Tune Req: Tomas Dall O Domhnaill

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Tomas Dall O Domhnaill
From: GUEST,Brian O Domhnaill
Date: 20 May 16 - 08:20 AM

Bhí an t-amhrán seo ag Síle Mhicí agus d'fhoghlaim mé é ó thaifead díthe. Fonn deas éadrom meidhreadh.
Brian

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Tomas Dall O Domhnaill
From: GUEST,Philippa
Date: 20 Jul 02 - 04:52 AM

a Mháirtín - fuair Apologies for not thanking you sooner Annraoi - Níl an t-amhrán sin agam. Go raibh maith agat but how does "Jinnie Dheas a' Deigh-bhean" go?!

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Tomas Dall O Domhnaill
From: GUEST,Annraoi
Date: 19 Jul 02 - 09:54 PM

Philippa, Try the tune to "Jinnie Dheas a' Deigh-bhean". It suits the rhythm down to the ground.
Annraoi

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Tomas Dall O Domhnaill
From: GUEST,Martin Ryan
Date: 19 Jul 02 - 06:35 AM

Philippa

Did you get some snail mail from me?

Regards

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Tomas Dall O Domhnaill
From: GUEST,Philippa
Date: 28 Jun 02 - 03:34 PM

go raibh maith agat as an taighde sin a dhéanamh. Labour beyond the call of duty, but I hope it was interesting for you.

I'm not much good at the solfa myself - great if you would work it out!

does anyone sing this song now? it seems worth keeping or reviving.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Tomas Dall O Domhnaill
From: GUEST,Martin Ryan
Date: 28 Jun 02 - 02:05 PM

Philippa

I had a look in the Irish Traditional Music Archive today. The only other copy I could find was in An t-Ath P. Breathnach's Sí Cheol published in 1926. This looks identical to the long (Breslin) version in O Muirgheasa. However: He gives a tune in tonic solfa and refers to it as "Pretty Peggy". I haven't tried to make it out - but will fax/snail mail a copy if you're interested. PM details to me. Mind you - Breathnach often fitted tunes to sets of words, if I remember rightly.

Incidentally, he too gives An Buachaill Óg" as subtitle. I tried searching on tha also, without success.

There's no sign of a recording of it in th ITMA database, either.

Regards

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Tomas Dall O Domhnaill
From: GUEST,Philippa
Date: 26 Jun 02 - 12:07 PM

triall eile - refresh

Subject: Tomas Dall O Domhnaill
From: GUEST,Philippa
Date: 24 Jun 02 - 09:30 AM

I am interested in a short lyric (4 quatrains, although a longer version is given in the notes at the back of the book) published in Éinrí Ó Muirgheasa, "Céad de Cheolta Uladh" (1915, new edition 1983). I would like to know what tune this song has normally been sung to and if there are any sound recordings of it available. Ó Muirgheasa called the song "Tomás Dall Ó Domhnaill" (or ... Ó Dónaill ), but in several cases the songs in his book are (nowadays) better known by other names than the ones Ó Muirgheas gives.

As Ó Muirgheasa tells us, "This song furnishes a rather striking instance of how highly music was appreciated by the Irish people, when they were Irish, as it shows us the case of a young girl of good family, being so captivated by the music of a blind itinerant fiddler, that she marries him in preference to a handsome young man."

First verse
Siar i mbruach an tsleibhe tá an ainnir mhúinte bhéasach
A dtug mo chróise spéis di dá mb'fhéidir domh í fháil
Is binne guth mo theagair ná a bhfuil de cheol sna téada,
Is póg amháin a bilin bhéarfadh sé na céadta ón bhás.