The Keelman Ower The Land

waltz

Key signature: Gmajor

Submitted on September 11th 2006 by nicholas.

This tune has been added to 11 tunebooks.

X: 1
T: Keelman Ower The Land, The
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
R: waltz
K: Gmaj
|:dc/B/A/G/ d2g|dc/B/A/G/ d2g|ecA gcA|ecA efg|
dBG GAB|Bge dBG|A/B/c/B/A B/c/d/c/B|e2d efg:|
|:ddg ddg|ddg dcB|eea eea|eea edc|
ddg ddg|Gge dBG|A/B/c/B/A B/c/d/c/B|e2d efg:|
|:d/B/GG G/B/GG|d/B/GG G/B/GG|e/c/AA A/c/AA|e/c/AA A/c/AA|
dBG GAB|Bge dBG|A/B/c/B/A B/c/d/c/B|1 e2d efg:|2 e2d efa|g3-g3|-g3 ||

Details ABC Sheetmusic Comments

Details ABC Sheetmusic Comments

The Keelman Ower The Land - a second go at getting the dots printed...

I have entered this tune as a waltz, but the system hasn't printed the sheet music. So I have tried to enter the tune in jig time, hoping that it will print the sheet music if I do it thus.

# Posted on September 11th 2006 by nicholas

If it is a waltz put it in as a waltz. The sheet music appears after 24 hours or so. Jeremy has to add this himself.

# Posted on September 11th 2006 by No Cause For Alarm

Why don't you simply e-mail Jeremy and remind him to do the sheetmusic for your other submission?

# Posted on September 12th 2006 by Dow

I left it in the system long enough. Getting impatient, I noted that in the Northumbrian Pipers' Tune Book it was set down in 6/8, so thought I'd try to submit the tune a second time using this time signature.
I don't know if the tune was ever played as a jig; certainly it's impressed me most played in a brisk 3/4 time.
The Battlefield Band ended a set with a great rendition of this tune which included a fourth part, maybe recently composed. I've put ABC's for this, and other comments, under my first entry of this tune, on September 5, 2006 - that first entry didn't produce sheet music.

# Posted on September 12th 2006 by nicholas

6/8

I cannot help think that this tune is anything other than a 6/8.
without rearranging the bar lines 3/4 just doesn't work.
look at such tunes as "Wylam Away" and "Cuddie Clauder", both found in the Charlton Memorial Tune Book. Similar structures are here found. I certainly count this as 123456, not 1+2+3+. To me that's 6/8 not 3/4.

# Posted on September 12th 2006 by hetty

Northumbrian Pipers Tune Book

My copy of the NPTB was published in 1970 and does not have this tune in it. Do you have an updated edition perhaps?

# Posted on September 12th 2006 by hetty

There are now (at least) three Northumbrian Pipers' Soc. Tune Books

It's in the Second Northumbrian Pipers' Society Tune Book; there are now three, to my certain knowledge. Each has a different selection of tunes: they are not updates of the same book. The Northumbrian Pipers' Society has a website describing its literature and, presumably, saying how you can get hold of it. A music shop in Newcastle - Windows, Grainger Arcade, Newcastle-upon-Tyne - stocks the tune books, should you wish to order one.
I've massacred some of my favourite tunes trying to suss these ABC's, but I think I'm getting there.

# Posted on September 13th 2006 by nicholas

Thanks Nicholas for that. I have a friend who runs a folk book shop from his house and he just might have them or be able to get them. I will enquire. When I first started contributing tunes to the session I used ABC2win first of all to check what I had done. I also keep a notebook with all the instructions for transcribing tunes. I still use it frequently.

# Posted on September 13th 2006 by hetty

Time scale

Its really an old pipe tune. It was written long before waltzes were invented. The three beats are not even at all and the only way to get people to dance to it is play it for smooth one-to-the-bar dances like some of the continental waltzes. If you play it as a pipe air its still brisk but its not really a dance tune at all.
Noel

# Posted on September 19th 2006 by noelbats

As a jig

Jig time? Novel but possibly not tasteful. I wonder how that would go down at the Chantry or the Cumberland Arms or Beamish?
Noel

# Posted on September 19th 2006 by noelbats

I'd say 6/4

# Posted on September 23rd 2006 by Dow

Here it is as a standard slip jig:

# Posted on September 26th 2007 by Dow

Did you lose your reading glasses? ~ 9 to the bar? I'm only counting 6... :-/

# Posted on September 26th 2007 by ceolachan

Sorry, I meant 6/8 jig.

# Posted on July 13th 2008 by Dow