Results 1 to 7 of 7

Thread: Courting Is a Pleasure

  1. #1
    Registered User pluckinstrings's Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2019
    Location
    Washington State, USA
    Posts
    110

    Default Courting Is a Pleasure

    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.

  2. The Following 5 Users Say Thank You to pluckinstrings For This Useful Post:


  3. #2
    Registered User Ranald's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2017
    Location
    Ottawa, Canada
    Posts
    1,733

    Default Re: Courting Is a Pleasure

    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.

  4. #3
    Registered User Denis Kearns's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2019
    Location
    west coast
    Posts
    251

    Default Re: Courting Is a Pleasure

    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…

  5. #4
    Registered User pluckinstrings's Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2019
    Location
    Washington State, USA
    Posts
    110

    Default Re: Courting Is a Pleasure

    Thank you. I hope your day got better.

    - - - Updated - - -

    I'd love to hear it!

  6. #5
    Likes quaint instruments poul hansen's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jun 2020
    Location
    Danmark
    Posts
    725

    Default Re: Courting Is a Pleasure

    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

  7. #6
    Registered User Ranald's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2017
    Location
    Ottawa, Canada
    Posts
    1,733

    Default Re: Courting Is a Pleasure

    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.

  8. #7
    Likes quaint instruments poul hansen's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jun 2020
    Location
    Danmark
    Posts
    725

    Default Re: Courting Is a Pleasure

    Quote Originally Posted by Ranald View Post
    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.

    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

    Hehe, I've already done that. Beautiful performance.
    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

  9. The following members say thank you to poul hansen for this post:

    Ranald 

Bookmarks

Bookmarks

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •