We have a new contributor! Teri Kessler makes her first foray into the murky world of transcriptions, and chooses a challenging piece for the purpose - a slow air, The green linnet played by Brid Donohue.
The index of transcriptions is at http://www.rogermillington.com/siamsa/brosteve/tunetoc.html.
Rather than start a new topic each time a transcription comes on line, I’ll keep adding to this one.
On 2002-12-05 07:24, StevieJ wrote:
Rather than start a new topic each time a transcription comes on line, I’ll keep adding to this one.
I hope I may still be permitted to say here that I just love the transcription! Phantastic job! Just now, listening and reading along, I was realizing how the flavor and feel of each ornament depends on the phrase and the note: cut X doesn’t necessarily sound like cut Y.
Thanks, Teri.
My pleasure! May I offer my thanks to Peter for supplying the recording, the input from you all, and Ms. Donohue for such wonderful playing.
Teri
Thanks from me for your hard work on the transcription Teri.Brid’s playing is lovely-another drop of the pure stuff-i could listen to her all day!Thanks for sharing this with us Peter.
Just to let you knw there’s some stuff in the pipeline, I wrote two more flutepieces, The Traveller played by Packie Duignan and Christmas Eve by Eddie Moloney. Sylvain Maillot did a fine job writing Rolling in the Ryegrass from another Micho Russell clip I sent him, only he left it to me to write a comment, hence the delay. Teri is tearign away at a Paddy Carty tune.
Steve is busy meanwhile so we are working on a strategy to get things posted quickly without dropping the workload on him. Watch this space for news.
In keeping with the season, Peter has transcribed and done commentary for the reel, Christmas Eve, played on flute by Eddie Moloney.
Enjoy!
http://www.rogermillington.com/siamsa/brosteve/CHRISTMASEVE.html
Merry or Happy Christmas, Yule, Solstice, and all other PC wishes.
Teri
Another clip of flute playing to listen to, recording and transcription supplied by Peter: Packie](http://www.rogermillington.com/siamsa/brosteve/traveller.html%22%3EPackie) Duignan playing The Traveller.
Many thanks to Teri for preparing the files for posting (i.e. doing the html grunt work) on this and the last one.
More coming soon, folks.
Thanks for this new transcription and recording. And thanks too for that great description of the photograph, Peter.
I was hoping, Peter, that you might expand on this sentence, from your commentary:
“His take on the second part of the tune is quite a personal one.”
I would so like to have a better understanding of how a player makes a tune his or her own.
Thanks,
Carol
I was very brief in my comment because I couldn’t really put down on paper what was goign on. Compare the second part to the playing of anybody else, take the Bothy Band version which is pretty much standard, you’ll see that Duignan approaches the rhytmic structure of the part quite differently.
[ This Message was edited by: Peter Laban on 2002-12-18 03:02 ]
What strikes me in the second part is the octave changes. For instance, you’d expect something like g2dg Bgdg in bars 1, 3, 5 of that part.
Here bars 1 and 5 are played with two lowered Gs; by contrast bar 3 is played with a raised B.
Sylvain
I find the changes make the tune much easier to play. Hopping back from the low octave to that high G is a real pain on the whistle…
I think his approach is different from the usual when he seems to start his second part in the last bar of the first part with dg rather than on the G roll in bar 9, giving the dg more weight than just using it as a up-beat. This gives the tune a different ‘question-answer’ ‘statement-response’ game. You get dg ~g2 echoed by dGBG and that whole things gets dg ~g2bg {b}ag in response. Starting this part this way he builds his question-response thing on that in a way effectively shifting the whole thing backward a bit and consequently changing the melody to build phrases to suit that structure, ending up going through it different from the standard.
Or maybe that’s just what I make of it.
[ This Message was edited by: Peter Laban on 2002-12-19 05:14 ]
Thanks to all who offered an elaboration. Very helpful!
Carol
More Micho now, this time transcribed by Sylvain Maillot, with somewhat uninformed comments by me.
http://www.rogermillington.com/siamsa/brosteve/rollingmicho.html
Coming soon: Syvlain has also transcribed a nice version of Johnny Cope played by one Margaret Barry (not the banjo-plunking ballad singer), which should be up before Christmas.
Great work! And great choices, too. It was a real pleasure to finally hear the playing of Packie Duignan and Patsy Hanley. Pretty much makes mock of any antigeezer sentiment in my book (but then, I haven’t finished coloring in all the pages yet). “The Green Linnet” had me mesmerised. Must’ve replayed that one 4 times before moving on, and felt the need of a cigarette after it was all over. 
—N, basking in the afterglow
As a bit of a sideline fro mthe Eddie Moloney transcription, the article about Lucy Farr at
http://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/farr.htm
gives some background t othe Ballinakil/East Galway musicians of the period.
[Just an excuse to recommend a good read and you may as well read this one about Junior Crehan
http://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/crehan.htm
while you’re at it.]
[ This Message was edited by: Peter Laban on 2002-12-21 13:04 ]
On 2002-12-20 11:41, StevieJ wrote:
More Micho now, this time transcribed by Sylvain Maillot, with somewhat uninformed comments by me.http://www.rogermillington.com/siamsa/brosteve/rollingmicho.html
I’m confused about something here. In the introduction it says Micho is playing with “freshness on a E-flat whistle” but then Micho says “I’ll play the flat tin whistle” which in parentheses is described as a C whistle. So what key whistle is he actually playing here?
If you listen to the clip it’s fairly obvious so why ask?
Anyway, after getting the grumpy reply out of the way, Micho played the first half o the concert on his own, I joined him for the last 40 minutes or so on the flat-pipes, this is what he is referring to in his introduction.
Rolling in the Ryegras/Miss Monaghan was his last solo selection and AFTER that went flat.
[ This Message was edited by: Peter Laban on 2002-12-24 04:30 ]
Thank you, Peter, and Merry Christmas.
The Golden Eagle played by Donncha O Briain is now resting in the mailbox of the editing team following a request on the whsitle board. Back to the chocolate and mince pies now. Best Wishes.
[edit]
I finished the second hornpipe in the recording transcribed, The Blackbird, this morning. All’s now in the hands of Steve, for weeding nonsensical language from my comments, uploading and all that.
[ This Message was edited by: Peter Laban on 2002-12-26 14:18 ]