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Linda, this is exquisite. Wishing you a blessed '16!
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Linda, this is exquisite.
Wishing you a blessed '16!
Linda, I purchased your book/CD of O'Carolan tunes and love it. My favorite tune is this one. I promise I will learn it by ear, and from watching your video, but is there by chance any tab - just to help me get started? Once I get the fingering worked out I like to write it down - or I'll forget the next time I work on it! LOL Fingering is such a challenge for me - still.
Linda im amazed how beautiful you can make those 3 strings even better than all those multiple strings of a Harp.Kind regards Gary
Excellent Gary
Hi Linda - yes, it's Wild Mountain Thyme. I had a typo below. :) Scott Tennant is a fantastic classical guitarist, and his version of WMT is also one of my favorites. Very sensitive player.
I'm also a huge fan of Dowland, and other composers of the lute. Are you familiar with Sylvius Leopold Weiss ? He was a brilliantly gifted composer and player of the lute, and was the court lutenist for a number of European cities. He was a contemporary of Bach, and in fact, it's known that the two were friendly and challenged each other to improvisation contests. Weiss is, in my opinion, every bit as good as Bach, but until fairly recently was not as well-known, likely because he wrote mostly for solo lute. Here's a beautiful example, being played by Robert Barto, an excellent player (who also has over 10 CDs recorded of Weiss' music, all well worth buying):
Presto in A Major, S. Weiss
Finally, I hope you'll forgive me for causing your thread to to go off on a bit of a tangent. I was going to send this to you privately, but I thought others would also enjoy Weiss, so instead posted here. Hope you don't mind. :)
I do a Scottish tune called Wild Mountain Thyme. Wonder if its the same. I played a Mauro Giuliani guitar opus at nationals. I loved doing that piece. The Pipers Pavan is beautiful. Thanks ! LB
Hey Brian. Ill ch all of those out. Always lookin for new stuff. I love Dowland stuff. All of the classical guitarist of that period were great. Like OCarolan they often wrote in 16 bar continuous Melodys with no repeats. Hard to wrap your head around at first but after you get it its cool. Thanks a bunch . Off to check these out. LB
Linda - absolutely wonderful. One of my favorite O'Carolan tunes. William Coulter's version is great as you mention, but if you haven't heard Scott Tennant's version, you might want to check it out also. (Scott is an incredible guitarist/guitar professor - he plays most often in the LAGQ [Los Angelos Guitar Quartet], but he did this piece on a solo album of Celtic tunes called Wile Mountain Thyme. Well worth picking up). Also, are you familiar with "Piper's Pavan" by Dowland? It's another very beautiful, very melancholy piece that I think you'd really enjoy. There are many great versions, but one of my favorites is by lutenist Ronn McFarlane on the CD "Lute Music of John Dowland". Anyway, thanks for sharing this, it was really excellent. :)
Linda, Amazing - your playing of this evokes such empathy in the listener as to what the writer was feeling. Notes/tab on a page of this tune become so much more. Thank you for demonstrating this. L
Jim you are too kind. Music just really moves me. I like to know what the song is about to play it properly. I try to listen to , in this case , Irish musicians raised with this song and how the interpretation was passed down. I learn it then close my eyes and my fingers play the she song but my mind is on the story . The visual I think, reading tab, seems to block the amout of feeling I get. The ears and heart seem to work together . I know!!! I'm just weird! Lol hanks
Thanks Dusty. I really love his music. I did a book of some of his work early on and read a lot about him. I can not play this without crying. The pic in my mind of him so sick, in the back of an old cart, prob in the rain and cold, holding his harp and trying to write just one more song. With all the notes in most of his work the shear sparseness of the notes speaks volumes. Absolutely the saddest song.....
Wow. You play that with so much emotion. Just beautiful.
Thanks y'all. Two beautiful songs for sure.
Absolutely gorgeous!
Beautifully played!
The best recording I ever heard was William Coulter. He is a great guitarist that plays with Neal Hellman. I love his arrangements and have have "borrowed " several. His CDs are on iTunes or at Gourd music . Com. He plays and teaches Irish fingerpick guitar in California.
That song always breaks my heart. I don't think I have heard it on dulcimer before. You play it so well, Linda!