Search found 17 matches: civil war soundtrack

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by pancelticpiper
Mon Mar 30, 2015 6:42 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: Transcription of Ashokan Farewell for A Whistle?
Replies: 10
Views: 2308

Re: Transcription of Ashokan Farewell for A Whistle?

... I play the tune as it's heard on the Civil War soundtrack, with the feel of the Scottish genre called "slow ...
by pancelticpiper
Tue May 13, 2014 5:21 am
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: Half-holing for a novice
Replies: 16
Views: 5512

Re: Half-holing for a novice

... but, at least the way it's performed on the Civil War soundtrack, it has all the stylistic elements of the Slow Strathspey. ...
by pancelticpiper
Sun May 04, 2014 4:44 am
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: Half-holing for a novice
Replies: 16
Views: 5512

Re: Half-holing for a novice

... many others) first heard this tune on The Civil War soundtrack, where on the fiddle it's played in the quite distinct ...
by I.D.10-t
Tue Oct 26, 2010 3:01 pm
Forum: Flute Forum
Topic: 5 Tunes you Hate
Replies: 90
Views: 13437

Re: 5 Tunes you Hate

I must say that I feel a certain resentment towards the tune "Ashokan Farewell". With all of the tunes that were in period for the civil war a tune written over 100 years later gets to be the star of the soundtrack to a PBS documentary on the American civil ...
by david_h
Mon Oct 04, 2010 3:21 am
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: Ashokan Farewell/playable on a whistle?
Replies: 23
Views: 4305

Re: Ashokan Farewell/playable on a whistle?

... but scroll down to the videos that use the Civil War soundtrack version. The pair of pickup notes are slightly snapped, ...
by pancelticpiper
Sun Oct 03, 2010 6:02 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: Ashokan Farewell/playable on a whistle?
Replies: 23
Views: 4305

Re: Ashokan Farewell/playable on a whistle?

I first heard this tune on the Civil War soundtrack, and it sounded so Scottish to me that I assumed it was ...
by Flogging Jason
Tue Jul 10, 2007 6:57 am
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: PBS Civil War soundtrack
Replies: 9
Views: 1443

... as old. I know they were avaliable during the civil war.....their use probably wasn't as widespread. I seriously ... tin whistle would have sounded ALOT better on that soundtrack though! You may be hearing fife on some of those ...
by wvtinwhistler
Mon Jul 09, 2007 11:24 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: PBS Civil War soundtrack
Replies: 9
Views: 1443

PBS Civil War soundtrack

I borrowed the soundtrack to the PBS documentary, "The Civil War", from my local library today. I was listening to it and heard ...
by pancelticpiper
Wed Jun 27, 2007 6:39 am
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: Ashokan Farewell....updated
Replies: 34
Views: 7989

... pickup)- but on the recording used in the Civil War soundtrack there are only two pickup notes, a "Scotch snap", ...
by pancelticpiper
Tue Jun 26, 2007 7:19 am
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: Ashokan Farewell....updated
Replies: 34
Views: 7989

... style and when I first heard this tune on the Civil War soundtrack I took it for a traditional 19th century Scottish slow ...
by Tyler
Wed Sep 07, 2005 9:04 am
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: Does anyone here play early American folk?
Replies: 23
Views: 2924

... if not play, are the ones from the American Civil War era...you can hear some (some of it from the era, some new) on the soundtrack to Ken Burns' Civil War Documentary...some of the Civil ...
by madfifer9
Sat May 10, 2003 8:18 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: What's on your desk?
Replies: 34
Views: 3106

... joke - CD's WFO, Riverdance, More Riverdance, soundtrack for Chicago monitor, speakers and keyboard ... with mini drinks on top of them some fake Civil War era money mouse on a Star Trek magic motion mouse pad ...
by Stonewall
Sun Feb 09, 2003 10:44 am
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: OT: Whistle in Gods & Generals
Replies: 10
Views: 1253

... on him a couple of years ago. Regarding the soundtrack, it is beautiful, I think the reviewer ... a lengthy, symphonic concert suite to the Civil War, the likes of which has not been recorded before." ...
by klezmusic
Mon Dec 02, 2002 11:29 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: Ahoskan Farewell (or is it Ashokan?)
Replies: 11
Views: 1829

... times, long before Jay was asked to do the soundtrack to The Civil War. Ashokan Farewell was always played as the last goodbye tune ...
by Dale
Sun Aug 04, 2002 5:42 am
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: Kathy Mattea and whistle
Replies: 11
Views: 1325

... Chuck_Clark wrote: In Ken Burns' Songs of the Civil War video, she played guitar but was backed by a band that ... key figure in just about every Ken Burns documentary soundtrack. He's a multiinstrumentalist who plays the whistle ...