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Uilleann Pipes
1

I’m looking for ABC or sheet music for a march I think is called The eagles whistle/feadáil an iolair.
Cheers, Gerry.

2

X: 1
T:The Eagle’s Whistle
B:Joyce, P. W.; “Old Irish Folk Music and Songs”
H:I copied the following 11 airs (to “Drimin Donn Dilis”) from a MS. book lent
H:me by Surgeon-Major-General King of Dublin (about 1885), who copied them 40
H:years previously from an old MS. book in Cork.
H:
H:I gave a setting of this in my “Ancient Irish Music”: and there are two
H:others in the Stanford-Petrie Collection. These three are in 3/4 time:
H:whereas the setting I now give is in 2/4, which is no doubt the proper
H:original form, inasmuch as this was the marching tune of O’Donovans (See my
H:“Ancient Irish Music”, p. 53). The Cork MS. has this remark:
H: “The legend tells that with this tune the eagle whistles his young
H: to rest.”
R:song air
A:Cork
O:Irish
M:2/4
Z:Allan Garvin
F:http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/AllanGarvin/EaglesWhistle.abc 2006-01-20 13:01:11 UT
K:G
L:1/16
G|
B2B2 dBAG|B2B2 dBAG|B2A2A2 BG|B2A2A2 BG|
B2B2 dBAG|B2B2 dBAG|E2G2 G2G3A|E2GG G3:|d|
edef e2dB|dBdg d2BA|d2g2 dBAG|B2A2A2 BG|
edef e2dB|dBdg d2BA|B2ge dBAG|E2 GG G3||


and…


X: 1
T:The Eagle’s Whistle
T:Bonaparte’s Retreat
T:Fead an Iolair
T:O’Donovan’s March
M:3/4
R:waltz
L:1/8
Z:James T. Peeples
F:http://www.lesession.co.uk/music/wf_update2.abc 2006-01-20 13:02:29 UT
K:G
d2 | B2 B2 d2 | B2 A2 BG | A2 A2 BG | A2 A2 d2 |
B2 B2 d2 | B2 A2 AF | G2 G2 AF | G4 || d2 |
e2 e2 ge | e2 d2 dB | A2 A2 BG | A2 A2 d2 |
ed ef ge | e2 d2 BA | G2 G2 AF | G4 ||

Both examples are from this site: http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/FindTune.html

Hope this was what you were looking for.

3

Cheers Joseph.Do you ever sleep!!
Gerry.

4

I am hopeless at written music, especially at figuring out timing. Here is the Séamus Ennis version. The note values are correct, but the note lengths are a little out of whack (but close). See what you can make of it.

X:1
T:The Eagle’s Whistle
R:March
M:4/4
L:1/8
Q:1/4=140
K:G
BA2G/2 |B2d2 .B/2A2G | B2d2 .B/2AG | .A2A2 B/2AG | .A2A2 B/2AG | B2d2 B/2AG |!
B2d BAB | G3 BABG3 :|| BA2d/2 | e2d2 .e/2gd | e2d2 .B/2AG | .A2A2 .B/2AG |!
.A2A2 .BA2d/2 | e2d2 .e/2gd | e2d2 .B/2AB | G3 BABG3 :||

djm

5

Try this one. I think it’s the same version as djm’s, tweaked rhythmically. I didn’t include any stacatto indication.

BTW I think some of the old clan marches were in a triple meter, so I wouldn’t be so sure that the 2/4 version was the “original”.

X:4
T:The Eagle’s Whistle
L:1/8
M:3/4
K:G
B2 d>BAG | B2 d>BAG | A2 A>BAG | (A2 A)B AG | B2 d>BAG |
B2 d>BAB | (G2 G)B AB | (G2 G)B AG |1 G3 GBd :|2 G3 GBd |
e2 d>egd| e2 d>BAG | A2 A>BAG | A3 ABd |
e2 d>egd |e2 d>BAB | (G2 G)B AB | G6 |]

Bill