Key signature: Gminor
Submitted on May 29th 2007 by Joe CSS.
This tune has been added to 8 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Savage, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Gmin
(3FGA|:B2 B2 Bcde|fdfb fdBd|G2 G2 GABG|FDFB FDB,D|
EDEF GBAc|Bcde fgab|fdBd ecBA|1 B2 B2 B2 (3FGA:|2 B2 B2 B2 fe||
|:dfBf dfBf|cfAf cfAc|BdGc BdGB|AdFd AdFD|
EDEF GBAc|Bcde fgab|fdBd ecBA|1 B2 B2 B2 fe:|2 B2 B2 B2 (3FGA||
The Savage Hornpipe
I love the name.
It's in Bb major by the way, not G minor. I learnt this off Pete Cooper at Folkworks a few years ago. On the CD named after it, it's played in G a couple of times before they do a rousing truck-driver's-gear-change into Bb. I suspect it's much easier in G, there being no need for little fingers (if on the fiddle) and such, but I learnt it in Bb, so there ya go.
It's obviously English, by the way, with a cool Baroquey-sounding second part.
# Posted on May 29th 2007 by Joe CSS
Obviously English, Joe? Was Pachelbel English?
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/487
The version posted there is a reel, in D, as played by Eileen Ivers - although that version is also played as a hornpipe, and sometimes in C.
The version here has had it's corners eroded somewhat from rubbing against other tunes and consequently sounds more like a real traditional tune to me. As they say in the West of Ireland, it's a savage tune.
# Posted on May 30th 2007 by granama
Sorry, I shouldn't have juxtaposed the words "English" and "Baroque" like that. I didn't mean it's English *because* it's got a Baroquey bit. I probably shouldn't have said "obviously", either. It's just that to me, this tune couldn't possibly sound anything other than English. And the second bit does sound a bit Baroque.
# Posted on May 30th 2007 by Joe CSS
NIce tune. Does sound English-y in the 1st part and baroque in the 2nd part. Could even be mistaken for an O'Carolan tune! Thanks Joe.
# Posted on May 30th 2007 by Key Maniac Lad
Enters Caliban.
# Posted on June 4th 2007 by birlibirdie
Just heard the Blowzabella version of this, which is pretty sweet.
# Posted on October 23rd 2007 by benhockenberry