Marien Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 Many tune books show fast dances, reels, jigs, reels and horn pipes. Does anyone have an idea where to find the best tunebooks or sites containing slow airs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Mansfield Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 Many tune books show fast dances, reels, jigs, reels and horn pipes. Does anyone have an idea where to find the best tunebooks or sites containing slow airs? Traditional Slow Airs Of Ireland by Tomas O Canainn is a really good collection of Irish slow airs - here's a link to it on UK Amazon, The notation and explanatory notes are excellent, and there's an accompanying CD. Don't forget about Carolan, there's various editions of his complete works about (not by any manner of means all slow airs of course, but quite a few of his tunes have been played as slow airs down the years). Many slow airs started life as song tunes or dance tunes, so don't be afraid to experiment. For example the Dorset tune 'Sun Assembly' makes a beautiful slow air, the French revolutionary song 'Le fils de mon pays' stands alongside any of Carolan's given the right treatment, and I have also been known to play a deep soulful heavily ornamented air on low whistle which it usually takes people who've not heard it before a while to realise is actually Kylie's I Should Be So Lucky ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anglo-Irishman Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 Many slow airs started life as song tunes or dance tunes, so don't be afraid to experiment. Marien, An Irish example springs to mind: Take the A-part of the jig "Father O'Flynn" and slow it down, and you've got the tune of the song "The Bard of Armagh," which when played without singing is a slow air! You can then "Americanise" it by adding a guitar with a waltz picking pattern and Hey presto! you've got the tune of "The Streets of Laredo!" Cheers, John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kautilya Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 (edited) I had forgotten how to do a search in Cnet. Use a search engine outside Cnet and you immediately get Haunting Slow Airs - Concertina.net Discussion Forums - Page 3 Concertina.net Discussion Forums: Haunting Slow Airs - Concertina.net Discussion Forums. Jump to content. ... Last Rose of summer (no Ferrier alas) concertina.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=11586&st=36 and first page of that http://www.concertina.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=11586&st=0 I cheated a little by remembering Last rose was cited as a slow air. There is lots to make a little collection of what YOU fancy there. Carolan of course is always wonderful to wander through. Edited November 16, 2012 by Kautilya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kautilya Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 I had forgotten how to do a search in Cnet. Use a search engine outside Cnet and you immediately get Haunting Slow Airs - Concertina.net Discussion Forums - Page 3 Concertina.net Discussion Forums: Haunting Slow Airs - Concertina.net Discussion Forums. Jump to content. ... Last Rose of summer (no Ferrier alas) concertina.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=11586&st=36 and first page of that http://www.concertina.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=11586&st=0 I cheated a little by remembering Last rose was cited as a slow air. There is lots to make a little collection of what YOU fancy there. Carolan of course is always wonderful to wander through. Marien, I collected together a load of those, some with all or parts (score, lyrics, midis and some youtubes) for Whitby so anything in particular you might fancy, let me know) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cboody Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 Well I know of one source, because I edited it and sell it. It is a collection of tunes "For whistle and other instruments." Most of the tunes are in their common key, though a few have been moved to keys more friendly for D whistle. Most, but not all, have suggested chord names. Some are just too much in the sean nos tradition to want chord names. We've probably stepped into chords further than some ITM folks would like. It is NOT a collection of slow airs, but rather a collection of slow tunes. Tune tiles are listed below. I sell the collection spiral bound on good 24 lb paper for $20.00 postpaid in the US ($21.00 through paypal). PM me for address to send a check. I hope mentioning this hasn't stepped into some prohibitions of list use. If so please let me know and I'll remove the post and be a good boy! Thanks for reading. Amhran na Leabhair Arran Boat, The Auld Lang Syne Auld Resting Chair, The Banks Of The Devon Battle of the Somme Birks of Invermay Blind Mary Bonaparte's Retreat Bonny At Morn Boulavogue Boys of Wexford, The Bruach na Carraige Baine Cape Clear Captain John Sudley Carrickfergus Coleman's March Cradle Song Da Slockit Light Dark Island Eagle's Whistle Eleanor Plunkett Erev shel shoshanim Eye of the Storm Fairhaired Child, The Farewell For Ireland I Won't Say Her Name Green Glens of Antrim, The Green Hills of Gweedore Heart of the Heartland Hector the Hero Her Mantle So Green Hills of Lorne, The If Ever You Were Mine Inisheer Jimmy Mo Mhile Stor John O'Dwyer Of The Glen King of the Fairies Kitty Tyrrell Kitty Tyrrell Lliw Lili Ymysg Y Drain Loch Tay Boat Song Lochaber No More Logan Water Lord Ullin's Daughter Love Of The Isles, The Maids of Arrochar May Morning Dew Merch Megan Mist-Covered Mountains Of Home, The Molly St. George Morgan Magan Mountains of Mourne, The Mrs. Jamieson's Favorite Music o' Spey My Hame Ned Of The Hill Niel Gow's Lament For The Death Of His Second Wife Parting Glass, The Roisin Bheag Dubh Roisin Bheag Dubh Roslin Castle Seamus O'Brien She Moved Through The Fair Siuil A Ghra Song of the Kelpie Spailpin Fanach Sunset Over Ayr Taímse Im' Chodhladh Thatched Cabin, The Though I Go To Bed, Little Does Sleep Come To Me Westmorland, The Ye Banks and Braes of Bonnie Doon Yellow Hair'd Laddie, The Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angloplayer Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 Hi Marien I recently found this page on the internet. Maybe it is useful for you? AP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kautilya Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 Hi Marien I recently found this page on the internet. Maybe it is useful for you? AP Tku tku - terrific, and with abc score and midi. I hope Marien's request brings up some more gems like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marien Posted November 18, 2012 Author Share Posted November 18, 2012 Thanks all for the good links to tune pages. Also the hint to try out fast tunes and play them slower is helpful. Marien Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Campin Posted November 20, 2012 Share Posted November 20, 2012 There are far more of them from the Scottish repertoire than from everywhere else in Western Europe put together. There are many in the 18th and 19th century fiddle tune collections, and some recent ones here: http://www.ian-hardie.co.uk/ (Hardie died last month). I have some from the Scottish flute repertoire here: http://www.campin.me.uk/Flute/Webrelease/Flute/Flute.htm One unusual Scottish form is the "slow strathspey". William Marshall wrote a lot of those. They are more elaborate than a strathspey intended for dancing, though they can be used as dance tunes if you cut some corners in the ornamentation. They idea is to play them slowly but with a definite strathspey rhythm. You won't figure that out just from a printed score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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