This is a slow air from Francis O'Neill's "Music Of Ireland" (1903), also called "An Cluaineorachd". My arrangement uses harmonies by Evelyn Tiffany-Castiglioni, from Vol. 3 of her "Big Book of Mandolin Trios". Evelyn has also changed the key signature from D major to D mixolydian (i.e. G natural instead of G sharp throughout). Mid-Missouri M-0W mandolin (x2) Vintage Viaten tenor guitar Here is the ABC as given by O'Neill. If you want to change to D mixolydian, use "K:G" instead: X:0323 T:"The Deception" (air) 0323 C:after Sg't. J. O'Neill C:slow, with feeling B:O'Neill's Music Of Ireland (The 1850) Lyon & Healy, Chicago, 1903 edition Z:FROM O'NEILL'S TO NOTEWORTHY, FROM NOTEWORTHY TO ABC, MIDI AND .TXT BY VINCE BRENNAN June 2003 (HTTP://WWW.SOSYOURMOM.COM) Q:1/4=70 I:abc2nwc M:6/8 L:1/8 K:D "_VB"(A/2G/2)|"^>"(FED) "^>"(A,CE)|D3-D2E|"^>"(F3/2G/2A/2B/2) cAc|d3-d2e| (cBA) (GED)|C3-C2(D/2E/2)|FED A,CE|D3-D2|| A|"^>"(d2e) (f2e)|(d A2-)A2B|"^>"c3(G2F)|(E C2-)C2A| "^>"(d2e) (f2e)|(d A2-)A2F|(G2F) (.D2.D)|D3D2|| (D/2E/2)|"^>"(F3/2E/2F/2A/2) cAc|"^>"(d3/2e/2f/2e/2) d2(d/2e/2)|.f.e.d .c.A.c|d3-d2f| (cAF) (GFD)|C3-C2(D/2E/2)|FED A,CE|D3-D2|] Martin
That’s an interesting slow air but to tell the truth I rather go with the Danish waltz you posted in the other thread.
Thanks, Frithjof. Two very different tunes, certainly. I do enjoy playing slow airs on mandolin as well as waltzes -- no need to choose between them. The challenge with slow airs is how to deal with the limited sustain of the instrument. For this one, I decided to forego the tremolo option in favour of having the harmony parts filling in, which i think works quite nicely. Not easy to add the overdubs, though, because of the rubato nature of slow airs and the lack of a strong pulse ot the melody. Martin
I like this tune, Martin. I particularly like the Mid Missouri - it is my favourite. I think it has the best sustain and you can avoid tremolo - or forego it - it works either way.
