Tune Req: King of the Faeries MP3

Subject: King of the Faeries MP3
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 26 Feb 01 - 06:23 PM

Anybody got one they care to share with me? All I have is a cruddy Midi that sounds like a cheep ass fantasy game by Atari! LOL!!!

PM me or whatever and we can work out a swap deal thing...

;-)

Subject: RE: Tune Req: King of the Faeries MP3
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 26 Feb 01 - 06:30 PM

Disregard... sorry... found it on Napster...

Anybody got good tab for it on, say, mando?

Then maybe you could play it for me too eh! LOL!!

;-)

Subject: RE: Tune Req: King of the Faeries MP3
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 27 Feb 01 - 12:46 PM

No tab then anyone??

;-)

Subject: RE: Tune Req: King of the Faeries MP3
From: Twiz
Date: 27 Feb 01 - 01:04 PM

Clinton,

Its'played on pennywhistle at this site Hornpipes

Dave

Subject: TAB Req: King of the Faeries MP3
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 27 Feb 01 - 01:07 PM

Ummm... neat... but what's all that stuff at the bottom? All those lines and dots???

;-)

Subject: RE: Tune Req: King of the Faeries MP3
From: Grab
Date: 27 Feb 01 - 02:28 PM

Clinton, this is probably what you're after? Not tab, but sheet music though.

Grab.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: King of the Faeries MP3
From: Twiz
Date: 27 Feb 01 - 02:37 PM

They are just Fairy Meandering!!

Subject: RE: Tune Req: King of the Faeries MP3
From: GUEST,JTT
Date: 27 Feb 01 - 03:05 PM

I always mix up The King of the Fairies with The Rights of Man; they're so alike.

You know the story? The man who was passing a fairy fort and heard the music played, and brought it home to learn it? Isn't there a superstition about this tune?

Subject: TAB req: King of the Faeries MP3
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 27 Feb 01 - 03:54 PM

Sheet music is completely useless to a grunt like me... But I might be able to find someone to help me with it... If anyone does find TAB, I'd be forever grateful if they'd let me know...

;-)

Subject: RE: Tune Req: King of the Faeries MP3
From: Grab
Date: 28 Feb 01 - 08:54 AM

Let me know what your tuning is, and I'll import it into my tab program and get a bitmap tab for you. Oh, and an email address to send the bitmap to would be handy as well.

Grab.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: King of the Faeries MP3
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 28 Feb 01 - 10:41 AM

very cool Grab!!

The tuning, as I mentioned above, is mandolin tuning, so GDAE right?

and my email addy... good idea...

[e-mail]

;-)

Subject: RE: Tune Req: King of the Faeries MP3
From: Grab
Date: 01 Mar 01 - 09:37 PM

Clinton, should be on its way. Let me know if you've not got it.

Grab.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: King of the Faeries MP3
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 02 Mar 01 - 01:09 AM

noting yet grabber, old sock...

;-)

Subject: RE: Tune Req: King of the Faeries MP3
From: alison
Date: 02 Mar 01 - 01:27 AM

can't do mandolin... but I sent you it in guitar tab....

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Tune Req: King of the Faeries MP3
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 02 Mar 01 - 01:33 AM

VERY COOL ALISON!!!!!

ta' very much eh!!!

Subject: RE: Tune Req: King of the Faeries MP3
From: alison
Date: 02 Mar 01 - 01:35 AM

nay borr

slainte

alison

Subject: Tune Req: King of the Faeries (Fairies)
From: Shanghaiceltic
Date: 25 Jul 05 - 06:33 PM

I am looking for the staff notation for King of the Faeries. The two versions I have seen look and sound nothing like the one I am looking for.

This is the version performed by the likes of ASlan Stivell, Cantiga, Altan etc. Any help please.

The two I have seen are from The Session website. On the DT pages here I can only find lyrics called KOF.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: King of the Faeries (Fairies)
From: curmudgeon
Date: 25 Jul 05 - 08:29 PM

Look here.

And while you're at concertina.net, check out all the other goodies -- Tom

Subject: RE: Tune Req: King of the Faeries (Fairies)
From: Noreen
Date: 25 Jul 05 - 08:35 PM

KingOfTheFairies.gif (click here) from JC's ABC tune finder is the tune I've always known by that name.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: King of the Faeries (Fairies)
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Jul 05 - 09:46 PM

there's there's tablature for it at folkpunktabs.com

and the tune isn't fucked up, it just has an electric guitar backing it and stuff like that. so it might be the one you're looking for.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: King of the Faeries (Fairies)
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 25 Jul 05 - 09:54 PM

The DT file has the wrong title, is inaccurate and incomplete, and is not credited to its writer (William Allingham); and, as you have spotted, has nothing whatever to do with the well-known set dance tune you're looking for. Corrections have long since been posted but have as usual not been incorporated into the database.

The midi file at Mudcat Midis is the right tune, though preternaturally slow (concertina.net is better). Stivell, by contrast, recorded it at a ridiculously fast pace, quite unsuitable for dancing. I see that "The Session" describes the tune as a hornpipe; it isn't, strictly speaking, though often played as if it were (or, even worse, as a reel). They now require unnecessary registration, it seems, so I won't bother with their site again. There are better-informed, more accurate sources.

"Faeries" is best avoided as a spelling when searching; you will mostly find adolescent, romantic, imaginary tosh associated with it. Mind you, "fairies", while more down-to-earth and sensible, will probably return a high proportion of irrelevant references to sexual disposition along with the expected folkloric stuff. What can you do?

Subject: RE: Tune Req: King of the Faeries (Fairies)
From: open mike
Date: 25 Jul 05 - 11:17 PM

there are a couple of different tunes..
dance of the fairies and king of the fairies
one is a 3 part tune...i hope you have found
the one you were looking for...

Subject: RE: Tune Req: King of the Faeries (Fairies)
From: Shanghaiceltic
Date: 26 Jul 05 - 12:42 AM

Lunchtime, just logging in to have a look at the answers that have come up. Thanks to all of you. What a fine bunch of upstanding people.

I would agree that Stivell's version is a tad fast, but his harp work is lovely.