Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on October 6th 2007 by reedy grins.
This tune has been added to 6 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Bonnie Dainty Davie
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Gmaj
ge | dB AB | G2G2 | G2BG | dG BG | Bc BA | GE ED |
E2ed | e2ge|dB AB |G2G2 |G2BG | dG BG | Bc BA | GE ED |
E2ed | e2ef | g2g2 | fg ag | fdd2| fg ag | ef ge | ag fd | eg fd | e2ef |
g2g2| fg ag | fdd2| fg ag | ef ge | ag fd | eg fd | g2z2||
Not a polka
This is a Shetland "spring" transcribed from the playing of Whalsay fiddler Gibbie Hutchison on his first (!) album, recorded at age 80, "Shetland Springs Fae da Bonnie Isle". It may or may not be related to the Scottish folk tune, with lyrics y R Burns, with a similar name.
# Posted on October 6th 2007 by reedy grins
I've played it as a polka and I've played it as a reel,
I've played it over and over but I'll tell you what I feel!
"it's a reel"
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
ge || dBAB G2G2 | G2BG dGBG | BcBA GEED | E2ed e2ge | dBAB G2G2 | G2BG dGBG | BcBA GEED | E2ed e2ef ||
g2g2 fgag | fdd2 fgag | efge agfd | egfd e2ef | g2g2 fgag | fdd2 fgag | efge agfd | egfd g2 ||
putting in the double bar line at the end of bars 8 & 16 helps to show the phrasing of the tune and I think helps when the abc is transformed into notation. Anyway I always use a double bar line to signify where 'A' music ends and 'B' music starts and ends.
I would have loved to have heard the recording before making comment but my gut reaction is with it being a reel.
# Posted on October 6th 2007 by hetty
Mine too, altho' it would probably also make a nice fling.
# Posted on October 6th 2007 by Dow
I'm sure 'c' will chime in with a fling variant eventually. He won't be able to resist. I bet you.
# Posted on October 6th 2007 by Dow
I bet he puts loads of triplets in and arrow signs and he'll probably compose his own 2nd time B-part and make it all nice and cute for us. You just watch.
# Posted on October 6th 2007 by Dow
Actually I bet he doesn't now I've said it. Just to be annoying.
# Posted on October 6th 2007 by Dow
Ahem!...
# Posted on October 6th 2007 by ceolachan
This already has a quiet little second ending to the B-part...
I too am 'already', in being irritated by daft contributions of transcriptions on site here by people who profess openly that they can't read music anyway, dots or ABCs, and ask us to forgive them if they've screwed up in any way.... And then, daft as bleach soup, they transcribe and AIR!? If you could call it that... GRRRRRR!!!
Not you guys, 'dubh' in the shadows... What are they drinking, smoking, injecting???
# Posted on October 6th 2007 by ceolachan
I suspect, am pretty sure, I have a Shetland recording of this myself...
# Posted on October 6th 2007 by ceolachan
Daintie Davy
Well it surely isn't the song that I know (Burns?)
# Posted on October 6th 2007 by spindizzy
Hey Spin, I somehow expected you'd show up. That ditty is elsewhere...
# Posted on October 6th 2007 by ceolachan
Well, yes it is a reel
Okay, guys, point taken, I'll be carefuller next time. My command of the niceties of theory is still rudimentary and when I went to write it out, it just sounded more in 2 then in 4. Then when I went to post the abc (my first), I found that 2 was only available for polkas, so I went for it. My next venture will be one that is clearly a jig, so no controversy on that front, anyway.
# Posted on October 7th 2007 by reedy grins
Spring/reel
Perhaps I should have been a bit more explicit. "Spring" is a term used in Shetland, mostly by the older fiddlers, to refer to the type of tune commonly known elsewhere as reels. Ceolachan, would you care to enlighten me as to what makes you think that this tune is in fact an air?
# Posted on October 7th 2007 by reedy grins