liltmuse’s thirty-four comments

This is a beautiful air composed by concertina player Caitlín Nic Gabhann. I learned this tune from her 2012 album, Caitlín. Original recording here: https://caitlinciaran.bandcamp.com/track/cill-dh-agl-in-air more…

Thanks for sharing these tunes, JWiseman. I’ve enjoyed reading through so many tunes from a single composer back to back, because I think it presents an opportunity to make connections and get a deeper feel for their composition style. more…

Here’s the same setting in D for low-F whistle players. more…

This is a simple, bare bones sort of transcription of an Eamon Doorley tune from the Julie Fowlis album “Uam”. Recording here: https://youtu.be/i27zaRhNcxQ more…

--or was it The Wall at Castle Black? more…

I notated this tune in E minor instead of E dorian, even though every written C is raised. more…

I love the differences in the beginning measures of the A part between this version--my friend plays it this way and I don’t know where they got it--and the version above. more…

This is the setting Laura Fedderson plays with Nathan Gourley, as heard here {https://soundcloud.com/www-tradconnect-com/nathan-gourley-and-laura}. more…

For reference: https://thesession.org/tunes/238 more…

To my ears, this tune sounds wholesome and distinct enough that it didn’t initially occur to me that it was simply a slide version of one of the Ballydesmond polkas. more…