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10 Dec 99 - 08:17 PM (#147841) Subject: Tunes that don't end From: Jon Freeman I was chatting the other day and a couple of tunes, The Butterfly and Drowsy Maggie, were mentioned as tunes that don't seem to want to stop - the just seem to go round again and agian. Does anybody find that happens with other tunes or have suggestions of tunes that could be used to follow these ones? Jon |
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10 Dec 99 - 11:14 PM (#147920) Subject: RE: Tunes that don't end From: Jeri Another one - the slip jig Kid On The Mountain. (Well at least for me. I can never remember which is the last part.) Of course, when you do find the end, you can play Butterfly after it...or play Kid after Butterfly. Would Road to Lisdoonvarna work after Butterfly? |
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10 Dec 99 - 11:26 PM (#147924) Subject: RE: Tunes that don't end From: 42nd or Black Watch |
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11 Dec 99 - 12:13 AM (#147947) Subject: RE: Tunes that don't end From: bunkerhill I think of 'em as tickle songs. "Flop-Eared Mule" comes to mind. There's a take off on "Snow Drop" called "Gum Drop" has same kind of whimsy. Country dance songs that carry themselves along until the dancers' tongues are hanging out. |
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11 Dec 99 - 03:00 AM (#147983) Subject: RE: Tunes that don't end From: Jeremiah McCaw I always wanted to do Paul Simon's "The Boxer" and have the group on stage get stuck on the Na-na-na's (feels like a never-ending riff to me), and then have the band members one-by-one get fed up and leave the stage. |
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11 Dec 99 - 11:44 AM (#148098) Subject: RE: Tunes that don't end From: Sam Pirt TamLin could follow Drowsy maggie or perhaps Brenda |
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11 Dec 99 - 11:47 AM (#148099) Subject: RE: Tunes that don't end From: Sam Pirt Woops entered that before I was ready, any how Brenda Stubberts is a good tto follow it with. Another tune the Does not end is Pinch of snuff Cheers, Sam |
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11 Dec 99 - 03:57 PM (#148183) Subject: RE: Tunes that don't end From: Bruce O. They are usually called cyclic tunes and don't end on the keynote, but lead back to the beginning of the tune where that's almost always the keynote. In the Irish tune index on my website many are noted. At the end of the Keynote/ Mode+ specifier of the tunes, they are the ones that have 'o' at the end. www.erols.com/olsonw |
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11 Dec 99 - 04:27 PM (#148194) Subject: RE: Tunes that don't end From: Willie-O Thanks Bruce thats what I was going to say, except it sounds better coming from you...I learned them as being "circular" tunes. There is a distinction between tunes that don't end because they resolve back to the A part (when you end them, its usually at the end of the A part which does resolve if yo're lucky) and ones which don't end because they get played and played and played. My favourite on guitar is The Earl's Chair in D. Bill C |
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11 Dec 99 - 04:35 PM (#148199) Subject: RE: Tunes that don't end From: Bruce O. I like 'cyclic' a little better than 'circular', but here, they mean the same thing. One must recognize such when coding tunes as in my Irish tune index. If you just follow the sharps or flats on the key signature and take the last note as the key note, you get a lot of tunes that look like they are locrian mode. |
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11 Dec 99 - 11:47 PM (#148377) Subject: RE: Tunes that don't end From: jofi |
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11 Dec 99 - 11:48 PM (#148378) Subject: RE: Tunes that don't end From: jofield Handsome Molly -- or is that the same as Drowsy Maggie? |