Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on June 13th 2007 by ceolachan.
This tune has been added to 12 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Sunset Over Foula
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
R: waltz
K: Dmaj
|: A2 | d4 e2 | d4 F2 | A6 | F4 A2 | B4- B>c | d4 F2 | A4- A>B | A4 A2 |
f4 g2 | f4 e2 | d6 | A4 d2 | B4- B>c | d4 A<F | E4- E>F | E4 A2 |
d4 e2 | d4 F2 | A6 | F4 A2 | B4- B>c | d4 F2 | A4- A>B | A4 A2 |
f4 g2 | f4 e2 | d6 | B4 dB | A4 d2 | f4 (3e>fe | d6- | d4 :|
"Sunset Over Foula" by Ronnie Cooper, 1934-1982 ~ the appreciation continues...
"Sunset Over Foula"
http://www.shetlandscenes.co.uk/pages/DCP_5983_JPG.htm
Ronnie Cooper (1934-1982)
http://www.shetland-music.com/prominent_artists/artists_of_the_past/ronnie_cooper_(1934-1982)/
"Brought up in Lerwick firmly in the tradition of Scottish Dance Music as played by Jimmy Shand and his ilk, Ronald Cooper soon stamped his own indelible impression on the genre with his tunes, composed in the Scottish idiom, but with a unique Shetland flavour.~"
The Fiddler’s Companion ~ Andrew Kuntz
http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/
“Sunset Over Foula”
http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/SU_SV.htm
SUNSET OVER FOULA. Shetland, Waltz. D Major. Standard. One part. Composed in the 1950's by Shetland accordion and piano player Ronnie Cooper, and recorded by him with the band "The Hamefarers" (which also included Scottish fiddle Willie Hunter). Matthiesen (Waltz Book II), 1995; pg. 55. Thule Records, "The Hamefarers" (c. 1950's).
More ABCs ~
http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/ndx/SU.html
“Sunset Over Foula” / “Isles of Glentness” / “Starry Nights of Shetland” ~ medley
"Ali Bain & Phil Cunningham: The Ruby"
http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/MosheBraner/SunsetOverFoula.abc
# Posted on June 13th 2007 by ceolachan
Recording: “Iain Anderson: Silver Strings” ~ track 11:
Submitted on December 14th 2006 by Iain Anderson.
http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/2295
Have a listen here to one of ours, 'TheSesh' member and Shetland Fiddler Iain Anderson's take on it, by-the-book, but with credentials and an enviable tone, from his debut recording "Silver Strings", track 11:
http://www.scotloads.co.uk/album.php/1019/
X: 1134
, but sweet
T: Sunset over Foula ~ by-the-book
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
R: waltz
K: D Major
|: A2 |
d4 e2 | d4 F2 | A6 | F4 A2 | B4 c2 | d4 F2 | A6- | A4 A2 |
f4 g2 | f4 e2 | d6 | A4 d2 | B4 c2 | d4 (3FGF | E6- | E4 A2 |
d4 e2 | d4 F2 | A6 | F4 A2 | B4 c2 | d4 F2 | A6- | A4 A2 |
f4 g2 | f4 e2 | d6 | B4 d2 | A4 d2 | f4 e2 | d6- | d4 :|
# Posted on June 13th 2007 by ceolachan
Discussion: Ronnie Cooper Waltzes ~
# Posted on May 25th 2007 by Bren
http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/13853
# Posted on June 13th 2007 by ceolachan
Sunset Over Foula
Foula is a small island way out to the West of the main Shetland archipelago - either Fair Isle or Foula has the distinction of being the remotest inhabited island of the UK, I don't know which. On the horizon, its skyline showing five peaks of varying size, it commands attention and makes you wonder what it's like to go there. The highest peak is some 1300 feet, high for Shetland, and it and the other peaks overlook very high cliffs that fall down to the sea on the West side of the island. To add to its mystique, the sun sometimes appears to be about to set *between* a viewer on (Shetland) Mainland and Foula. This gave rise to a book's title, "Foula: Island West Of The Sun".
# Posted on June 13th 2007 by nicholas
Appreciated nicholas, I'd forgotten to add the geographic detail, aside from the picture. A very welcomed addition well put...
# Posted on June 13th 2007 by ceolachan
"Ronas Voe" ~ another waltz by Ronnie Cooper
Key signature: G Major
Submitted on June 11th 2007 by ceolachan.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/7336
These two are often found in the company of each other...
# Posted on June 13th 2007 by ceolachan
Ronnie Cooper, 1934-1982 ~ more on the man and his music
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/7329/comments
~ including links to more of his compositions...
# Posted on June 13th 2007 by ceolachan
"Foula" means "Bird Island", from Norse or Norn. In the past when many Shetlanders lived at subsistence level various seabirds were part of the islanders' diet, so places where they were abundant, like Foula, were noted.
# Posted on June 13th 2007 by nicholas
Including Puffins, which up until recently were a delicacy...also in the Canadian Maritimes... Yum yum...
# Posted on June 13th 2007 by ceolachan
The real delicatesse on the 'near by' Faroe islands is puffin's brain served still in the bird... at least not alive anymore... Yum yum.
# Posted on June 14th 2007 by swisspiper
And they just keep coming...
# Posted on June 14th 2007 by Swift
Oh yeah, and barbecued swifts too, finger lickin' good...
# Posted on June 14th 2007 by ceolachan
"The Starry Nights Of Shetland" ~ another common companion waltz
Key signature: C & D Major
Submitted on June 15th 2007 by you.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/7357
# Posted on June 15th 2007 by ceolachan