Londonderry Air (Danny Boy) - André Rieu & Teun Ramaekers
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- The Londonderry Air is an air that originated from County Londonderry in Ireland (now Northern Ireland). It is popular among the Irish diaspora and is very well known throughout the world. The tune is played as the victory anthem of Northern Ireland at the Commonwealth Games. "Danny Boy" is a popular set of lyrics to the tune.
The title of the air came from the name of County Londonderry in Ireland. The air was collected by Jane Ross of Limavady.
Ross submitted the tune to music collector George Petrie, and it was then published by the Society for the Preservation and Publication of the Melodies of Ireland in the 1855 book The Ancient Music of Ireland, which Petrie edited. The tune was listed as an anonymous air, with a note attributing its collection to Jane Ross of Limavady.
For the following beautiful air I have to express my very grateful acknowledgement to Miss J. Ross, of New Town, Limavady, in the County of Londonderry-a lady who has made a large collection of the popular unpublished melodies of the county, which she has very kindly placed at my disposal, and which has added very considerably to the stock of tunes which I had previously acquired from that still very Irish county. I say still very Irish, for though it has been planted for more than two centuries by English and Scottish settlers, the old Irish race still forms the great majority of its peasant inhabitants; and there are few, if any counties in which, with less foreign admixture, the ancient melodies of the country have been so extensively preserved. The name of the tune unfortunately was not ascertained by Miss Ross, who sent it to me with the simple remark that it was 'very old', in the correctness of which statement I have no hesitation in expressing my perfect concurrence.
This led to the descriptive title "Londonderry Air" being used for the piece; the title "Air from County Derry" or "Derry Air" is sometimes used instead, due to the Derry-Londonderry name dispute.
The origin of the tune was for a long time somewhat mysterious, as no other collector of folk tunes encountered it, and all known examples are descended from Ross's submission to Petrie's collection. In a 1934 article, Anne Geddes Gilchrist suggested that the performer Ross heard played the song with extreme rubato, causing Ross to mistake the time signature of the piece for common time (4/4) rather than 3/4. Gilchrist asserted that adjusting the rhythm of the piece as she proposed produced a tune more typical of Irish folk music.
In 1974, Hugh Shields found a long-forgotten traditional song which was very similar to Gilchrist's modified version of the melody. The song, Aislean an Oigfear (recte Aisling an Óigfhir, "The young man's dream"), had been transcribed by Edward Bunting in 1792 based on a performance by harper Donnchadh Ó Hámsaigh (Denis Hempson) at the Belfast Harp Festival. Bunting published it in 1796. Ó Hámsaigh lived in Magilligan, not far from Ross's home in Limavady. Hempson died in 1807. In 2000, Brian Audley published his authoritative research on the tune's origins. He showed how the distinctive high section of the tune had derived from a refrain in The Young Man's Dream which, over time, crept into the body of the music. He also discovered the original words to the tune as we now know it which were written by Edward Fitzsimmons and published in 1814; his song is 'The Confession of Devorgilla', otherwise known by its first line 'Oh Shrive Me Father'.
The descendants of blind fiddler Jimmy McCurry assert that he is the musician from whom Miss Ross transcribed the tune but there is no historical evidence to support this speculation. A similar claim is made that the tune came to the blind itinerant harpist Rory Dall O'Cahan in a dream, and a documentary detailing this version was broadcast on the Maryland Public Television in USA in March 2000.; reference to this was also made by historian John Hamilton in Michael Portillo's TV programme "Great British Railway Journeys Goes to Ireland" in February 2012. - Hudba
No one's violin expresses the heart of a song as beautiful as that of Andre Rieu.
My old shop teacher, an Ulsterman, helped me draw and paint the Red Hand of Ulster on my shop project. I always like to see it!
That red hand is on my baronet's badge.
Absolutely fantastic
Oh, Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling
From glen to glen, and down the mountain side.
The summer's gone, and all the roses falling,
It's you, it's you must go and I must bide.
But come ye back when summer's in the meadow,
Or when the valley's hushed and white with snow,
It's I'll be here in sunshine or in shadow,
Oh, Danny boy, oh Danny boy, I love you so!
But when ye come, and all the flowers are dying,
If I am dead, as dead I well may be,
You'll come and find the place where I am lying,
And kneel and say an Ave there for me.
And I shall hear, though soft you tread above me,
And all my grave will warmer, sweeter be,
For you will bend and tell me that you love me,
And I shall sleep in peace until you come to me!
Wonderful!
That was brilliant
I love Northern Ireland because it's part of the UK.
Hermoso, buena suerte irlandeses...de un amigo del Peru.
01:49 I've definitely heard that melody before, in the RomeoXJuliet anime opening.
Well spotted. The anime' studio chose well 😊
Love County Derry/Doire.
*Londonderry
Londonderry
Derry.
Londonderry 🇬🇧
London
I like it
England and Ireland
England and *Ulster/ Northern Ireland
Londonderry Air Danny Boy is brilliant
Do you take requests? :) (I have a large anthems collection and would love to set some of them to flags, but there are a few that I can't find any recording of the flag on CZcams anywhere, and I can't even make it myself because there doesn't seem to be a program that can record a screensaver in Windows 8 (I've tried several). If you do take requests, get in touch with me, I'd love to help your channel.
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@@bobbilly9558 calm down mate
I like this anthem, perhaps adopting it as Northern Irelands anthem instead of GSTQ or Soldiers Song would bring more people from that part of the world together, rather than blowing them apart.
Peace Out - A Scotsman.
ekRevolver yes it does work for both sides, and I’m a prod so I wouldn’t complain about soliders song or anything like that but this is a good tune I think
@@charlesdolling4263 isn't the soldier's song a republican tune?
@@CaptainX2012 yes
I used this tune when I wrote a song about this novel:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Dog_of_Flanders
Ahhh Danny Boy. The song was found and most likely arranged into the form we know now by an Anglican Ulster-Scot, and the lyrics were written by a lawyer from Portishead.
True enough, there was some kind of original song, now lost to time, but really it's a creation of the Plantation - just like Londonderry itself.
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du Vi GAN? où La Reine des Reinettes?
çà va encore faire UN TOLLE?
Llegué acá por leer el manga Vampeerz... ah
it's derry not London.derry
No it is Londonderry
It is Londonderry, can confirm
Derry is correct.
@@thomasoflaherty3520 What country are you from?
@@CaptainX2012 He's definitely Irish or a guy with Irish Ancestry if the name he has as his user is his real name.
I wonder why a hardcore debate didn't arise here XD
Lovely song but what the hell has the the red had of ulster got to do with Danny boy
Its Londonderry air the tune the lyrics were composed in 1910
@@kylenoble9110 actually the original is called Aislean an Oigfear dating back to 1792
The song has a heavy association with Northern Ireland in particular, to the point that, in the Commonwealth Games (in which the four nations of the UK compete as separate entities), this song is played as NI's victory anthem.
I believe in a United Ireland where all are equal Under God
***** as sad as it is it's true, Ireland can't be united, jist best to leave them how they are, two different countries on the same Island
Why should we be forced into a bankrupt state where hatred and intolerance of non Irish Catholics exists in abundance?
Well the non UK part of Ireland is still richer then Briton(and have you seen London? The 2011 riots? if you don't want to be part of the other state I understand but at least have an independent North of Ireland) yes the state sold the population into quasi debt slavery because the EU/US-NATO and Briton politely nudged them into that deal but the economy is doing well now despite the idiot mistakes.
*****
and intolerance of non Irish Catholics exists in abundance
Well even if it does is it violent? The protestant population in the "Republic" as some Unionists call it is growing faster then the population as a whole and with all of the church scandals the population has practically excommunicated the Church.
As a Southerner, an Irishman(and Ulsterman I have some Scotch-Irish blood as we call it down here) and, Catholic I ask that you do not use that flag if you are going to spew out roomers with weak evidence at best.
Southern Protestants long ago realized that Catholics are allies against a common enemy( leftism, Communism, ect.) and it about time the population of NI does. The EU/NATO-US/and globalists are a far greater threat to the future of Ulster and all of Ireland then the worst Republican terrorists ever could. Learn to love thy neighbour even if he was an asshole to you in the past.
Travis Walsh ... there is no god.
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Its the Derry Air...... Certainly not the londonderry air
There's no such city as Derry
"Londonderry Air". (London Derriere) It's pronounced like the backside of London. The word "Air" should be replaced by "Hymn".
Londonderry is the only word in the English language that has seven Silent letter's
Londonderry. Thats what its called, get over it Northern Ireland is the UK.
For now wee man.
@@XYZUNKNOWN Northern Ireland is Éire 🇮🇪
7 silent letters? 😂😂😂 to be sure, to be sure.
@@XYZUNKNOWNlol everyone just calls it derry it's easier
I've never heard of londonderry. It's called derry .
*Derry
-An Irish American
+Rodney Wallace *Derry A person that actually lives there
Redrider9194 it's Londonderry 🇬🇧
TheSmithersy. if Derry got distroyed tomorrow it would be rebuilt As Derry again
Plastic Paddy
*Londonderry
-An Ulster-Scot
While Londonderry Air is a great cultural tunes its not a National Anthem...infact I think its pretty crap. We could do better....