coinleach glas an fhomhair

blackhawk · Post by **blackhawk** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 11:47 pm

I'm learning this slow air (sounds great on my Overton low D). Can anyone give the the pronunciation and translation of the title?

Darwin · Post by **Darwin** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 2:50 am

Can't help with the pronunciation, but it means "The Green Stubble-Field of Autumn", according to http://www.ceolas.org/artists/Clannad/l ... leach.html

This is one I have marked in my "Best Slow Airs" book for future attention.

blackhawk · Post by **blackhawk** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 3:21 am

Excellent! Thanks, Mike!

blackhawk · Post by **blackhawk** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 3:42 am

Darwin wrote:Can't help with the pronunciation, but it means "The Green Stubble-Field of Autumn", according to http://www.ceolas.org/artists/Clannad/l ... leach.html

This is one I have marked in my "Best Slow Airs" book for future attention.

I have just begun learning slow airs. Which others are your favorites? Maybe I'll see some more I'd like to learn.

vomitbunny · Post by **vomitbunny** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 7:44 am

It means "My hovercraft is full of eels". It is pronounced "Luxury Yacht".
Sometimes confused with "Throatwarbler Mangrove".

Leel · Post by **Leel** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 8:44 am

Is there anywhere to get dots or abc's for this one?

BillChin · Post by **BillChin** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 10:31 am

blackhawk wrote: I have just begun learning slow airs. Which others are your favorites? Maybe I'll see some more I'd like to learn.

The South Wind, and Londonderry Air (aka Danny Boy) are two of my favorites. Both are available in a variety of formats on the tunefinder:
http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/findtune

And both can be heard on Clips:
http://www.tinwhistletunes.com/clipssnip/slowairs.html
+ Bill

Redwolf · Post by **Redwolf** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 11:40 am

Taking a stab at pronunciation, but please wait for more informed input before you say it out loud to anyone!

I would say

"KIN-l@k glahs un OH-@r" (where the @ = schwa)

I'm only the barest beginner in Irish, however, so do wait for more input

Redwolf

Redwolf · Post by **Redwolf** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 11:56 am

Got some more input from the folks at the Irish Translation forum. My basic pronunciation is OK...but the "O" in fhomhair should probably be a bit more like "OW" than "OH" In Connaught, it would be more like "QUIN-lech glos on over (the last word as in "the cow jumped over the moon").

One frustration is that Irish pronunciation can vary considerably from region to region. But you can be pretty comfortable saying either:

KIN-luck glos un OW-er

or

QUIN-luck glos on OV-er

Redwolf

Redwolf · Post by **Redwolf** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 1:01 pm

blackhawk wrote:
Darwin wrote:Can't help with the pronunciation, but it means "The Green Stubble-Field of Autumn", according to http://www.ceolas.org/artists/Clannad/l ... leach.html

This is one I have marked in my "Best Slow Airs" book for future attention.
I have just begun learning slow airs. Which others are your favorites? Maybe I'll see some more I'd like to learn.

I play airs quite a lot (more than I do dance tunes, for sure). Anyway, here are some of my favorites:

Boithrin Bui
Buachaill on Eirne
Do You Remember the Night?
Lord Inchiquin
Sliabh Geal gCua
Ar Eirinn
An Buachaillin Ban
Eamonn a' Chnuic
Gile Mear
The Ash Grove (Welsh)
Slane ("Be Thou My Vision")
The Parting Glass

Audrey

computer-mom · Post by **computer-mom** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 8:38 pm

I love slow airs, and prefer them (and songs, as well) to dance tunes. I play Mo Guile Mear and Eamon a Chonic (please excuse misspellings in Gaelic), The Lament for Owen Roe O'Neill (the one Clannad did, not the O'Carolan version), Is An Eirean Ni Nhosin Ce Hi, Danny Boy, and Hector the Hero and Chi Mi Na Mor Bha Na(both Scottish).

Loch Lomond also works well as a slow air, as do Wayfaring Stranger, Red is the Rose, and Fair & Tender Ladies.

Darwin · Post by **Darwin** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 9:07 pm

So far, I've "learned":

"Sally Gardens" (Walton's "Best Slow Airs")
"Eanach Dhuin" (Walton's "Best Slow Airs")
"An Ghaoth Aneas" ("The South Wind") (Walton's "Best Slow Airs")
"Star of the County Down" (Wandering Whistler Web site)
"She Moved Through the Fair" (JC's ABC Tune Finder)
"The Flower of Sweet Strabane" (JC's ABC Tune Finder)

(I know the last two from the singing of Margaret Barry, and I'm also interested in her "The Galway Shawl" and "My Lagan Love", both of which can be found on the ABC Tune Finder site.)

I'm fighting with "Amhran na Leabhar" at the moment.

Others that I have marked in the "Best Slow Airs" book are:

"Brid Og Ni Mhaille"
"Carrickfergus"
"Eochaill"
"Fear an Bhata"
"The Irish Hautboy"
"Pe'n Eirinn I"
"Port Gordon"
"Port na bPucai"
"Roisin Dubh" (high on the list)
"Siobhan Ni Dhuibhir"
"Sliabh Geal gCua"

I'm also interested in "The Dear Irish Boy" from the Mel Bay "Irish Tin Whistle Book". I think I'll be able to internalize it pretty quickly, since it has English words. It's much harder for me to learn a tune by humming.

Easily_Deluded_Fool · Post by **Easily_Deluded_Fool** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 1:45 am

Leel wrote:Is there anywhere to get dots or abc's for this one?

No dots but tab', presumably for guitar.
http://music.kulichki.net/txt/c/clannad ... mair.shtml

Don't s'pose anyone could translate to abc

?

Darwin · Post by **Darwin** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 2:23 am

That's nice. Maybe I'll learn the guitar version first.

The only place I've found it is in Walton's "Ireland's Best Slow Airs". Neither the Wandering Whistler nor the ABC Tune Finder seem to have it.

blackhawk · Post by **blackhawk** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 2:31 am

Redwolf wrote:Got some more input from the folks at the Irish Translation forum. My basic pronunciation is OK...but the "O" in fhomhair should probably be a bit more like "OW" than "OH" In Connaught, it would be more like "QUIN-lech glos on over (the last word as in "the cow jumped over the moon").

One frustration is that Irish pronunciation can vary considerably from region to region. But you can be pretty comfortable saying either:

KIN-luck glos un OW-er

or

QUIN-luck glos on OV-er

Redwolf

Thanks, Red.