HAUNTING JIGS?
- PhilO
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HAUNTING JIGS?
It seems when we discuss "haunting melodies" we most often talk about airs. There are jigs (as well as reels and marches) that have that "hauntingness" about them. Without rushing to set new land speed records (how many of you are actually playing for dancers now?), but even at a respectable pace, some jigs are mind blowingly haunting.
I'll start off with "Brother Gildas' Jig," a tune I recently and happily rediscovered.
Any others of note?
Philo
I'll start off with "Brother Gildas' Jig," a tune I recently and happily rediscovered.
Any others of note?
Philo
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Ghost of Ballybrolly
The Ghost that 'aunted Bunty
The Jenny Hoolet or Lizzie Mudie's Ghost
The Haunted House jig
Loch Ness Monster
The Halloween Jig
Banshee's Wail over the Mangle Pit
Lilting Banshee
I'm assuming this is what you meant by haunting.
Remember, when you ASSume,
you'r always right.
Just my oppinion.
The Ghost that 'aunted Bunty
The Jenny Hoolet or Lizzie Mudie's Ghost
The Haunted House jig
Loch Ness Monster
The Halloween Jig
Banshee's Wail over the Mangle Pit
Lilting Banshee
I'm assuming this is what you meant by haunting.
Remember, when you ASSume,
you'r always right.
Just my oppinion.
My opinion is stupid and wrong.
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The hag at the churn does it for me. Not haunting in the cosmic-drainpipe sense, but in more of an eldritch sense.
I still think slow reels make some of the prettiest tunes -- I started a thread about that a couple of weeks ago.
I still think slow reels make some of the prettiest tunes -- I started a thread about that a couple of weeks ago.
Charlie
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How about a slip jig? I got a VERY clear mental image of skeletons dancing with jack 'o lanterns when I listened to Fig for a Kiss, so much that I can't shake it out of my mind...ghostly dancing in a graveyard. . .complete with headstones and clouds skittering across the moon, rats peeking out of the shadows.
You probably mean hauntingly beautiful...:shrug:
You probably mean hauntingly beautiful...:shrug:
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the hauntingest jig I play if Gallaghers Frolics.
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As "up to speed" is not available to a great many of us, *did I say 'me'?* most any tune can be haunting. We just hope it don't scares ya to death!I find "The Road To Lisdoonvarna" can be haunting if you start slow and work it up to speed later.
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I don't get much mileage whenever I use that expression...chas wrote:The hag at the churn does it for me.
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