Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on February 2nd 2005 by fidkid.
This tune has been added to 35 tunebooks.
Also known as The Crying Of The Women At The Slaughter, Eagle's Whistle, The Eagle's Whistle March, Eagles Whistle, The O'Donovan Clan March.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Gol Na MBan San Ar
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
R: waltz
K: Dmaj
|: F2 A>FED | F2 A>FED | E2 E>FED | E2 E>FED |
F2 A>FED | F2 A>FED | D2 D>FEF | D2 D>FED :|
|: B2 ABDA | B2 A>FED | E2 E>FED | E2 E>FED |
B2 ABDA | B2 A>FEF | D2 D>FEF | D2 D>FED :|
Simple but pretty tune. From the playing of Seamus Ennis on “The Bonny Bunch of Roses”. It also appears in Bill Och’s Clarke tutorial as “The Eagle’s Whistle” and is obviously a 3/4 version of the tune listed here:
http://thesession.org/tunes/display.php/1837
A tune by this title is also on The Chieftains 9/Boil the Breakfast Early album, played as a slow air, but bears little resemblance to this or the other tune. The liner notes on the Chieftains album suggest it is a fragment of a longer piece and this might explain the discrepancies.
# Posted on February 2nd 2005 by fidkid
This is most commonly known as the Eagle's whistle but more importantly for me (as an O'Donovan) this is the O'Donovan Clan March. As such it is argued that it should be in a 2/4 or 4/4 time signature but there are other marches in 3/4 so that can be disputed.
Great tune - but then I'm biased.
# Posted on February 3rd 2005 by Donough
On the Hill/MacMahon "Music of Dreams" (in the database), Tony plays it as an air, and follows it with a jig he calls "Cnocan An Teampaill", but which sounds like another clan march to me.
# Posted on May 30th 2005 by coyotebanjo
The tune on the Bonny Bunch of Roses refered to as Gol na mBan San Ar is in fact the Eagles Whistle.
The tunes are not related. Some one just got the wrong info for the track listing and typed it up.
Tommy
# Posted on January 24th 2006 by tompipes
Micky 'Cumbaw' O'Sullivan's on Gusty's Frolicks (1975)
On his 1975 CD, Sean Keane plays an air that I'd say is what The Chieftains - his Chieftains after all - have called "Gol Na MBan San Ar" (see fidkid's comment above). I wonder if the so-called Micky 'Cumbaw' O'Sullivan's Air is related. It sure sounds alike to me.
I would tend to put those as versions of one another.
If you can shed llight on this, I'll appreciate.
# Posted on January 25th 2007 by f.pellerin
The Eagle's Whistle is not part of Mici Cumbaw's version of Gol na mBan san ar. Cnocan An Teampaill is. If you don't know the cylinder recording, a full transcription of the piece by Pat Mitchel appeared in An Piobaire and was reproduced in the collection Ceol an Phiobaire
# Posted on January 25th 2007 by kilfarboy
Mici Cumbaw's cylinder recording is here by the way:
http://ephemer.al.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/sullivan.mp3
# Posted on January 25th 2007 by kilfarboy