Whiskey The Dolphin

hornpipe

Key signature: Gmajor

Submitted on November 16th 2007 by andy9876.

This tune has been added to 5 tunebooks.

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C: andy9876 ~ ???

Is this your second composition in a row? Or, is the provenance for your submissions so secret you just can't share it with us, so you just dump tunes and run? If it is compositions that move you, your own, since along with these you have a 0 for a tunebook, you might consider the courtesy of reading the site's FAQs, over on the sidebar on the right of this window, down toward the bottom:

Frequently Asked Questions

You won't be alone if you choose to ignore it. Others have been before and will come afterwards... :-/ But, most of us at least attempt to show some respect for the site's basic purposes and for the person who so graciously maintains it ~ Jeremy, the bloke who designed this site and wrote those FAQs.. And most of us try to make useful comment when we've submitted a tune, like 'sources', a bit of connective tissue, or simply "This is mine!"

# Posted on November 17th 2007 by ceolachan

FAQ: Can I submit my own compositions?

Well... The Session isn't really intended for that. If you do post one of your own compositions, then you must do your "penance", so to speak, by balancing each original composition with about five trad tunes.

The above is quoted from the FAQs, just in case you give up before you reach it or don't bother...

# Posted on November 17th 2007 by ceolachan

Re: Andy9876 ~ ???

Ouch! ceolachan - I've obviously hit a nerve and you have my apologies! I'm new to the site as a member and am still learning it's "netiquette".

I've been using The Session - as an anonymous guest - as a source of tunes for a while and have found it to be a great resource. Hence the wish to put something back into it. I started with some of my own stuff since (a) it was already in, or easily convered to, ABC format and (b) I could be pretty sure that I wasn't duplicating something already there. Much of my repertoire I learn by ear and have little idea of what its called!

As for this tune - it began as an attempt to reproduce somthing that I heard at a re-enactment session - but it emerged a day or two later as something rather different. It went down well when I played it back at a local session some weeks later so I thought it was worth sharing. In my view, its this constant evolution and innovation which keeps "trad" music alive - but I know that not everyone agrees! It's named for my daughter, who has sponsored a Moray Firth bottle-nosed dolphin called Whiskey for many years.

# Posted on November 17th 2007 by andy9876

Bossa Nova

That is 'content' andy, appreciated. Whatever the tune or it's source or quality, a little history is a good thing to know. Another form of valued content here are 'versions', 'ways' and 'inspirations' with the melody of a given air, at least for me. I value those things that help to put the music in context, and that prove that the contributor isn't just fly-tipping tunes without care or concern. It is good to have proof that they actually have a relationship with the music, that they like or dislike it...

Also a button pusher, when they are ripping them off and posting them without crediting the source they may have just cut-and-pasted from, like the endless ABCs online...

No, not a sensitive nerve, not really. With some of us it is just part of the process. You got it sooner than the last few, actually, because of those last few. We've had folks come and add half a dozen of their own compositions in a row. It isn't like we're unfamiliar with narcisists in the ranks of this music. There are all sorts, but, as the FAQs have tried to make clear, this isn't the place for them. If they are the geniuses they think they are, then they can go create their own website and display to their hearts content... With thousands of members it is a surprising few who openly fall into this loose category of the self-possessed, but when they arrive seeking to impress us with their compositions, well, they stand out like a dog turd on a white sandy beach. They draw attention, if not favourable...

At least you hadn't irritated the non-Irish brigade with a Latin number, say a Bossa Nova. They are less patient than most of us and nastier... 8-)

# Posted on November 17th 2007 by ceolachan

"its this constant evolution and innovation which keeps "trad" music alive - "

You might not find a lot of disagreement with this, but when it is presented as "I'm the one!" ~ Nah! Patience will thin and break. You might find some level of agreement, but not for it being used as an excuse for waving one's own flag and dumping chains of personal inspirations on site.

Sorry lad, we all face some delusion, but try to strike a balance, at least in respect of the tenets of this site ~ a minimum expectation of 5-to-1, and if that ain't possible, well, there's something wrong and you should desist with presenting too much of your own genius... If you lack the ability to 'balance' it in favour of 'tradition', 5-to-1, then it is likely your delusion is large and your own work is likely way off the mark anyway. There's no end to the radio active, mutations lacking understanding of both the tradition and the form. There are loads of those, so you wouldn't be alone... But, having company in that form of musical graffiti and vandalism doesn't make it right... 'Tradition' isn't anarchy...and it has 'community' throughout it, with space for the individual, if not for the ego maniacal...

We could always open this to discussion. One person's civility is another's rudeness?

Discussion: To be Civil, or Not to be Civil.....
# Posted on November 17th 2007 by cheshire puddy tat
http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/15825

I hope you added some of the story for the other tune you'd submitted...

# Posted on November 17th 2007 by ceolachan

You did, great!!!

Now you owe us at least 10 traditional melodies, and that could be compositions by others you are fond of... Go on, prove to us you don't just play your own compositions... ;-)

# Posted on November 17th 2007 by ceolachan