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Subject: RE: Top 10 fiddle tunes please From: Scoville Date: 27 Feb 07 - 03:21 PM Okay, I've gotten so many different reports on "Off to California": GUEST Kathleen above says it's a schottische. Somebody else told me it was a polka. I was told that an alternate title is "Whiskey Hornpipe" and have always played it as a hornpipe on both fiddle and Appalachian dulcimer (on which it's pretty easy to tell the difference among the three since they use different strums). What the Hell is it? |
Subject: RE: Top 10 fiddle tunes please From: skarpi Date: 27 Feb 07 - 03:29 PM Hallo I dont play fiddle but Calliope House Ashokan Farewell Road to Lisdoonvarna Moudbawn chapel King of the fairys Bonde og byfolk ( Norway Hardanger fiddle tune ) all the best Skarpi Iceland. P.s in my band we use both fiddle and Hardanger fiddle |
Subject: RE: Top 10 fiddle tunes please From: John Hardly Date: 27 Feb 07 - 03:39 PM In Northern Indiana ten fiddle tunes that would stand you in good stead... 1. Arkansas Traveler 2. Red-Haired Boy 3. Blackberry Blossom 4. St Anne's Reel 5. Jaybird 6. Sandy Boys 7. Old Joe Clark 8. Temperance Reel 9. Rock The Cradle, Joe 10. Over The Waterfall She left Ireland and now works for NASA at launch time. She's the star of counting down. There it floated in the bay, covered with writing. I couldn't make out a single word. Then a little boat paddled by bearing this sign: "Read Here -- Bouy". |
Subject: RE: Top 10 fiddle tunes please From: GUEST,Bill Cheatam Date: 16 Apr 07 - 03:26 AM The Real List..........Spokane, WA Sally Johnson Say Old Man Dusty Miller Sally Goodin Tom and Jerry Wednesday Night Waltz Purple Velvet Waltz I Don't Love Nobody Cottonpatch Rag Beaumont Rag |
Subject: RE: Top 10 fiddle tunes please From: wilco Date: 16 Apr 07 - 09:40 AM Top ten in my east tennessee fiddle jams and music store: Angeline the baker, arkansas traveler, soldiers' joy, lost indian, over the waterfall, st. anne's real, blackberry blossum, bonaparte's retreat, forked derr, billy in the lowground, leather britches, mississipii sawyer, red haired boy, ragtime annie, sail away ladies, whiskey before breakfast. |
Subject: RE: Top 10 fiddle tunes please From: open mike Date: 16 Apr 07 - 11:19 AM Ashokan Farewell St. Anne's Reel Soldier's Joy Whiskey Before Breakfast Red Haired Boy (Little Beggar Man) Liberty Maggie Brown's Favorite Jig Caledonian Laddie Hornpipe Dance (King?) of the Fairies Rosetree o.k. i guess that is 10 so i have to stop now.. But I might add ..... Round the Horn Smash the Windows Swinging on a Gate Ground Hog Arkansas Traveller Turkey in the Straw Golden Slippers Star of the County Down--with lyrics sung Midnight on the Water (Waltz) 8th of January (in 1814 we took a little trip..Colonel Jackson...MS) Tennessee Waltz Beaumont Rag ROAD to California...(diff. from Off to CA) |
Subject: RE: Top 10 fiddle tunes please From: Jim Lad Date: 16 Apr 07 - 11:24 AM My wife still stops me dead on my tracks when she plays "The Burning of the Piper's Hut". Hector the Hero & Roisin Dubh are another couple of favourites. |
Subject: RE: Top 10 fiddle tunes please From: greg stephens Date: 16 Apr 07 - 12:22 PM The original enquirer was from England, so it should be pointed out that the Fiddler's Fake Book, fabulous collection that it is, is pretty useless as regards English tunes. And its comments on the subject of English fiddle music are, to say the least, ill-informed. But, having said that, iot's a must-have collection. The traditional English tunes that everybody, but everybody, knows (in England, that is) are Winster Gallop(very easy) and Soldier's Joy (not so easy). |
Subject: RE: Top 10 fiddle tunes please From: GUEST Date: 16 Apr 07 - 08:24 PM My favourite is St. Annes reel. Anyone know of it's origins? Scottish, Irish? |
Subject: RE: Top 10 fiddle tunes please From: Jack Campin Date: 16 Apr 07 - 08:41 PM The two places it seems to be most played are Quebec and Shetland. Since Catholic saints don't get a great deal of notice in Shetland culture it seems a good bet it's French-Canadian. |
Subject: RE: Top 10 fiddle tunes please From: GUEST,dax Date: 16 Apr 07 - 08:43 PM French-Canadian |
Subject: RE: Top 10 fiddle tunes please From: GUEST,dax Date: 16 Apr 07 - 08:45 PM Cross post there Jack. It was made popular in the English speaking world by Don Messer. |
Subject: RE: Top 10 fiddle tunes please From: GUEST,Scoville at Dad's Date: 16 Apr 07 - 08:49 PM I've always seen St. Anne's attributed to Canada. Not that that means I'm right, only that I've known it my entire life and never seen it ascribed to any other country. A few more: 1. Eight Days in Georgia [C] 2. Ballydesmond Polka [Am] 3. Where the White Lilies Grow [D, two-step] 4. Princess Royal [the version I know is in G major] 5. Seneca Square Dance [G, known by several other titles] 6. Tennessee Wagoner [C] 7. Pa Janvier [Dm, a morose Cajun waltz] 8. Red Hills Polka [D, an Illinois tune as far as I know] 9. Spotted Pony [D] 10. Kingdom Coming [aka Year of Jubilo, we also played this in C to go with Dixie] |
Subject: RE: Top 10 fiddle tunes please From: open mike Date: 17 Apr 07 - 01:18 AM "St. Anne's Reel is a French-Canadian fiddle tune that has been very popular over the years."--this is a quote from a web page...so it MUST be true..actually that is what i have always heard, too. another great book source for tunes is O'Niel's 1,000 fiddle tunes book. |
Subject: RE: Top 10 fiddle tunes please From: Guy Wolff Date: 17 Apr 07 - 06:38 PM As a banjo player I have found these some of my faverites to play along with a good fiddler.They all have a lot of depth .Some I learned in North Carolina some in New England and some in the north of England .. all the best ,Guy Bill Cheatum Staton Island Red Haired Boy Sally Anne Solger's Joy Old French Rickets Hornpipe Jefferson and Liberty Cluck Old Hen Jamie Allen Sony Brogan |
Subject: RE: Top 10 fiddle tunes please From: Mike Miller Date: 18 Apr 07 - 02:39 AM Belfast Hornpipe The Downfall of Paris Georgia Camp Meeting Chicken Reel The Rakes of Kildare Orange Blossom Special (Still smokin' after all these years) Anything Johnnie Gimbel played, anything at all. |
Subject: RE: Top 10 fiddle tunes please From: GUEST, donald Date: 18 Apr 07 - 10:30 AM Bonnie Kate Jenny's Chickens Bonnie Mulligan Mason's Apron Dionne Mouth of the Tobique Rakes Of Kildare Calliope House Canyon Moonrise Neil Gow second wife Cooley's Drowsy Maggie ok that's a dozen, but it's 10 in base twelve! |
Subject: RE: Top 10 fiddle tunes please From: MissouriMud Date: 18 Apr 07 - 12:59 PM I would have to qualify my answer by saying that first it will be country specific(US in my case)- and possibly even region specific (midwest/ozarkian); and second it attempts to include a few tunes from each of the three primary fiddle tune keys - D, A and G. We dont do much fiddle work in the key of C at the basic level here. Finally I am making the assumption that you are looking for tunes to teach a beginning fiddler or at least someone new to the genre. These are all tunes that any experienced fiddler in these parts would have to know (and would probably be sick and tired of). With that in mind, our little school here teaches a number of tunes in its lower level fiddle classes - among which the most repeated seem to be, albeit in no particular order other than key: Key of D Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss (Hop High Ladies, Susannah Girl etc) Angeline the Baker (or Angelina Baker) Eighth of January (Battle of New Orleans) Robinson County Soldiers Joy Key of G Chase the Banshee (we have Banshees in Missouri) Miss McLeod's Reel (Did you ever see the Devil Uncle Joe?) Red Wing Seneca Square Dance Going Down To Cairo (Good Bye Liza Jane) Key of A Old Joe Clark Cripple Creek Horse and Buggy Greasy Coat (got to have some of the modal tunes in there) Cluck Old Hen (ditto) That's 15 not 10. Those arent my necessarily personal favorites and I am not a fiddle player, but they seem to be the ones that are most used for basic teaching here so I assume they are good for that purpose. If we were to have our young fiddlers put together a program for a 3 hour square/contra dance, most if not all of those tunes would be on the list. We probably teach simple versions of some of these tunes - so I am assuming these are tunes which either have a simple base melody to start with or seem to permit simplification of a more complicated base melody without losing too much. Obviously good players play all of these tunes in a manner that would be over the head of a learner. I have not included any waltzes - while we play them and teach them here, I don't treat them as being "fiddle tunes" as we normally use that term here, but some good ones have been mentioned in the thread above. Of course if you're really dealing with total beginners, the Old Town School in Chicago teaches everyone Go Tell Auint Rhodie the first day, but I dont consider that a fiddle tune either. |
Subject: RE: Top 10 fiddle tunes please From: GUEST,Lillian Date: 16 Aug 07 - 01:16 AM I'm just a beginner and I love these songs and all you fiddlers out there! Rakes of Mallow Nonesuch Colonel John Irwin Lucy Farr's Barn Dance La Valse Des Jonglements Pride of Petravore Si Beag Si Mohr Whiskey Before Breakfast St Anne's Reel Ash Grove |
Subject: RE: Top 10 fiddle tunes please From: GUEST,fiddler Date: 16 Aug 07 - 07:05 AM they are TUNES not songs! |
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