Heretical but for students

Baglady · Post by **Baglady** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 10:54 am

I know people wiil laugh but I am trying to teach students to play together so...

Does anyone have a source for Irish music in 4 part harmony? Printed or on line.

I'm trying to sneek up on them with this Irish stuff.

dyersituations · Post by **dyersituations** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 11:40 am

I have never heard of this, but you might consider looking into piano-type arrangements. For example, we have a James Galway book that has a few lines: flute and piano. But, I have never seen more than that. Good luck.

-Casey

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:03 pm

This book and its sequal have some duets...
What is the class playing? Whistles? Recorders? Hurdy-Gurdies?

Congratulations · Post by **Congratulations** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:24 pm

I have a 4-part choral arrangement of Danny Boy laying around here somewhere... Don't have any way of getting it to you, though.

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:31 pm

Congratulations wrote:I have a 4-part choral arrangement of Danny Boy laying around here somewhere...
Don't have any way of getting it to you, though.

Perhaps that's..... for the best...

Was it something like this?
http://www.a-cappella.com/product/5275/ ... heet_music

Congratulations · Post by **Congratulations** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:32 pm

fearfaoin wrote:
Congratulations wrote:I have a 4-part choral arrangement of Danny Boy laying around here somewhere... Don't have any way of getting it to you, though.
Perhaps that's..... for the best...

That was a long time ago....

(It's really not a terrible arrangement, as these things go. Plus, I had a solo.)

Bloomfield · Post by **Bloomfield** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:35 pm

Baglady wrote:I know people wiil laugh but I am trying to teach students to play together so...

Does anyone have a source for Irish music in 4 part harmony? Printed or on line.

I'm trying to sneek up on them with this Irish stuff.

You can write it out yourself, easy. Just make sure the four parts are all unisono or octaves.

djm · Post by **djm** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 1:32 pm

Since playing ITM in parts/harmony is totally foreign to the genre, why not look instead for arrangements from Riverdance or something equally "Celtic"?

djm

TheSpoonMan · Post by **TheSpoonMan** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 4:59 pm

I was once bored at the piano, and I improvised a four-part for Saddle the Pony... it was amazing... ly ugly... but pretty cool all the same.

Anyway fourparts really aren't very hard to write at all. You could probably do it yourself.

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 6:51 pm

Baglady wrote:I know people wiil laugh but I am trying to teach students to play together so...

Does anyone have a source for Irish music in 4 part harmony? Printed or on line.

I'm trying to sneek up on them with this Irish stuff.

Not four-part, but Matt Seattle produced a couple of books in standard notation called "Airs for Pairs" with some very nice two-part harmonies. We used 'em with our kids and their friends a few years ago and they were good. It's sort of "Haste to the Wedding"/"Blackthorn Stick"-type stuff, but a good tune selection and none the worse for it.

djm · Post by **djm** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 9:55 pm

Are you sure Saddle the Pony is Irish? I thought it was from Shetland ....

djm

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 10:02 pm

neigh Dave, she be a Connemara now, wouldn't she!

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 9:54 am

Dunno about harmony, but I've been told "The Butterfly" works as a round. There are three parts to the butterfly, so give them sheet music suitably organised to start at the three different points.

There are probably a few slip-jigs you could do this with...

TheSpoonMan · Post by **TheSpoonMan** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 1:20 am

djm wrote:Are you sure Saddle the Pony is Irish? I thought it was from Shetland ....

djm

Well, yeah, but it's the idea

Innocent Bystander wrote:Dunno about harmony, but I've been told "The Butterfly" works as a round. There are three parts to the butterfly, so give them sheet music suitably organised to start at the three different points.

It does, surprisingly well. It's fun.

Baglady · Post by **Baglady** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 10:23 am

Thanks for your help.

The thing is I have a viola and a bass in a small ensamble and I am looking for bass cleft stuff to help them move into trad music.

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