Key signature: Adorian
Submitted on June 14th 2007 by patrick cavanagh.
This tune has been added to 25 tunebooks.
Also known as Fisherman In The Wardrobe Hop Jig.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Fisherman In The Wardrobe, The
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
R: mazurka
K: Ador
A2 AG Ae|gf de cB|A2 AG Ae|gf de c2:|
e2 cB ce|d2 BA Be|d2 BA Be|dc Bc Ac:|
Ceci n'est pas une waltz
What is it? It's not a waltz, anyway. I think it's a hop jig, others say it sounds like a bouree, a mazurka, or a slip-slide! Even if it is a hop jig, it didn't make sense to me to notate it in 9/8. Mike McGoldrick made it up, ask him. On Fused, he plays it with essentially no swing. We've been playing it at our session with just a pinch of swing (just can't help ourselves!) and quite zippy going into his other one from Fused, Goodbye Grant, and then into this one:
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1492
which I guess is called James Kelly's. See the comments on that tune, a lot of the discussion about the notation applies here, too, I think.
# Posted on June 14th 2007 by patrick cavanagh
Non standard...
is what I'd say it's "type of tune" is.
To me, it seems to have a bit of a Breton feel about it.
# Posted on June 15th 2007 by muspc
Mazurka
In my book it's definitely a Mazurka above all else. My daughter plays this and all the other McGoldrick CDs all the time. This is one tune I've been meaning to get around transposing. Thanks 'pc' for doing so. She will have a broad grin on her face when I start playing it.
# Posted on June 15th 2007 by hetty
Cheers, Hetty. I'll be posting the second one, Goodbye Grant, tonight, so you'll soon have a matched pair!
# Posted on June 15th 2007 by patrick cavanagh
Hanter Dro
Could be played as this type of Breton dance as well, I think.
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by swisspiper
Does this have any relation to ( or derivation from ) Paul Stevens' The Fiddler in the Wardrobe ?
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by Guernsey Pete
Yeah, this is a sweet tune. I was going to try and transcribe it too, but you got to it! Good stuff! I love this tune.
# Posted on August 14th 2007 by Jeffery
hmm the second part sound like goodbye grant, a lot of tunes have interesting names, i wonder what's the story behind these titles
# Posted on May 9th 2008 by chansherly212