On 2002-10-01 17:24, sweetone wrote:
Well Laura, it isn’t public domain I’m affraid, for more questions try > http://www.sabam.be
As for the pronounciation,you’ll have to give me a call, or I’ll send a soundfile to your mailbox. There are so many sounds in it I can’t describe in English.
I’d never play this song in public myself in Belgium, it’s not a very good reference for a musician here i’m affraid.
Cheers
Sure you can send a sound file to the hillfolk22 address.
I do a lot of children’s gigs.
And the yearly open stage event I play at is always up for creative styles.
Hey if a group of people can play Somewhere Over the Rainbow with nose flutes… Well I am not too worried about looking professional. 
Laura
FWIW,- “Tin Whistle” is an anagram of “Twilit Hens”.
-B.
[ This Message was edited by: brianormond on 2002-10-02 14:11 ]
This all reminds me of a story. My mom was the music teacher at an elementary school, but then subsequently retired. In church, a little girl in that school told me the gym teacher needed a recording of the Chicken Dance as dance was going to be covered in gym class. As her story unfolded, it seemed my mom’s leaving had created a “Chicken Dance crisis” as the Chicken Dance had become an integral part of the traditions at that school and my mom had had the only recording of it! I imagined it to be some bluegrass tune written with children in mind, as I think of chickens as rural and applicable to the sort of humor one might hear in a bluegrass recording for children. I got hold of mom and asked, “What the hell is the Chicken Dance?” and I told her, her help was needed to end the Chicken Dance crisis. She told me it was something she heard a Bavarian band play at an Alpenfestival were she learned the dance, so she got their tape that included it. She realized that the music and dance were ideal for some of the teaching of grade school music she was doing, so she would sometimes play the tape and teach the dance to the children. The gym instructor also ended up using the same tape as part of dance class in gym class.
The tune on the dancing chicken page seems to be best played on a C whistle. If you want to play it on a D you have to transpose it up a bit. Here are the notes to play on a D whistle; use the same fingering on a C and it will be in the key of that midi file.
Lowercase letters are first octave. “c” refers to csharp, not cnat.
aabbffa aabbffa aabbDDc
ggaaeeg ggaaeeg ggaaccb
aabbffa aabbffa aabbDDc
ggaaeeg ggaaeeg aabbccD bafd
this part has a half hole so be careful:
a (g halfhole) g f, a F c E D
a (g halfhole) g f, a E D c
a (g halfhole) g f, a E D D c
E D D c, c D E D
…or something like that anyway.
Avanutria,
. . . and F refers to F#, not Fnat.
~Quote~
a (g halfhole) g f, a F c E D
a (g halfhole) g f, a E D c
{a (g halfhole) g f, a E D D c }
E D D c, c D E D
~End quote~
The third and fourth line should be:
b a g# g a E D D c#
E E D D c# c# D E D
(b a f# d)
Sorry, if I am being too picky.
[ This Message was edited by: JohnPalmer on 2002-10-03 00:47 ]
Also you can play it in the Key of G fingering.
Then the accidental will be a C#.
Laura