a subject that came up at the topic about good tunes with good D’s…
i also like to play airs on the irish flute…
BillG suggested Cailin na Gruaige Doinne (The Girl of the Brown Hair)…
i like :
mary young and fair
captain o’kane
women of ireland
dark island
she moved through the fair
very typicall, i know…
any others??
How about:
Heard on Dervish “spirit” and some Altan record (played by Frankie Kennedy), respectively.
Cheers;
Eivind
Bachelor’s Farewell
Moran’s Return
Coilsfield House
Crested Hens
O’Carrolyn’s Quarrel With the Landlady
Planxty Irwin
The Osprey
‘She Moved Through The Fair’ is really somethin else, isn’t it?
lovely tune with lots in it.
Crow in the Sun
I’m sorry, I must have misread this topic. I thought the topic was, “Haunting hunting errors”, and I was ready to say that that was being discussed in the controversial forum. Again, excuse the intrusion.
wonderful
I don’t know if it’s an air, quite,
but Three Sea Captains is beautiful
and a challenge (for me) to play.
Then there’s Danny Boy
If I may intrude some non-folk stuff,
Someone to Watch Over Me
and, as we mentioned a few days ago,
My Funny Valentine.
Jerome Kern, They Didn’t Believe Me
Look For the Silver Lining
Just the Way You Look Tonight
Also, pseudo Celtic,
Come To Me, Bend To Me
from Brigadoon? I think.
Did we mention Scarbourough Fair?
The Water is Wide
Down by the Sally Gardens
And “Wayfaring Stranger”
Forthcoming on WFO3:
Phoenix Island
An Buachaillín Bán
Cailín na Gruaige Doinne
The Rushes Green
Port na bPúcaí
Easter Snow
Kevin Krell
Does anyone have the music or internet location for good D flute arrangements of “O’Raghallaigh’s Grave” (from Dervish’s “Spirit” CD) and “She Moved Through the Fair” ? Much obliged.
Paul
Try this in abc:
X: 1
T:She Moved Through the Fair
F:http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/rigel.csuchico.edu/SheMovedThroughTheFair.abc 2006-02-18 22:50:31 UT
K:DMix
M:4/4
L:1/8
(D4 DE)F2|G3 F3 G2|A3 ((AA4)|A6) (GE)| (C4 C)D E2|(D8|D6) AB|
c3 d3 A2|B3 (AA4|A6) F2|G3 F3 G2|(A8|A6) AB|
c3 d3 A2|B3 ((A A4)|A6) F2|G3 F3 G2|(A8|A8)|(D4 D)E F2|
G3 F3 G2|(A4 A)A (A2|A6) (GE)|(C4 C)C D2|((D8|D8)|D8) ||
Darn! What are those stickies doing there?
bg
Thanks, Bill. I’ve already tried this version but you really need to play the low “C” note in it (although a “D” works as a substitute). The only arrangement that seems to work on a D keyless flute starts with an “A” note.
Paul
Before posting abc, always click “Disable Smilies in this post”…
X:26
T:She Moved Through the Fair
K:DMix
M:4/4
L:1/8
(D4 DE)F2|G3 F3 G2|A3 ((AA4)|A6) (GE)| (C4 C)D E2|(D8|D6) AB|
c3 d3 A2|B3 (AA4|A6) F2|G3 F3 G2|(A8|A6) AB|
c3 d3 A2|B3 ((A A4)|A6) F2|G3 F3 G2|(A8|A8)|(D4 D)E F2|
G3 F3 G2|(A4 A)A (A2|A6) (GE)|(C4 C)C D2|((D8|D8)|D8) ||
… or play it in the upper register, all 1 octave higher
Right, start on the second octave D. You go up to the third octave
D. It really works that way, IMO, it’s suits the tune.
Especially if you play the high notes quietly.
yeah, the tune sounds lovely in the upper register, j. galway played that way…
er… anyone has the abc or the dots to “theidh mi dhachaigh” aka “i’ll go home” aka “return to kintail”??? 
No one has mentioned The Invisible Corncrake yet, by Marcus Hernon. Lovely tune from WFO1.
Marcus has a lot of great airs in his repertoire. There was an unnamed one on his cassette that he did in the 1980s/early 90s that was really beautiful; Joanie Madden later recorded it with the name “Marcus Hernon’s Air.”
I’ve composed a few airs that might be called “haunting” and posted a link to one of them in a similar thread over in the whistle forum. This tune is called “She Said No.”
http://homepage.mac.com/bhurley/.Public/SheSaidNo.mp3
I made it up during a trip to western Scotland, and Chris Abell came up with the title after I played it for him. The recording was made with a Skip Healy flute about 10 years ago at the home of my friend Tommy Byrnes; he stuck a microphone out the window to catch a summer thunderstorm that happened to be going by as we were recording that evening. The tapping sounds are big heavy raindrops falling on the tin roof of a shack in Tommy’s backyard, and you can hear robins singing in the background.
OK, how cool is that???
Lovely, sir!!! (oh, yeah, the playing, too 
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Just for curiosity … why don’t you publish a wee tunebook yourself, Mr. H?
P.S. Thanks for the break from the winter!!!
Thanks, but that tunebook would be awfully wee! There are only four or five tunes I’ve composed that are “keepers.” I don’t compose much anymore…there are so many great tunes out there already that I’m not motivated to come up with new ones.