| So now, your mystery Breton tune is a mystery Breton Andro! (well, better
| than nothing, I guess)
Well, yeah, but that's how I'd already classified it. But
that's sorta like calling a tune "Irish Jig". Oh, well;
there are lots of nameless tunes in this world.
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The Tannahill Weavers play it as part of a set of mixed tunes: this is the
information they provide (no much, I'm afraid!):
"To close the selection we have chosen a Breton melody. We have it on
authority from good friends and "partners in musical crime" Bleizi Ruz that
this is an Andro, a Breto
Looking through old mail, I ran across this one. Did anyone give you
any information about the tune? It's a nice tune, and it'd be good to
have a proper name, etc.
| Anybody know anything about this tune? (I already asked this on
| uk.music.folk, no answer). I got it as a graphics file off the
This is an andro, a dance very popular in breton festoù-noz (sort of
ceili). I used to play a very close version in Am (see below). Few dance
tunes have title in britanny, except when they are related to a song. I
remember that Tri Yann has recorded a song with this music but I don't
know the
Jack Campin wrote:
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> Anybody know anything about this tune?
It's probably just a coincidence, but the beginning sounds very similar
to a well-known Norwegian lullaby:
X:396
T:Byssan lull
C:anon.
O:Norway
N:Collected by Evert Taube
R:Lullaby
Z:Transcribed by Frank Nordberg - http://www.music
Anybody know anything about this tune? (I already asked this on
uk.music.folk, no answer). I got it as a graphics file off the
Internet years ago and have been playing it ever since, but have
come across it recently in two different contexts - a Canadian
fiddler I know plays it, and the first ha
