The Wind That Shakes The Barley
Created | Updated May 13, 2006
The Wind That Shakes the Barley is the traditional tune invoked by WE Henley’s blank verse Interlude.
Other tunes in this series can be found listed on the Toots of the Whistle page of the Guide.
This abc-rendition is transposed for the pennywhistle, tuned to the key of D. Copy and paste the abc-code, shown below, into your own text file and then process the file using the abc-tool of your choice. Free abc utilities are available that will convert the code to a MIDI file, to Adobe PostScript, and to Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) suitable for printing the sheet music. As an alternative, it is possible to read the abc-code direct and play it on your favourite instrument.
X:11612189
T:The Wind That Shakes The Barley
T:--h2g2 article A11612189--
L:1/16
S:Traditional
C:Traditional
N:pennywhistle, tinwhistle, tin, penny, whistle
N:flageolet, fipple, flute, feadog
Z:Transposed 20060508 by H2G2 U107221 for the pennywhistle keyed in D.
F:Wind-Shakes-Barley-H2G2-A
M:2/4
Q:1/8=120
K:D
"^Pennywhistle in D"
A2-AB AFED | (B2{c}BA) BcdB | A2-AB AFED | (gfe)d BcdB |
A2-AB AFED | (B2{c}BA) BcdB | A2-AB AFED | (gfe)d BcdB ||
f2fd g2ge | f2(fd) Bcde | f2fd g2ge | (afe)d Bcde |
f2fd g2ge | f2(fd) edBA | defg (afb)a | gfed B2d2 |]
