Key signature: Eminor
Submitted on November 2nd 2007 by JosephofCK.
This tune has been added to 66 tunebooks.
Also known as Riverdance.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Dance Of The Riverwoman
M: 9/8
L: 1/8
R: slip jig
K: Emin
|:E2d cBA GAB|BAG ABG EGA|BAG AGE DEF|GFE FED G,DE:|
E2e dcB cBA|GAE ADA EGA|E2e dcB cBA|GAE ADA EGA|
cEE BEE AEE|cEB EAE BEc|dcB ABG EBc|dcB ABG e3||
Added because I saw a request for it... I'm not sure how this could be considered an Irish tune really. I will verbally abuse the first person who asks me to transcribe the last part of this tune(not the middle part that sounds like it's from a video game. Not that I don't like it, but it just doesn't sound like a tune to me.), because I have tried to and attempting to figure out the time signature of that part was just...gah.... My guess is the last part alternates between 7/4 and 8/4... I think. Hopefully this will be good enough for whoever requested it.... If not, I might keep trying to get the rest but we'll see.
# Posted on November 2nd 2007 by JosephofCK
No you're ok, I don't think you need bother with that last part eh?
# Posted on November 3rd 2007 by Dow
The SET .....
Joseph,
That’s only the second part of 4 or 5.............where's the 1st, 3rd, 4th (and 5th)????
Especially the 3rd which is a lovely reel...........http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5Mc03_rlWo
Why wouldn't it be Irish ?
It's a beautiful piece combining modern and trad. that put us back on the Map....
Come on go for it, I’d love the full set in my TB
Slán
# Posted on November 3rd 2007 by Enigma
So! is this tune really called 'Riverdance'
If this tune here is part of a set of tunes written especially for 'Riverdance' then does it have it's own specific name? considering that there are other tunes in different rhythms. They too possibly have vtheir own identification. Put them all together and you can possibly call it "The Riverdance Set". Perhaps JosephofCK you could do the mammoth task of transposing the lot and give each part the title 'Riverdance 1', 'Riverdance 2' etc.etc.
Does anyone out there know of any titles for the different tunes involved? If so can we have them?
# Posted on November 3rd 2007 by hetty
Verbal abuse on its way??
I've broad shoulders and can take it!
# Posted on November 3rd 2007 by hetty
The rest of the tune
Hetty,
Don't worry the PO faced wouldn't be caught dead admitting to reading this...........let them sulk while we get the goodies ........LOL.
# Posted on November 3rd 2007 by Enigma
To be honest I have not listened to Riverdance in a long time. I think almost everyone was very impressed with it when it came out. I know I was. I think it was just the antics of Flatley and the constant spin off shows from it that put everyone off it. It stopped being 'ok' to like Riverdance.
If you actually listen to the music in the Youtube clip it is great. Anuna are brilliant and the different tunes running through it have real energy and excitement about them. It would be nice to get the actual name of this tune though.
# Posted on November 3rd 2007 by No Cause For Alarm
This is the second part? I have "Riverdance (Reprise)" which starts with the harp as a slip jig. The vocal part I consider like an intro (an amazing intro that is...), but not exactly a tune... P.S. When I said "I will verbally abuse the first person who asks me to transcribe the last part of this tune", I was actually kidding... It's just hard to transcribe that part of the tune because of the weird time signature.
# Posted on November 4th 2007 by JosephofCK
Er... That last part actually seems more like 6/8 maybe... Or does it still change?
# Posted on November 4th 2007 by JosephofCK
GIVE IT A GO 'JO'
Give it a go JosephofCK. it's worth the challenge. I've tried recently to write out a slow air in such a way that it looks as it sounds. Took ages but I "didn't arf lern a lot"
# Posted on November 6th 2007 by hetty
Not the name
the name of this song is not riverdance. It's part of the riverdance set though. The first is Cloudsong, (the song); the Dance of the Riverwoman, (this slip jig); Earthrise, (the hardshoe solo); and lastly RiverJig, (a treble jig of sorts).
# Posted on December 25th 2007 by IDintern2america
Riverdance Set
If you could transcribe the rest of the set it would be brillant. I love listening to and watching riverdance. To be able to play it would be fantastic. Can't transcibe music myself but would love to learn it. Other than that if some one could tell me where I could get the music.
# Posted on September 8th 2008 by Fiddler101