Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on August 18th 2007 by davidsavage.
This tune has been added to 25 tunebooks.
Also known as The Lark In The Clear Air.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Lark In The Clear Air
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
R: waltz
K: Gmaj
d4-dB|G3/2F/2 FG EC|D4D/2E/2F|G2 (3ABc B2|A2d2dB|
G3/2F/2 FG EC|D4DE/2F/2|(3GAB E2AF|G4DE/F/|
G3F G/2A/2B/2c/2|d4e3/2d/2|dB GA Bd/2c/2|B2A2dB|
G3/2F/2 FG EC|D4DE/2F/2|(3GAB E2AF|G6||
A great tune which brings back memories of Ciarán MacMathúna's early morning RTE radio programme. It was also played on a recording by fiddle (or should I say violin) player, Geraldine O'Grady some years ago with a slightly classical flavour to it !
# Posted on August 18th 2007 by Bannerman
Reading this as a waltz
In reading this notation I find it difficult to see it as the air it is. The 3/4 would make the uninitiated to play this too fast and as a waltz.
Some time ago I wrote this down from a recording by Noel Pepper on mouth organ. To do it justice I found it best to count it in six beats to the bar (6/4) with occassional bars of 3/4 and 5/4.
I've just asked my eldest daughter (music teacher and oboeist) to compare the twonotations and to say which conveys the slower tempo. She suggested 6/4.
I'll put the abc in shortly for comparison.
# Posted on August 23rd 2007 by hetty
It just might also help the Midi playback as well.
# Posted on August 23rd 2007 by hetty
Reading this as a Waltz
I am sure that you are right..... 6/4 with the occasional 3/4 and 5/4 bars does make more sense and when I first noted it down (without bars) it played OK. However, I thought that I ought to submit it with bars, so have effectively messed it up! Would be most grateful if someone better at ABC than me would sort it out and re-submit it! Thanks,
David Savage
(PS I guss that the MID would also sound better then too!)
# Posted on November 4th 2007 by davidsavage