{"id":237,"date":"2020-09-11T17:53:31","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T17:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/donegalfiddlemusic.ie\/donegalfiddlers\/?p=237"},"modified":"2020-09-11T17:53:31","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T17:53:31","slug":"t-7-an-comhra-na-dtonn-german-barndance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/donegalfiddlemusic.ie\/donegalfiddlers\/t-7-an-comhra-na-dtonn-german-barndance\/","title":{"rendered":"T.7 An Comhr\u00e1 na dTonn (german \/ barndance)."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This tune is sometimes mistakenly listed as a hornpipe in Irish collections. The titling of it is somewhat problematic. It has been listed as\u00a0<i>An C\u00f3fra Donn\u00a0<\/i>(The Brown Chest). It has also been listed as\u00a0<i>An Comhra Donn\u00a0<\/i>(no sensible translation) but it is in fact\u00a0<i>An Comhr\u00e1 na dTonn\u00a0<\/i>(literally, the conversation [sound] of the waves). This is a natural phenomenon whereby in an Atlantic storm surge and with a sea into land trailing wind, the sound of waves have been reported to be heard inland as much as forty miles or more inland to places such as County Roscommon. This sound was known in Irish as\u00a0<i>Comhr\u00e1 na dTonn\u00a0<\/i>and has been reported in local press accounts even into recent times described in reports as \u2018corra dun\u2019 [sic]. The tune derives from the Scottish tune\u00a0<i>The Caledonian March<\/i>. Two versions of it also appeared amongst rural fiddlers in southwest Pennsylvania (see\u00a0<i>Dance to the Fiddle March to the Fife\u00a0<\/i>by Samuel Bayard, 1981) as a marching tune entitled\u00a0<i>The Dusinberry \/ Jutenberry March\u00a0<\/i>as well as\u00a0<i>The Star of Bethlehem<\/i>.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-237-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/donegalfiddlemusic.ie\/donegalfiddlers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Track-7-An-Comhra-na-dTonn.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/donegalfiddlemusic.ie\/donegalfiddlers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Track-7-An-Comhra-na-dTonn.mp3\">http:\/\/donegalfiddlemusic.ie\/donegalfiddlers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Track-7-An-Comhra-na-dTonn.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-188\" src=\"http:\/\/donegalfiddlemusic.ie\/donegalfiddlers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/7-Comhra-na-dTonn-1024x693.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"693\" srcset=\"http:\/\/donegalfiddlemusic.ie\/donegalfiddlers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/7-Comhra-na-dTonn-1024x693.png 1024w, http:\/\/donegalfiddlemusic.ie\/donegalfiddlers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/7-Comhra-na-dTonn-980x663.png 980w, http:\/\/donegalfiddlemusic.ie\/donegalfiddlers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/7-Comhra-na-dTonn-480x325.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This tune is sometimes mistakenly listed as a hornpipe in Irish collections. The titling of it is somewhat problematic. It has been listed as\u00a0An C\u00f3fra Donn\u00a0(The Brown Chest). It has also been listed as\u00a0An Comhra Donn\u00a0(no sensible translation) but it is in fact\u00a0An Comhr\u00e1 na dTonn\u00a0(literally, the conversation [sound] of the waves). This is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[5,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/donegalfiddlemusic.ie\/donegalfiddlers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/donegalfiddlemusic.ie\/donegalfiddlers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/donegalfiddlemusic.ie\/donegalfiddlers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donegalfiddlemusic.ie\/donegalfiddlers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donegalfiddlemusic.ie\/donegalfiddlers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/donegalfiddlemusic.ie\/donegalfiddlers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448,"href":"https:\/\/donegalfiddlemusic.ie\/donegalfiddlers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/donegalfiddlemusic.ie\/donegalfiddlers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donegalfiddlemusic.ie\/donegalfiddlers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donegalfiddlemusic.ie\/donegalfiddlers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}