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It's time AGAIN, to start getting ready for Fall & HALLOWEEN... instead of waiing until the last minute (like I always do)!
Cool tunes to go over in this thread - and yeah, I GOT MORE TO ADD (can't have too many)! ...little somethin' for everyone.
"You And Me And The Devil Makes Three" - from Ye Banished Privateers! If anyone has trouble learning by ear - NOW'S THE TIME YO WORK ON IT!
The Grandkids have been playing a lot with foam swords & shields - maybe I can talk them into wanting to be pirates for Trick-or-Treating this year!
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You'd never know by the title how interesting this piece is! Worthy of fitting into MY Fall & Halloween repertoire!
"Norwegian Country Dance" (Anna Elizabeth) - originally arranged by Denes Agay.
LOVE IT!
Spooky Game Themes & some Anime Piano Play-alongs here! EXPLORE - you can use the melody line for learning these tunes on VIOLIN: OldGameSheetMusic YT Channel
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I'm probably going to jinx the weather we've been having, but yeah I'm getting ready for Fall & Halloween!!!
Music Theory Is WITCHCRAFT! (GST Channel)
"How to Practice Transforming Themes"
Oh, noooo... mary had a little lamb, didn't she? 😱
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"Bury a Friend" tutorial ANYONE can follow?
If you are new to playing violin, you might want to try this one by Eva Alexandrian!
Eva uses close up views of the fingerboard and gives color-coded fingerings to help people learn music in her many violin tutorials. She also has a book based on this method - "
This video is best for viewing the bowing, phrasing & rhythm... use it along with the fingering tutorial.
Now, adjust the tempo...
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This is one tune I've felt is begging me to try darker & creepier, but it's still VERY melancholy on it's own - perfect for Halloween!
I realize this thread has turned out to be one big playlist (with notation)... would love to know what music others are 'dusting off', or learning to play, as we head toward Halloween, Samhain & el Día de Muertos!
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I have a few I have been looking at, and will definately post one of them, one of them is the very first tune I learned on tenor banjo.
Another couple of good ideas for other people are king of the fairies or sheebeg, or lilting beansidhe, they are all easy good tunes to play, and deal with the celtic otherworld.
Cant beat a sunny day
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Getting a bit too creepy for me there Emily🥸, lol.
A lot of the kiddy winkies are into wednesday adams now. My friends little girl has actually started to learn cello becase of the film.
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@stringy -
Sorry, almost missed your post.
I like those tunes too! Looking forward to whatever you're working on.
Have you tried the White Petticoat Jig? It's pretty haunting - posted examples here on page 2 (#27 & 30). Two more Jigs notated at The Session are worth mentioning for Halloween/Samhain/All Hallows Eve: Jump At The Sun & Scary.
Know of anything specific Morris Dancers do for Samhain/Halloween? I know some come out for the festivities.
Any folklore & related songs/music to share?
I like the Knocker folklore - Welsh have 'Coblyn'. LOVE Brownie Folklore, and of course I love Irish 'Leprechaun' & 'Fairy' folklore!
Last week was the Abbot Bromley’s Horn Dance in Staffordshire. I LOVE the CREEPY tune for that dance! Notation & audio for The Abbots Bromley Horn Dance Jig at The Session.
Samhain Waltz from Mr. Kirby. Haunting tune that caught my ear.
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I have seen the crow morris men at chester and at the middlewhich boat and food festival were there are a lot of morris men performing, they were excellent I have been looking for trad English tunes and had forgotten completely about morris dancers so I am now going to take a look at the list I once posted if you remember that.
They had knockers in the tin mines in Cornwallas well, they supposedely warned the miners if there was going to be a collapse in the mine.
In Ireland they take the little people thing very seriously, they once changed the route of a major motorway to go around a fairy blackthorn that they were afraid of damaging for the wrath of the fairies, absolutely true. In the post I made about the tuatha and book of invasions, when the Tuatha were eventually defeated, they didnt leave Ireland but agreed it would be divided, above the earth would belong to the locals but below would belong to the Tuatha, this gave rise to the legends about fairies and leprachauns, and fairy mounds which are all over Ireland and quite a few in England as well. If you listen to the tune Rocky road to dublin one of the first lines is about cutting a blackthorn branch to banish ghosts and goblins.
Dont know if your interested but while I am rambling may as well tell you, if it doesnt bore you to sleep lol, but where I live there is a crossroad, which has been there for many many hundreds of years maybe thousands and was once a dirt track that led between towns, still very few houses round about there, anyway its haunted by the ghost of a highwaymen been seen many times apparently. When I used to do a lot of running I would run through the crossroads after dark in the hope of meeting the ghost, never saw anything though
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@stringy -
Very cool!
Did you see the English tunes link I left you (post#4 Neat Pat Conway The Bery Best Irish Songs and Ballads books thread)?
Getting a bit too creepy for me there Emily
, lol.
Yeah, I try... better scary music than scary reality. 😉
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@ELCBK I'm liking the Abbot Bromley's & the Samhain Waltz.
I went out to sheetmusicdirect.com and bought Mr. Kirby's collection called 40 Duets from the Lorry Driver's Lunch that has Samhain Waltz in it (downloadable version--good price for what you're getting I think--40 duets w/chord designations included).
I like the original tune in Gm, but I transposed it down to Cm & played it on the viola--really like it now 
He's got it as a duet, but I think I might change the 2nd part on it--I guess just because I can
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...where I live there is a crossroad, which has been there for many many hundreds of years maybe thousands and was once a dirt track that led between towns, still very few houses round about there, anyway its haunted by the ghost of a highwaymen been seen many times apparently. When I used to do a lot of running I would run through the crossroads after dark in the hope of meeting the ghost, never saw anything though
I'm thinking the ghosts don't like to be sought out--they like to sneak up on you 
Characterize people by their actions and you will never be fooled by their words.
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@SharonC -
I didn't know Mr. Kirby had that available (and more!) - thanks!
LOVE the bouncy/quirkey dance tunes, like Abbott's Brombley, too! I started on The Warlocks Strathspey first (post#64). 🤔... they might sound really good together.
Since I'm having fun with Halloween, there's a zillion old Broadside ballads (old Murder Ballads, too) & lively Tavern/Drinking songs (our 'Star Spangled Banner' came from a drinking song)! If I was able to dance to them, I would - but I can't resist picking up the fiddle to play along. I believe it's one of the biggest reasons to take time learning to play/accompany by ear!
Murder ballads make up a notable portion of traditional ballads, many of which originated in Scandinavia, England, and lowland Scotland in the premodern era (suggesting an ultimate Germanic cultural origin). In those, while the murder is committed, the murderer usually suffers justice at the hands of the victim's family, even if the victim and murderer are related (see "Edward/Son David", "The Cruel Brother", and "The Two Sisters" for examples). (Wikipedia)
Boann - has an unusual album. "The Twa Sisters - De Två Systrarna (An Old Celtic & Nordic Tale)" Playlist - presents deceptively lovely tracks that dance around the variations of this very old Murder Ballad theme of two sisters.
On a different note - here's an interpretation from Julian Gaskell - of the Broadside Ballad, "The Burial Club"! GREAT article (at Tradfolk), "Burial Club – Julian Gaskell & his Ragged Trousered Philanthropists", which explains how he came upon this, what a 'Burial Club' was, and how he chose to interpret it.
The Broadside Ballad, "Mad Tom of Bedlam" to the tune, "Gray's Inn Masque" from Passamezzo's YT Channel (link is to the notation & some great info about the Inn/tune at the Traditional Tune Archive). Great info in the video description, but addtional info (with another variant of the poem) at Wikipedia (Tom o' Bedlam).
Masque - 16th to 17th Century Europe (starting at the end of the Middle Ages).
A masque involved music, dancing, singing and acting, within an elaborate stage design, in which the architectural framing and costumes might be designed by a renowned architect, to present a deferential allegory flattering to the patron. Professional actors and musicians were hired for the speaking and singing parts. (Wikipedia)
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SPIDERS!
I know they are beneficial, but they still creep me out - especially in Autumn, when a few manage to sneak into the house. Ever walk face-first into a web, have a spider drop in on you (uninvited), run across you while watching a scary movie... or BITE you? I've even woke during the night, turned on a light - just to find one STARING AT ME! 😖 Orb Weaver webs seem to get monstrously huge this time of year - they reign undisturbed in cemetaries, haunted houses... and outside my windows. 😳
"Spiders!" by Tamsin Jones - Violin & Viola! (notation available for purchase)
- a creepy-crawly two-part invention in Neo-Baroque style for violin and viola. Two instruments, four arms, eight limbs and an invention using octotonic scales. Performed by by Peter Voronov and Margarita Chernova.
Have to share my all-time favorite 'Spider' tune, "Itsy Bitsy Spider" (by Joey Deluxe)! It was featured in the film "Eight-legged Freaks" (2002). Think it's time to take out my fiddle & focus on improvistion over the melody... getting in the mood!
There's old Spider Superstions (Spiderzrule), some are promising, some forboding and some VERY OLD Spider Mythology, Folklore & Legends (earth life) in Cultures all over the World. No wonder spiders fit perfectly into the Halloween theme!
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Anyone been watching the Marvel spinoff, Agatha All Along?
Think I'm watching more for the music than anything else - 2 versions of The Ballad of The Witches' Road (so far). ...yeah, it's more than catchy - it's an earworm (but I love playing it)!
Episode #1 Version:
Episode #4 Version (Lorna's Ballad):
Episode #1 Version notation/lyrics/singing from Mr. Knicl (Mr. Knicl's Music Class)!
Check out Roland Gjernes playing the 1st Version on CELLO!
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Noche de Halloween!
Saurom - Folk Metal band from Andalusia, Spain. The 'celtic feel' is a nice surprise (noticed great violin playing in some of their other videos).
Sheet Music to play-along - "Noeche de Halloween"!
Apocalyptica (Finnish symphonic metal band) - "On The Rooftop With Quasimodo" (LIVE)!
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