Key signature: Gminor
Submitted on June 26th 2007 by hypochondriac.
This tune has been added to 5 tunebooks.
X: 1
T: Pants Macabre
M: 3/2
L: 1/8
R: three-two
K: Gmin
|: G2B2 GABG A2G2 | _A2c2 ABcA B2A2 |G2B2 GABG A2G2 | F_AGF EGFE DEF^F |
G2B2 GABG A2G2 | _A2c2 ABcA B2A2 |G2B2 GABG A2G2 |1 F_AGF GFED C4 :|2 F_AGF GFED C2^C2 ||
|: D2G4 G2F4 | F2=E4 2E_E4 | D=EGE ^FEDE FGFE | D2G4 G2[^F4A4] |
[^F2A2][=F4B4] [F2B2][=E4c4] |1 dcBd cBA^F G^F=F=E :|2 dcBd cBA^F G4 ||
C: Composer
I appreciate your liking of wierd and wonderful tunes - and this one truly takes the biscuit on that account! You will need to take the composer field out though and add the composer details in the comments. Where Jeremy says in big letters, please don't add any more header fields he actually means it and your piece might not be converted otherwise.
# Posted on June 27th 2007 by No Cause For Alarm
Ummm.... is this a jazz tune? Or a session tune? Don't get me wrong, I like it! Just wondering...
# Posted on June 27th 2007 by MartySmith
Pants Macabre
LOL - (but you really should credit Berlioz)
.... and you never know it might just about be palyable in a session (if you change the key!)
# Posted on June 27th 2007 by spindizzy
You should know this website isn't a garbage box.
# Posted on June 27th 2007 by slainte
hypochondriac? ~ nah! ~ It's real!
# Posted on June 27th 2007 by ceolachan
The symptoms?! ~
http://www.thesession.org/members/display/34166/tunebook
# Posted on June 27th 2007 by ceolachan
Oh yes, and that obese fiddle you've been playing between your legs ~ definite glandular problems...
# Posted on June 27th 2007 by ceolachan
OK so my first attempt with ABC didn't quite work as I expected, hopefully I've fixed that. If there's a way to do it in bass clef, I haven't found it yet, but it was written on a 'cello and is undoubtedly more difficult on other instruments (my ensemble played it at uni so I know a fiddle can cope with it).
Now then... its not a jazz tune, its meant to take the biscuit! The inspiration comes from Saint-Säens not Berlioz. I'm quite disappointed that none of the above criticism is particularly constructive, I quite expected many people not to like it... the strict traditionalists at uni certainly didn't, but why? Thats what I'm interested in. Certainly not opinions on my sign in name, tunebook or instrument, it does in fact say "Please keep the comments relevant to the tune". I think three comments in one day says it all though.
# Posted on June 27th 2007 by hypochondriac
Strict traditionalists, that's a laugh. Even in the wider world, and there's a lot in music I appreciate, it's a queer tune... But hey, there's been a share of those on site here, and lately they seem to be multiplying like rats...
# Posted on June 27th 2007 by ceolachan
To eliminate all previously said and put it in a few words ~ not impressed...
# Posted on June 27th 2007 by ceolachan
Oh yeah, and I happen to love the cello...
# Posted on June 27th 2007 by ceolachan
"If one hears bad music it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation." ~ Oscar Wilde
'good music', whatever culture it is raised from or form it takes, begins with understanding and appreciation... ~ 'c'
# Posted on June 27th 2007 by ceolachan
Bobby, don't take any of this too seriously. There will always be people who will like your music and there will always be some who don't . I like this tune. It's a little strange to me, but it's very creative. I'm assuming that it's one of yours? My comment about it being a jazz piece was not in seriousness, this site is full of smart-arsses. So be prepared for that here. Another thing you might prepare yourself for is that there is a large group here that do not believe your own compositions belong here (often refered to as "vanity tunes"). I'm not one of those (two of the 3 tunes I posted are my own), BUT there are rules here that state that for every one of your own, you should add about 5 traditional tunes (not the exact wording). But it's in the FAQ section of this site (which I didn't read before adding my own compositions). I'm just warning you that you will catch some flack for doing too much of this (trust me!). But it's a good tune. Just don't expect to hear how much people love your own stuff here.
# Posted on June 27th 2007 by MartySmith
Oh yeah
I'm still trying to figure out which 9 more trad tunes I'm going to post to pay my dues for putting up two of my own. All the ones I know are already in here! But I'll get them in here as they come.
# Posted on June 28th 2007 by MartySmith
I'm not one of those either Marty ~ good comment by the way, and constructive. The main problem with this was the feeling of someone dumping another one on us and not bothering to have the common courtesy to at least comment on it and confess ownership ~ "I did this!" The reason for the initial niggles wasn't that I didn't like the tune, which usually I might play once and then move on, not bothering to comment. What drew comment was that hypochondriac (alias Bobby?) hadn't bothered to leave any comment at all on what was obviously a composition exercise, not even admitting it was his...or anyone else's... That's why cider and lost sleep lead to me being in a mischievous mood and dropping a few niggles.
Then, your man dares to take the defense of suggesting the blame may be others, our narrow mindedness, 'strict traditionalism'? I don't think you have to be a 'strict traditionalist' to not appreciate this sequence of notes. Great, do your compositional exercises, have fun, but why dump them here and then run. So, when he finally was niggled enough to leave comment, and in that way, I had to admit I didn't think much of the tune, but that doesn't stop anyone else from having their bit of fun. There are a lot of contemporary compositions I appreciate, and a hell of a lot I don't, that's our perogative. Mostly I leave it to just commenting favourably on the ones I like or not saying anything at all. Lately there have been more and more of these things arriving, "See what I've done?", and I've seen too many of these musical mud pies lately...
# Posted on June 28th 2007 by ceolachan
Point taken, I'll have a look at the requests and chuck a few in as and when I get to grips with ABC a bit better! I dont quite understand why its such a big deal, this one isn't your typical traditional tune but I've written plenty that would fit in without being too conspicuous... but I'll play fair! And, because I'm all for sharing personal compositions, I'll have a look at the two you've submitted.
To be honest, the reason I chose this tune as my first attempt at ABC is because I thought it'd get ignored for being one of my own!
# Posted on June 28th 2007 by hypochondriac
"I quite expected many people not to like it...but why? Thats what I'm interested in. ~ it does in fact say "Please keep the comments relevant to the tune"." ~ OK
It's flat, monotone, dull, doesn't make my feet or heart move, doesn't actually elicit any emotion ~ and it has nothing that excites or lodges in my brain ~ nothing about it that makes me want to move to it, to dance... I have played it, listened to the midi several times, and after this last comment, by tomorrow, I won't remember one musical element of it...
# Posted on June 28th 2007 by ceolachan
ABCs ~ no apology needed!
Hey, you want good, that's some of the best damned ABCing for a first try I've ever seen, and I'm being honest, that I AM IMPRESSED!
Also, the
about your cello, I really do love the instrument, in many guises, incluidng jazz and trad, why some of my best friends ~ 
# Posted on June 28th 2007 by ceolachan
I enjoy the shight out of reading your comments ceolachan. Who was it that recently said "... or are you a man of many after thoughts?" I always leave with a smile after reading your "niggles". The session would be a lonely place without you.
If you ask me Bobby, I say keep 'em coming. I like seeing what people around the world come up with, whether I like the stuff or not.
# Posted on June 28th 2007 by MartySmith
I can't see anything wrong with your ABCing at all hypochondriac! To be honest I am hugely impressed with it, especially seeing as this is clearly a difficult tune to ABC. The only thing I thought to say was about the C: field. Sometimes I really wish there were more options for additional headers in here but there really aren't.
I will need to listen to the piece again if I am going to pass any judgement (which I will probably keep to myself) but I do think the tune shows a lot of imagination. It will be good to see some of your other compositions on here too but do remember to add some traditional ones as well in order to keep the yellow boarders happy!
If you are going to look at the requests is there any chance you know The Road To Buggleskelly by John Skelton. It is a cracking tune and I think would appeal to your tastes judging by your tune book. If you could put that up I would be eternally grateful.
# Posted on June 28th 2007 by No Cause For Alarm
... BUT PAY YOUR DUES! *ahem* Let me just add that.
# Posted on June 28th 2007 by MartySmith
They're rubbish ABCs!
Ceolachan. I presume you were kidding when you said:
"that's some of the best damned ABCing for a first try I've ever seen, and I'm being honest, that I AM IMPRESSED"
They are rubbish aren't they?
Has no-one else spotted that, as a starter, it 'should' be c's in the 2nd bar (and similar) and not C's? (Unless, as well as everything else, yer man wishes to be annoyingly perverse, in that it would be c's if he's just bowdlerising Saint-Saens, which he is.)
And, if you 'correct' the various nonsenses, and also forget about trying to think of it as in any way appropriate to the idiom we normally deal with hereabouts, it's not a particularly 'unusual' tune at all. It turns out just to be a fairly trite and pathetic mangling of Saint-Saens.
A waste of space here.
(Hope you approve of my new-style constructive comment, ceolachan!
)
# Posted on June 28th 2007 by benhall.1
What, 'c', hey, keep me out of that. I just assumed, since it wasn't out of keeping with the nature of the tune, that those big Cs were intended to lope down that way, but I see in the ABCs they have been 'corrected'...
I was serious about the ABC comment, for a first try I really was impressed, even if C was meant to be c, but if you're going to throw everything into the mix why leave out chords ( ~ ) and loads of twiddly bits, ~ & { ~ }?
On the A side of things, the A-part, there is at least agreement between the phrases, so some sense:
X: ~
T: Pants
M: 3/2
L: 1/8
R: three-two
K: g minor
|:
G2 B2 GABG A2 G2 | _A2 c2 ABcA B2 A2 |
G2 B2 GABG A2 G2 | F_AGF EGFE DEF^F |
G2 B2 GABG A2 G2 | _A2 c2 ABcA B2 A2 |
G2 B2 GABG A2 G2 |1 F_AGF GFED C4 :|2 F_AGF GFED C2 ^C2 ||
But the B-part goes all la-la:
|:
D2 G4 G2 F4 | F2 =E4 2E _E4 |
D=EGE ^FEDE FGFE | D2 G4 G2 [^F4A4] |
[^F2A2] [=F4B4] [F2B2] [=E4c4] |1 dcBd cBA^F G^F=F=E :|2 dcBd cBA^F G4 ||
I also realize the use of 'monotone' previously should have been 'monotonous', but was likely me listening to the white noise tinnitis in my right ear. A good tune tends to make me forget about it altogether, but for some reason it was pronounced as I experienced this number.
Yes, I was feeling guilt again, that I may have been unfair yesterday, what with lost sleep, hayfever and asthma medication, the cidre, impatience with tune dumps... Nah!, I can't believe I came back and tried it again with the 'correction'... But with the title, yes, I think he may have intended to be annoyingly perverse, and that's me thinking on a more positive line about this. As a wind-up it ain't half bad. You got me going in your absence. But, if it was 'serious' ~ take your medication ~ and take note of Marty's positive contributions...
# Posted on June 28th 2007 by ceolachan
Ace tune Bobby!
# Posted on June 4th 2008 by fynnjamin