The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #74449   Message #1298856
Posted By: Bob Bolton
17-Oct-04 - 03:17 AM
Thread Name: Tune Req: Wind that Shakes the Barley
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Wind that shakes the barley
G'day again Shanghaiceltic,

I had a muck about putting down the dots ... and I noted that I had pencilled in "Dorian mode" against the version in the Clancys' book. That's right ... and the range of the tune suggests it plays best, on a D whistle, as a Bm ... but that's a Dorian Bm - played with the notes of an A scale!

That way the lowest note is an F# in the lower octave (2 fingers raised) and the highest note is a B in the upper octave (5 fingers raised) so the tune sits nicely in the middle of the instrument's range ... but there are three passing G# quavers (eighth notes) ... not technically all that challenging. It all sounds very nice on my Overton Low D.

I've formatted this as a one page piece of "sheet music" ... and I can e-mail that to a suitable address, if you PM me one. (I can format it for either international A4 paper ... or American letter size - as you prefer.

Regards,

Bob