{"id":3897,"date":"2018-09-04T12:37:53","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T17:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=3897"},"modified":"2018-09-04T12:41:59","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T17:41:59","slug":"september-2018-tune-of-the-month-an-londubh-the-blackbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=3897","title":{"rendered":"September 2018 Tune of the Month: An Londubh (The Blackbird)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been listening to Mick O&#8217;Brien &amp; Caoimh\u00edn \u00d3 Raghallaigh&#8217;s album &#8220;Kitty Lie Over&#8221; for quite some time, primarily for the title track. However, the tune (and track) An Londubh (played as a hornpipe and reel on the album) stuck out as one that would definitely fit on the highland pipes (they play it on uilleann pipes and fiddle). Here it is on YouTube:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"An Londubh\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B8C3eBaoC2E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A gander over at the sheet music on <a href=\"https:\/\/thesession.org\/tunes\/4508\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thesession.org<\/a>\u00a0reveals that even after transposition from D major (because it falls below our scale) up to A major (and turning all resulting G# into G naturals), the tune has a second part that then goes above our scale. But never mind that, as it&#8217;s not too tricky to rewrite something passable and that&#8217;s just what I&#8217;ve done. You can too if you don&#8217;t like what I&#8217;ve got.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"An Londubh (The Blackbird) - September 2018 Tune of the Month\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ixtQWobaQZ8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/an_londubh.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">An Londubh (The Blackbird)<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Sheet music<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also got a slightly less modified version for those playing in G major but still limited to the highland scale:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"An Londubh (The Blackbird) in G\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TZs1Smph6Qo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sheet music for this version can be found in the &#8220;G major chanter&#8221; tune book found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3243\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been listening to Mick O&#8217;Brien &amp; Caoimh\u00edn \u00d3 Raghallaigh&#8217;s album &#8220;Kitty Lie Over&#8221; for quite some time, primarily for the title track. However, the tune (and track) An Londubh (played as a hornpipe and reel on the album) stuck out as one that would definitely fit on the highland pipes (they play it on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=3897\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">September 2018 Tune of the Month: An Londubh (The Blackbird)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tune-of-the-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3897"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3902,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3897\/revisions\/3902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}