% THIS SHEET MUSIC COMES FROM JOHN WALSH'S COLLECTION % SEE HIS COMMENTS BELOW: % 2/4/94 % ********************* INTRODUCTION *********************************** % % This file contains a number of well-known Irish jigs, reels, % hornpipes, and polkas, written out in Chris Walshaw's abc notation. To % print them out, first process the file with the program abc2mtex, % which will convert it to a Music TeX file, and then run that file % through Music TeX. See the abc2mtex documentation for an explanation % of the notation. Both abc2mtex and Music TeX are available for anonymous % ftp on the archive celtic.stanford.edu. % % Like any folk music, these tunes change with time. There may be % quite different versions of some of them floating around. I have tried % to give settings which are close to what I hear played. A few tunes % are transcribed from particular performances, one or two others are % taken from books--both of these are indicated on the tune notes--but the % majority are set about as I have heard them played. % % Quite a lot is left to the player. The settings are basic: the only % decorations indicated explicitly are rolls, triplets and quadruplets; % first and second endings are only written out when they are % substantially different. Apart from the fact that most players don't % need to be told when and where to put in a grace note, a lot of gracings % are done differently on different instruments: carefully-written-out % fiddle decorations can be a distraction to someone playing the tune on a % flute. Since the decorations are only indicated generically, not in % detail, the tunes should be playable on any of the usual instruments. % (Well..I have only checked them out on the whistle and pipes.) If some % of the details of the settings turn out to be awkward on a particular % instrument, just adapt the tune to fit--most players automatically % modify a tune slightly in order to make it fit the fingers, or to take % advantage of some particular effect on their instrument. (There are a % couple of obvious cases, where, for instance, the range is beyond the % range of the pipes, whistle, and flute. It is up to the individual to % modify the setting--i.e. to fake it--if they want to play it.) % % One thing bears noting: I have written the hornpipes out in % straight eighth notes, but they are usually played with alternating % dotted and cut notes: i.e. what I have written as "eighth, eighth, % eighth, eighth" is often played more like "dotted eighth, sixteenth, % dotted eighth, sixteenth." The amount of emphasis is a matter of % style, so some books write out the dotted notes, others don't. I opted % for the easiest path, and wrote them out in straight eighths. % % % Thanks to Dan Beimborn and Seamus Keleher for suggesting % many of these tunes. (Cryptic notations such as Z:Boston just indicate % that the tune is commonly played in sessions there. But in fact, most of % these tunes will be played in sessions all over.) % % I make apologies in advance for the typos which have surely % escaped my proof-reading. Please let me know about any obvious errors, % or any settings which seem too much at variance with what is played in % your own area. % % When I knew the composer of a tune, I indicated it, but I only knew % the composers of a couple of the tunes. If any others have known % composers, I would appreciate hearing about it. As far as I know, the % remainder of the tunes are public domain. The copyright below does not % cover the tunes themselves, just the arrangements and the code in this % file. % % Tune 35 is from Bulmer and Sharpley' book; tune 15 from Ceol % Rince na hEireann, tune 49 from Leo Rowsome's tutor, tune 4 from % O'Neill's. The remainder of this file is copyright by John B. Walsh, % January, 1994. It may be freely used, copied and distributed, as long as % this notice is included with the copy. It may not be sold, or used to % make hard copies for sale, without express permission of the author. \version "2.12.3" \paper { top-margin = 2 \cm bottom-margin = 2 \cm } \header { title = "Whelan’s Fancy" meter = "Jig" subtitle = "A rolling version of Morrison’s" arranger = "Typeset / Arr.: John Walsh" instrument = "Viola" composer = "Irish trad." tagline = \markup { \override #'(box-padding . 1.0) \override #'(baseline-skip . 2.7) \box \center-column { \small \line { \hspace #5 Une partition du site \with-url #"http://www.breizh-partitions.fr" { \teeny www. \hspace #-1.0 Breizh-Partitions \hspace #-1.0 \teeny .fr gravée à l’aide de \with-url #"http://www.LilyPond.org" { \teeny www. \hspace #-1.0 LilyPond \hspace #-1.0 \teeny .org } \hspace #5 }} \line { \small \line \italic { Sheet music from \with-url #"http://www.celticscores.com" { \teeny www. \hspace #-1.0 CelticScores \hspace #-1.0 \teeny .com engraved using \with-url #"http://www.LilyPond.org" { \teeny www. \hspace #-1.0 LilyPond \hspace #-1.0 \teeny .org }} }} \line { \teeny \line { Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 • \hspace #-0.5 \with-url #"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0" http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 } } } } } main = { \tempo 4. = 130 \once \override Score.MetronomeMark #'transparent = ##t e4. \turn b8 a8 fis8 | fis8 e b a fis d | e4. \turn b4. \turn | d'8 cis'8 b a fis d | e4. \turn b8 a8 fis8 | fis8 e b a fis a | b8 d' b b a b | d'8 a g fis e d \bar ":|:" b4. \turn e'4. \turn | fis'8 e' d' e' fis'8 e' | b4. \turn g'4 e'8 | fis'8 e' d' b a fis | b4. \turn e'4 g'8 | fis'8 e' d' e'4 fis'8 | g'8 b' g' fis' a' fis' | e'8 d' b a fis d \bar ":|" } \score { \new Staff << \time 6/8 \clef alto \key d \major \set Staff.midiInstrument = "viola" \transpose a a{ \main } >> \layout { } \midi { } }