Also known as Bon Voyage Monsieur Dumollet, Entry Of The Parents.
Iontráil Na dTuismitheoirí has been added to 1 tunebook.
This is a traditional slide I heard played in an old pub in Kerry …
Nah, just kidding. This is the “Entry Of The Parents” from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker, transcribed as a slide and shifted up a step. It struck me that it sounds just like a slide.
(And yes, compared to the actual score, it’s time-shifted over by half a bar, so in 6/8 time, the “1” here is what would have been the “4” in the original. I did that because, IMO, that’s where it sounds like the emphasis is in the original, so I’m calling it poetic license as part of the ungentle transition to slidehood.)
Reckon Pytor Ilyich must have been in Clare when he wrote it see https://thesession.org/tunes/947
Wow, that’s a striking resemblance!
Last year Yves Jean-Pierre ROBERT made an illuminating post:
“This tune was a song composed around 1809 by Marc-Antoine-Madeleine Désaugiers in his vaudeville ”Le départ pour Saint-Malo“. This song is known as ”Bon voyage, Monsieur Dumollet !“. The tune was famous enough to be played all over Europe. In France, it is still a children song and it is also played among the ”Bandas“ , popular brass bands of the South-West French Gascony.”
Famous enough for Tchaikovsky to quote it in The Nutcracker?
Here’s that song:
https://youtu.be/Qz1UWLCKdpQ
It’s very identifiably the same song. Tchaikovsky seems to have changed the last bar and not much else. 🙂 And sure, I think it’s fair to call it a quote; after all, it’s supposed to be music that the parents are dancing to at a party.
I’ve added “Bon voyage Monsieur Dumollet” as an alternate title.
See https://thesession.org/tunes/1106 The Steamboat for the quote (from Y J-P ROBERT), a stack of other names and plenty of more locations, where PIT might have heard it! Or maybe it’s something to do with Jung?
