Key signature: Aminor
Submitted on July 15th 2009 by ceolachan.
This tune has been added to 31 tunebooks.
Also known as Reáilt Condae An Dún, The Star Of County Down, Star Of The County Down.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Star Of The County Down, The
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
R: waltz
K: Amin
|: E2 G2 | A4 A2 | A3 G A2 | c4 c2 | d3 c d2 | e3 d c2 | AG- G2 E2 | G6- | G2 c2 B2 |
A4 A2 | A3 G A2 | c4 c2 | d3 c d2 | e3 d c2 | A4 A2 | A6- | A2 c2 e2 |
g4 e2 | ed- d2 c2 | d3 e d2 | d3 c d2 | e3 d c2 | AG- G2 E2 | G6- | G2 c2 B2 |
A4 A2 | A3 G A2 | c4 c2 | d3 c d2 | e3 d c2 | A4 A2 | A6- | A2 :|
"The Star Of The County Down"
I've transcribed this from the playing of the excellent fiddler and teacher Donna Hinds... She also played wth the excellent New England dance band "Yankee Ingenuity" and a recording of Donna and the crew playing this can be found on "Kitchen Junket":
http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/1874
A 4/4 march version of this tune can also be found here, with some other versions given in the 'comments':
"The Star Of The County Down" ~ 4/4
Key signature: e minor
Submitted on March 17th 2005 by Nutty Nessie.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/4320
# Posted on July 15th 2009 by ceolachan
This works lovely as a 32 bar tune for 32 bar dances, as we have used it, played it, for over time, from the distant past to just last week...
# Posted on July 15th 2009 by ceolachan
Scraping the Barrel
Think you're scraping the barrel a bit there now, Ceolachan!!
It's already here as you noted and the 3/4 version is the comments of that tune. What's the point of complicating things?
# Posted on July 16th 2009 by the wounded hussar
"POOF!?"
As has happened many times before, a 4/4 march is not a 3/4 waltz. I was asked to transcribe this by someone, and have, from a good source. It has also been added to a certain slow session set list. That makes two icidents of it serving a purpose. And, the melody has its earlier roots as 3/4. Also, fitting certain dances, this is 32 bars instead of 64, the double length version given in the 'comments' to the 4/4 version linked to above. But I do see there that someone must have cut and pasted that a second time as a seperate submission, and it went "POOF!" ~ disappearing into the digital ether.
Personally, and for those that were asking, I see this as a clarification rather than a complication. But, if I have caused any confusion it wouldn't be a first time, and you have my apolgies if you were caught up in such confusion and complication...
If you want a long list of similar situations of tunes that exist here in different time signatures I can manage that. This is one more, and hardly scraping the barrel... I did 'think' about it before submitting this. I hope it won't prove to be a wasted effort. I don't see this as a 'duplication' in the 'exact' sense of how it is usually panned out here, with the dulicate reel, jig, hornpipe, etc. ~ going "POOF!" I have talked with Jeremy before about differences in time signature, melodies that exist as both polka and slide, fling and reel, march or air/song and waltz But, who knows, maybe this too will disappear? I hope not. ~ 'c'
# Posted on July 16th 2009 by ceolachan
Our local session...
has gotten into the habit of playing this 3x waltz time, followed by 3x march time in a set.
# Posted on July 16th 2009 by vonnieestes
Nice version!
And, by the way... I think that when a tune has provenance in multiple forms, it is warranted to have different entries. For example, if I'm in the mood for a waltz, or putting together a set of waltzes, then a search of the Session database would only now pull this tune up.
# Posted on July 16th 2009 by muspc
Donna hinds
Interestingly Donna Hinds was also the name of a female reggae singer from the 70s who was signed to the Trojan label. Her most famous song was "Run Away Pet".
# Posted on July 17th 2009 by dlunney
Changed her name back
Donna goes by Hebert now, not Hinds.
# Posted on July 27th 2009 by vonnieestes
Yes, I keep forgetting. Thanks vonnie...
# Posted on September 21st 2009 by ceolachan