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Author: BassetHorn  
Date:   2006-03-08 18:48 
 Guys, I need some urgent help.  Does anyone have the lyrical part of Danny Boy for Bb clarinet?  Could I get a fax copy of email copy if possible?  We have a going away party tonight and the guys have asked me to play it.  I can sing it in my head but actually playing it on clarinet would be easier if I had a score.  Anything, please, even something “home made”…. 
 
Willy
  
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Author: Steven  
Date:   2006-03-08 18:58 
 A number of protestant hymnals have this tune in them with alternate words.  Check the index of tune names, it'l be listed as Londonderry.  One such hymn is "Thy cross, O Christ, above the hills is shining".  (I think that's its title.)
  
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Author: BassetHorn  
Date:   2006-03-08 19:16 
 Thanks Steve, I should also take a look at the hymal books that I have.  Willy
  
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Author: Don Berger  
Date:   2006-03-08 22:01 
 "About rite" TTT, our concert band arr. [Londonderry Air, Grainger?] put me, on alto cl in unison with some Bb's, starting on C#, which would be [I thunk] their low F#, lowest note I believe, play it with "pathos" but not too slowly.  Don 
 
Thanx, Mark, Don
  
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Author: Chris P  
Date:   2006-03-09 08:56 
 I remember doing a concert where the singer was given the TONIC note of 'Danny Boy' by the leader, and he started it on this note (instead of the LEADING note) - so he was a semitone sharp throughout the first verse - then the rest of the choir and orchestra joined in - and he was still singing a semitone out right to the end! 
 
Has to be said I won't work with them anymore. 
 
Former oboe finisher  
Howarth of London 
1998 - 2010 
 
Independent Woodwind Repairer  
Single and Double Reed Specialist 
Oboes, Clarinets and Saxes 
 
NOT A MEMBER OF N.A.M.I.R. 
 
The opinions I express are my own. 
 
Post Edited (2006-03-09 08:58)
  
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