Philip W writes:
| > From: Keith W Dunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| > Subject: [scots-l] The Silvery Voe
| > I've searched the web over and can't find the abc's or a gif or jpg of
| > this tune, "The Silvery Voe". It's a Shetland tune on Tom Andersons/Aly
| > Bain's CD "The Sliver Bow". Does anyone have this in one of these
| > formats? Or....could you point me in the right direction? AND........
| > What's a "Voe"? or even a "Silvery > Voe"
|
| Voe is verry common word on the maps of Shetland. See Sullom Voe, the
| location of the large Oil Terminal, which is perhaps the most famous. From
| the map a voe seems to be a body of water such as an inlet or sea-loch -
| similar to fjord perhaps?
|
| Hence the Silvery Voe. I think this is a Tom Anderson Tune and it might be
| in "Ringing Strings" or one of the other collections in the same series.
Yup; it's on page 37. Here it is, with Tom's explanation, and with the
somewhat unusual positioning of the pickup to the second part:
X: 1
T: The Silvery Voe
C: Tom Anderson 1966
B: Ringing Strings p.37
Z: John Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
N: "When the full moon shines down on a Shetland voe in winter the sea appears to be
N: shining silver. Composed in the winter of 1966 when driving along Weisdale Voe.
N: In the key of F major, as that key to me is always a silver colour". From a tape
N: recording of Tom by a student."
M: C
L: 1/8
K: F
C \
[| A3G F2C2 | D2F2 C4 | D2B2 C2A2 | (BA) GF G2C2 |
A3G F2C2 | (D2F2) D3B | AC3 B,2G2 | F4 F2 :| AB |
(c3A) (f3A) | B3c/d/ (c3A) | B2(dB) A2(cA) | (BA) GF G2AB |
(c3A) (f2A2) | B2cd (c3B) | AC3 (A3G) | F3E kFG kAB |
(c3A) (f2A2) | B2cd (c3A) | BkdcB AkcBA | (BA)GF G2C2 |
F3G F2C2 | D2F2 C2B2 | AC3 B,2G2 | F4-F4 |]
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