Could anyone help me out here by putting me in the right direction of getting the sheet music for this tune.
Any replys very much appreciated.
What’s your e-mail addy? I’ll send it
You should also be aware of JC’s ABC tune finder at http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/findtune.html where this song and many others can be found and downloaded in lots of different formats.
Best wishes, Tom
Thank for the replys people …but concerning JC’s ABC tune finder it just dont work for me…I tap in “She moves through the fair” and nothimg happens. I suppose I am doing something fundamentally wrong but at this point in time I can not work it out…maybe all the Christmas booze has pickeled my brain. What do you reckon
C
You have to search for she MOVED through the fair
On 2001-12-31 15:17, Didjpiper wrote:
You have to search for she MOVED through the fair
I trick I've discovered for JC's is that if you don't find the song on the first try, try typing in a fragment of the title. For instance, "She moves through the fair" didn't get you anything, but typing just "through the fair" will bring up the song. As an added bonus, you also tend to get other songs with similar titles that you weren't even aware of before, but which can be fun to learn anyway.
~Firefly
Thank for the info folks…very helpful.
Heres another one for ya…im trying to suss this out for myself but seeing as there is such a mine of information out there I guess i may as well tap into it.
Im am teaching myself to read music and also teaching myself to play by ear…there was one note in “She moves…” and I have now discovered it was a middle c…but I cant seem to get this on my whistle…bear with me if this is a daft request!!!
C
Not a daft request, but a fairly simple one. You see, the whistle is built to play in one key (ususally called a “diatonic” instrument), as opposed to a more complex instrument like, say, an oboe, which is designed to play in all keys (“chromatic”). If you have a D whistle, this is the key of D (major). That means that only notes that fall in the key of D are playable using the six holes in the whistle. In the scale of D, there is a c-sharp, but no c-natural.
So, what to do? There is more than one way to get around the “limitation” of six tone holes. The first is to “half-hole,” or to only partially cover the first hole on the whistle instead of using the normal c-sharp fingering of all holes open. you’ll notice that the note is about halfway between b and c-sharp. The other is to “cross-finger”, which means leaving some holes closed below the one you want to sound. To do this, try leaving either two or four fingers down below the top hole (oxxooo or oxxxxo) to get the c natural. Different whistles are different, you have to decide what technique sounds best for you.
Hope this helps
Tim Hall
B.Mus. in theory (in a former life)
If you are trying to get middle C below your lowest D, you won’t be able to on a D whistle because that is one note lower than its range.
What I do for songs with a lower note than the whistle plays is switch to playing a few notes an octave higher, or subsitute another note that sounds good.
Good luck!
[ This Message was edited by: cees on 2002-01-01 11:42 ]
so what kind of whistle will give me that note…a low D I presume Watson???
Yes got ya…am beginning to understand octaves now as well…which is exactly what i have done for this here problem…
Thank again gringos for the help…
I shall call again.
C
I was playing around with this tune last night and came up with a couple of solutions. Often I just substitute another note to fake around a low C on a D whistle, but in this case the C is pretty important. Taking the whole thing up an octave puts it too high for my taste.
One approach is to play is on a C whistle and half hole to get the F#. Another is to transpose to A-mix rather than D-mix. (Actually, a couple of the versions on JC’s Tunefinder which claim to be in D are really in A-Mix, so you don’t have to transpose.) In A-mix, the low note is a G rather than a C, so it fits on a D whistle rather well.
–Jay
Hi Coleman,
Wrote this before fully reading Jay’s message which says the same thing about A mixolydian mode, so, since I’ve gone through the trouble, I’ll post it anyway!
To play “She moved through the fair” without complications, start the tune on first octave A on your D whistle. This is the note produced with the top 2 holes closed and gives you the A mixolydian scale. The tune is a modal one and uses that scale. You can play it without needing any substitute notes, half-holing or cross fingering. Some of the versions on JC’s have the tune starting on A. The tune is one of my all time favorites! There are lots of beautiful Irish and American folk songs that also use this mode.
Best of luck, Tom
Thanks again folks…been trying to understand what you have been telling me…
think I’ve grasped it …basically this is what Im playing now which is what you explained anyway …me thinks!!!
Cheers
C
I dig this tune. I have a few various takes on it. I’m wondering how far back this song goes and if there is an authentic notation?
As you well know trad folk songs can vary. One of the recordings in my collection is a solo vocal by Anne Briggs. Her take has a few nuances south of Jansch’s. Some other recordings are straight “Mystic Moods” type.
So how old is this song?
On 2002-01-02 19:36, jackorion wrote:
I dig this tune. I have a few various takes on it. .So how old is this song?
The song is not very old, the man who composed it died a few years ago, I can’t recall his name now. I suppose it was written some time during the first half of the 20th century. Not really a traditional song maybe, it has been absorbed by the tradition and several versions are in circulation. A few years ago we recorded a fundraiser CD in suppsort of the the Clare Cancer centre, for it, Aine ni Ceallaigh sang a lovely version of this song, quite removed from the Sinead O Connor version of it.
Van Morrison also did a nice version of the song on his “Irish Heartbeat” CD. It has that “Van Morrison-ish” vocal style to it, but I like it. A bonus is that he is backed by the Chieftains too.
/Bryan
here a bit of info on the author Padraic Colum
http://www.belinus.co.uk/folklore/FaeryFolklorists.html#colum
The man who died a few years ago must have composed the song to existing words. I haven’t been able to find the name, I remember it was about three years ago when I read in the paper your man who had written it died. Maybe he just streched the truth a bit.
I don’t know if it makes anything clearer, but I found some info about the song at the site below. And there were more links to follow from there, so it seems that… “The Road goes ever on and on…”, er, sorry, wrong thread
bye
bj
http://www.contemplator.com/folk2/shemoved.html
The original words were an old ballad from Donegal which was collected in 1909. The words were “reworked” by Padraic Colum to this version. Alternate titles and variants include, Our Wedding Day and Out of the Window.<<
According to Ossian’s Folksongs and Ballads Popular in Ireland - Volume I the tune dates back to Medieval times.*