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Road To Barga

slip jig

Key signature: Gmajor

Submitted on May 8th 2006 by jdicarlo.

This tune has been added to 46 tunebooks.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

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X: 1
T: Road To Barga
M: 9/8
L: 1/8
R: slip jig
K: Gmaj
M:7/8
DEG ABdB | edB g2ed | edB dBe2 | dBG ABGE |
DEG ABdB | edB g2ed | edB dBe2 | dAB G2~G2 :|
edB g2eg | abg e2dB | dBA B2DE | DEG ABG2 |
edB g2eg | abg e2dB | deg e2dB | dAB G2~G2 ||
edB g2ab | abg e2dB | dBA B2DE | DEG ABGE |
DEG ABGA | Bde g2ed | edB dBe2 | dAB G2~G2 ||

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Road To Barga sheetmusic
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The Balkanization of ITM

Here's yet another 7/8 tune. This one written by piper Cillian Vallely. I think that there are enough of these quirky tunes out there that we need a separate tempo option in the pull down . . .

# Posted on May 8th 2006 by jdicarlo

The Balkanization of ITM

I agree there is a case for a 7/8 tempo option in the pull-down, because there is a handful of ITM tunes like that (Grey Larsen's Thunderhead comes to mind), and anyway it isn't all that difficult to convert a 6/8 tune into 7/8 (and vice versa).

But I think you'd have to draw the line at the exotic time signatures you can get in Eastern European music, mainly because they're not really part of the celtic tradition, the tempos tend to change frequently in such tunes (because they're transcriptions of what is essentially a difficult aural tradition to notate), and the pull-down option would soon get out of hand.

# Posted on May 8th 2006 by lazyhound

Balkan impulse

Nice tune.

bar 1, 5 & 21 may be played
| DEG B2 dB | instead of | DEG ABdB |

I also agree for an assymetric option in the pull-down.


# Posted on May 8th 2006 by Fred Saur

Other 7/8 ITM tunes

Watermans, Wrong Foot Forward, The Gentle Giant, Famous Last Words, Through the Roof, . . .

There must be others as well . . .

# Posted on May 8th 2006 by jdicarlo

And I was just working on gettting this tune, but you beat to it.

# Posted on May 8th 2006 by Unseen122

you have the time sig wrong.
It's a 5/8 tune

# Posted on October 31st 2007 by RudallRose

duh...my fault....it is 7/8
<raising hand to "who can't count?">
:)

# Posted on October 31st 2007 by RudallRose

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