Key signature: Dminor
Submitted on October 5th 2007 by ceolachan.
This tune has been added to 4 tunebooks.
Also known as Is Bronac Mo Cineamuin, Sad Is My Fate (Is Bronac Mo Cineamuin).
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Sad Is My Fate
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
R: waltz
K: Dmin
|: (3A>=B^c | d2 cA GE | [M:4/4] D2 C4 DE | [M:3/4] F3 G AB | c2 A2 A^c |
d2 cA GE | [M:4/4] D2 C4 DE | [M:3/4] F2 G2 E (3F/E/D/ | D4 AG |
A2 d2 de | f2 ed ce | d2 c2 AG | F4 FG |
A2 d2 de | f2 ed ^ce/c/ | d6 | d4 de |
f2 fe d^c | d2 A2 AB | c2 cA GF | E2 C2 DE |
F3 G AB | c2 A2 AG | F3 G E2 | D4 :|
"Sad is My Fate" ~ O'Neill's take, attributed to a Mrs. Fitzgerald
X: 2
T: Sad is My Fate
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
R: air
S: “O’Neill Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies”, 1903, page 61, tune # 355
K: d Minor
(3A=B^c |
d2 cA GE | D2 C2 DE | F3 G AB | c2 A2 A>^c |
d2 cA GE | D2 C2 DE | F3 G E>D | D4 ||
A>G |
A2 d2 d>e | f2 ed ce | d2 c2 A>G | F4 A>G |
A2 d2 d>e | f2 ed ^ce | (d6 | d4) de |
f2 fe dc | d2 A2 AB | c2 CA GF | E2 C2 DE |
F2 FG AB | c2 A2 AG | F3 G E>D | D4 ||
# Posted on October 5th 2007 by ceolachan
"Sad is My Fate" ~ this take courtesy of Johnny Cunningham
Here are a few options ~
A-part option:
Lead-in ~ |: A2 | ~
B-part options:
bar 6 ~ | f2 ed ^ce | ~
bar 11 ~ | c3 A GF | ~
bar 13 ~ | F2 FG AB | ~
A-part: bar 8 ~ & ~ B-part: bar 16
~ | F2 G2 E (3F/E/D/ | ~ or ~ | F3 G E (3F/E/D/ |
~ or ~ | F2 G2 E2 | ~ or ~ | F3 G E2 | ~ or ~ | F3 G ED | ~ etc...
# Posted on October 5th 2007 by ceolachan
"Exile of Erin" ~ all this because yesterday was 'Poetry Day'
I resisted starting a discussion, but wanted to badly, to get us all ot chip in our favourite bit of poetry with a music or dance connection that might apply to our shared passions, but maybe another day, and maybe with some creative license too. Anyway, for some reason this tune and this old poem came to mind. I was in a bit of a mood...
National Library of Scotland
http://www.nls.uk/
http://www.nls.uk/resources/pdf/74412249.pdf
Exile of Erin
There came to the beach a poor exile of Erin,
The dew on his thin robe was heavy and chill,
For his country he sighed, when at twilight repairing
To wander alone by the winds beaten hill.
But the day-star attracted his eye’s sad devotion,
For it rose o’er his own native isle of the ocean,
Where once, in the fire of his youthful emotion,
He sang the bold anthem of Erin-go-Bragh.
“Sad is my fate!” Said the heart-broken stranger,
The wild deer and wolf to a covert can flee,
But I have no refuge from famine and danger,
A home and a country remain not to me.
Never again in the green sunny bowers,
Where my forefathers lived, shall I spend the sweet hours,
Or cover my harp with the wild woven flowers,
And strike to the number of Erin-go-Bragh.
Erin my country, though sad and forsaken,
In dreams I revisit thy sea-beaten shore.
But alas, in a fair foreign land I awaken,
And sigh for the friends who can meet me no more.
Oh cruel fate, wilt though never replace me
In a mansion of peace where no perils can chase me?
Never again shall my brother embrace me?
They died to defend me or live to deplore.
Where is my cabin-door, fast by the wild wood?
Sisters and sire, did ye weep for its fall?
Where is the mother that looked on my childhood?
And where is the bosom friend, dearer than all?
Oh my sad heart, long abandoned by pleasure,
Why did it dote on a fast-fading treasure?
Tears like the rain-drop, may fall without measure,
But rapture and beauty they cannot recall.
Yet all its sad recollection suppressing,
One dying wish my lone bosom can draw,
Erin, an exile bequeaths thee his blessing,
Land of my forefathers, Erin-go-Bragh.
Buried and cold, when my heart stills her motion,
Green be thy fields, sweetest Isle of the ocean.
And they harp-striking bards sing aloud with devotion –
Erin mavourneen! – Erin-go-bragh!
# Posted on October 5th 2007 by ceolachan
AIR ~ just in case you hadn't guessed, it's not a waltz
To be played slowly with passion, in a reflective mood, somewhat mournful... I love laughter and the light, but I also value the dark and the times when there is call for a bit of the blues, as with this sweet minor of a tune...
It can and has also been played in e minor, up a step and putting it in the range of whistles and flutes and anything else limited to the D below the treble clef... I'll mix up a transcription later, or maybe someone else will have their own take on this lovely number. That would be very welcome...
# Posted on October 5th 2007 by ceolachan
To =B or not to B ~
With regards to those few B's, they could and have been played all natural, or =B, as the lead-in is...
# Posted on October 5th 2007 by ceolachan