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12 Nov 05 - 04:46 PM (#1603218) Subject: SHEET MUSIC -- for 'The Maiden's Prayer' From: GUEST,Gladys Hi... Would anyone know where I can find the sheet music (violin) for The Maiden's Prayer (I believe it would be classed as a Waltz) I had it in 'Fiddler's Fakebook' Page 182 - but that page has gone missing. Thank you so much, Gladys |
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12 Nov 05 - 07:35 PM (#1603325) Subject: RE: SHEET MUSIC -- for 'The Maiden's Prayer' From: GUEST,Gladys Whoops... I forgot to put my email address on that request for sheet music for 'The Maiden's Prayer' it's wellsandwilson@yahoo.ca :) |
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12 Nov 05 - 08:32 PM (#1603348) Subject: RE: SHEET MUSIC -- for 'The Maiden's Prayer' From: masato sakurai Gladys, here you are. It's not a waltz. X:1 T:Maiden's Prayer M:4/4 L:1/8 K:A B:The Fiddler's Fake Book, p. 182. "A"A,4-A,CEA|[c8A8]|(3BcB Ac B2 AG|"D"EF3-F4|"E"{Bc}d4 {Bc}d3 e-| d4 dcB2|ece2 (3fgf e2|"A"Bc2 dcBA2|A,4-A,CEA|B c2 dcBA2| B3 c (3BcB A=G|"D"EF3-F2 (3agf |"A"ec e2 "D"fa-(3agf| "A"ec e2 "D"a2-(3agf|"A"ec e2 "E"c'3e|"A"a8|] |
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12 Nov 05 - 09:10 PM (#1603369) Subject: RE: SHEET MUSIC -- for 'The Maiden's Prayer' From: Q (Frank Staplin) A nice little write-up of this old fiddle favorite here: www.bluegrassmessengers.com/master/maidensprayer.html Maidens Prayer Lyrics also given there. |
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12 Nov 05 - 09:57 PM (#1603385) Subject: RE: SHEET MUSIC -- for 'The Maiden's Prayer' From: Ebbie Got a little story about Maiden's Prayer... A few years back as I was leaving a music night, the host pressed a scrap of paper into my hand. 'See if you can make a song out of this,'he kind of mumbled. Well, when I got home I looked at it- they were just short phrases that appeared to be an apology or a confession of some wrongdoing on his part (he is a married man) but I went to work. I kept some of the phrases, made it into a coherent whole, came up with a pretty tune, recorded it and gave the whole thing back to him. I noticed he seemed kind of surprised but I laid it to his guilty conscience. A year or so later I was surfing the net and came across a reference to the lyrics of Maiden's Prayer, a pretty piece I knew only as a fiddle tune. 'Huh', I thought, 'I didn't know it had words.' I clicked on the link and there were my words. I was flabbergasted. The link you gave above goes: "Twilight falls, evening shadows find, There 'neath the stars, a maiden so fair divine. The moon on high, seemed to see her there, In her eyes was a light, shining ever so bright, As she whisper'd a silent prayer. "Ev'ry word revealed an empty broken heart; Broken by fate that holds them so far apart. Lonely there she kneels, And tells the stars above. In her arms he belongs, then her prayer is a song, Her unending song of love. " Mine goes "Twilight Waltz "Twilight falls, evening shadows find There 'neath the stars a fair maiden divine The moon up on high seems to see her there In her eyes there's a light shining ever so bright As she whispers this prayer: "Oh, come back to me! Moon, send him to me You bright glittering stars were there when we met Sweet love of my years, your children I'll bear Oh, come back to me. Please listen to me Forgive and forget "Every word reveals her sad, aching heart He's broken her faith and now they're apart Alone there she kneels, tells the stars above In his arms she belongs. In her prayer there's a song Of undying love" Humph. |
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12 Nov 05 - 11:46 PM (#1603454) Subject: RE: SHEET MUSIC -- for 'The Maiden's Prayer' From: GUEST,Gene i had a fiddle tune book with over 500 tunes in it.. i gave it to the winner of the Hot Springs, New Mexico Old Time Fiddlers contest a few years ago...a young girl... a young boy could have won, but he threw in too many Mark O'Conner licks...that's a NO NO...at an OTFC |
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12 Nov 05 - 11:58 PM (#1603471) Subject: RE: SHEET MUSIC -- for 'The Maiden's Prayer' From: Q (Frank Staplin) This is digression, and no relation to Ebbie's lyrics, but the name "Maiden's Prayer" has been used since 1850 (see American Memory for sheet music to these pieces). It was a very popular piano piece by Badazewewska (words added later by Adams, and variations by Paul), and guitar piece by W. L. Hayden. Guest Gladys asked for a 'waltz' called the "Maiden's Prayer;" I would guess that there is a waltz setting somewhere. Johnny Gimble, the Texas fiddler, recorded a fiddle tune called "Twilight Waltz," sound clip here: Music Outfitter |
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13 Nov 05 - 01:28 AM (#1603551) Subject: RE: SHEET MUSIC -- for 'The Maiden's Prayer' From: Ebbie There just ain't nuthin' new under the sun! Nice tune, but at least it's very different from mine. The funny thing is that I really did not like the word scraps my friend gave me. "Fair maiden divine"? "shining ever so bright"? |
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15 Nov 05 - 10:09 PM (#1606066) Subject: RE: SHEET MUSIC -- for 'The Maiden's Prayer' From: GUEST,Gladys Masato Sakurai Thanks so much for the post with Page 182 FIDDLERS FAKEBOOK notation for MAIDENS PRAYER BUT... how do I decipher that notation? Is that what is known as ABC format? Sorry to be so dumb!!! I keep looking at it but can't come up with how to read it as sheet music! Any help is very much appreciated :) |
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15 Nov 05 - 10:17 PM (#1606076) Subject: RE: SHEET MUSIC -- for 'The Maiden's Prayer' From: Malcolm Douglas Concertina.net ABC Convert-A-Matic. Copy and paste abc into the window you will find there, remembering first to remove any blank spaces that appear at the beginning of lines (these are caused by copying from the html display here, and if left in can sometimes result in odd behaviour in the conversion to staff notation). |
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23 Sep 14 - 10:16 AM (#3662992) Subject: RE: Tune Req: The Maiden's Prayer From: GUEST X:1 T:Maiden's Prayer M:4/4 L:1/8 K:A B:The Fiddler's Fake Book, p. 182. "A"A,4-A,CEA|[c8A8]|(3BcB Ac B2 AG|"D"EF3-F4|"E"{Bc}d4 {Bc}d3 e-| d4 dcB2|ece2 (3fgf e2|"A"Bc2 dcBA2|A,4-A,CEA|B c2 dcBA2| B3 c (3BcB A=G|"D"EF3-F2 (3agf |"A"ec e2 "D"fa-(3agf| "A"ec e2 "D"a2-(3agf|"A"ec e2 "E"c'3e|"A"a8|] |
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15 Mar 15 - 08:11 PM (#3694324) Subject: RE: Tune Req: The Maiden's Prayer From: GUEST,Tim Moore I am reminded of what my mother to,d my father: "Waltz a little faster, Dear; this is a fox trot." |
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16 Mar 15 - 06:53 AM (#3694394) Subject: RE: Tune Req: The Maiden's Prayer From: GUEST,Grishka Read the Wiki article about the origins and American afterlife of the piece. |