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Thread #6664   Message #1243523
Posted By: GUEST,skyesidhe
09-Aug-04 - 05:14 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: An Raibh Tu Ag An gCarraig
Subject: RE: Lyrics: An Raibh Tu Ag An gCarraig
If you google this you get a bunch of midi recordings, but if you want to hear it well I'd suggest Joe Heaney..like the person above did. He's probably the most famous Sean Nos singer out there. As far as notation goes, you can find it, but because sean nos is such an oral tradition, if you really want to learn it I'd say listen to several artists renditions a whole bunch of times, get the gist of the melody and then play with your own ornamentation. That is what is so neat about sean nos, that every song is different when said by a different person because personal ornamentation (like the trills and slips you'll hear Joe do) differs so widely! As far as the english version up there, it's going to be a little munted because it tries to rhyme and get the feel, so it won't be a strict translation, if you want a literal one I could do that for you with a few days notice. Anyhow, thanks for asking this because I was looking for the lyrics too, since I lost them!