Key signature: Eminor
Submitted on January 17th 2008 by JosephofCK.
This tune has been added to 14 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Doinna
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
R: waltz
K: Emin
|:e3 def|g3 edA|B4 A2|A3 G=F2|
=f4 e2|e4 A2|e3 def|g3 edA|
[1B4 E2|A3 Bc2|B4 A2|A4 A2:|
[2B4 E2|A3 Bc2|B3 ABc|d3 cB2|A4 E2||
|:A3 Bce|B3 AG2|g4 a2|e3 d^c2|d3 Ade|
[1=f6|e4 d/c/B/d/|c4 A2|B4 A2|G3 BcA|B4 A2|A4 E2:|
[2=f4 a2|e4 d/c/B/d/|c4 A2|B4 A2|G3 BcA|B4 A2|A4 A2||
Forgive me for doing such a bad job on probably most of the tune but that's about how it went in my head... I couldn't figure out what time signature this would be in but most of you know, and for those of you who don't, this is a lament, so it's played freely.
# Posted on January 17th 2008 by JosephofCK
And I think this is a Breton tune?
# Posted on January 17th 2008 by JosephofCK
"Doinna" ~ Breton, played by John McSherry on the uilleann pipes...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0KQTv8qvkE
http://www.irishtune.info
http://www.irishtune.info/tune/4116/
# Posted on January 17th 2008 by ceolachan
This tune might be more correctly referred to as a traveler tune brought to the Isles through the gypsy tradition from Romania where women sing the Doina. Or perhaps someone has been sessioning with a Klezmer band.
http://aris.ss.uci.edu/rgarfias/kiosk/doina/doina4.html
# Posted on January 22nd 2008 by baglady
I'm not so sure you can consider them to be the same baglady, "Doinna" & doinas... At least, for me, this bears little resemblance in melody, key or time signature, or treatment, to the few doinas I've experienced...
# Posted on January 22nd 2008 by ceolachan
!!! nice link though...
# Posted on January 22nd 2008 by ceolachan
On second consideration, after listening to all those examples and to McSherry again ~ well ~ yes, I do hear a similarity beyond just the title... The uilleann pipes and the Breton take on it had blinded me to the possibilities... I so wish those examples were WAV or MP3, or that they'd at least listed the recording sources...
# Posted on January 22nd 2008 by ceolachan
All that in 15 minutes...
# Posted on January 22nd 2008 by ceolachan
Sorry baglady, a pain in two backs has me being less than reasonable lately, sporting for a fight of some sort ~ not really. One back is my own, ouch, no, I mean OUCH!!! The other is the back of our car. It seems it wants an upgrade and the boot (trunk) is now a Jacuzzi, and we've had record wet weather here to meet that goal...
Also, I'm fond of the form ~ doinas...and Romanian music, something an old friend gave me a good taste of, including the music and dance of the Vlacchi... I particularly love the Taragot... I wish that friend were still around so I could get an occassional fix... It is good for the soul and the circulation...
# Posted on January 22nd 2008 by ceolachan
Romanian huh.... Well, none of the mp3s work on my computer.... they all say that a codec(?) is missing
, so, as far I know right now, it's Breton...
# Posted on January 24th 2008 by JosephofCK
You need Realplayer for those, and there is a free one available. They aren't MP3s...
# Posted on January 24th 2008 by ceolachan
I thought this song was made/composed by John McSherry, or is this a very dumb thing to say
# Posted on March 27th 2008 by ainekenaz
No, it may be his take (composition) on the form, 'doinna', but am not absolutely sure as I haven't the recording to check the notes for it. With Hungarians and Ukranians having a take on Irish there's not likely to be anything to stop an Irish musician having a go at a 'Doinna'...
# Posted on March 27th 2008 by ceolachan