Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on December 9th 2006 by ceolachan.
This tune has been added to 6 tunebooks.
Also known as Ymdaith Encil Meirionydd.
X: 1
T: Meirionethshire Retreat March, The
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Gmaj
|: B/A/ |
G>BG Adc | Bge dgB | c>ec BGB | AA/A/A A2 B/A/ |
GBG Ad>c | Bge dB/c/d | ece f>df | gGG G2 :|
|: B/c/ |
d2 B dgd | e2 c ege | dd/d/c BGB | cA^G A2 B/A/ |
G2 B A>dc | Bge dB>d | e2 e fd/e/f | gG/G/G G2 :|
"The Meirionethshire Retreat March" ~ 18th Century & in 6/8
Despite a few of these 'retreat marches' being in 6/8, that means the midi takes them at a rip. They are not jigs and are taken very relaxed, so in a sense, despite it having been written way back when in 6/8, doubling the amount of measures and giving it in 3/4 would have slowed it down close to how it should be taken.
There is some information on this in the 'Comments' to the following 'retreat march':
# Posted on December 9th 2006 by ceolachan
"The Lochanside Retreat March" ~ by Pipe Major John McLellan
Key signature: D Major
Submitted on December 8th 2006 by Unseen122.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/6479
# Posted on December 9th 2006 by ceolachan
"The Rakes Of Kildare ~ Retreat March"
Key signature: A Dorian
Submitted on May 25th 2001 by Jeremy.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/84
This is a beauty played as a march, slow, a 'retreat march', and it also is a great way to introduce this lovely melody to learners, one better known as a jig...
# Posted on December 9th 2006 by ceolachan
The Meirionethshire Retreat March
What is there to retreat FROM, in Meirionethshire?
What is there to retreat TO, in Meirionethshire?
# Posted on December 9th 2006 by nicholas
Good question nicholas, I'll ask around...
# Posted on December 9th 2006 by ceolachan
I take it that things were a bit different in the 1700s...
# Posted on December 10th 2006 by ceolachan
"The Meirionethshire March" / "Ymdaith Meirionnydd" - completing the set
Key signature: G Major
Submitted on December 14th 2006 by ceolachan.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/6507
# Posted on December 14th 2006 by ceolachan
"Ymdaith & Ymdaith Encil Meirionnydd" gan/by John Perry Ddall Rhiwabon
A different take on these can be found here:
"Pocket Tune-Book: John Perry Ddall Rhiwabon"
~ One of several 'Tune-Books' edited and arranged by Robin Huw Bowen
Gwasg Teires, Aberystwyth, Cymru / Wales, 1991
Tune # 25: "Ymdaith & Ymdaith Encil Meirionnydd" / "Meirionethshire March & Retreat March"
# Posted on December 14th 2006 by ceolachan
John Parry o Rhiwabon ("Parry Ddall") ~ 1710 - 1782
"A Collection of Welsh English and Scotch Airs" ~ 1760
"Ancient British Music" ~ 1742
"British Harmony" ~ 1781
Compiled by John Parry
Blind Parry of Ruabon, Welsh Triple Harpist, born blind near Nefyn on Pen Llŷn, Caernarfonshire, Cymru / Wales...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Parry_Ddall
# Posted on December 14th 2006 by ceolachan
The published works of Robin Huw Bowen
http://www.welshfolkdance.org.uk/
http://www.welshfolkdance.org.uk/grwpiau/aberystwyth/rhb/robinhuwbowen_publ.htm
# Posted on December 14th 2006 by ceolachan