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The Mouth of The Tobique
Good tune. But, the third part as I know it is a little different.
It’s more of a steady flow of 8th notes with accented string crossings on those B’s and C’s. (what I learned in another lifetime as a "Georgia Shuffle" bowing).
Definitely a fiddle tune! The versionI know comes from the first Celtic Fiddle Festival recording (after the Dionne Reel) ..
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tm
Mouth of the Tobique
This is one of my favorite tunes played at our local session. Named for the Tobique river in Canada, there is a fiddle gathering there called Fiddles on theTobique - if anyone wants contact information about it, let me know. We play it much faster, and a bit differently than this sheet music and midi. Here is a "field recording" quality sound clip.
Scroll down to the third track on this page:
http://stations.mp3s.com/stations/174/music_from_montana.html
alice flynn
The Dionne Reel! I know it’s named after the Dionne Quintuplets, but have never been able to find the music — anyone have it?
zls
Mouth of the Tobique
Re Alice Flynn Post of Dec. 11/02 - Mouth of the Tobique.
I went to the link that was posted
http://stations.mp3s.com/stations/174/music_from_montana.html
but can’t find the Music Clip there….has too much time
elapsed?
Could anyone help me on this? Thanks
Mp3.com gremlins
Hi, Sarah, mp3.com does weird things sometimes with the music files a person posts on their page, shuffling it around when you don’t want it changed. I will see if I an get it to show up again on my station of Music From Montana. It might take a couple of days for mp3.com to update my changes.
Alice Flynn
Mouth of the Tobique
Finally found another site to host the mp3 of the Mouth of the Tobique. It’s a little rough, pub noise over the music.
http://www.soundsauce.net/themeadowlark
Alice
The mouth of four beaks?
Is this the same tune as the mouth of the tobique?
Rhythm is wrong in the notation for the 3rd part
At least for the way that the celtic fiddle festival plays this, the syncopated phrases in third part should have this rhythm:
quarter note
dotted quarter note
dotted quarter note
dotted quarter note
dotted quarter note
quarter note
But really what I think they are doing, and what I find very enjoyable to do as well, is to play solid eighth notes through that whole phrase and just play accented eighth notes where the beginning of the notes above would be.
Great recording
I have a wonderful recording of this tune i just took last night. uh… it’s beautiful. if anyone would like it, just contact me! smiles, Jess
For mandolin
Some years back I transcribed the Sharon Shannon’s set MOT and adapted it for mandolin. You can find it from here, use Tobique as the tune search keyword:
http://www.mandozine.com/music/tabledit_search.php
Risto
Great Version with Variations
X: 1
T: Mouth Of The Tobique, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
|: (3DEF|G2 BGcG BG |G2 BGcG BG |FGAB cAFA |GABc d2 (3DEF |
G2 BGcG BG |G2 BGcG BG |FGAB cAFA |1 GBAF G2 (3DEF :|2 GBAF G2 (3def ||
|: g2 gf g2 ag |fdAd f2 gf |ecAG FGAF |GABc d2 ef |
g2 gf g2 ag |fdAd f2 gf |ecAG FGAF |1 GBAF G2 (3def :|2 GBAF G2 (3DEF ||
"variations"
|:G2 B2 c2 z2 |B2 c2 z2 B2 |FGAB cAFA |GABc d2 (3DEF |
G2 B2 c2 z2 |B2 c2 z2 B2|FGAB cAFA |1 GBAF G2 (3DEF :|2 GBAF G2 (3def ||
|:G2 Bc-cB- B |z2 Bc-cB-B |FGAB cAFA |GABc d2 (3DEF |
G2 Bc-cB- B |z2 Bc-cB-B |FGAB cAFA |1 GBAF G2 (3DEF :|2 GBAF G2 (3def ||
|:G2 B _B - _B=B z2|z2 B _B - _B=B z2|FGAB cAFA |GABc d2 (3DEF |
G2 B _B - _B=B z2|z2 B _B - _B=B z2|FGAB cAFA |1 GBAF G2 (3DEF :|2 GBAF G2 (3def ||
|:G2 B _B - _B2 =B _B -| _B2 =B _B - _B2 =B2 |FGAB cAFA |GABc d2 (3DEF |
G2 B _B - _B2 =B _B -| _B2 =B _B - _B2 =B2|FGAB cAFA |1 GBAF G2 (3DEF :|2 GBAF G2 (3def ||
|:G2 g f - fg z2|z2 g f - fg z2|FGAB cAFA |GABc d2 (3DEF |
G2 g f - fg z2|z2 g f - fg z2|FGAB cAFA |1 GBAF G2 (3DEF :|2 GBAF G2 (3def ||
|:G2 g f - f2 g f -| f2 g f - f2 g2 |FGAB cAFA |GABc d2 (3DEF |
G2 g f - f2 g f -| f2 g f - f2 g2 |FGAB cAFA |1 GBAF G2 (3DEF :|2 GBAF G2 (3def ||
|:G2 B2 zc- c2 |B2 zc- c2 B2 |FGAB cAFA |GABc d2 (3DEF |
G2 B2 zc- c2 |B2 zc- c2 B2 |FGAB cAFA |1 GBAF G2 (3DEF :|2 GBAF G2 (3def ||
Click link to hear Sharon Shannon
Sharon & the gang play it straight on this video a couple of times, before they funk it up a bit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUvzdUe3dXQ
Mouth of the Tobique
http://www.archive.org/details/MouthOfTheTobique
This is the first version I remember hearing of this tune.
It’s from an unknown fiddler on this album:
https://thesession.org/discussions/25995/comments#comment548620
Re: The Mouth Of The Tobique
The version of the tune on JACKB’s video from Sharon Shannon actually misses out the first part of the tune for some reason. They mess around with the third part a great deal but don’t seem to play the 1st part at all
The Mouth Of The Tobique, X:3
I think timmy! is right about the syncopated phrases, after listening to some recordings I came up with this version.
The Mouth Of The Tobique, X:4
Learnt this in a session at Chippenham, and it seemed different enough from the other settings to add a new one.
Re: The Mouth Of The Tobique, X:4
Thank you, Rowan Folk, that was *exactly* the one I was looking for! The fiddlers can hit the accents on the C part, but whistle players at least need to include that driving rhythm with all eighth notes in repetition, as described by tMack in these comments some 15 years ago. It is indeed a rhythm you see in softshoe and tap: DA da da DA da da DA da da DA da da, da da…. gives the tune "bounce"!
The Mouth Of The Tobique, X:5
My attempt at a setting that’s slightly closer to the Kevin Burke version.
Re: The Mouth Of The Tobique
The Sharon Shannon version misses the first part out? i think it is mostly played as a 3 part tune when i’ve played/heard it, sometimes played just A/B/C and sometimes A/B/C/B as in Boots MacAllen’s link above
Re: The Mouth Of The Tobique
Yes, Pete and Naill are right, most recordings of Sharon Shannon miss out the first part. Here is a recording where she plays the first part:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJzTh4ColFw&feature=youtu.be
my setting is:
X:1
T: The Mouth Of The Tobique
C:Sharon Shannon version
R: reel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Gmaj
P:Part A
(3DEF|:G3A Bded | BdBG DGBG | ABAG FDEF | GABc d2 (3DEF |
G3A Bded | BdBG DGBG | ABAG FDEF |1 GBAF G2 (3DEF :|2 GBAF G2 (3def ||
P:Part B
|: g2 gf g2 ag |fdAd f2 gf |ecAG FGAF |GABc d2 ef |
g2 gf g2 ag |fdAd f2 gf |ecAG FGAF |1 GBAF G2 (3def :|2 GBAF G2 (3DEF ||
P:Part C
|:G2 BGcG BG |G2 BGcG BG |FGAB cAFA |GABc d2 (3DEF |
G2 BGcG BG |G2 BGcG BG |FGAB cAFA |1 GBAF G2 (3DEF :|2 GBAF G2 (3def ||
P:Part B
|: g2 gf g2 ag |fdAd f2 gf |ecAG FGAF |GABc d2 ef |
g2 gf g2 ag |fdAd f2 gf |ecAG FGAF |1 GBAF G2 (3def :|2 GBAF G2 (3DEF ||
P:Variations to Part C
|:G2 B2 c2 z2 |B2 c2 z2 B2 |FGAB cAFA |GABc d2 (3DEF |
G2 B2 c2 z2 |B2 c2 z2 B2|FGAB cAFA |1 GBAF G2 (3DEF :|2 GBAF G2 (3def ||
|:G2 Bc-cB- B |z2 Bc-cB-B |FGAB cAFA |GABc d2 (3DEF |
G2 Bc-cB- B |z2 Bc-cB-B |FGAB cAFA |1 GBAF G2 (3DEF :|2 GBAF G2 (3def ||
|:G2 B _B - _B=B z2|z2 B _B - _B=B z2|FGAB cAFA |GABc d2 (3DEF |
G2 B _B - _B=B z2|z2 B _B - _B=B z2|FGAB cAFA |1 GBAF G2 (3DEF :|2 GBAF G2 (3def ||