Tune Req: A Mhairi Bhoidheach

Subject: A Mhairi Bhoidheach
From: GUEST,Alex
Date: 02 May 01 - 10:07 AM

Hi, I'm still looking for the written music for this tune. I've searched around the usual sites and no luck. Does anyone have it out there? Roger, are you still looking? Thanks! Al

Subject: RE: Tune Req: A Mhairi Bhoidheach
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 02 May 01 - 08:15 PM

Did you check with George Seto, as Roger suggested?  I have staff for the Scottish set published by Alfred Moffat, but I don't know how close it is to the Cape Breton version that Áine posted in the original thread on this song: certainly there are differences in the text, though they are not enormous ones and I would imagine that the tunes are pretty close.  If you can't get it elsewhere, I can do you a copy.

Malcolm

Subject: RE: Tune Req: A Mhairi Bhoidheach
From:
Date: 02 May 01 - 10:20 PM

I can't find the copy I have. It was published in a Scottish book of Gaelic songs. I don't read music so I don't know if it is the same as the tune that Mary Jane sings. I'll be seeing her next Friday, and maybe she has something I can get for you guys.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: A Mhairi Bhoidheach
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 03 May 01 - 08:43 AM

There's another set in Bruce Campbell's Orain nan Gaidheal (vol 2, Gairm, 1989) which I had forgotten about; textually it overlaps the Moffat set and the one posted by Áine, but the melody is given in Tonic Sol-Fa, which is a system I've never got to grips with, so I can't tell if it's different or not.

Malcolm

Subject: RE: Tune Req: A Mhairi Bhoidheach
From: GUEST,Aingeal
Date: 03 May 01 - 04:14 PM

Failte Alex, if you are interested I wrote out this melody as I listened by Mairi Brennan with the Chieftains. You can download the PDF file at this URL:

http://www.paolopaliaga.it/temp/mhairi.htm

slan agus beannacht Aingeal

Subject: RE: Tune Req: A Mhairi Bhoidheach
From: GUEST,Aingeal
Date: 03 May 01 - 05:23 PM

well, I've just put, at the same URL (see the previous messagge) also the chords I use to accompany the melody with the guitar

I hope to be useful

beannacht

Aingeal