wayland’s sixteen comments
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Why not 12/8?
Can someone give me information/links about why hornpipes shouldn’t be notated in 12/8? I tried to Google it, but all I got was links to 12/8 hornpipes 🙂. more…
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The name
As far as I can tell, the name appears to be Breton for “Church (of the) fountain”. For further information, see http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerfeunteun (you may want to use Google Translate). You’ll also find a brief reference in English at more…
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Looks like I did it wrong…
Those notes with a “1” after them are supposed to take up the whole bar. more…
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Slightly different version
X: 1 more…
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Swaggie
I didn’t say, but they have words with it and all. more…
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Re: Poll: Spelling AND pronunciation of that what we do herein…
According to https://thesession.org/discussions/6916 they also pronounce it differently -- pronounced as “seshioon”. I have a question -- where do the emphasis and the syllable boundaries go in that? is it sesh-i-OON? SESH-yoon? sesh-III-oon? more…
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Swaggie
I’m from Australia, and there’s a great recording I have by a now-sadly-defunct group that sings words to this and calls it “Jolly Swaggie” more…
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Derry?
Incidentally, both this and the one I listed above claim to be called “Derry” 🙂. more…
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Was this a set?
Ok, so the first two sections look like the Ladies’ Hornpipe. And the last two seem to be the Elk’s Festival. So if the middle two are something else again, then this is a set that got standardised at some point. more…
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Londonderry Hornpipe?
Over at the Londonderry Hornpipe, they say that the Elk’s Festival is like the lat two sections. more…