Troy & Gwynne's Wedding
Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 12:04 am
SHORT STORY: Here's a tune I composed about a year ago and performed for it's first time this past weekend at my friend's wedding. I'm curious to hear folks' thoughts on this, but I don't intend on making any big changes.
LONGER STORY: This tune popped out of my head last June the way most of the few tunes I've comp'ed have -- it just kinda does, I write down as best I can or record the tune and get the dots worked out with my instructor later. I originally wrote a 2nd part to this, but didn't particularly like it -- sounded like filler. When I took the tune to my instructor, he kyboshed my 2nd part agreeing that it was bog-water and kyboshed it, and with my permission writing a new 2nd part. Late last year when my friends announced their wedding plans and asked that I play their cerimony, I thought I might learn Troy's Wedding for the occasion... but then thinking that it's not just his day but her's too, I pulled out my own jig, previously un-named. Over this past holiday season, my instructor & I further tweaked this tune, and then the best-man (another mutual friend of the wedding party's) and I gave it it's HUGELY memorable name. I still own the tune, but it bears their name; soon, the now-married-couple will have a nice looking copy of the notation on good paper along with an audio recording I made of their entire event. I would have posted this earlier, but I wanted to make it theirs first; it was great getting to be of service to these two friends, and I've enjoyed permanently marking the occasion with a tune. (Lets hope I don't have to comp "Troy & Gwynne's Nasty & Unfortunate Divorce"... and since neither of them are pipers, probably won't be the case. LOL) I played this tune as part of their recessional.
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LONGER STORY: This tune popped out of my head last June the way most of the few tunes I've comp'ed have -- it just kinda does, I write down as best I can or record the tune and get the dots worked out with my instructor later. I originally wrote a 2nd part to this, but didn't particularly like it -- sounded like filler. When I took the tune to my instructor, he kyboshed my 2nd part agreeing that it was bog-water and kyboshed it, and with my permission writing a new 2nd part. Late last year when my friends announced their wedding plans and asked that I play their cerimony, I thought I might learn Troy's Wedding for the occasion... but then thinking that it's not just his day but her's too, I pulled out my own jig, previously un-named. Over this past holiday season, my instructor & I further tweaked this tune, and then the best-man (another mutual friend of the wedding party's) and I gave it it's HUGELY memorable name. I still own the tune, but it bears their name; soon, the now-married-couple will have a nice looking copy of the notation on good paper along with an audio recording I made of their entire event. I would have posted this earlier, but I wanted to make it theirs first; it was great getting to be of service to these two friends, and I've enjoyed permanently marking the occasion with a tune. (Lets hope I don't have to comp "Troy & Gwynne's Nasty & Unfortunate Divorce"... and since neither of them are pipers, probably won't be the case. LOL) I played this tune as part of their recessional.
*** EDIT *** PLEASE NOTE, THE BELOW ATTACHMENT IS THE INCORRECT UP-LOAD -- PLEASE SCROLL A FEW POSTS DOWN FOR THE CORRECT DOTS. ***