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To: SuziQ

Neither. It's an Irish session we're trying to start. Basically just means people get together to play music - it's not a performance. Kind of the Irish version of a jam. What's kinda cool is that people who play Irish music have a lot of tunes in common, so you can go anywhere and be able to play the music - only catch (as we discovered last night) is that lots of tunes have multiple names. For example, the tenor banjo guy requested "Lilting Banshee", but we said we didn't know it, but later we played "Butcher's March", and he said "I thought you didn't know 'Lilting Banshee'?" Same tune, different name depending on where you learned it.


6,654 posted on 12/10/2004 6:32:31 AM PST by RosieCotton (He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. - GKC)
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To: RosieCotton

Well it's just a funkle kinda morning! Yeah, I've noticed that about Irish music. I'll see a piece mentioned on a CD, think I've never heard it, then when I play it, I realize I know it by a different name. "Star of the County Down" is like that. I knew it first as "Variations on Divas and Lazarus", written by Ralph Vaughn Williams. I know he based HIS version on the folk tune. Only after I heard his version, did I hear the hymn, "I Heard the Voice of Jesus", which is yet another variation on the theme.


6,661 posted on 12/10/2004 6:56:28 AM PST by SuziQ (W STILL the President)
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