Key signature: Edorian
Submitted on February 18th 2003 by matti.
This tune has been added to 6 tunebooks.
X: 1
T: Crossroads, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Edor
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The Crossroads
This is a tune I recently wrote here in Iceland, to start off a set which includes two other tunes, a G-major and an A-major one. As you can see, it's a pretty basic melody, but I hope it works! The name of the tune refers to a certain crossroads in the town of Reykjavik. Composed by Matti Kallio.
# Posted on February 18th 2003 by matti
Matti, this is a really fun tune, definitely a keeper, and a new genre perhaps...IITM: Icelandic Irish Traditiona Music (for the acronym hounds among us). I'll work this up and introduce it to my session mates here in Montana.
So what are the names of the streets in this particular crossroads, and why did they deserve a tune?
# Posted on February 18th 2003 by Will CPT
Thanks Will! Yepp, IITM is the new genre (did u know about FITM, Finnish Irish Traditional Music
).
I just checked in the map of Reykjavik that I have, the streets are Fálkagata and Tómasarhagi. And for the special meaning of the crossroads... well, first of all, that´s for some reason the spot where I got the idea to write these tunes, one morning a week ago.
Somehow I also feel that is was the crossroads of life that brought me to Iceland in the first place... That needs to be expressed through music.
I'll post the other two tunes as soon as I can, so that they can be played together with this one as intended.
# Posted on February 18th 2003 by matti
IITM
I'm confused. Isn't IITM Italian Irish Trad. Music?
# Posted on February 18th 2003 by gian marco
Not true
I've got this song in one of my books, he didn't write it!
# Posted on February 19th 2003 by Ryan
Sad but true
This must be a total coincidence, as sometimes happens when writing tunes and not being totally modern
Good that you notified about it, which tune did I write?
# Posted on February 19th 2003 by matti
Doh!
yes,Matti,a similar thing happened to me last year when i came in from the pub(i should have realised!) and i wrote down a cracking tune that was going round in my head.
of course,my 'composition' turned out to be the first two parts of 'rip the calico',a tune which i had just been learning...
# Posted on February 19th 2003 by biggus dave
Doh!
It works the other way as well. The story goes that Schubert or Schumann, I forget which, was in a cafe and heard the cafe orchestra playing something. He thought it was a good tune and jotted it down. It was only sometime later that he discovered it was something he'd composed a long time ago and completely forgotten. We're all in the best of company!
# Posted on February 19th 2003 by lazyhound