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Thread #69073   Message #3795351
Posted By: keberoxu
13-Jun-16 - 12:31 PM
Thread Name: Maire Ni Scolai (1909 - 1985) traditional singer
Subject: RE: Maire Ni Scolai (1909 - 1985) traditional singer
"An Sceilpín Draighneach": the recording of this song puzzles an ignorant outsider like me. Is there more than one tune for this lyric? Máire Ní Scolaí's recording uses a tune which is about as far from sean-nós as I can imagine; when I look for notation of the tune, it is the highly ornamented sean-nós version that comes up. She sings three verses, and the third is actually two traditional verses which she has spliced together. Lacking any translation I don't know what she is singing.

For "An Clár Bog Déil" two verses are sung, unaccompanied, and highly ornamented.