I’m desperately looking for the sheet music for a song called “Three Blind Mice”. Can anybody help?
PS I’m looking for a version with the ornamentation marked in 
Next question: list your personal top 5 most irritating “signatures” used by people posting to this board.
Steve
The space
between two notes
is God
Oh angels above
help me
to play as fast
as our mother Mary
without squashing
the baby Jesus
– St Cecil of Spiddal, 1356
Stevie,
this is much funnier when you use your own name.
Peace,
Chris
On 2002-06-25 09:24, StevieJ wrote:
I’m desperately looking for the sheet music for a song called “Three Blind Mice”. Can anybody help?PS I’m looking for a version with the ornamentation marked in >
Steve,
I know of at least three separate tunes by that name. For some reason, O’Neill’s has completely overlooked all of them. If I remember right, Barry Manilow does a pretty nice version on Chieftains 17. I’ve never tried to transcribe it, though.
MC
Yea, but if you don’t learn it by ear while under water, then ur not a real musician!!!
Irritating you, are we, Stevie?
Thank you Steve for a good laugh. I’ll be chuckling all day at work.
T
On 2002-06-25 09:24, StevieJ wrote:
I’m desperately looking for the sheet music for a song called “Three Blind Mice”. Can anybody help?PS I’m looking for a version with the ornamentation marked in >
But in what key, pray tell??? 
Cheers,
David
P.S. Of course if you really want to capture the true essence of this classic tune you need to listen to a master musician play it and then learn it by ear!
[ This Message was edited by: Feadan on 2002-06-25 11:06 ]
Now I’m too intimidated to ask anything on the boards, because I might offend an experienced player with my ignorance. I will, however, think up a much longer and Biblically related signature. 
Pray to God but row toward shore.
[ This Message was edited by: blackhawk on 2002-06-25 11:36 ]
Steve,
Don’t you really mean “Three Visually Challenged Rodents”?
Mike
Oh my god (if there is a god)
Save my soul (if I have a soul)
-The Agnostic’s Prayer
Steve a vvvery interesting post. I can get you a copy in braille if you wish.
MarkB
On 2002-06-25 09:58, TelegramSam wrote:
Yea, but if you don’t learn it by ear while under water, then ur not a real musician!!!
Dude, you totally forgot half-holing, which by IRTrad Law must be done on a whistle that costs less Euros than the numer of tunes you know, divided by 723. All while played in the style of the only real irish whistler in the world, Yoda O’Brian, who can only be found playing in his cupboard from 3am til 3:07am on the 2nd friday after every harvest moon.
Greg
On 2002-06-25 11:34, blackhawk wrote:
Now I’m too intimidated to ask anything on the boards, because I might offend an experienced player with my ignorance. I will, however, think up a much longer and Biblically related signature. >
Pray to God but row toward shore.
Blackhawk, I’m not offended by ignorance. It does make me smile when people ask for sheet music for tunes that are hardly more difficult than Three Blind Mice. In fact I would say that Jesus Loves Me This I Know (a recent example) is actually far easier to pick up than Three Blind Mice.
“An Dros”, to quote another recent example, are a bit like polkas, which are the subject of Jones’ 3rd Law of Irish Music:
If someone in a session plays a polka you've never heard, if you can't haven't got it down pat by the the third time through the tune, there's something wrong with you.(OK OK this is humorous, no need for the ear-learning-challenged to take me to task for this elitist statement!)
As for signatures, I think people should realize that even if they have something to convey the first time you read them, by the 50th time the educational/emotional/humorous content has worn thin.
Personally I had so much religiosity stuffed down my throat when I was a kid that I am allergic to it. I have nothing against religion and faith, BTW, merely the self-conscious parading of it. Isn’t there something in the Bible about “empty vessels making lots of noise”? I think that faith is best demonstrated in action, not slogans.
If you find the sheet music, can I get a copy? I’ve been dying to learn that tune.
Apart from that I think you are narrow-minded insensetive and nasty unredeemed sinner. I encourage you to reform your ways and to entrust your life ot Our Lord Jesus. And remember to take off your hat in church. I Cor. 11:4.
On 2002-06-25 11:56, StevieJ wrote:
Blackhawk, I’m not offended by ignorance. It does make me smile when people ask for sheet music for tunes that are hardly more difficult than Three Blind Mice. In fact I would say that Jesus Loves Me This I Know (a recent example) is actually far easier to pick up than Three Blind Mice.
***Good point.Personally I had so much religiosity stuffed down my throat when I was a kid that I am allergic to it. I have nothing against religion and faith, BTW, merely the self-conscious parading of it. Isn’t there something in the Bible about “empty vessels making lots of noise”? I think that faith is best demonstrated in action, not slogans.
I can’t argue with you, there.
On 2002-06-25 11:56, StevieJ wrote:
“An Dros”, to quote another recent example, are a bit like polkas,
I haven’t picked up a Polka by ear yet either, in fact, the only tune I’ve learned by ear is ‘Amazing Grace’ (which is guaranteed to be played at the end of the slow session every week, so I got many chances) … I hazard a guess that I could pick out three blind mice in time, but I’ve heard -that- tune hundreds, if not thousands, of times over my life. It’s even possible that my crib-toy played it in music-box form. It is not possible that my crib-toy played an An Dro, and if I tried to get hundreds and thousands of listenings of a tune in now… well, in order to do it in a reasonable time, the results would either drive me mad, make me swear off the whistle forever, or both!
I am, on the other hand, teaching myself to sing, which is steadily improving my pitch recognition (as well as encouraging me to learn more airs… ), so I expect it won’t be many months before I can pick out some tunes by ear.
(‘Happy Birthday’ would be a good one to start with I think, especially since I don’t want to give ‘them’ any more money for buying the sheet music to such a trivial tune!)
Anyway, I promise to try to learn at least a couple tunes by ear before my 1 year anniversery of playing the whistle, okay?
(Understand, btw, that in addition to not being able to clap in time with a crowd, as I mentioned in the rhythm discussions, I was not able to carry a tune even remotely recognizeably, with maybe the exceptions of ‘happy birthday’ and ‘johnny I hardly knew ye’ … I’m far from a natural talent, but I’m learning!)
–Chris
Not meaning to insert any non-silliness. . . but you hit on an interesting fact, Steve. In general I learn that I like a tune only by hearing it, and may after much listening over many sessions actually figure out the key and the chord structure to ‘fill in at a later date’. But there is no way I can actually figure out the whole tune from listening. If I DO imagine I can learn it that way, I seem to simplify the tune… something I really don’t want to learn to do.
EXCEPT with polkas, mazurkas, most waltzes. I can get most of them from listening, and most polkas within the given 3 reps. Why is that so? are polkas played at a slower tempo? just because there are fewer notes?
Anyway, after an intro by hearing something, I go to the written music and play it from there, occasionally recognizing that in session they take these notes and do them in a different way.
Steve I also wanted to mention that when you first said ‘annoying signatures’ I thought you meant musical signature. . .and when you mentioned ‘Jesus loves me…’ or whatever song it was, I’d have to claim that I may have heard it. . .but if you needed me to play it tomorrow you’d better send me the written music. Now Hatikva I can play by ear! and a few of the Songs of David, and possibly L’cha Dodi.
You know what’s really amusing? I think the only thing I’ve been able to pick out only by ear, completely without the aid of sheetmusic, is the melody from The Violent Femmes’ song “All I Want”
Sad, ain’t it? Oh well…
[ This Message was edited by: blackhawk on 2003-01-30 02:39 ]
The one thing about learning a tune just from listening and processing in my head is that if I don’t periodically re-listen to the original, I change it slightly but think I know the tune. Then I am really surprised when I do hear the deviation. I could swear that…
In classical, that would be deadly. In IRTRAD, I think its the playing style, based on the fact that there seems to be no one way of playing anything.
On the Historic Clare recording, there is a medley that begins with Rolling the Barrel followed by In the Tap Room (yeah, a theme). Anyway, compared to Norbecks, the artists changed the first bar of one of the tunes to the opening of Drowsy Maggie but then go back to the rest of the way Norbeck put it note by note (presumably a "standard session version). When I look at the way Norbeck has it, with a C nat instead of a low e ostinato , I can see why they did it (it sounds better).
I have absolutely no way of knowing which version came first etc etc. But its a good example of: which version should I learn and by what means…