Halloween is coming…know any “spooky-sounding” tunes for the occasion that fit well on whistle? Anyone getting dressed up?
What would a Mad Whistler look like I wonder?
I always thought “Jump at the Sun” was a good choice for Halloween tunes.
X: 1
T:Jump At the Sun
M:6/8
L:1/8
C:John Kirkpatrick 1972
R:jig
K:Em
|:EGB ^A2B|EGB ^A2B|eBB eBB|BAG F3
|EGB ^A2B|EGB ^A2B|eBB cBA|GAF E3:|
|:eBB gfe|fBB agf|gfe gfe|f^dB c2B
|eBB gfe|fBB agf|eBB cBA|GAF E3:|
(I just further edited this to correct an error in the B part)
[ This Message was edited by: Feadan on 2001-10-29 13:15 ]
Oh, Fig for a Kiss. . .I think of this as the skeleton dance. I can really see skeletons dancing in a graveyard with this one. . .done at a reasonably slow pace. Coleraine too.
I agree with Jump at the Sun…It’s a cool tune. I can’t think of any others right now…I’ll probably think of some during school so I’ll post back this afternoon…Bye!
Brent
I thought Jump at the Sun was a pretty obscure tune - It’s great that you know it! I learned it years ago from someone who used to play with John Kirkpatrick in England. It is a great spooky tune
Another song that goes well with Jump the Sun is One too Many.
Caryn
David, may I suggest you edit your message again and insert the very useful “abc” “/abc” tag pair (use square brackets instead of quotes) developed by Rich so that people can view the notation and hear the tune?
I must tell you I can’t stand this tune. It was part of the repertoire of a very hard-working dance/ceili band that I played in decades ago in England. Spookiness aside, the novelty effect of that ghastly A# soon becomes very irksome when you’ve played it a few times – not to mention every Friday and Saturday night for a couple of years.
I couldn’t believe it when someone brought the wretched thing to Montreal from France of all places and started playing it ad nauseam in local sessions. (Mind you I reached “nauseam” with a sickening wave of disbelief as soon as I heard the first bar!)
(Had to edit this msg to substitute quotes for the square brackets)
[ This Message was edited by: StevieJ on 2001-10-29 11:45 ]
Another minor tune that is easy to learn and might suit is “I’ll Tousle Your Kerchy”.
Or if you wan’t something really funereal, how about “Roslin Castle” (sometimes mis-named “Roseland Castle”) I’m told this was the standard dirge played at funerals by 18th and early 19th Century military fifers (and I presume, brass bands.)
Mal
On 2001-10-29 11:43, StevieJ wrote:
David, may I suggest you edit your message again and insert the very useful “abc” “/abc” tag pair (use square brackets instead of quotes) developed by Rich so that people can view the notation and hear the tune?
Hmmm, I missed this development. Thanks for the heads up Steve. As you can see I tried it but it does not seem to be working on the concertina.net end. I wonder if it is something I did?
Aha! That fixed it! It was the spaces between the header information and the tune and the space between the A & B parts.
I must tell you I can’t stand this tune…
Well there is no accounting for taste. 
[ This Message was edited by: Feadan on 2001-10-29 13:17 ]
Stevie,
I must admit that I rarely get to play Jump at the Sun and when I do, I play it on recorder in my school program so I can do a descending chromatic scale run in the second phrase (really impresses the school kids!)
Sue
One of my kids has a keyboard book with the Adams Family theme. It fits nicely on a C whistle as written in the book, so it would transpose just fine to a D whistle too.
How about O’Carolan’s Farewell to Music? A wonderful dark melody, plus the lore that he supposedly wrote it and then went to his deathbed make it quite appropriate.
Charlie
Try the tunes
Captain Lemo,
Epping Forest and
The Rolling of the Stones.
They can all be found on the Blowzabella album ‘In Colour’.
Another good one most kids and their parents will recognize is “Charlie Is My Darling,” better known as “Heffalumps and Woozles” from Winnie The Pooh.
Don’t forget “The Lilting Banshee”
On 2001-10-30 11:25, ndjr wrote:
Another good one most kids and their parents will recognize is “Charlie Is My Darling,” better known as “Heffalumps and Woozles” from Winnie The Pooh.
You know what song I always called the 'Heffalumps and Woozle" song before I learned music was King of the Faeries. It sounds really cool, and it is kind of a spooky tune. You just have to ingore the notes lower than the bell note in order to play it on whistle.
Caryn