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Lover's Waltz, The
Found in Lovers_waltz.abc
from the John Chambers abc collection
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The background information for the tune is:
X: 1 T: Lover's Waltz, The C: \2511992 Molly Mason & Jay Ungar R: waltz N: N:"Molly and I wrote this tune in 1985, when we were first together. It was a N:spontaneous composition -- where I started playing melody and she played chords, and both N:the chords and melody evolved as we played it. We'd played it at home together. But it N:was too personal to play for other people -- I felt the same way about 'Ashokan Farewell' N:at first. You know, you're not sure if people will like it. Eventually, we played it N:at a late night waltz session at Ashokan. It seemed like the right moment for the tune N:to emerge. We originally wrote it in the key of G. But the melody only uses three N:strings on the fiddle, and in G you never touch the E string. Usually, if a tune only N:uses three strings, I go for the higher strings. So that is why it's notated here in D. N:Sometimes we play it in both G and D, to get the full range. The other thing I do, if N:I'm playing it in G, is play the B part an octave higher the second time through, to get N:a different sonority." Jay Ungar and Molly Mason, RD 1 Box 489, West Hurley, NY 12491. B:"The Waltz Book", Bill Matthiesen. M: 3/4 L: 1/8 Z: ABC by Mary Lou Knack, modified by John Chambers K: D
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