Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on March 2nd 2006 by mikk.
This tune has been added to 63 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Miss Rowan Davies
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
R: waltz
K: Gmaj
BA | G4 D2 | D3 E F2 | G6 | G2 g2 f2 | e3 G G2 | d3 G B2 | A6 | A4 BA |
G4 D2 | D3 E F2 | G6 | G3 A BA | E c3 cA | F4 FG | G6 | G4GF |
E3 E E2 | e3 G G2 | d6 | d4 BA | G3 A B2 | d G3 A2 | B6 | B2 c2 d2 |
e3 E G2 | F3 G AF | G3 A GF | G3 A BG | E c3 cA | F4 FG | G6 | G4 z2|
Miss Rowan Davies
A lovely waltz by Phil Cunningham. I'm surprised it hasn't been put on The Session before now.
# Posted on March 2nd 2006 by mikk
Great tune
This is how Phil Cunningham plays it on Airs and Graces. For a different version on the pipes, listen to the Boys of the Lough version.
# Posted on March 3rd 2006 by smw
Miss Rowan Davies
Perhaps this has already been mentioned somewhere, but Phil Cunningham wrote it to honor the birth of his daughter.
# Posted on March 7th 2006 by Rhythm Lackey
You sure about that ?
# Posted on March 7th 2006 by Kenny
A story I heard was that he auctioned the right to name this tune to the highest bidder, at a concert: the highest bidder duly paid up and named the tune after his own daughter. But I am in no position to know which of the naming stories is true.
# Posted on September 16th 2006 by nicholas
Wrong
I am , and that story is rubbish. Rowan is Phil's step-daughter.
# Posted on November 6th 2006 by Kenny
Erm?
well my cousins name is Rowan Davies... but she has nothing to do with the naming of the tune =D
I noticed a few wrong notes as I was playing through and I also discovered that it's a great tune to play in 3rd position on the fiddle
Lucy
# Posted on July 15th 2008 by Lucy Janet
Since playing the tune in various seshes around fests during the summer, its been pointed out to me how much the melody resembles a traditional Japanese folk song called 'Furusato' or 'My Hometown'
A nice instrumental interpretation here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y-3fQ8uCVg
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I've been looking for the dots for Furusato but can't locate a site - anyone help?
# Posted on October 29th 2009 by Mr Hippy
Many apologies to all!
I've posted this in error, its not Miss Rowan Davies which bears a similarity to Furusato.
I should've posted elsewhere that its actually Michael Turners Waltz which is similar.
# Posted on October 30th 2009 by Mr Hippy