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Thread #44520   Message #711474
Posted By: An Pluiméir Ceolmhar
16-May-02 - 07:07 AM
Thread Name: Lyr/Chords Req: Ag Criost an siol
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Ag Criost an siol
Thanks for the line breaks, Mudelf, I haven't quite figured out why the return key works OK at the end of a paragraph, but not at the end of a short line.

So here goes with a quick and dirty phonetic transcription, James.

egg CREE-ost on SHEE-ol
egg CREE-ost on four
in IH-lan day
go DUG-tar shin
egg CREE-ost on wirr
egg CREE-ost on TEE-ask
i LEE-on-tiv day
go GOSS-tar shin

oh awss go heesh
iss go heesh go bawss
duh ghaw lawv a KHREE-ost
an owl har ring
oh awss go CREE-och
nee CREE-och och auh-AWSS
i BOR-us na ngrawst
go DUG-tar shin

I've written Críost, síol, t-iasc and críoch as if they were two syllables each, but they're more like diphthongs or at most one and a half syllables each, so don't emphasise the break, run the two vowel sounds together (the sheet music shows just one note for each).

If you're in Edinburgh you shouldn't have too much trouble with the "och" sound. The gh in ghaw is the corresponding voiced sound. Generations of Irish kids grew up thinking that they weren't physically able to pronounce a French r properly, when in fact it's almost exactly the same sound as the gh or dh which they could pronounce perfectly well in Irish. Now many of them can pronounce the French r, but for many of them the standard of Irish has declined so much that they can't pronounce the corresponding Irish consonants!

The D and t's are pronounced with the tip of the tongue between the teeth.

I'm not too good on online music resources, but will try one or two that I have bookmarked.

I love "an owl har ring", it sounds meaningful in a Lewis Carroll sort of way. Mind you, "egg creeost on four" sounds like an order in a fast-food restaurant.