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Desaunays hornpipe

By John Whelan

Also known as Desaunay.

There are 5 recordings of this tune.

Desaunays has been added to 28 tunebooks.

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Two settings

1
X: 1
T: Desaunays
R: hornpipe
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Dmaj
fe|dFAd cEGB|ADFA ~G2FE|DFAF GBed|ca~a2 bage|
fAdf eAce|dFAd ~B2GE|DFAF GBed|(3cBA (3GFE D2:|
de|fd~d2ad~d2|fdad d'dfd|ge~e2 cege|dcde fdAd|
fd~d2ad~d2|fdad d'dfd|ge~e2 ceae|(3gfe (3cBA d2:|
# Added by ceili .
2
X: 2
T: Desaunays
R: hornpipe
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Cmaj
ed|cEGc BDFA|GCEG (3FGF ED|CEGE FAdc|Bgag bagf|
eGce dGBd|cEGc (3ABA GE|CEGE FAdc|1 BGFD C2:|2 BGFD C3||
|:e|edcg gec'g|e'c' (3c'bc' gc'eg|fd (3d^cd BGge|[M:3/2]fdBd cGEG FDB,D|
[M:C||CEGE FAdc|Bg (3g^fg ag=fd|eGce dGFD|1 EGFD C3:|2 EGFD C2||

Two comments

Desaunays

I’ve got this tune from a FANTASTIC CD with (I think ) a new band Brock - McGuire Band, who is Paul Brock, Manus McGuire, Enda Scahill, Fergal Scahill, Dennis Morrison and Denis Carey.
I have moderated the tune a bit, so its more playable for ‘ordinary’ musicians, but I think it’s OK.

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Info …

This tune was written by button accordion player John Whelan. He recorded it on his CD with Eileen Ivers "Fresh Takes." The liner notes say he wrote it for "a great melodeon player from France, Serge Desaunay." He plays it in C … Like this …

X: 63
T: Desaunay
C: John Whelan
M: C|
S: John Whelan / Eileen Ivers - Fresh Taakes (#9.1)
N: www.irishtune.info/tune/3301/
N: thesession.org/tunes/5390
Z: JQQ (2009-05-10)
K: Cmaj
ed|cEGc BDFA|GCEG (3FGF ED|CEGE FAdc|Bgag bagf|
eGce dGBd|cEGc (3ABA GE|CEGE FAdc|1 BGFD C2:|2 BGFD C3||
|:e|edcg gec’g|e’c’ (3c’bc’ gc’eg|fd (3d^cd BGge|[M:3/2]fdBd cGEG FDB,D|
[M:C|]CEGE FAdc|Bg (3g^fg ag=fd|eGce dGFD|1 EGFD C3:|2 EGFD C2||

Watch the 3/2 bar in the B-part …

Enjoy …

JQQ