Key signature: Amixolydian
Submitted on January 11th 2007 by The Merry Highlander.
This tune has been added to 10 tunebooks.
Also known as An Durzhunel, The Turtle Dove.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Turtledove, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Amix
cd |: e2ed c2cd | edef e2ef | g4 a4| e6 cd :|
|: e2ed c2cd | edef e2AB | c2e2 dcBG |1 A6 cd :|2 A4 A4||
Fun tune
I don't know the name of this one... I searched the Session to see if it was already here... I couldn't find it. I learned it from a Chieftans recording and don't know where that recording may
be for reference. I put it in as a reel, but it may not be a real reel. Also the key may not be the Chieftans key.
# Posted on January 11th 2007 by The Merry Highlander
Name?
I need the name of this tune... Anyone got it?
# Posted on January 13th 2007 by The Merry Highlander
Pretty sure it's not on any of the first 9 Chieftains albums, if that narrows it down any. I stopped listening to them after that, apart from "Water From The Well". Might it be from one of their Christmas albums ? Certainly sounds like a song air to me. Can't help any more than that, I'm afraid.
# Posted on January 13th 2007 by Kenny
The tune
Thanks Kenny... they recorded it as instrumental and its a really powerful arrangement with some counter melody/harmony. Your right the basic structure has been used as a song air in different forms.
# Posted on January 13th 2007 by The Merry Highlander
sound a bit like the B-part of "The Glen Road to Carrick"
# Posted on January 15th 2007 by swisspiper
Glen Road...
Thats not it...
# Posted on January 16th 2007 by The Merry Highlander
It rings a bell - probably a Breton tune from their "Celtic Wedding" LP.
# Posted on January 16th 2007 by Jeeves Tones
Celtic Wedding
Its not on there
# Posted on January 17th 2007 by The Merry Highlander
Ah - but I have a strong hunch that it is a Breton tune. What about the set of Breton tunes on Chieftains 10, I think it was, that starts with a flute solo by Molloy?
I had that LP once. Checking the track listing on here for their "Cotton-eyed Joe" (aka Chieftains 10), I see "An Durzhunel". Try that one.
# Posted on January 17th 2007 by Jeeves Tones
Thats it!
Thanks
# Posted on June 4th 2007 by The Merry Highlander
The Name
I was driving to Colorado and found this old Chieftans cassette in the storage compartment and this tune was on it! So Jeeves you wrere 100% right...
# Posted on June 4th 2007 by The Merry Highlander
"An Durzhunel" = the turtledove, who supposedly mate for life
This has also been arranged and played by Alan Stivell on several of his recordings ~
"Alan Stivell: Alan Stivell"
"Alan Stivell: Olympia Concert"
I know this as mostly a song for which there are lyrics, or played as an air... Is there a dance version too?
Lyrics:
http://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_durzhunel
# Posted on June 4th 2007 by ceolachan
Here's just a fragment of the air transcribed ~ ???
The bars are only there to keep it all from running away...
K: a minor
|: A2 c<A A4 | d2 c<A G4- | G2 G2 A<B c2- | c2 ef/e/ dc- c2- |
c2 ef/e/ d2 c<A- | A6 GF | G6 A2- | A2 B<c d4- | d2 e2 c<A- AA- | A8 :|
# Posted on June 4th 2007 by ceolachan
Song
The Chieftans did it at what Id call dance tempo... I know of songs in the USA that use this tune oe variations of its "family."
# Posted on June 6th 2007 by The Merry Highlander