… danced on top of her grave. Who knows this jig? I have it in my head, never really learned it, but gave it a try tonight. I know it’s on a MD somewhere, but I was too lazy to find it so I went and looked at the evil sheet music. Now, there’s something strange. The sheet says that the C should be natural in both parts, but from memory, the C is natural in the first part, and switched to sharp in the second part. Could we say that the first part is in G and second in D? Anyway, am I all confused, is the sheet right, or am I right? Thanks for any info.
Edited to add this:
After the tune, there’s another jig, and I’d like to know the name. I never write notation, but Ill give it a try.
B3BABdBAG2Bd3d2BdedB2AB3BABdBAG2BdedcBAG3
Er… Anyone knows this?
[ This Message was edited by: Azalin on 2002-11-27 23:15 ]
The ABC version I have of I Buried my Wife is Cnat in both the A&B parts, and same on the tuneDB site’s version, but I’ve always played the C# in the turn.
About the Cs in the B part, I also seem to remember them being played as C# on the recordings I have, but I really guess this is yet another example of the classic C/C# “controversy” in Irtrad, where there isn’t always a sharp distinction between the two notes.
I buried my wife and danced on top of her is a version of the Frieze Breeches which Willie Clancy learned from Mrs Ellen Galvin of Moyasta, Co.Clare.
Mrs Galvin was a fiddler with a very unusal style of playing, lots of double stopping etc that was probably a remnant of the old Kerry style of playing of which Padraig O Keeffe in Sliabh Luachra and Patrick Kelly in Clare had something.
Mrs Galvin had a store of unusual tunes and Willie Clancy travelled out to Moyasta on occasion on the West Clare Railroad to learn tunes off her. Mrs Galvin’s hornpipe being an obvious one. She also had a great version of Gol na mBan san Ar which she called Allistrum’s March. She died during the early 60s.
The tune does have a mix of sharps and nats. That the way, you play it by ear.
[ This Message was edited by: Peter Laban on 2002-11-28 04:21 ]
I should have mentioned that some confusion may arise when a version is taken from the pipes, a piper may play the dcA dcA in the second part ‘tight’ as Willie Clancy would have. This would be done for a large part as a rhtyhmic effect. A c played ‘tight’ is always a C sharp regardless of the key the tune is in. On the pipes the note would be too short for the actual pitch to become a problem, this does not however imply that in all cases the note should be played sharp on other instruments.
Yeah, but the C# in the second part just feels right. I mean, I prefer the C# and I don’t even feel as if the CNat fits in there, it just doesnt sound right. Maybe because I’ve heard it many times with the C# before and my ears got used to it, but I would never play the tune with CNat in the second part.
