Haunting and Memorable slow airs
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Haunting and Memorable slow airs
I really like "Inisheer" and "Ambhran A Leabhain"
These are truely haunting, memorable tunes that stop people talking and command listening, because of the sheer brilliance of the compositions.
What other tunes do folk know would fall into this category?
These are truely haunting, memorable tunes that stop people talking and command listening, because of the sheer brilliance of the compositions.
What other tunes do folk know would fall into this category?
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An Feochan (The Gentle Breeze) by Tommy Peoples. Brilliantly and influentially played on flute by the late Frankie Kennedy on Altan's Horse With A Heart album.
Here's a clip of it on low D whistle I did when I was reviewing Guido Gonzato's Low D (not played on his whistle here).
BTW, I don't think South Wind counts as a slow air - it's a waltz, isn't it? - At least, the one I know.....
Here's a clip of it on low D whistle I did when I was reviewing Guido Gonzato's Low D (not played on his whistle here).
BTW, I don't think South Wind counts as a slow air - it's a waltz, isn't it? - At least, the one I know.....
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Gol Na Mban San Ár as titled on Chieftains 9... I think the tune they play doesn't actually go by that name? Cause I know of another Gol Na Mban San Ár that Seamus plays on Bonnie Bunches of Roses with his tin whistle, but although that's a nice peice as well, isn't the one I'm getting at.
Of course the Chieftains decorate it with other stuff, but the jist of it is there. Chieftains 9, track 9... I don't have another recording of that tune on hand, so this is my only reference.
Of course the Chieftains decorate it with other stuff, but the jist of it is there. Chieftains 9, track 9... I don't have another recording of that tune on hand, so this is my only reference.
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I have always been under the impression that an air was an air because it didn't fit a specific rhythm anymore, being played as if sung, with feeling, so whether essentially a waltz, a reel, or whatever, played as an air, it becomes an air.Bothrops wrote:I think the one played by Joanie Madden is an air.. but I can be wrong. Anyways, it's a nice onejemtheflute wrote: BTW, I don't think South Wind counts as a slow air - it's a waltz, isn't it? - At least, the one I know.....
Of course, I've been wrong once or twice. (cough)
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The Fiddler's Companion (the ITM version of snopes, IMO--Andrew Kuntz should get WAY more recognition for his work) says 'air or waltz', although I think the air-version is older; probably older than walting itself.anniemcu wrote:I have always been under the impression that an air was an air because it didn't fit a specific rhythm anymore, being played as if sung, with feeling, so whether essentially a waltz, a reel, or whatever, played as an air, it becomes an air.Bothrops wrote:I think the one played by Joanie Madden is an air.. but I can be wrong. Anyways, it's a nice one :wink:jemtheflute wrote: BTW, I don't think South Wind counts as a slow air - it's a waltz, isn't it? - At least, the one I know.....
SOUTHWIND (An Ghaoth Aneas). AKA and see "The Southern Breeze." Irish, Air (3/4 or 6/8 time) or Waltz. F Major (Brody): G Major (Matthiesen, Tubridy): A Major (O'Neill). Standard. AB (Matthiesen, O'Neill): AAB (Brody, Tubridy). O'Sullivan states that little is known of the author of the original Gaelic song, save that he was a native of Irrul, County Mayo, named Domnhall Meirgeach Mac Con Mara (Freckled Donal Macnamara). Fiddler Junior Crehan told a story about how the air was learned by the west Clare musicians. It seems that a ghost ship was bringing back to Ireland the souls of the the Wild Geese (i.e. Irish exiles) who had been killed in battle. As the vessel proceeded around southwest Cork it was driven up the west coast by a southern breeze and the ghosts of the Wild Geese could be heard chanting this tune, which was picked up by musicians on the coast of Clare who supposedly witnessed the event. The song begins:
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A ghaoth andeas na mbraon mbog glas
A ni gach faithe féarmhar
Bheir iasg ir eas is grian i dteas
Is lion is meas ar ghéagaibh
Más sios ar fad mar mbinn féin seal
Is mianach leat-sa séide
Cuirim Ri na bhFeart dhod chaomhaint ar neart
'S tu/ir don tir sin blas mo bhéil-se
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O wind from the south with the soft clear drops
You that make every sward grassy
Bring the fish to the waterfall, give heat to the sun
And abundance of fruit to the branches
It is far to the north where I once lived
That you are minded to blow
May the King of Power preserve you in strength
And give the taste of my mouth to that country
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Source for notated version: Chieftains (Ireland) [Brody]. Brody (Fiddler's Fakebook), 1983; pg. 263-264. Bulmer & Sharpley (Music from Ireland), 1974, Vol. 1, No. 79. Matthiesen (Waltz Book I), 1992; pg. 45. O'Neill (1850), 1979; No. 510, pg. 89 (appears as "The Southern Breeze"). O'Sullivan (Songs of the Irish), 1960; pg. 95. Tubridy (Irish Traditional Music, Vol. 1), 1999; pg. 2. Island 9379, Chieftains- "Chieftains 3" (appears as "An Ghaoth Aneas"). Biograph 6008, Jerry Jenkins- "Fox Hollow String Band Festival." Front Hall 017, Michael and McCreesh- "Dance, Like a Wave of the Sea" (1978).
T:Southwind
T:An Ghaoth Aneas
R:waltz
Z:By Phil Sexton
M:6/8
L:1/8
Q:30
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And now there was no doubt that the trees were really moving - moving in and out through one another as if in a complicated country dance. ('And I suppose,' thought Lucy, 'when trees dance, it must be a very, very country dance indeed.')
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And thanks to Blackhawk for introducing me to them and MTGuru for transcribing Lament for Iona and Ian Melrose for graciously doing the same for Clyde Sunset.
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