A slower and yet challenging little tune for you. This Celtic beauty is really nice to play and a good one to add to your list. Enjoy!
TABS/Standard Notation available at my website.
A slower and yet challenging little tune for you. This Celtic beauty is really nice to play and a good one to add to your list. Enjoy!
TABS/Standard Notation available at my website.
Lovely. Just what I needed to change my mood on a frustrating morning. Thanks.
Robert Johnson's mother, describing blues musicians:
"I never did have no trouble with him until he got big enough to be round with bigger boys and off from home. Then he used to follow all these harp blowers, mandoleen (sic) and guitar players."
Lomax, Alan, The Land where The Blues Began, NY: Pantheon, 1993, p.14.
That is a very nice tune. Thanks for sharing it. One thing that struck me is that “Courting is a Pleasure” shares a lot of its structure with “Star of the County Down”. Will have to try my hand at Courting, but will have to be careful to not morph into County Down, something I’ve been playing on guitar for maybe 45 years…
Thank you. I hope your day got better.
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I'd love to hear it!
Wonderful. How far back Celtic is it? It sounds almost medieval to me.
Nice to have a slow piece. many pieces/players give the impressionn that it is only about speed and not so much about the melody.
Kentucky KM-805..........2 Hora M1086 Portuguese II(1 in car)
Hora M1088 Mandola.....
Richmond RMA-110..... .Noname Bearclaw
Pochette Franz Janisch...5 Pocket............Alfredo Privitera pocket
Puglisi Pocket 1908........Puglisi 1912.......Puglisi 1917
3 Mandolinetto ..............C.Garozzo
1 Mandriola...................Cannelo G. Mandriola...Böhm Waldzither 1921
Johs Møller 1945............Luigi Embergher Studio 1933
Marma Seashell back......Luigi Embergher 5bis 1909
This is the tune to an old folk song -- in fact, the tune probably has several songs to it. The line "Courting is pleasure" or "Courting's a pleasure" is used in many folk songs, "On Top of Old Smokey for instance. Here's a lovely Irish version of the song, though I'm not sure if the song itself is Irish originally or one of the many folk songs that travel around Ireland and the UK, claimed by each country. Slow songs often make good slow airs.
(The rest of the day was much better, thanks.)
If the links don't work, search YouTube for "Courting is a Pleasure - The Choral Scholars of University College Dublin" .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkup...yCollegeDublin
Last edited by Ranald; Jan-18-2022 at 8:56pm.
Robert Johnson's mother, describing blues musicians:
"I never did have no trouble with him until he got big enough to be round with bigger boys and off from home. Then he used to follow all these harp blowers, mandoleen (sic) and guitar players."
Lomax, Alan, The Land where The Blues Began, NY: Pantheon, 1993, p.14.
Kentucky KM-805..........2 Hora M1086 Portuguese II(1 in car)
Hora M1088 Mandola.....
Richmond RMA-110..... .Noname Bearclaw
Pochette Franz Janisch...5 Pocket............Alfredo Privitera pocket
Puglisi Pocket 1908........Puglisi 1912.......Puglisi 1917
3 Mandolinetto ..............C.Garozzo
1 Mandriola...................Cannelo G. Mandriola...Böhm Waldzither 1921
Johs Møller 1945............Luigi Embergher Studio 1933
Marma Seashell back......Luigi Embergher 5bis 1909
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