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Thread #74449 Message #1301300
Posted By: Bob Bolton
20-Oct-04 - 12:02 AM
Thread Name: Tune Req: Wind that Shakes the Barley
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Wind that shakes the barley
G'day Frank/Shanghaiceltic (and s6k),
I shall send off the "music sheet" I created - tonight (if I don't collapse ... after a Committee Meeting of the bush music Club!)
belfast: I would suspect that the Clancys' version has had the usual energetic "spit & polish" before adopting into their repertoire ... but I note that the recorded version of this tune I have on an old LP by Sydney Irish musicians, from the local Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Ereann seems to cleave very close to the version the Clancys play. I certainly presumed Galvin's tune to be from the "original" ... although I have suspected the musical accuracy of some of the transcriptions in his book (and lots of others!). I used Galvin's version of Dwyer's words on the sheet I created - rather than the Clancys' slightly 'toned-down' words.
If I get time, I'll create another sheet with the Irish Songs of Resistance version of the tune ... and sent that to Frank & s6k at the same time (or just a GIFF scan of the dots from the book).