07/18/13 08:41:35PM @linda-jo-brockinton:
Sorry about the Bonnie Raitt post. I was trying to post fiddling bagpipes but had sent someone that video. When I saw what it did I canceled it and posted the other. Apparently it didn't cancel. Sorry!
Linda, You do a lovely version of A Stoir Mo Chroi. Thanks for posting it.
I have to admit to being rather shocked when I first hit play. I'd forgotten that I had my iTunes on as its screen was covered and I had turned off the sound on my computer to take a phone call. I hit play for your song and hit the sound on button. I got both your playing and The Wild Myrtles, on ITunes, singing. This has happened before so two tune going at one time wasn't the shock. It was that the Wild Myrtles had just started singing "An Eriskay Love Lilt". That's the song John had mentioned and I was thinking that I'd love to hear you play it. It rather freaked me out!!!! And I'd would love to hear you play it. It's one of my favorites on the dulcimer.
07/18/13 01:54:20PM @linda-jo-brockinton:
Thanks that was very interesting. Helps to interpret the playing of a song , the more you know.
I'm sure you will recognise Eriskey Love Lilt straightaway, it's probably the most well known of all Hebridean songs(with the pos. exception of Mingulay Boat Song). It's the one that starts :
"Fair me o, o row van o Fair me o, o row van ee Fair me o, row o ho Sad am I without thee"
A lovely melody and very simple to play.
john
07/18/13 12:33:20PM @linda-jo-brockinton:
Hi john . I was thinking in terms of Traditional as not being Coproghted. I had seen it listed in several books I have as traditional. I try not to spend time on stuff thats copyrighted cause I cant teach them or record them . I played through the melody and just loved it. When I did the search on YouTube I found Bonnie Raitts video. Just a beautiful song. I don't know the other one you mentioned. I will check it out. Thanks
Thanks Linda, Took a look over at mudcat they have no copyright info either, but then it would be out of c/r by now anyway. Don't now where I got Tin Pan Alley from, except that it is very much in the style they produced. Had a listen to the lyrics and it's clearly written from the point of view of someone in Ireland looking towards the US, rather than the more usual looking back. It's how you define Traditional really I guess. I'd probably call this a patriotic song, which is far from being Traditional as I use the word. But then, someone has to write them at some point in their history.
Any thoughts on Eriskey Love Lilt ?
john
07/18/13 11:32:25AM @linda-jo-brockinton:
I found this but nothing of a copyright... It's listed in several traditional books and sites online.A Stor Mo Chroiby Brian O'Higgins (1882 - ?)Audio clipThis example of "A Str Mo Chro" is performed by Brian HartPlease refer to Cantaria's Copyright information+ Show sheet music (toggle as desired for printing)Background notes"A Str Mo Chro" is Irish and means approximately "darling of my heart."Brian O'Higgins was an Irish patriot who took part in the 1916 Rising and was an active Republican for the rest of his life. He published a yearly newsletter called the Wolfe Tone Annual that served as a counterblast to the views propagated by the revisionist official historians in Ireland.He wrote a large number of patriotic songs and poems, many under the pen name of Brian na Banban. Most of his works were written in response to specific events, so they have tended to become lost to dusty tomes as memory of the events faded and they lost their significance. Now when they are sung, they usually require an explanation of the events on which they were based.
Very nicely done Linda, though not very "Traditional Irish" I'm afraid.
It's what's become known as 'Stage Irish', and was mostly written in Tin Pan Alley. There was a large market for these sort of deliberately sentimental songs among the ex pats in America. Other well known songs in this Genre would be things like Mother Macree, When Irish Eyes are Smiling, anything with Irish Rose in the title, etc.
A Stoir Mo Chroi, is a term of endearment and means something like :
A ... O is probably closest, something to indicate it's addressed to a person, but very archaic in English. Stoir ... Store(of tresure) Mo ... My Chroi ... Heart
'Mo Chroi' is the same 'Macree' you'll find in Mother Macree and The Eriskey Love Lilt.
ELL sounds like it would fit your style very well, Give it a try, why don't you?
Ty Cynthia
Fabulous.
Thanks patty and Karen!!
Thank you Pat!!
Just beautiful.
Peaceful and beautiful!!!
Sorry about the Bonnie Raitt post. I was trying to post fiddling bagpipes but had sent someone that video. When I saw what it did I canceled it and posted the other. Apparently it didn't cancel. Sorry!
Lol. Ill check it out.... Thanks.
Linda, You do a lovely version of A Stoir Mo Chroi. Thanks for posting it.
I have to admit to being rather shocked when I first hit play. I'd forgotten that I had my iTunes on as its screen was covered and I had turned off the sound on my computer to take a phone call. I hit play for your song and hit the sound on button. I got both your playing and The Wild Myrtles, on ITunes, singing. This has happened before so two tune going at one time wasn't the shock. It was that the Wild Myrtles had just started singing "An Eriskay Love Lilt". That's the song John had mentioned and I was thinking that I'd love to hear you play it. It rather freaked me out!!!! And I'd would love to hear you play it. It's one of my favorites on the dulcimer.
Thanks that was very interesting. Helps to interpret the playing of a song , the more you know.
Some info on Brian O'Higgins here :
http://www.irishidentity.com/extras/gaels/stories/higgins.htm
whch would seem to suggest it was written shortly after the turn of the century, before he became heavily involved in politics.
I'm sure you will recognise Eriskey Love Lilt straightaway, it's probably the most well known of all Hebridean songs(with the pos. exception of Mingulay Boat Song). It's the one that starts :
"Fair me o, o row van o
Fair me o, o row van ee
Fair me o, row o ho
Sad am I without thee"
A lovely melody and very simple to play.
john
Hi john . I was thinking in terms of Traditional as not being Coproghted. I had seen it listed in several books I have as traditional. I try not to spend time on stuff thats copyrighted cause I cant teach them or record them . I played through the melody and just loved it. When I did the search on YouTube I found Bonnie Raitts video. Just a beautiful song. I don't know the other one you mentioned. I will check it out. Thanks
Thanks Linda,
Took a look over at mudcat they have no copyright info either, but then it would be out of c/r by now anyway. Don't now where I got Tin Pan Alley from, except that it is very much in the style they produced. Had a listen to the lyrics and it's clearly written from the point of view of someone in Ireland looking towards the US, rather than the more usual looking back.
It's how you define Traditional really I guess. I'd probably call this a patriotic song, which is far from being Traditional as I use the word. But then, someone has to write them at some point in their history.
Any thoughts on Eriskey Love Lilt ?
john
I found this but nothing of a copyright... It's listed in several traditional books and sites online.A Stor Mo Chroiby Brian O'Higgins (1882 - ?)Audio clipThis example of "A Str Mo Chro" is performed by Brian HartPlease refer to Cantaria's Copyright information+ Show sheet music (toggle as desired for printing)Background notes"A Str Mo Chro" is Irish and means approximately "darling of my heart."Brian O'Higgins was an Irish patriot who took part in the 1916 Rising and was an active Republican for the rest of his life. He published a yearly newsletter called the Wolfe Tone Annual that served as a counterblast to the views propagated by the revisionist official historians in Ireland.He wrote a large number of patriotic songs and poems, many under the pen name of Brian na Banban. Most of his works were written in response to specific events, so they have tended to become lost to dusty tomes as memory of the events faded and they lost their significance. Now when they are sung, they usually require an explanation of the events on which they were based.
Very nicely done Linda, though not very "Traditional Irish" I'm afraid.
It's what's become known as 'Stage Irish', and was mostly written in Tin Pan Alley. There was a large market for these sort of deliberately sentimental songs among the ex pats in America. Other well known songs in this Genre would be things like Mother Macree, When Irish Eyes are Smiling, anything with Irish Rose in the title, etc.
A Stoir Mo Chroi, is a term of endearment and means something like :
A ... O is probably closest, something to indicate it's addressed to a person, but very archaic in English.
Stoir ... Store(of tresure)
Mo ... My
Chroi ... Heart
'Mo Chroi' is the same 'Macree' you'll find in Mother Macree and The Eriskey Love Lilt.
ELL sounds like it would fit your style very well, Give it a try, why don't you?
john
Very very pretty!
Another beautiful arrangement and performance. Linda you do magnificent work. Thank you!!!
Absolutely wonderful!