Key signature: Adorian
Submitted on February 23rd 2005 by Four-Fingered Fre.
This tune has been added to 46 tunebooks.
Also known as Elzig's Farewell, Elzik's Farewell.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Elzic's Farewell
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Ador
e3e eAdA|~c3d cAGE|ga2a agef|gfga gecA|
e3e eAdA|~c3d cAGE|A3B AGED|1EGAB A2z2:|2EGAB A2A2-||
ABAG EGAB|c3d eged|c2dA cAGD|EGAB A2A2-|
ABAG EGAB|c3d eged|c2dA cAGD|EGAB A2z2|
A3G A2GA|cd2d- d_ecA|cd2d- dAcd|d_edc dcA=e|
GAAG A2GA|cd2d- ddcA|cd2d- dAcd|d_edc A2z2:|
Cool tune! I Have jotted it down from the rubai-recording by Flook. It seems that this is in fact a bluegrass tune.
# Posted on February 23rd 2005 by Four-Fingered Fre
Elzic's
This is a great West Virginia tune.... being from a WV rooted family I have to make a correction... this is definitely not a "bluegrass" tune. It seems there is a misconception about bluegrass in Europe and the USA!... that it is the "mountain" music or traditional music of America that came about from the Scot-Irish settlers. The truth is that if you go to any bluegrass festival in the US and start playing Reels and JIgs and even this tune .. "Elzics Farewell" that you won't get much company or appreciation because bluegrass repertoire is 99% derived from original songs written in the 40's and 50's. The true Appalachian music is still very obscure and mainly identified with the Southern "old-time" string band scene which is only a small part of the traditional music of the Appalachian region or the traditional music of the USA. Don't take this little post of mine to personal offence, but to call Elzic's a bluegrass tune is a huge misnomer. In fact the traditional music of the Appalachian's is more comparable to Irish traditional music with its jigs, reels, hornpipes, mazurkas etc... these tune types are a very small part of what bluegrass music really is... bluegrass is more of a blues based music with those "old world" tune types and formulas being a part of the mix. I would more acurately characterize Elsic's as an Appalachian tune. There is some skepticism of whether its even a trad. tune because there is strong evidence that the author of the tune is known... Kentuckian Harvey G. Elswick .
# Posted on February 25th 2005 by Sean MacOda Criobhan
A correction
I just wanted to add that "most" of the core of what is bluegrass came from the musicians in the 40's and 50's... modern bluegrassers usually draw from the original compositions from the 40-50-60's and introduce their own original songwriting... only every now and then does a trad. tune show up.
# Posted on February 25th 2005 by Sean MacOda Criobhan
When was this written?
does anyone know when this was written, because the chromatic part in part c sounds very contempory
# Posted on November 18th 2006 by henry_oh
A Great Tune
Mary Custy, a great Irish fiddle player with her own unique style plays gives this tune a contempory airing, lovely double stopping!
# Posted on January 12th 2007 by reelname
1800s
goes back to the 1800's... this take on it is much different than trad. usa versions.
# Posted on March 23rd 2007 by Sean MacOda Criobhan