what are your favorite tunes to play right now?

MarkB · Post by **MarkB** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 8:47 am

Three waltzes by Brian Pickell: http://www.brianpickell.com/music/

Muriel's Waltz, Sourgrass and Granite and Waiting for Emilie. These are lovely to play on the flute.

And three Scottish tunes: Farewell to Glasgow, Farewell to Nigg and The Stool of Repentence.

MarkB

colomon · Post by **colomon** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 9:31 am

Yeah, Brian's waltzes are great, aren't they?

Redwolf · Post by **Redwolf** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 9:50 am

I'm working on The Rookery (Whelan's Jig) and Flowers of Edinburgh (hornpipe) at the moment. Oh yes...and playing lots of Christmas carols!

Redwolf

Bill Reeder · Post by **Bill Reeder** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 10:34 am

Right now, my fancy is stuck on Corney Is Coming. Next is Jenny's Wedding.
I'm also liking Shaskeen Reel/Jenny Picking Cockles and another reel whose title escapes me at the moment.

MarkB · Post by **MarkB** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 10:50 am

Colomon wrote:

Yeah, Brian's waltzes are great, aren't they?

Very! Either as a solo tune or all three together as they are played on his album. A friend who lives in Michigan was visiting Kansas a month or so ago and the waltz Sourgrass and Granite was being played everywhere!

I've ordered his CD and tune book.

The ABC and dots for Sourgrass and Granite can be found here, if anybody is interested.

http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/717

MarkB

colomon · Post by **colomon** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 11:04 am

Silly me -- I have his CD, but didn't realize all three waltzes were on one track there. For some reason, I thought Sourgrass and Granite was missing. The waltzes also show up on the Schryer/Byrne duo album, Nicholas Williams' solo flute album, and Patrick Ourceau's Live at Mona's.

Brian has the notation for S&G is on his webpage, too: http://www.brianpickell.com/music/downloads/tune43.jpg

MarkB · Post by **MarkB** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 11:30 am

Yes, silly you Colomon, you rarely miss something like that

MarkB

feadogin · Post by **feadogin** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 12:49 pm

Bloomfield wrote:Banks of Loch Gabhna
Down the Broom
Dr O'Neill
And Johnny Cope (but just working that one up)

Hey, Bloom, yours seem to be quite in line with my favorites right now.

Dr. O Neill is a classic that I never get tired of...We always play Down the Broom with The Gatehouse Maid (great tune!).

My other favorites right now would be Ormond Sound, Teampaill an Gleanntain, The Long Drop, An Buachaill Dreoite (jig) and a wacky slip jig called Farewell to Whalley Range (a.k.a. The Flying Pig), which I learned over the summer and which turns out to be a Michael McGoldrick composition.

Right now I am working on: Gerry Crommane's (from Joe Ryan), The Glen Road to Carrick, Jenny's Welcome to Charlie, and I want to learn Sean Sa Ceo but haven't yet. Any good recordings of Sean Sa Ceo out there?

Justine

feadogin · Post by **feadogin** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 12:55 pm

brewerpaul wrote:
Langstrom's Pony/Mooncoin Jig (set)

!! That's brave of you.

I always get those mixed up.
J.

brewerpaul · Post by **brewerpaul** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 1:36 pm

pizak wrote:[Paul - have you the music for the Air from Bach?

Ain't Google wonderful? Here 'tis:
http://icking-music-archive.org/scores/ ... r_aria.pdf

note that this is a piano/harpsichord score with baroque ornamentation. Just play the top line, preferably along with a record to get an idea of how the baroque decorations sound: some of them use the same notation as celtic ornaments, but are played very differently. Or, try using Celtic ornaments to hear it the way Johann Sebastian's Irish cousin Sean O'Bach might have played it...

brewerpaul · Post by **brewerpaul** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 1:38 pm

feadogin wrote:
brewerpaul wrote:
Langstrom's Pony/Mooncoin Jig (set)

!! That's brave of you. I always get those mixed up.
J.

That's what I like: they almost sound like one very long jig. besides if you do mix them up, nobody will know the diff.

Bloomfield · Post by **Bloomfield** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 1:38 pm

feadogin wrote:
Bloomfield wrote:Banks of Loch Gabhna
Down the Broom
Dr O'Neill
And Johnny Cope (but just working that one up)
Hey, Bloom, yours seem to be quite in line with my favorites right now. Dr. O Neill is a classic that I never get tired of...We always play Down the Broom with The Gatehouse Maid (great tune!).

My other favorites right now would be Ormond Sound, Teampaill an Gleanntain, The Long Drop, An Buachaill Dreoite (jig) and a wacky slip jig called Farewell to Whalley Range (a.k.a. The Flying Pig), which I learned over the summer and which turns out to be a Michael McGoldrick composition.

Right now I am working on: Gerry Crommane's (from Joe Ryan), The Glen Road to Carrick, Jenny's Welcome to Charlie, and I want to learn Sean Sa Ceo but haven't yet. Any good recordings of Sean Sa Ceo out there?

Justine

Yes, I play Down the Broom into Gatehouse Maid (which is nice, but not as interesting a tune as DtB). I learned DtB off Peter Laban who had another reel after it that I've been meaning to pick up, but haven't.

Joe_Atlanta · Post by **Joe_Atlanta** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 2:08 pm

Boys From Bluehill and Wind That Shakes The Barley from :
http://www.thewhistleshop.com/slow/session.htm

Closing Time - Lyle Lovett - Live In Texas

vomitbunny · Post by **vomitbunny** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 2:30 pm

The acrobat, Clumsey Lover, and Jean's reel.

whistlerroberto · Post by **whistlerroberto** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 3:04 pm

My favorites right now are The Banshee (love that one, and I play it quite well, that always helps

), Tripping up the Stairs, Si Bheag, Si Mhor, The Bucks of Oranmore, and The Fools Jig...When I looked at your posting, Phil O, I read judas priest instead of musical priest...anyone care to try to play Judas Priest on their Irish instrument

Whistlerroberto