Saddest Tune

pastorkeith · Post by **pastorkeith** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 8:38 pm

I nominate O Carolan's "Farewell to Music"

pastorkeith

Congratulations · Post by **Congratulations** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 8:46 pm

I nominate Danny Boy.

peeplj · Post by **peeplj** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 8:47 pm

Amazing Grace.

Too many gone on before--I can't hear that tune on pipes or fife without tearing up now.

--James

Congratulations · Post by **Congratulations** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 9:26 pm

Somewhere Over the Rainbow, especially Tiny Tim's version.

plunk111 · Post by **plunk111** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 9:36 pm

I like "A Fig for a Kiss" if played slowly (aka Matt Molloy). It's turning into my favorite flute tune - yes, I'm a bi-woodwindian!

And we're SUPPOSED to be sad - we're Irish, by God!!!

Pat

Congratulations · Post by **Congratulations** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 9:48 pm

plunk111 wrote:And we're SUPPOSED to be sad - we're Irish, by God!!!

Well, I'm neither sad nor Irish. I do like to have a good cry from time to time, though.

anniemcu · Post by **anniemcu** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 10:15 pm

The Foggy, Foggy Dew

weedie · Post by **weedie** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 12:23 am

Dont know if it's sad or very stirring........but Davey Spillane's playing of Lament for Cuchullain on Uilleann Pipes (from Riverdance)....does me in every time I see it ........

Belgian_Waffle · Post by **Belgian_Waffle** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 12:37 am

Killkenny from the Music at Matt Molloy cd.
Afscheid van een vriend (Clouseau, Belgian Band)

My whistle playing makes my wife sad (unintentially

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Cayden · Post by **Cayden** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 4:46 am

One the one hand I think it's a bit of a silly exercise, it's a good musician who puts his touch of sadness on the tune, not necessarily the tune itself.

But Caoineadh na tri Mhuire song by Joe Heaney always worked for me, it's a simple tune without touching the obvious minors yet it touches the right emotions. My son learned it from Noel Hill in concertina class a few years ago and he did a nice job on it too.

Another keen, Caoineadh Inion ui Mhuiriosa, sung by Labhras O Cadhla is anther one that does it for me.

Another all time favourite, maybe not for sadness, it is a love song, is By the River of Gems, when played by Seamus Ennis anyway it brings the tenderness but also the tinge of sadness love brings. Maybe I am pre occupied with the tune at the minute as I'll be teaching it to a few young pipers tonight and I am just after renewing my acquaintance with it.

But again, it's not necessarily the tunes, it's what the player brings to it: Martin Rochford could send the shivers down my spine more than anyone when he played the fiddle in his kitchen. Tommy Potts' music has it as has some of Tommy Peoples'.

medit8b1 · Post by **medit8b1** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 4:50 am

"The Sadness of Some" by Sarah Bauhan.

Gabriel · Post by **Gabriel** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 5:01 am

Clare's Reel by Sylvain Barou. A tune made for the flute.

hydromel89 · Post by **hydromel89** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 6:01 am

Dark woman of the glen.

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 6:31 am

After the Battle of Aughrim. I can just see the bodies strewn all over the field.

jmccain · Post by **jmccain** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 7:01 am

Anything in D minor. It's the saddest key of all.