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Tune Identification....
Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2018 12:09 pm
by CaperMike
Name that tune....
Nice clip of new video by NPU.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg_cliZ ... e=youtu.be
I'm interested in the name of the tune played by Mick OBrien started at 1:25 ish.
Thanks!
Mike
Re: Tune Identification....
Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2018 12:18 pm
by Mr.Gumby
Tut tut, you don't know your classic Reck tunes.
It's the Ash Grove.
Re: Tune Identification....
Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2018 5:59 pm
by CaperMike
Ah yes, that's it the Ash Grove.
I actually play the tune, just couldn't remember the name!
Thanks
Re: Tune Identification....
Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2018 6:18 pm
by Peter Likestone
It's an O'Carolan's tune called The Beauty in Tears.
Re: Tune Identification....
Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2018 11:00 pm
by benhall.1
Peter Likestone wrote:It's an O'Carolan's tune called The Beauty in Tears.
Gosh! I had to look up that name. I wonder where it comes from? It - the name, that is - doesn't seem to come from Carolan himself, though there are some sources which do say that the tune was in his repertoire. I can't find whether there's any chance he composed it or not. I've never thought so, but perhaps that's because I grew up in South Wales, where the tune is thought of as being very Welsh, and called either "The Ash Grove" or "Llwyn Onn", which is Welsh for The Ash Grove.
And now I'm into the never ending circles and backwaters of tune sources and attributions. Constant Billy? I see what Frank Kidson meant, but still ...