Dru Brooke-Taylor
Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:36:03 -0700
On wedding tunes, I've encountered Lara's Theme from Dr Zhivago, a story largely about adultery, fortunately not prophetic, and where one of the hymns was Fight the Good Fight, which sadly was.
If anyone's interested, here is another example of a tune in Book 2 where there's quite a lot of variety as to what it comes out as.
It's not one that pipers seem to play much. It's Slievenamon on page 44.I first came across it long before meeting the pipes, in a tune book that was published in Glasgow, at least 45 years ago. I'm fairly sure the one in Book 2 comes from the same source as apart from being transposed, it's more or less identical and has the same time signature.
But here are three different versions on You Tube. They're the same song, with the same tune, but the flavour, rhythms and even in some cases I suspect individual notes are quite different. All three are great - even no 2 if you like that sort of thing. They've all developed quite a long way from the printed version, whatever it's original status was. But one would be hard pressed to be able to say that there was a 'true' version as against any of the others, or that the printed copy is any sort of Ur-version.
The words, by the way, although written as a love song, undoubtedly also have a Fenian sub-text. Slievenamon itself is a mountain.
1. As an air http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NraclF8vRX8 2. As a Fenian rallying song http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=uu2sePDcZbg 3. Belted out and danceable http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=egYkdhKZmzU Dru To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html