The Spy Czar

hornpipe

Key signature: Aminor

Submitted on May 3rd 2008 by JohnQ.

This tune has been added to 16 tunebooks.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

In Play by Liz Carroll And John Doyle

X: 1
T: Spy Czar, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Amin
A|EAcA (3ABc d2|(3 EAc (3ecA EAB^G|E/E/A ce agfe|(3gfe dc BA^GF|
EAcA (3ABc d2|(3 EAc (3ecA EAB^G|(3DFA (3dAF EB,^GB,|A,2AE A3:|
B|(3cBA cd eaa^g|(^ga)ag (3aec AB|(3cBA Bc f2e^d|e2E^F ^GABe|
(3cBA cd eaa^g|DFAd fa~a2|baec BE (3dcB|A2 A/A/A A,2AB|
(3cBA cd eaa^g|(^ga)ag (3aec AB|(3cBA Bc f2e^d|e2E^F ^GABe|
(3EAc (3ecA (3EAc (3ecA|(3DFA (3dAF (3DFA (3dAF|EB,^GE BGeB|A,2AE A3||

Details ABC Sheetmusic Comments

Details ABC Sheetmusic Comments

The Spy Czar Hornpipe By Liz Carroll

I just saw Liz Carroll & John Doyle in concert and was inspired to transcribe this, a most crazy, tune. It's off their CD "In Play." It is in A harmonic minor, and that with the frequent triplet arpeggios give it an Eastern European flavor, to me anyway. There is also a crazy "Tag" after the second repeat of the tune, and it goes like this:

A couple quick notes: The 2nd bar of the B-part the (^ga) should probably be played as a slide, I play Banjo and slides don't actually work, so . . .
And the final note e is "plucked" pizzicatto style.

Enjoy.
JQQ

# Posted on May 3rd 2008 by JohnQ

Dontcha just love these pure-drop, hardcore-traditional-Irish tunes, just like this one? Tunes that... well, you play them, and you can almost smell the peat they grew out of, feel the reassuring, spiritual weight of the thousands of old musicians who played them before you, hundreds of years into the past, hear the patter of the myriad feet that have danced to it on some wooded planks laid down on the floor of somebody's barn. Tunes that you can't help but think were taught to humans by the Faeries in return for the shepherd's beautiful daughter....

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I think this could go with http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/7588