Key signature: Bminor
Submitted on September 27th 2007 by Bogman.
This tune has been added to 17 tunebooks.
Also known as G'ioman Nan Gamhnan 's Mi Muladach, G'ioman Nan Gamhnan, 's Mi Muladach, Gan Tae The Kye Wi Me, Tending The Cattle With A Heavy Heart.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Tending The Steer With A Heavy Heart
M: 9/8
L: 1/8
R: slip jig
K: Bmin
dBB B2A BAG|dBB Bcd efg|dBB B2A BAG|eAA dBG A2e:|
B<GB g2e fed|B<GB g2e f3|B<GB g2e fed|eAA ABd e3|
B<GB g2e fed|B<GB g2e f2d|def g2e fed|eAA ABd efg||
G'ioman nan Gamhnan, 's mi muladach.
An old Scottish tune, published in the William Gunn collection in 1884. Great driving pipe tune. The first part is usually backed based on G while the second part is kind of Em/Bm. I think the overall tune is Bm but I'm not that chordy and stand to be corrected.
# Posted on September 27th 2007 by Bogman
Are you sure each C is sharp? It looks like it should be in Gmaj.
# Posted on September 27th 2007 by Dow
Yes, the C's are definately all sharp. It's a highland pipe tune so is based round the notes of the A mix scale (if played on Border/Small pipes, Bb mix on the big pipes but you read in A for GHB. I know what you mean though Dow, the first part has a G feeling about it but it is a two sharps tune.
# Posted on September 27th 2007 by Bogman
Excellent tune
I like the 2 sharps in tunes that sort of center around "G."
# Posted on September 27th 2007 by The Merry Highlander
"Tending The Steer With A Heavy Heart" or 'electric prod'
Discussion: What One Octave Tunes in D exist?
# Posted on September 19th 2007 by Sarah the Flute
http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/15202
X: 2
T: Tending The Steer With A Heavy Heart
M: 9/8
L: 1/8
R: slip jig
K: D Major / Mixolydian
|: A2 F FEE FED | A2 F FF/G/A Bcd |
AFF FEE FED |[1 B2 E E2 F GAB :|[2 B2 E E2 F GFE ||
|: F2 D dBB cBA | FD/E/F dcB c2 A |
[1 F2 D d2 B cBA | BEE EF/G/A B2 A :|
[2 AA/B/c dcB c>BA | BEE EF/G/A Bcd ||
Whatever is sharped, there's no way it's 'minor', but if you want it closer to Bog's transcription you could sharpen the Gs and play it as D Mixolydian....
# Posted on September 27th 2007 by ceolachan
Put the shelailigh down Bog, come on, you don't want to do that...
# Posted on September 27th 2007 by ceolachan
I'll give you a fiver for it and turn it into a flute? You won't get a better deal...
# Posted on September 27th 2007 by ceolachan
G#? You mean lydian, right 'c'?
# Posted on September 27th 2007 by Dow
Lydian oh lydian, the bells of St. Trinian ~
Yeah, brain dead!!! I've just been sitting here with my mouth open and drooling, but you don't wanna know that... I've very very tired...
Hey, did you ever manage to escape Easter Island?
# Posted on September 27th 2007 by ceolachan
No. I tried to plonk myself back in Oz again but they wouldn't let me back in. It's ok - it's not bad here. Lots of wildlife.
# Posted on September 28th 2007 by Dow
Now you'll know partly why I'm in a state, I can't believe I just submitted that last slip jig, "Looby Light" ~
I feel like someone's been knockin' me about...
# Posted on September 28th 2007 by ceolachan
Hey, at least there's good fishing off of Easter. I'll have to find my way there from Antarctica and bring some Islay malt with me if there's any left over... Me da was there, one of the first major expeditions...
# Posted on September 28th 2007 by ceolachan
Eeeck, sharpening the G's has to be a big nono. G#'s give the tune a wedgie. :o(
# Posted on September 28th 2007 by Bogman
Look who's talkin' ~ you said all the Cs were sharp, well, that equates to all the Gs in the second transcript being sharp too... But I agree, I could feel that when you said it, OUCH! Yes, it kinda sets the tune in an uncomfortable, winceable way... But hey, we're short of lydian tunes and in a 'pinch' ~
# Posted on September 28th 2007 by ceolachan
Mode
It's in Em to my ears, and is an adaptation for pipes of the traditional song tune Gan Tae The Kye Wi Me. There is a version in Bewick's (Northumbrian) pipe tunes which does not suffer the constraints of the Highland pipe scale. I was never convinced by the Highland version but I didn't realise for ages that it was because I already half-knew the Northumbrian version.
# Posted on September 30th 2007 by Matt Seattle
Come on Matt, give us a transcription... Don't leave us on the edge of our seats. Sadly I haven't go Bewick's collection to compare this with...
# Posted on September 30th 2007 by ceolachan
e minor?
# Posted on September 30th 2007 by ceolachan
I'm with 'c' on this one. Bogman you gave us a Gmaj tune with C#s. Ceolachan transposed it into a Dmaj tune with G#s. That's the same thing!
# Posted on October 1st 2007 by Dow
Lydian, oh Lydian and not Mixolydian...
# Posted on November 30th 2007 by ceolachan
Here's a clip of of the Finlay MacDonald Band playing the tune.
It's the second one in the set.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA_EfiUrZ_o
# Posted on October 13th 2008 by Bogman