Nigel Gatherer writes:
| I've been looking for a 6/8 tune for beginners (all suggestions
| welcomed) and came across this lovely tune. Pinning the mode down is
| beyond me - can anyone help?
|
| X:296
| T:Lord Breadalbane's March
Well, I printed it out and showed it to a few friends. We pretty much
agreed that it was in D and Em. The lack of any c's means you can't
say precisely which sort of major and minor scales, but that doesn't
matter. It's a neverending tune, since it doesn't end with a
resolution. It's a good example of a counterexample of the usual
rules for determining the key, by looking at the notes that it starts
and ends on. But there are other tunes like this, too.
Anyway, here are the chords we worked out. There was a bit of dispute
over some of the A chords. I think it sounds ok if most of them are
just Em chords, but it sounds better with the A chords. The A in bar
12 seems to be needed. And, of course, I tend to just play plain A
chords on my accordion, though A7 sounds ok for all of them.
One bit of trickiness is that it does start on a clear D major chord,
but this is somewhat hidden by the fact that the only actual d is a
relatively insignificant note. Also, to end it, you'd probably want
to cadence on the extra measure | Dd6 |]
Anyway, it's a good pipe march. I wonder if anyone knows anything
about its origin?
X:1
T:Lord Breadalbane's March
B:Songs of Scotland Without Words, J T Surenne
N:Transposed from another key (no shaps or flats)
Z:Nigel Gatherer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
M:6/8
L:1/8
K:D
d \
| DABA fed | GBAB dBG | DABA fed | EmBee A7e2d \
| DABA fed | GBAB dBG | DABA fed | EmBee A7e2 ||
d \
| Emefe afe | Dfef fed | Emefe afe | A7efe e2d \
| Emefe afe | Dfef fed | Dafe fed | EmBee A7e2 |]
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