 2005 by John-N.

This tune has been added to 74 tunebooks.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• 25 Years Of Celtic Music (Disc 1) by Various Artists
• Celtic Fiddle Festival by Celtic Fiddle Festival
• Each Little Thing by Sharon Shannon
• Fiddle Fair: Declan McCarthy's Baltimore by Various Artists
• From The Chest by Kevin O'Connor
• In Good Company - The Very Best Of by Kevin Burke
• Play On by Celtic Fiddle Festival
• Relativity by Relativity
• The Fair Essex by Mawkin
• The Great Divide by Emerald

X: 1
T: Leaving Brittany
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
R: waltz
K: Dmin
dc |: A ~d3 fd | a ~d3 cd | A ~d3 fd | ag fe df |!
e ~c3 =Bc | Gc cc cA | ^cd ef gf | ed cB AG |!
A ~d3 fd | a ~d3 cd | A ~d3 fd | ag fe df |!
e ~c3 =Bc | Gc cc cA | ^cd ec ac |1 d4 dc :|2 d3 A df |!
|: a ~A3 df | a ~A3 df | a2 ga (3aag | a2 g2 f2 |!
e ~c3 =Bc | Gc cc cA | ^c2 d2 e2 | e2 f2 g2 |!
a ~A3 df | a ~A3 df | a2 ga (3aag | a2 g2 f2 |!
e ~c3 =Bc | Gc cc cA | ^cd ec ac |1 d3 A df :|2 d3 d cd |]

A great Phil Cunningham tune which I've wanted the music for for ages.

Thanks for posting it.

# Posted on January 31st 2005 by Geoff Pollitt

Johnny?

I'd need to check, Geoff, but wasn't it Johnny who composed this?

# Posted on January 31st 2005 by Kenny

Re: Johnny

From the Celtic Fiddle Festival liner notes: "Leaving Brittany is a tune Johnny wrote when he was doing just that...leaving Brittany.

# Posted on February 1st 2005 by homebrewz

Is this not a Strathspey?

# Posted on February 1st 2005 by Pádraig

You're right Kenny.
Wrong Cunningham.
I will withdraw from public life immediately in embarrassment.

# Posted on February 1st 2005 by Geoff Pollitt

Naw.....

That won't be necessary , Geoff - just go and learn "Nana's Walkabout" as penance -

# Posted on February 1st 2005 by Kenny

Composer?

Can you please tel me more about this tune? Who is the composer? Johnny who?
Thanks!
Christine

# Posted on June 12th 2005 by manouche

Johnny Cunningham, brother of Phil...

# Posted on June 12th 2005 by ceolachan

Link to Johnny C playing it

Here's the man himself playing it at the Kennedy Centre in Washington DC with brother Phil, just a few months before his passing:

http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/millennium/artist_detail.cfm?artist_id=CUNNINPHIL#

Click on "Watch This Performance" and skip to about 15 and a half minutes to hear it played as the first in a set of three waltzes. If you've always wondered what Johnny Cunningham and Dougie MacLean'd look like waltzing across a concert hall stage, wait till Phil does the last one on his own. Actually, stuff that - watch the whole gig, it's hilarious with just the sort of playing you might expect.

# Posted on May 27th 2007 by Swift