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TOW#26: Tigh Na Gorm - nigelgatherer - 07-10-2011 02:12 PM
Tigh Na Gorm
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This is a tune in the manner of a pipe retreat, composed by the late Ian Powrie. You can download a PDF file of this tune:
Tigh Na Gorm
RE: TOW#26: Tigh Na Gorm - John Kelly - 08-10-2011 08:10 PM
Great wee tune, Nigel. Think it might be my next SoundCloud attempt. I really enjoy those retreat marches even when written by a fiddle player of Ian's skill! Thanks again for yet another new one for the armoury.
RE: TOW#26: Tigh Na Gorm - John Kelly - 10-10-2011 04:15 PM
Here is my version of the tune, played on bouzouki with tenor guitar in first half of tune and mandolin in second half. Link is to the SoundCloud file:
Tigh Na Gorm
RE: TOW#26: Tigh Na Gorm - nigelgatherer - 15-10-2011 08:12 PM
That's great, John - I really enjoyed listening to that. I think it's a fantastic tune, and I had the honour of playing it last week with accordionist John Carmichael, who has played with many of the greats, and Finlay Allison, Jenn Butterworth, and a few others.
RE: TOW#26: Tigh Na Gorm - Beginner Sandra - 16-10-2011 03:52 PM
Nigel, I can't seem to get access to the PDF it just keeps loading but never gets there. Is it me?
RE: TOW#26: Tigh Na Gorm - nigelgatherer - 16-10-2011 05:47 PM
I just tried it and it loaded immediately for me. What if I send it direct to you, Sandra?
RE: TOW#26: Tigh Na Gorm - John Kelly - 16-10-2011 05:49 PM
Nigel, many thanks for your encouraging comments. John Carmichael is indeed a fine player - one of many we are blessed with in our music.
Sandra, if you cannot access the pdf I have downloaded it from the site and could e-mail it to you if you wish. Another way is to highlight the music on the page above, copy it then paste it into a new Word document.
Let me know if you still cannot access it.
RE: TOW#26: Tigh Na Gorm - alistair - 17-10-2011 02:04 PM
(10-10-2011 04:15 PM)John Kelly Wrote: Here is my version of the tune, played on bouzouki with tenor guitar in first half of tune and mandolin in second half. Link is to the SoundCloud file:
Tigh Na Gorm
Wonderful tune and beautifully played, John. Would make a great accompaniment to Battle of the Somme. Looks like it would work on the Highlander harmonica (one low G natural and no high Gs at all). Must have a go at that soon.
RE: TOW#26: Tigh Na Gorm - nigelgatherer - 17-10-2011 09:23 PM
I think you're right, Alistair, it would go well with Battle of the Somme. At first I thought it would be too similar, but the key change makes all the difference.
RE: TOW#26: Tigh Na Gorm - John Kelly - 18-10-2011 09:21 AM
Alistair, that was a great suggestion on both counts. A good partner indeed for Battle of the Somme, and it does translate beautifully to the Highlander harmonica. Just been trying it out just now and it works - clever of Donald Black to get Hohner to make the Highlander and playable in the 2 pipe keys. Thanks for your comments and for the tips.
RE: TOW#26: Tigh Na Gorm - Beginner Sandra - 18-10-2011 12:28 PM
The PDF is working fine today - obviously something was wrong at this end! John, if I copy and paste into a Word document it prints out very hazy and no amount of format changes seem to help.
RE: TOW#26: Tigh Na Gorm - alistair - 19-10-2011 04:28 PM
(18-10-2011 09:21 AM)John Kelly Wrote: Alistair, that was a great suggestion on both counts. A good partner indeed for Battle of the Somme, and it does translate beautifully to the Highlander harmonica. Just been trying it out just now and it works - clever of Donald Black to get Hohner to make the Highlander and playable in the 2 pipe keys. Thanks for your comments and for the tips.
I always balked at paying the full price for the Highlander till I found a great deal at Harmonicas Direct ( http://www.harmonicas-direct.com/harmonicas/special-offers/hohner-highlander-tremolo )
Although it's possible (and challenging) to play pipe tunes which are nominally in D on the "Highlander" side, the other side is in D so mostly I take the easy way out ...
I found Tigh na Gorm quite hard to commit to memory: it's full of surprises. I guess that's the hallmark of a true original.
RE: TOW#26: Tigh Na Gorm - Tosh Marshall - 20-10-2011 02:03 PM
Here is my effort, a bit slower than John's fantastic version, but I really enjoyed this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBy4j_4yk5c
RE: TOW#26: Tigh Na Gorm - John Kelly - 20-10-2011 09:15 PM
Another good effort here, Tosh! It's always good to try out a new tune and keep the old grey cells ticking over.
RE: TOW#26: Tigh Na Gorm - Beginner Sandra - 28-10-2011 12:01 PM
Does anyone have the music for Battle of the Somme? I'm always keen to put sets together. I found a version on ScottishSessionTunes.abc by Jack Campin but as usual I'm having problems printing it out (a new printer is on the wish list).
RE: TOW#26: Tigh Na Gorm - John Kelly - 28-10-2011 12:41 PM
(28-10-2011 12:01 PM)Beginner Sandra Wrote: Does anyone have the music for Battle of the Somme? I'm always keen to put sets together. I found a version on ScottishSessionTunes.abc by Jack Campin but as usual I'm having problems printing it out (a new printer is on the wish list).
Sandra, attached is a pdf of the tune I converted from an abc file. Hope this will print for you. It's a great retreat march.
RE: TOW#26: Tigh Na Gorm - Beginner Sandra - 29-10-2011 04:59 PM
Many thanks John. Printed out perfectly and ready to play tonight with Tigh Na Gorm. Delighted!
RE: TOW#26: Tigh Na Gorm - Jack Campin - 29-10-2011 08:25 PM
How did you convert my ABC to pdf?
There are a few variants of the PDF format and a lot of different ways to produce, read and print it.
The one that often goes after "Battle of the Somme" is 'The Heights of Dargai', which you can write out with amazingly little notation because of its repeat structure. PDFs for both tunes attached. They work on both MacOS Preview and Adobe Reader.
RE: TOW#26: Tigh Na Gorm - Beginner Sandra - 30-10-2011 01:30 PM
Hi Jack, Thanks for "The Heights of Dargai" I'll enjoy adding that to my set too.
RE: TOW#26: Tigh Na Gorm - alistair - 30-10-2011 02:08 PM
Good to get the music for Heights of Dargai, Jack, which I had heard played a few times (several by you) but had never got clear in my head.
Now I realise that this is the tune that I was vaguely reminded of when I first head Tigh Na Gorm. They really are very similar, and sometimes you feel Tigh Na Gorm is frantically trying to distinguish itself from Heights of Dargai, and indeed from Battle of the Somme. But of course it may well be the other way round, depending on the order in which they appeared, and whether the composer of each already knew the others.
There is another tune called Dargai, a slow air, probably inspired by the same battle.
There's a haunting guitar rendition of the tune on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NvR2lvku2k
and the comments include a description of the battle. (I don't understand though the connection with the accompanying video.)
A search on ABC tunefinder ( http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/tunefind ) reveals that it's in fact by Scott Skinner (score attached).
Anyway, played as I think was intended as a slow air (the 6/8 time signature seems misleading), it would make a nice precursor to the three 9/8 marches.
Alistair.
RE: TOW#26: Tigh Na Gorm - Jack Campin - 31-10-2011 01:37 AM
"The Heights of Dargai" doesn't just predate "Tigh na Gorm", it predates the battle it commemorates. It was first called "The Dagshai Hills" and renamed. Dagshai is hundreds of miles away from Dargai. Both have rather more exciting histories than any place deserves to be on the receiving end of (Dargai in particular - floods and suicide bombings lately).
This is probably not what you might expect music from Dargai to be like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D94TKHCuNRQ
Dargai students' folk jam:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrSNmhz2Hg4
RE: TOW#26: Tigh Na Gorm - alistair - 31-10-2011 11:17 AM
Thanks Jack: always learning.
Found an original bagpipe score for Heights of Dargai via ABC tune finder: slightly different from the version you posted.
Being mixolydian (?) this one fits well on the Highlander harmonica. PDF attached.
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