Marquis of Lorne
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This is from 'Kohler’s Violin Repository' (Edinburgh 1881-85). It is known in Ireland as
The Sligo Fancy or
The Flowers of Antrim, and there are a few different ways of playing it.
I really like that tune Nigel. Sounds good on the Penny Whistle too. Thanks for all your TOWs. They made my week while I was in Singapore - back in Devon now.
Did you find the music you were hoping to find in Singapore, Patrick?
As Nigel says, it's also known as Flowers of Antrim, The Sligo Fancy and many more titles.
There are also several slightly different settings and I'm not entirely comfortable with the bars 3,4, and 7 in part two(Having studied it yesterday afternoon).... specifically the move from D to A.
In most other versions, it moves from C to the high A which, apart from being much easier to play probably sounds a little better. I'll post the alternative very soon but I've got to dash out just now.
Of course, there are other more subtle variations in different settings too but these are mainly the addition of triplets etc and they don't really affect the overall tune as much...being more of a matter of taste.
OK, here goes.
There are several differences, of course, in many of the versions but none which I'd regard as too crucial but in these bars it seems quite significant.
Alternative settings as follows
part two, bars 3,4,5
|d>B g>e d2 c>B|c>a f>d c>a f>d|c>a f>d c2 B>c|
and bars 7& 8
|d>B g>e d2 c>B|c>a f>d ^c>d e>g|
I'm not suggesting that one setting is more correct than the other and the folklorists amongst you can argue which was the original tune. It's posing me a wee difficulty though as I have to learn two different settings of this tune within the next few weeks...one for a concert and the other for Nigel's day group.
Perhaps the best approach is to learn neither in the meantime, i.e. in the sense of "off by heart" or fully absorbing the tune?
Instead, I should maybe just rely on the written music for both versions without making any attempt to internalise the tune as I would usually wish to do.