Key signature: Bminor
Submitted on October 23rd 2005 by RogueFiddler.
This tune has been added to 115 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Across The Black River
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Bmin
B3 BAB|FAB A2f|ecA ABc|B2A F2E|
B3 BAB|AFE Ace|f3 fec|1 B3 BAF:|2 B3 Bcd||
efe e2c|B2A F2E|EFA BAB|c2e Bcd|
efe e2c|B2A F2E|BcB A2E|1 F3 Fcd:|2 F3 F2A||
Across the Black River
This jig in Bmin, written by Kevin Burke as played with Ged Foley on their recent "In Tandum" recording.
It was also recorded on The Celtic Fiddle Festival CD "Encore" in Dmin.
# Posted on October 23rd 2005 by RogueFiddler
Great tune, thanks for posting it. It faintly reminds me of another fine b-minor jig Kevin Burke wrote, "Up in the Air," which he recorded on "Portland."
# Posted on October 23rd 2005 by smw
Thanks, smw. Good ear, Up In the Air is played with this tune in the Celtic Fiddle Festival set.
# Posted on October 23rd 2005 by RogueFiddler
More a slide than a jig I feel.
# Posted on October 31st 2005 by hetty
Slide or jig?
Interesting hetty - I don't get that feel from the phrasing. I know Kevin called it a jig at the Cincinnati fest in Ohio this past summer. Can you eleborate a bit on why feel it's a slide?
# Posted on October 31st 2005 by RogueFiddler
Slight tweak
minor modifications to the last line (last 2 1/2 bars and adding 1st and 2nd endings)
# Posted on November 1st 2005 by RogueFiddler
Per request, here is the tune as Kevin and company played it on the Celtic Fiddle Festival recording "Encore"
K:Dmin
R:Jig
M:6/8
L:1/8
C:Kevin Burke
d3 dcd|Acd c2a|gec cde|d2c A2G|
d3 dcd|cAG ceg|a3 age|1 d3 dcA:|2 d3 def||
gag g2e|d2c A2G|GAc dcd|e2g def|
gag g2e|d2c A2G|ded c2G|1 A3 Aef:|2 A3 A2c||
# Posted on November 1st 2005 by RogueFiddler
my initial reaction from looking at it (especially the 'B' music) and singing it in my head was to link each pair of bars 1+2, 3+4, etc to form a phrase. 4 pairs of triplets giving 4 beats such as I recognise in slides. 12/8 with two 6/8 bars linked together. Hope that all makes sense.
# Posted on November 2nd 2005 by hetty
Fair enough...
I can see how you could read the phrases that way. I guess several jigs have phrases that stretch over 2 bars giving them a slide quality and visa versa
# Posted on November 4th 2005 by RogueFiddler
Listen to Kevin Burke & Cal Scott
http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=muS2GEeJ3x4
The othetr tune is The last train from Loughrea
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/7993
# Posted on November 23rd 2007 by swisspiper
B dorian?
This tune is in B dorian, not B minor. The key signature should be A.
# Posted on May 19th 2009 by T
B dorian or B minor doesn't matter ....
T - you're splitting hairs .. the G# in the B dorian scale or the G nat in the B minor scale doesn't matter since there are no G's in this tune. Irish tunes are about the melody line not the chordal structure anyway.
# Posted on May 28th 2009 by RogueFiddler