Re: [scots-l] Roman wall
Never done this before, but working by analogy from what you wrote, here goes - X: ? T:The Roman Wall M:6/8 L:1/8 C:? R:Jig Z:Adam Gray, transcribed by Matt Seattle K:A E|ABA cBA|cea ecA|def ecA|GBB B2E|ABA cBA|cea ecA|def ecA|BAG A2:: e|a2a gfe|fga ecA|def ecA|GBB B2e|aba gfe|fga ecA|def ecA|BAG A2e| a2a gfe|fga ecA|def ecA|GBB B2E|ABA cBA|cea ecA|def ecA|BAG A2|| It's not that different from the Pete Coe version, I suspect Pete (whom I know) changed it a wee bit in learning it. I've been playing this into Calliope House, going from A to E. The chords are obvious I IV and V, except that in bars 1, 5 and 9 of strain 2 I use F#m - C#m. I'm aware of the Cape Breton 'same root' practice, but am more used to going from one key to another in medleys. The logical conclusion of the same root is to stick to one tune only and play variations - which I sometimes do when playing pipes. I have a few extreme examples which I occasionally inflict on dancers and my colleagues... Cheers Matt Seattle Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [scots-l] Roman wall
On Wednesday, September 24, 2003, at 05:37 AM, Matt Seattle wrote: Never done this before, but working by analogy from what you wrote, here goes - X: ? T:The Roman Wall M:6/8 L:1/8 Actually Matt, you did a great job. I like the changes you suggest. See! Abc ain't all that hard to read and write in. I'm not sure if I agree with your logical conclusion here... I'm aware of the Cape Breton 'same root' practice, but am more used to going from one key to another in medleys. The logical conclusion of the same root is to stick to one tune only and play variations - which I sometimes do when playing pipes... Or better stated, I guess the Cape Breton fiddle tradition hasn't evolved by logic What has evolved tho is that the fiddlers have to learn lots of tunes to be able to play twenty - thirty minute sets in the same root. Each tune is rarely played thru more than twice. And of course each scale root will its own huge set of tunes. The CB style is to learn the tune in the right way, leaving creation of variations to visitors from away. Thanks for the tune, John Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
[scots-l] Roman wall + Eavesdropper.
On Tuesday, September 23, 2003, at 12:06 PM, Matt Seattle wrote:
which works well _before_
Calliope House is the Northumbrian jig The Roman Wall, a version of The
Eavesdropper. A young fiddler I accompany picked it up at the
Folkworks Summer
School from Peter Tickell (he'd learnt it from one of my books, The
Morpeth
Rant, not currently in print).
I found these with John Chambers Tune Finder. Are they the tunes you
refer to? I can't quite figure our how to transition to an E tune,
unless I transpose it to A. But I wanted to find out if these were the
tunes you meant. I At first listening I'm not sure I hear a close
relationship between these two tunes.
John
X: 65
T:The Roman Wall
T:Pete Coe tune No. 1
M:6/8
L:1/8
C:Pete Coe
R:Jig
N:http://www.lesession.co.uk
Z:Steve Mansfield 1998-2001
K:G
D|GFG BAG|Bdg dBG|cde dcA|DFAd2D|GFG BAG|Bdg dBG|cde dcA|DEFG2::
d|g2g fed|efg dBG|cde dcA|DFAd2d|g2g fed|efg dBG|cde dcB|DEFG2d|
g2gfed|efg dBG|cde dcA|DFAd2D|GFG BAG|Bdg dBG|cde dcA|DEFG2||
X:456
T:the Eavesdropper
R:Jig
O:Ireland
M:6/8
%%ID:0965
Z:Richard Robinson
URL:http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/Info/RRTuneBk/contact.html
F: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/Info/RRTuneBk/gettune/0965.abc
K:G
E|\
DBB {c}BAG|Bdd {e}dBG|cde dBG|BAA ~AGE|\
DBB {c}BAG|Bdd {e}dBG|
cde dBA|BGF G2 ::\
d|\
g3 afd|efg dBG|
cde dBG|BAA A2d|\
gab afd|efg dBG|cde dBA|BGF G2:|
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