A lot of Irish music is boring and repetitious. Here's some
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Here's what I'm obsessed by / working on in the Irish side these days:
Are You Ready Yet?
An Phis Fliuch
Lucky in Love
The Dairymaid
The Clareman's
The King of the Fairies
O'Sullivan's March
An Sean Duine
Dinny O'Brien's
The Crib of Perches
The Creel of Turf
Alexander's Hornpipe
On the "other side" I'm currently haunted by a neat little duet, the Adagio and Allegro from Sonata 1 by Loeillet.
Best wishes,
--James
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Are You Ready Yet?
An Phis Fliuch
Lucky in Love
The Dairymaid
The Clareman's
The King of the Fairies
O'Sullivan's March
An Sean Duine
Dinny O'Brien's
The Crib of Perches
The Creel of Turf
Alexander's Hornpipe
On the "other side" I'm currently haunted by a neat little duet, the Adagio and Allegro from Sonata 1 by Loeillet.
Best wishes,
--James
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Given E=Fb's criteria (easy to play and great sounding) I'd say:
- Banish Misfortune
- Baidin Fheidhlimidh
- The Pearl (by Phil Cunningham of now-defunct Silly Wizard) - low whistle - drop-dead-gorgeous, very simple, slow and, yes, repetitive, but if you vary your ornamentation and play with a good fiddler, this is what your audience will be humming on the way home.
Ian
- Banish Misfortune
- Baidin Fheidhlimidh
- The Pearl (by Phil Cunningham of now-defunct Silly Wizard) - low whistle - drop-dead-gorgeous, very simple, slow and, yes, repetitive, but if you vary your ornamentation and play with a good fiddler, this is what your audience will be humming on the way home.
Ian
The best thing about Highland Pipes is that the players can't sing at you.
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It's pronouncedOn 2003-01-01 01:55, Redwolf wrote:
I'm into slow airs these days, so I'll add to the list:
Fil, Fil, A Run O (lovely!)
Gile Mear
Eamonn a Chnoic
Buachaill on Eirne
An Boithrin Bui
Baidin Fheidhlimidh (just don't ever ask me how to pronounce this one...play it I can; say it I can't!)
Redwolf
Baw-Deen Ellim-ee
It means "Felim's little boat". There are words to it that go something like: "Felim's little boat went to Toree, with Felim in it". It's not what you'd call deep.
Tom
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Actually, that's what I like about it...it's such a perky little tune, but the words are rather tragic (If I recall, it's something like "Felim's boat sank off Tory with Felim in it")...that kind of conundrum tickles my musical fancy .On 2003-01-01 10:59, E = Fb wrote:It's pronouncedOn 2003-01-01 01:55, Redwolf wrote:
I'm into slow airs these days, so I'll add to the list:
Fil, Fil, A Run O (lovely!)
Gile Mear
Eamonn a Chnoic
Buachaill on Eirne
An Boithrin Bui
Baidin Fheidhlimidh (just don't ever ask me how to pronounce this one...play it I can; say it I can't!)
Redwolf
Baw-Deen Ellim-ee
It means "Felim's little boat". There are words to it that go something like: "Felim's little boat went to Toree, with Felim in it". It's not what you'd call deep.
Tom
And it is pretty, and easy to play.
Redwolf
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Yes Sandy,I think that 'Spancil hill' is a rousing tune,but everytime I hear it now,I can't forget being at a session in a Dublin pub when a local requested this tune in a rather loud manner."I'M NOT PLAYING DAT SHOITE!!" was the fiddler's reply.The Dublin accent is difficult to render into type,but i think you get where he was coming from!On 2002-12-31 18:45, Sandy Jasper wrote:
"Boulavogue" haunts my soul.
I also like "Spancil Hill" right now.
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Well...
I do not play "songs"... just whatever comes to mind. However, there is one song that I am putting in time to learn (which is going a ways for me). The swallowtail jig is not only a great sounding song, but the shape of the song always brings me to an old barn I used to hang around and watching the swallowtails.
I do not play "songs"... just whatever comes to mind. However, there is one song that I am putting in time to learn (which is going a ways for me). The swallowtail jig is not only a great sounding song, but the shape of the song always brings me to an old barn I used to hang around and watching the swallowtails.
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I had to grin at this one. It was the repeated practising of that song that finally drove me away (frothing at the mouth) from my regular weekly singing class of the last two years. "I'm not singing that shoite" is my feeling exactly. About as rousing as a dead dog in a ditch to me.On 2003-01-01 14:55, kevin m. wrote:Yes Sandy,I think that 'Spancil hill' is a rousing tune,but everytime I hear it now,I can't forget being at a session in a Dublin pub when a local requested this tune in a rather loud manner."I'M NOT PLAYING DAT SHOITE!!" was the fiddler's reply.The Dublin accent is difficult to render into type,but i think you get where he was coming from!On 2002-12-31 18:45, Sandy Jasper wrote:
I also like "Spancil Hill" right now.
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It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that schwing