An Dro

reel

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on April 28th 2004 by Mandolman.

This tune has been added to 72 tunebooks.

Also known as En Dro.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• Ae Spark O Nature's Fire by Deaf Shepherd
• À L'Olympia by Alan Stivell
• Galorn (1979) by Galorn
• General Humbert 2 by General Humbert
• Happy Daze by Battlefield Band
• Imeall by Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh
• Joe Can't's Reel by Gwendal
• La Harpe Irlandaise - The Irish Harp by Katrien Delavier
• O'er The Moor, Among The Heather by Deby Benton Grosjean
• Premiere by Kornog
• Raise The Rafters by Molly's Revenge
• Re-echo by Finlay MacDonald
• Riverdance And Other Famous Irish Songs And Dances by Various Artists
• Still Juggling by David Wilcox
• The Crooked Stair by Cran
• The Gloup by Mark Roberts

X: 1
T: An Dro
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
fedc d2Ad|BAGB A3G|~F3G A2BA|GABG ~E3g|
fedc d2Ad|BAGB A3G|~F3G A2BA|GFEF D4:|
DEFG ADDA|BDDB ADDA|BDDB ADDA|GABG ~E3F|
DEFG ADDA|BDDB ~A3G|~F3G A2BA|GFEF D4:|

Very famous An Dro in Brittany play sometimes in Ireland in the session :

There is 2 other Tunes after, i can post if you want

Good for work your rolls on the bottom D

# Posted on April 28th 2004 by Mandolman

Is the nameless Breton tune I posted last year also An Dro? http://thesession.org/tunes/display.php/1456 Is there any difference between Irish or Scottish reel and An Dro?

# Posted on April 28th 2004 by slainte

It's a Kas ha Barh

A lot of Breton tunes haven't got a name, because it come from Song and the Breton don't like name the same tune with the same name.

Because the musician translate and modify the original tune for his instrument " Bombarde, accordion, fiddle, clarinette...."

It's funny to ear the same tune played in different part of Brittany but with always some changes indo the tune"

# Posted on April 28th 2004 by Mandolman

The melody doesn' sound too Breton!
-a recent adaptation to the repertoire??
Any melody (almost) can (was, in trad. times) reshaped by the instrumentists to suit a particular step pattern.
Kas abarh has theoretically the en dro rhythmic pattern but the repertoire is often set apart

Also, Slainte, there is no way a reel is like an other reel is like an en dro!: (thoug,h again, nothing prevents you to turn one into the other)
the time signatures we use in notation are a classical adjunct (added junk!) It's the original melo-rhythmic (step) pattern that counts:
try dance a few (even in your own way) and you'll <<see>>!!!

# Posted on September 27th 2006 by birlibirdie