Key signature: Amixolydian
Submitted on January 9th 2007 by slainte.
This tune has been added to 12 tunebooks.
X: 1
T: Behind The Ditch In Pairc Anna
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Amix
|:G|EAAB c2d2|eged B2d2|.e2A2 BAGB|AGEF GEDG|
EAAB c2d2|eged B2d2|.e2Ac BAGE|A2AB A3:|
g|eaag e2d2|eaag egd2|.e2A2 BAGB|AGEF GED2|
eaag e2d2|eaag egd2|.e2Ac BAGE|A2AB A3g|
eaag e2d2|eaag egd2|.e2A2 BAGB|AGEF GEDG|
EAAB c2d2|eged B2d2|.e2Ac BAGE|A2AB A3||
Behind the Ditch in Páirc Anna (hornpipe)
Learned from Harry Bradley's flute playing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgddZS-EI_c
Charlie Piggott and Gerry Harrington recorded a different version in a different key on their duet album "The New Road". I'll try to transcribe their version too in a few days.
Some of you might think it's a bit similar to well-known Clare tune, "The Humours of Tullycrine": http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/980
# Posted on January 9th 2007 by slainte
Don't you immediately think 'King of the Fairies' ? There's more than a passing similarity there.
# Posted on January 9th 2007 by kilfarboy
No. I don't see much similarity between the two tunes.
# Posted on January 9th 2007 by slainte
Seriously? Transpose either of them into the other's key then and give it another go
# Posted on January 9th 2007 by kilfarboy
Title
Does anyone know what the title means and/or refers to? I´d be thankful for any information. I also would like to know who wrote it or if it is a "traditional" tune.
# Posted on January 9th 2007 by Reelin´ man
slainte, thank you a lot for your transcribtion.
however i don't see lot similarites between this tune and
humours of tullycrine, except tune key.
from my point of view harry play this tune more as march.i
i posses beautyfull version of tullycrine from deidre havlin gig , where she play it first as air, than more or less as hornpipe and at the end as reel.
marin
# Posted on January 9th 2007 by maracirac
This is a traditional tune, I believe. And Páirc Anna, or Annfield, seems to be a placename. It's true it somewhat sounds like a march, but Charlie Piggott and Gerry Harrington recorded it as a hornpipe. It seems Johnny O'Leary also recorded it as a hornpiple: http://www.irishtune.info/tune/655 Some hornpipes developed from song airs or set dances, so maybe this one too.
# Posted on January 10th 2007 by slainte
Hiro, I have to side with 'kilfarboy'... You know both tunes, give them a go together and I suspect you'll hear the similarities... This is an interesting one. I look forward to your other transcriptions of it as we don't have any of these recordings. I can see how it might be worked into a march...
Damn! ~ I just took it that way, it's great as a march...
# Posted on January 10th 2007 by ceolachan
Hmm there are very slight similarities in the melodies but a lot of difference in phrasing. I much prefer this tune to King of the Fairies.
# Posted on January 10th 2007 by Conán McDonnell
?
I still don't see any similarity between this one and the King of the Fairy, which I loathe. They are both in 4/4 though.
# Posted on January 10th 2007 by slainte
Harry Bradley plays it in the video first as a (pipe) march then as a hornpipe, i personally prefer the first.
# Posted on January 11th 2007 by swisspiper
He just plays it slowly first!
# Posted on January 11th 2007 by slainte
Another version from Charlie Piggott and Gerry Harrington
K: Gmix
F|DGGA B2c2|dedc A2c2|.d2G2 AGFD|GcAG FDC2|
DGGA B2c2|dedc A2c2|.d2G2 AGFA|G2G^F G3:|
f|d2g^f d2c2|dgg^f d2c2|dggG AGFD|GcAG FDC2|
DGGA B2c2|dedc A2c2|.d2G2 AGFA|G2G^F G3:|
I'm not very good at transcribing tunes in awkward keys, but this is close to what they recorded.
# Posted on January 11th 2007 by slainte
Hornpipes as Marches
A lot of the so called Orange marches (the tunes not the rallies) are actually Hornpipes whith slightly modified phrasing and rhythms. This one sounds like it might belong, if it doesn't already, in that repertoire. It's akin to the Red-haired Boy, etc...
# Posted on June 4th 2007 by birlibirdie