I’ve listened to this “piece” since I was young and have always wondered what it’s made up of?
The 1st bit is Dulci Jublio then it goes into Saddle the Pony but the bit after is still unknown to me. It’s also probably my favourite part and I’m eager to learn on tin whistle so identification would really help.
Thanks
https://youtu.be/YzUi8mh-Yg4
Is it this? https://thesession.org/tunes/7614
Yes, it seems so. Crazy that I’ve not been able to figure it out when the “piece” was always called Hills of Ireland. Makes me feel a bit stupid now lol.
Thanks for the help
If forgetting a tune name is all it took to qualify, then all of us on here would be equally stupid Tamara.
Agreed, Gobby. 🙂 Cool tune I haven’t played before, Tamara-- thanks for bringing it up, and welcome to thesession!
Thanks, I’m happy to be here 😊
Tamara, don’t beat yourself up. We’re all often stymied by absent or incomplete tune info. These days it’s rare to find helpful, informative sleeve notes. Many seem deliberately ambiguous or befogged, and few streaming services bother to include the notes with the tracks.
There’s also an unhelpful fad of giving a set an esoteric name but not identifying the individual tunes. (Sometimes the set name is one of the tunes, but just as often it’s an “inside” reference that only the band is in on.) I don’t care if artists or the label want to go all mystical or overly clever with sleeve notes, but at the least they should accurately name the tunes and, if not trad, who wrote them.
Thanks, that’s so true! I posted on Reddit asking the same thing a few weeks ago and was just given grief for using the term pieces and song… People telling me they’re called tunes and saying why don’t people learn etc… they didn’t actually help me at all… I’m new to this world… Although I’ve been listening to trad music my whole life seemed like a bit of an elitist experience over there 🙄
Well, people here on thesession.org will also go on about the distinction between tune and song, but barring a few curmudgeons, they’re nice about it, in the spirit of explaining the lingo to help newcomers feel like insiders.
If you haven’t read it already, The Field Guide to the Irish Music Session by Barry Foy is a fun, lighthearted, and helpful little book (95 pages) that covers the ins and outs of sessions. It even has a glossary!
And if you want something more in-depth and near-poetic, Ciaran Carson’s Last Night’s Fun will transport you to the heart of sessions and immersion into tunes and the trad community.
Thanks, I’ll definitely give these a look… I’m always looking to learn more 😊
Both books are chock full of insights and information, but really they’re simply good reads, each in their own way.
And the hive mind here is always available to offer multiple, often contradictory, on occasion even helpful answers to any questions you might have. 🙂
That’s good to know… I’ve felt very welcome so far 😊
Hi Tamara, I’m so glad you feel welcome on The Session. I just have a question for you. Where did you first hear this track?
I’ve always really enjoyed it. But I’ve seen another YouTube video, of this same track, where they claimed it was by Enya and people were disputing it. I know that on Discogs, there’s a Jeff Victor album that has these tunes in them. So I’m just curious, if you first heard this on an album, which one was it?
I first listened to it on my phone around 2008 I was 10yrs old… my mum downloaded a bunch of songs for me from Napster or Limewire and this was in an Enya folder… I went a long time assuming it was Enya’s before realising there was nothing in Enya’s discography to suggest it was her’s… Seeing it on YouTube as Enya just proves that it wasn’t just the files my mum downloaded that attributed it to her.
That’s really interesting! It sounds like lots of people thought it was Enya, and I wonder how the confusion got there.
I’m only a few years older than you and I think it’s awesome that you like traditional music and that you’ve been into it since you were younger. Is the playlist your mum downloaded what got you into liking it? I started enjoying Irish music when I was 18 and looked it up on YouTube, but I’d grown up in the Lithuanian tradition so was always fond of the music from there.
Yeah it’s definitely curious!
I did ballet from 3 years old and then Tap and Modern dance too… The annual dance show had dances from many styles including Irish… I heard a lot of Irish music there… My mum downloaded lots of music for me to rehearse to and so I had many styles of music on CDs and my phone.
My primary school deputy head teacher played fiddle and every year would do a music assembly with his friend who played Bodhrán… My favourite tune they played was John Ryan’s Polka (I had seen Titanic before they played it in the assembly the first time)
I was surrounded by a fair bit of Irish music and other folk music… I’m definitely very fond of it
You might also like a version ofthese tunes from a group from Italy called Patricks. It’s a little more modern-sounding, I think, but I like it nonetheless.
https://youtu.be/7ZqEgMeHNCc
Yeah it’s sounds great… I think it’s such a good combination of tunes and sounds really good whoever does it
