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14 Aug 10 - 11:45 AM (#2965091) Subject: Origins: Do you know this tune From: Doby I'm trying to find out where this melody is from. (Maybe a jig or a half-jig) I wrote it down by memory. Sounds like it could be very popular. Put the abc-text below in the window of http://www.concertina.net/tunes_convert.html (Thx Jack Campin for this extremly useful link) pls note: the midi output of concertina.net is much too slow X:1 Q:80 T:unknown C:Unidentified Trad. N:inknown Z: id:donno-1 M:6/8 L:1/8 K:G %%MIDI gchord fccfcc% |:d|"G" dGG GAB|"C" c E3 c c|"G" B2 G BcB|"D7" A4 d d| "G" d2B "G7" dcB|"C" A E3 c c|"G" BcB "D7" AGF|[1 "G" G3- G2:|2 "G" G4 zz|] |
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14 Aug 10 - 11:48 AM (#2965094) Subject: RE: Origins: Do you know this tune From: GUEST,Peter Laban Have you tried http://www.folktunefinder.com/ |
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14 Aug 10 - 12:57 PM (#2965122) Subject: RE: Origins: Do you know this tune From: Tug the Cox It sounds like the song from 'The Quiet Man' when they are on a wagon delivering futniture to John Wayne's cottege. |
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15 Aug 10 - 06:39 AM (#2965563) Subject: RE: Origins: Do you know this tune From: GUEST Hi Dug, thank you for listening I figured out the song in the movie to be "The Isle of Innisfree" aka "Dreams of Alwyn" Although the chord-sreucture is quite the same I miss the characteristic intervalls (5th down ... 6th down) aaaand the song is in 4/4. Hi Peter, thank you for listening I've actually tried several search engines (All I could find). At last I even tried the characteristic intervalls: 5th down 4th up 6th down and couldn't find anything appropriate. All the best, Doby |