Key signature: Dminor
Submitted on April 29th 2002 by wordridden.
This tune has been added to 115 tunebooks.
Also known as Cleite Na Péacóige, Peacock Feather, Peacock's Feather, The Peacock's Feather.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Peacock's Feathers, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Dmin
|:AG|(3FED EC DA,DE|FEFA G2FG|A2d2 dcAG|FDA,=B,C2 AG|
(3FED EC DA,DE|FEFA G2FG|A2d2 dcAG|F2 D2 D2:|
|:A=B|c4 d4|dcA^F G2 A=B|c2 Ad dcAG|FDA,=B,C2 AG|
(3FED EC DA,DE|FEFA G2FG|A2d2 dcAG|F2 D2 D2:|
The Peacock's Feathers
I transcribed this tune from a CD called - of all things - "Lifescapes: Celtic Fiddle" (despite the terrifying title, it's got some fine trad fiddle playing on it). I'm not usually one for hornpipes, but I love the swing of this one, and the fact that it's in a minor key doesn't hurt either. I also like the fact that there is a lot of room for ornamentation - like not playing those triplets as triplets every time around, or making the long note in the second half a bit more interesting by adding rolls or somesuch.
Does anyone out there actually play this tune (in sessions, for instance)? What other tune(s) would you play it with?
# Posted on April 29th 2002 by wordridden
i learned this one along with peacock's feather #2, which follows it nicely. i've posted #2 ....
sarah cardin
# Posted on April 29th 2002 by eleyne
I heard this one in a session last weekend. I knew it from somewhere, but couldn't put a name to it. It's basically the air of the song, The Parting Glass.
# Posted on May 3rd 2002 by ragaman
After learning this tune off an Iron Horse cd i try to squeeze it in to sessions sometimes. I find it sounds good played in Eminor too. Its a really really really cool tune so spread the word!
# Posted on May 6th 2002 by Wackadack
Fairly Common
This tune, along with the major version also posted here, is not that uncommon. I've heard them in lots of sessions. Both can be heard on Frankie Gavin's classic album w/Alec Finn c. 1977. I don't see the connection with the Parting Glass though.
# Posted on January 28th 2003 by pchaffee
Even in this key and growl - still a BARNDANCE
How nice it would be to gather the brandances under that section, to see their similarities. While they do share a lot with hornpipes, there's even one categorized under hornpipes in the O'Neil collections, 'The Slipper', they do have a certain pitch and yaw all thier own, as do Highlands (Highland Flings)...
# Posted on July 23rd 2004 by ceolachan
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Schottische / German / Barndance
# Posted on June 6th 2005 by ceolachan
Also played in A Dorian
Played in A Dorian on Open Hearth by Mary and Andrew MacNamara.
# Posted on October 29th 2005 by GaryAMartin
Peacock's Feather
Hi all. In the tunes section there is a Peacock's Feather in D major and one in D minor. The one in D minor has a key signature of one flat. My question is how do you play that on a D whistle? As you can tell, I am not much of a musician and am completely confused by this. I have a partner that I play with who wants to string the two together, but I am at a loss as to how to do so on my whistle. Thanks for the help.
Lowhistle
# Posted on February 26th 2006 by LoWhistle
Well
on a D whistle it would be rather inconvenient. you'd be half-holing 2 notes, the F natural and the B flat.
if you had a C whistle it'd be easy. it'd be just like playing in E minor on your D whistle (with a cross-fingered C natural.)
# Posted on February 26th 2006 by jaime!
I learned this tune along with the Peacock's Feather in Dmajor at Swannanoa from Patrick MAngan...I really like them both, especially together...the first triplets are really fun to vary, I sometimes (I picked this up from Patrick too) play two triplets, so the tune starts A-G fed efe d (fed and efe as triplets, I'm new to this ABC notation thing)
# Posted on August 7th 2006 by possumawesome
March (no growl)
If this tune is in O'Farrell's 1810 as a march, which it seems to be (although I don't know if O'Farrell actually called it a march because I don't have the book -- I'm just going by the Fiddler's Companion), I don't see how anybody can growl about it being a barndance instead of a hornpipe!
# Posted on November 9th 2006 by Katedu
Growl & Grumble ~ mmm, mmm, a good thing!!!
Marches and Barndances were interchangeable for some couple dances, that a tune can be played as both a march or a barndance/hornpipe/schottische/German ~ is no mean feat, easily done, hell, look at all the 2/4 marches being used as polkas, and the shared tunes and ways between strathspeys and highland flings ('single' schottishes)...
You misunderstood the use of 'growl' here Katedu. The term has to do with it dipping low. This melody is also played in other and higher keys. I love the growl of the lower registers...
# Posted on November 9th 2006 by ceolachan
"The Peacock's Feather" ~ no Bbs, it's D Dorian!!! ~ a whistle/flute friendly version?
K: D Dorian
|: A>G |
(3FED E>F (3DDD D>E | F>EF>A (3GAG F>G | A>dd>^c d>=cA>G | F>DA>B c2 A>G |
F2 E2 D2 D>E | F2 (3FGA G2 F>G | A2 (3ddd d2 A>G | F>D (3DDD D2 :|
|: A>B |
c2 c>A d2 (ed^cd | d>cA>^F G2 A>B | c2 A>d d>cA>G | F2 A>B c2 A>G |
F2 E>F D>A (3DDE | F>EF>A G2 F>G | A>d^c>e d>cA>G | F2 D2 D2 :|
The F natural is one of the easier half-holes to master, you just straighten out the third finger (E finger) so that it lifts enough to make the F natural, but not taking it off the instrument, and DO NOT USE THE FINGER TIP!!! It is a kind of rocking motion between moving between the E and the F natural on a D instrument. The first joint only of the finger rocks up slightly as you straighten it, while the back of that joint, The part palm-side, remains on the instrument. A basic exercise is just that, rocking that joint between the E and the F natural. It is basically the same move, part way, as slurring from E to F sharp, only the finger doesn't lift off...
The above version replaces those lovely growls down to A, and B, and C, places most D winds can't reach... I hope it helps. There are also some other 'variations' / choices given that differ from the transcription here...
# Posted on November 9th 2006 by ceolachan
"The Peacock" ~ the march of it, more family members
Key signature: e minor
Submitted on November 11th 2006 by ceolachan.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/6359
# Posted on November 11th 2006 by ceolachan
"The Parting Glass" ~ reel ~ more family
Key signature: a minor
Submitted on October 21st 2006 by Fiddle Inferno.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/6275
# Posted on November 11th 2006 by ceolachan
And no smart ass comments about 'cock-ups'...
# Posted on November 11th 2006 by ceolachan
You mean like one about the bar of 4/4 you wrote with 5 crotchets in?
# Posted on October 3rd 2007 by Dow
Uh oh!? I did correct that didn't I? If not, you'd better drop me an email quietly and direct me to where it is if it still is there...
Hey, maybe it was a hint of a 5/4 waltz...
# Posted on October 3rd 2007 by ceolachan
I'm not going to tell you where it is. That'd make it too easy for you. I'll give you a clue though. It's on this page. I'm starting the stopwatch...........NOW.
# Posted on October 3rd 2007 by Dow
Correction ~ | c2 c>A d2 (3d^cd |
Yup, I hit the key below 3 and 3nd3d up with an e ~ resulting in this ~ c2 c>A d2 (ed^cd | ~ ... mea culpa!
# Posted on October 3rd 2007 by ceolachan
4 minutes 33 seconds. What a coincidence!
# Posted on October 4th 2007 by Dow
Martin Hayes plays The Peacock's Feather on YouTube
Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz3P1OxZwNU&NR=1
# Posted on November 6th 2007 by dbritton
Martin Quinn on melodeon
At the moment, you can listen to Martin Quinn's melodeon playing of this hornpipe on his MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/martinquinnaccordion
# Posted on July 3rd 2008 by slainte