Key signature: Cmajor
Submitted on November 24th 2008 by fynnjamin.
This tune has been added to 10 tunebooks.
Also known as The Spaghetti Junction.
X: 1
T: Spaghetti Junction
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Cmaj
|:DE E/E/E ^GE E/E/E|FED(E E)DEF|^GA A/A/A BAdc|BcBA ^GA^G=F|
DE E/E/E ^GE E/E/E|^GE^G(A A)Bcd|e=f f/f/f ^gfed|^cd^c_B A2 A2:|
|:Ad d/d/d _ed=c(^f|^f)_edc d2 d2|Ad d/d/d ^cd^c_B|A_BA^F G2 G2|
^cA A/A/A ^GE E/E/E|=FED(E E)DEF|^GA A/A/A BcBA|^d=cBA B2 B2:|
written by me
# Posted on November 24th 2008 by fynnjamin
not actually in Cmajor, but less accidentals that way.
# Posted on November 24th 2008 by fynnjamin
Fynnjamin, why is this peace of unirish (but interesting) music called as it is? I would say it sounds much more like kebab than pasta!
# Posted on November 24th 2008 by swisspiper
Spaghetti Junction is a huge motorway junction in Birmingham, England. It is named because from the air it looks like a mass of spaghetti.
# Posted on November 24th 2008 by jakep
www.jazzsession.org is where you need to be pal
# Posted on November 24th 2008 by D.J.F.
Jazz?! Baltic, Klezmer, Turkish, Arabic maybe, but not Jazz! Not Irish either, fair enough, but I like it. Dunno about the name, though. I think it would need to be a lot more mad and complicated than this to warrant having "Spaghetti" in the title.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/8970
# Posted on November 24th 2008 by Joe CSS
This tune sums up all that is wrong about the session.org tune database.
# Posted on November 24th 2008 by continuo
I can't agree more.
# Posted on November 24th 2008 by slainte
fynnjamin - I am not surprised you are at the Newcastle Hogwarts, having (or learning) such perverted musical ingenuity as this tune suggests. But I think it should go further, and be put into crazy Balkan etc. time signatures as has been suggested, maybe some working away inside others and with frequent changes, to make it completely and utterly demented.
The authorities were quite down on the nickname Spaghetti Junction when it was first coined, insisting the place be called by its official name - Gravelly Hill Interchange. But the name Spaghetti Junction deservedly stuck and is far better known.
# Posted on November 24th 2008 by nicholas
'spaghetti junction'
The term is in general use in North America, where such things are not uncommon ~ spaghetti & junctions...
# Posted on November 24th 2008 by ceolachan
~ or, at least, I remember hearing it used in reference to certain confusing over, under and around passes in the Los Angeles area...
# Posted on November 24th 2008 by ceolachan
LA's a fair piece of work, no doubt. I'm sticking to Portland
# Posted on November 25th 2008 by Pádraig
sounds arabic, like something you'd charm a snake with
# Posted on November 25th 2008 by chansherly212
Snake ?
There are no snakes in Ireland......
# Posted on November 25th 2008 by Kenny
I bet there are now. I read that in the UK reptiles are overtaking dogs and cats as the most numerous pets (though the person recorded as saying this may have been mistaken). Now I'm well aware Ireland is different, but probably not so different as to lack its share of grouchy teenagers who keep such things and tip them out when the novelty's worn off, or have them escape.
# Posted on November 25th 2008 by nicholas
Give me one instance.
# Posted on November 25th 2008 by Kenny
Wasn't it St Patrick who banished all the snakes from Ireland?
Anyway, I submitted this knowing that it would obviously generate discussion, and yes it's not particularly Irish, more Klezmer really, but hey.
# Posted on November 25th 2008 by fynnjamin
Land Of Snakes And Scholars
@kenny:
An initial flick through Irish online newspapers is bringing them up. Links are not appearing on my 'puter at present, or I'd give them (I should be able to sort it out). An example is in The Irish Times, Tuesday August 26, 2008, where Kate Holmquist describes the escape of a corn snake of hers in Sandycove.
I take it The Irish Times is a respectable paper that grazes largely on the upper slopes of national life. I imagine the locals might be rather more fertile in tales of this kind.
# Posted on November 25th 2008 by nicholas
Snakes at large in Ireland - here's some more!
I typed in the words (escape snake Ireland) into the Internet search box, and at once came up with the following:
The Irish Times, Fiona Gartland, 27.07.06:
WARNING THAT STRAY SNAKES CAN LEAVE SOME PEOPLE RATTLED
'The Dublin Society For The Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals (DSPCA) is seeking new homes for ten stray pets of the slithering kind.
Some 1500 years after snakes were supposed to have been banished from Ireland, the society is experiencing an upsurge in the number of stray reptiles turning up in unwelcome places.
In part due to the warm weather, the snakes are escaping from their owners and wandering into other people's homes and gardens.
In recent weeks the society rescued ten snakes in the Dublin area, varying in size from 12 cm (5 in) to 2 m (6.6 feet). The reptiles are being kept at the society's shelter in Rathfarnham, Dublin, and include bull, rat, corn, garter and grass snakes. These varieties are not poisonous, but some can be aggressive.
The snakes are imported into Ireland mainly from the US and sold through pet shops for between E80 and E300. Young snakes are cheapest with larger, older snakes fetching bigger sums. There are also some breeders in Ireland.
The society has asked owners to ensure their pets are kept in a secure enclosure with an escape-proof top, particularly during warm weather when the snakes are more active. Orla Aungier, education officer with the DSPCA, answered a call this week from a woman in Tallaght who was greeted by a 1.83m (6 foot) bull snake when she opened her kitchen press.
"The bull snake is aggressive and has an incredibly loud hiss and it can also bite. The woman closed her kitchen door and called us for help."
She advised that anyone who finds a snake should not disturb it because if startled they escape and become hard to find. She suggested that if possible a basin could be put over the reptile and weighted down to prevent its escape. Otherewise, if it is in a room the door should be shut.
The society also appealed for new homes for the snakes in their possession. "Owners are often afraid to tell their neighbours they've lost their snakes and so they are often not claimed," Ms Aungier said. "We are looking for new homes for them, or indeed if anyone is missing a snake please call us, we may have it."
The DSPCA can be contacted at 4935502.
Meanwhile in Ketchum, Idaho, USA, veterinary surgeons operated on a 3.7 m (12 foot) Burmese python which swallowed an electric blanket, complete with flex and switch. After a 12-hour operation, the vets said the prognosis for Houdini the python was great.'
I rest my case, for the proposition that there are snakes in Ireland!
# Posted on November 26th 2008 by nicholas
I love it...
# Posted on November 26th 2008 by ceolachan
The Star Above The Garter Snake, The Snake In The Cupboard...
Indeed, ceol. The home of the Celtic Tiger is quite evidently also a hotbed of herpetological transgression and excess.
There must be other comparable stories, maybe more bizarre, but life is short and I generously leave them to other researchers...
# Posted on November 26th 2008 by nicholas
some people have too much time on their hands!
# Posted on November 28th 2008 by rob_heron
I think this tune uses a mode known as "freygish", "gypsy minor"
or in eastern Arabic music: "Hijaz" (greek: "Hitzak")
# Posted on April 4th 2009 by walterbracht