Can anyone help me out identifying or transcribing the first tune on Track 9 ("Music of the Seals") on Matt Molloy's "Shadows on Stone" CD? Or look on the liner and see if he indicates what it is? It starts out
B2BG AGEF G2Bd edgd
according to my (tin) ear, but I can't find anything of the sort. Thanks for any help!
Matt Molloy, "Music of the Seals" on Shadows on St
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From your ABC, it looks like The Morning Star:
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/828
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/828
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I don't know, can the liner notes be believed?
It lists:
Seal-Hunter's Fling
Song for Attracting Seals
Fiddler's Companion says
Seal Cove (reel)
The Grey Selchie of Sule Skerry
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It lists:
Seal-Hunter's Fling
Song for Attracting Seals
Fiddler's Companion says
The LamentFISHERMAN'S SONG FOR ATTRACTING THE SEALS, THE. Scottish, Air (6/8 time). Scotland, north Highlands. G Major. Standard. AAB. Johnson (The Kitchen Musician's No. 10: Airs & Melodies of Scotland's Past), Vol. 10, 1992; pg. 5. Rev. P. McDonald (A Collection of Highland Vocal Airs), 1784; No. 46. Iona IR002, Ossian - "Seal Song" (1981).
Sea-Joy (a meditation)AKA and see "An Caoine."
Seal Cove (reel)
The Grey Selchie of Sule Skerry
Seal Morning (reel)It was sung for Dr. Otto Anderson by an Orkney man in 1938
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Checking the album this time ... 
Right, Kevin, The Seal-Hunter's Fling it is.
Right, Kevin, The Seal-Hunter's Fling it is.
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Yes, that's the second tune in the track. Matt plays it in G.treeshark wrote:Is this it? This is from a 1948 book of Scottish tunes.
The first tune is very simple:
X:1
T:Seal-Hunter's Fling, The
M:C|
K:G
B2BG AGEF|G2Bd edgd|B2BG AGEA|GABG A2G2:|
G2Bd edgd|B2BG AGEA|G2Bd edgd|B2BG A2G2:|
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Dr. Mierzwiak: Well, technically speaking, the procedure is brain damage.
Joel Barish: Is there any risk of brain damage?
Dr. Mierzwiak: Well, technically speaking, the procedure is brain damage.
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A few years ago I went nuts over this track with the seals. I'd borrowed a book which turned out to be the book mentioned there on the liner notes, The People of the Sea by David Thomson - after I read it, I bought my own. It was on Amazon and the (later) edition I had bought also contained notation of the seals' music in the back of the book. All the pieces adapted for this seals track seem to be in the book.