Dance tunes after slow airs!!

rorybbellows · Post by **rorybbellows** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 9:37 am

I really like the practice of playing a lively dance tune after a slow air.Mick O,Brien does it brilliantly ,playing the reel “sporting nell”after the air “may morning dew “ .Do you have any particular favorites of your own ???

RORY

anima · Post by **anima** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 10:20 am

Liam O'Flynn does An Bunnan Bui followed by The Broken Pledge. Nice.

Jeff

Sandy · Post by **Sandy** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 1:20 pm

Sean Potts- Valencia Harbour/McGlinchey's
I've only heard the sample from Rogge's website.

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 1:27 pm

I don't have any example but remember how Uilliam said you play a lively tune after a slow air so that people don't go home and hang themselves afterwards?

Andreas Leidenfrost · Post by **Andreas Leidenfrost** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 2:22 pm

The Lilting Banshee is an excelent tune to slip into after any air. After the air you slide into "a" while playing vibroto and then go into the tune. It sounds great! Paddy Moloney does it in one of his CD's.

Andreas

ausdag · Post by **ausdag** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 4:15 pm

Paddy Keenan when with the Bothy Band did 'The Blackbird' followed by, um...'The Blackbird'.

Sandy · Post by **Sandy** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 6:31 am

Andreas Leidenfrost wrote:The Lilting Banshee is an excelent tune to slip into after any air. After the air you slide into "a" while playing vibroto and then go into the tune. It sounds great! Paddy Moloney does it in one of his CD's.

Andreas

In what does he?

PJ · Post by PJ » Sun Mar 12, 2006 6:38 am

ausdag wrote:Paddy Keenan when with the Bothy Band did 'The Blackbird' followed by, um...'The Blackbird'.

Indeed, they play the Blackbird followed by the Blackbird and ends with the Blackbird - Air, Hornpipe and Reel.

I find it's nice to keep the air and the first fast tune in the same key and then switch key for a final tune or to go from an air to a reel to a polka.

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 7:41 am

Repeal the Union after Cuimhne an Phiobaire.

tommykleen · Post by **tommykleen** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 8:05 am

Lately, I'm of the mind of not putting anything after the aire...letting the spell linger. I think this coupling is a recent convention: to appeal to audiences. Perhaps for the reason the Uilliam says.

T

misterpatrick · Post by **misterpatrick** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 2:24 pm

If people hang themselves after I play an air I feel that my work is done.

BoneQuint · Post by **BoneQuint** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 4:15 pm

tommykleen wrote:Lately, I'm of the mind of not putting anything after the aire...letting the spell linger. I think this coupling is a recent convention: to appeal to audiences. Perhaps for the reason the Uilliam says.

I recall Seamus Ennis wrote in the liner notes to an album of his (which?) that the "old pipers" used to do it a lot, I think he gave the same, perhaps tongue-in-cheek, reason. Maybe I'll find the album and the tunes he treated this way later...