Key signature: Eminor
Submitted on February 4th 2007 by ceolachan.
This tune has been added to 17 tunebooks.
Also known as Garrett's Wedding, Tristan And Iseult, Tristan And Isoelde, Tristan Und Isolde.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Garech's Wedding
M: 9/8
L: 1/8
R: slip jig
K: Emin
^D |: E3 e2 B G2 B | A3 A2 ^G A2 B |
E3 G2 B e2 f |1 gfe fed B2 e :|2 g>fe fed e2 f ||
|: g2 B B^AB g2 e | f2 A A^GA f2 d |
[1 g2 B B^AB g2 e | fdd add e/f/ga :|
[2 g2 e f2 d ee/f/g | B>cB AGF E2 ||
"Garrett's Wedding" ~ by Paddy Maloney
I'm just a bit confused here. I remembered this while enjoying JackB's contribution "Larach Alastair". The confusion is that I'm sure I had another name for this, but then, doing an initial search I found this tune called "Garrett's Wedding" in several reputable elsewheres.
We learned this secondhand, from a harp playing friend who had it off of Paddy. I know my brain loves to play tricks on me, but I was also sure this was a tune Paddy had written for a movie of some sort. For some reason I was thinking "Tristan und Isolde" / "Tristan and Iseult" ~ which I had some half baked idea might have been the name I'd originally thought this had.
Anyway, if there are any souls out there that can clarify my confusion, that would be welcome... I'm sure I learned a slip jig by Paddy Maloney by that name, but maybe it was a different one?
This is a fun tune to play...IMHO...
# Posted on February 4th 2007 by ceolachan
"Tristan and Isoelde" ~ by Paddy Maloney
Damn, I found my old notes, yes, that's what it was called back in the 70's. There are only a few differences that have been my fault over the distance of time. The A-part is pretty much the same, but here's the old B-part for comparison:
K: e minor
|: g2 B BAB g2 g | f2 A AGA f2 f |
[1 g2 B BAB g2 g | fdd add e/f/ga :|
[2 gfe fed efg | BcB AGF E2 ||
# Posted on February 4th 2007 by ceolachan
Gattetts Wedding or Garech's Wedding?
I believe these are the same
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/2620
Wonderful tune I learned from the Danú recording.
# Posted on February 4th 2007 by RogueFiddler
It's Garech's Wedding. Paddy Moloney didn't write it for a movie, he wrote it for................Garech's Wedding! His friend Garech got married and he wrote this tune for the occassion. Very nice tune too, although I prefer Danu's version than the original Chieftain's recording.
# Posted on February 4th 2007 by iainsm
I'll take your word for it Ian and that of Danú, and I've changed it to the main heading. As said, back in the 70's, I learned it from an acquaintance who had it from Paddy, and it was given to me and recorded in my old notes as "Tristan and Isoelde"... Curious, but we all make mistakes... I wasn't familiar with either the Chieftain recording for it or that of Danú. I did hear Paddy Maloney play it once on the whistle and he rolled the hell out of it, for example:
|: ~E3 ~e2 B ~G2 B | ~A3 ~A2 G ~A2 B | ~
# Posted on February 4th 2007 by ceolachan
DUPLICATION ~ good catch FiddleMeThis
There is no way any of the searches I made would have found that, and I did a number, but, because that transcriptions is all bunched up, like so ~ B|:~E3e2BG2B|A2AA2GA2B|~ none of my attempts scored...
I'll let Jeremy know and this will soon go POOF!
# Posted on February 4th 2007 by ceolachan
Fantastic tune Ceolachan
# Posted on February 5th 2007 by JACKB
Garechs wedding
the Chieftains recording of this was the theme song for the Thistle and Shamrock radio show for many years.
# Posted on February 5th 2007 by sampy
Paddy's friend Garech married an Indian princess.
# Posted on February 5th 2007 by dafydd
"Tristan and Iseult"
"Paddy's friend Garech married and Indian princess."
I was actually wondering if the association with "Tristan and Isoelde" may have been an alusion, some comic element to it, which would be in the nature of Paddy Maloney...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_and_Iseult
# Posted on February 6th 2007 by ceolachan
No allusion.The tune was on "The Cheiftains Vol. 10",the album that begins with The Christmas Reel and ends with Cotton Eyed Joe.There's a set of Manx tunes on it too.Paddy's friend Garech did marry an Indian princess (Indian indian,not American) and Paddy wrote a tune to commemorate the occasion.I was going to quote the sleeve notes,but while I was rooting around in the vinyl I remembered that I'd lent the album to a friend.
# Posted on February 7th 2007 by dafydd
Come to think of it,i'm pretty sure that the album is called Cotton Eyed Joe.
# Posted on February 7th 2007 by dafydd
^D |: ~E3 e2 B G2 B | ~A3 A2 ^G A2 B | ~
~ that's actually how I tend to start this one, the lead-in and first two measures of the A-part...
# Posted on July 3rd 2008 by ceolachan