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AudioTrack 24

Tu Voz SATB - Alto Predominant - Shawn Kirchner

My Spirit Sang All Day - Soprano Predominant - Gerald Finzi

Forbidden Fires of Summer

Notes from Paul De Grae 
Finale time! I'll carry on soon to compile the usual booklet with all the tune sets, and it will be available for free download.



12. Reels: The Sliabh Luachra National Anthem.

This set hardly needs any introduction! It was put together by Jackie Daly and recorded by him on the Dolores Keane & John Faulkner album "Sail Óg Rua" (1983), as Galtee Ranger, Denis Murphy's, and The Doon Reel. Jackie was in our company one time when this set was being discussed, and Dee Sullivan (my wife) commented that it had become so popular, it was like the Sliabh Luachra National Anthem; Jackie was delighted with the expression, and it became a common title for the set. It's an appropriate nickname, because the set has really caught on, and now everyone in Sliabh Luachra will automatically play these tunes in this order.

 

Because there are so many other tunes called Denis Murphy's and The Doon Reel, I've given other titles here (though arguably O'Callaghan's is not a particularly distinctive title). As mentioned previously, Pádraig O'Keeffe's uncle and mentor Cal O'Callaghan was from Doon, near Kiskeam, County Cork, and any tunes in the Sliabh Luachra repertoire titled O'Callaghan's or The Doon most likely came from him (or from his sister Margaret, Pádraig's mother, who played concertina and fiddle and was also a fine singer).

 

Note that all three tunes are played "single", i.e., without repeating the parts. Also, in The Glountane Reel, some people play bar 3 of the second part as BD'D'E' D'- G'E' (not going up to the high G on the long note).

 

All three tunes appeared on the classic album, "The Star Above the Garter" by Denis Murphy and Julia Clifford, but not in this combination: the first two are played together, but the third is paired with The Lady on the Island. On the "Kerry Fiddles" album, Denis and Julia play the first and third tunes together (the first as The Humours of Galtymore), but in the higher key of G, to allow for "bassing", and combined with The New-mown Meadows.

 

The Galtee Rangers

(F#, C#)

D'B | AFFE FEDE | F- FE FAD'B | AFFE FEDE | FBBA FEEB |

AFFE FEDE | F- FE FAD'B | AFFE FEDE | F- EG FDDF ||

A-- B AF F- | ABD'E' F'E' E'- | F'- D'C BCD'B | ABD'E' F'D'D'B |

A-- B AF F- | ABD'E' F'E'E'G' | F'E'D'C BCD'B | A- E'F'G' F'D' D'- ||

 

The Glountane Reel

(F#, C natural)

DGBG AGBG | DGBG AEEG | DGBG A- BC | D'F'E'D' BGGE |

DGBG AGBG | DGBG AEEG | DGBG A- BC | D'- E'D' BGGC ||

BD' D'- D'- E'F' | G'- F'G' E'AAC | BD'D'E' G'- G'E' | D'BAC BGGC |

BD' D'- D'- E'F' | G'- F'G' E'AAC | BD'E'F' G'A'G'E' | D'BAC BG G- ||

 

O'Callaghan's

(F#, C# except C natural where marked C*)

F-- F GE E- | FDDF ABAG | F- AF GE E- | FAGE FDDE |

F-- F GE E- | FDDF ABAG | F-- F GE E- | ABAG FD D- ||

AD'D'E' D'CAB | AGFG ABCA | D'-- C D'CAB | C*BAF G- FG |

AD'D'E' D'CAB | AGFG ABCA | D'- F'D' D'- F'D' | D'- F'D' E'CAG ||

Last time: | F-- E-- | D----  ||

Set 12 - Reels

Set 11 - Reels

Notes from Paul De Grae 
10. Barndances: Turkey in the Straw and The Glenbeigh.


Denis Murphy was fond of Turkey in the Straw, and his version of it, on the RTÉ CD "Denis Murphy – Music from Sliabh Luachra", is perhaps based on the setting in O'Neill, which in turn (according to O'Neill in "Waifs & Strays") is John McFadden's interpretation of how the tune was played by Dan Emmett, of Bryant's Minstrels, in slow reel time, with syncopations. As played by Denis, and by John Carty, it makes an ideal barndance. Johnny O'Leary played a somewhat different version, in a higher key. There is much disputation as to the origins of the tune, but perhaps all we need to say for now is that, wherever it started from, it has found a comfortable home in Sliabh Luachra.

 

Charlie Pigott christened the second tune as The Glenbeigh Hornpipe on the first De Danann album, which gives it a Kerry connection; and the tune is certainly popular here, though in its phrasing it's clearly a barndance rather than a hornpipe. James Morrison may have been the first to record it, in 1935, as Curlew Hills. Arguably it belongs more in the traditions of Donegal and Sligo (it was also recorded by Coleman and by Killoran), but again, it has settled in nicely here in the south-west. It also has cousins in the English tradition.

 

Turkey in the Straw

BA || GEEF EDB,A, | B,DDE D- GA | BCD' D'E' D'BGA | BAAB A- BA |

GEEF E- B,A, |B,DDE D- GA | BD'E'B D'BGA | BGAF G- BA || (1st time)

                                                                    | BGAF G-- A || (2nd time)

BD'D'E' D'BAD' | BD'D'E' D'- BA | BE'E'F' E'F'G' E'D' | BABD' E'- B'A' |

G'- G'E' D'G'E'D' | B- AG E- GA | BGAG EDB,D | EGGF G-- ||  (x 2)

 

The Glenbeigh

D- || GABC D'G'F'A' | G'- B- D'-- | CD'E' AB C-- | BD'GA B-- A |

G- BC D'G'F'A' | G'- B- D'-- | CE'AB CADF | A- G- G- D- ||  (1st time)

                                                                  | A- G- GABC || (2nd time)

D'- B'- C- A'- | B- G'F' G'D'BG | FGAB CAFD | GBAC B-- C |

D'B'B'D' CA'A'C | B- G'F' G'D'BG | FGAB CADF | A- G- GABC || (1st)

                                                                         | A- G- G-- || (2nd)

Set 10- Barndances

Notes from Paul De Grae
 5. Reels: Paddy Cronin's 
This is a real treat: two reels that John Carty learned from the playing of Paddy Cronin, quite possibly composed by Paddy. They don't appear on any of Paddy's commercial recordings, and I can't find them in print in any of the O'Neill or Breathnach collections, nor in any of a dozen or so other books (the opening phrase of No. 2 has a slight resemblance to "Mullingar Races", but that's all). We hope to have more information before World Fiddle Day.

 

No. 1

F- EF D- DE | FED EF DB, B,- | A,B,DE F- BC | D'E'CD' B- AG |

F- EF D- DE | FED EF DB, B,- | A,B,DE FABA | F- EG FDDE ||  (1st time)

                                                                    | F- EG FDDC || (2nd time)

D'- E'C D'B B- | FBD'B FABC | D'- E'C D'BBA | FACE' D'BBC |

D'E'F'D' CD'E'C | D'CBA FB, B,- | A,B,DE FABA | F- EG FDDC || (1st)

                                                                        | F- EG FD D- ||  (2nd)

 

No. 2

DEFD EB, B,- | DEFA BCD'E' | D'BAF D'F F- | EDFE DB, B,- |

D- FD EB, B,- | DEFA BCD'E' | D'BAF D'F F- | EDFE D--- ||  (1st time)

                                                                   | EDFE D- AC ||  (2nd time)

D'CD'E' F'- D'F' | E'D'F'D' E'B B- | D'BAF D'F F- | EDFE DB,B,A |

D'CD'E' F'- D'F' | E'D'F'D' E'B B- | D'BAF D'F F- | EDFE D- AC ||

D'CD'E' F'- D'F' | E'D'F'D' E'B B- | D'BAF D'F F- | EDFE DB, B,- |

DEFD EB, B,- | DEFA BCD'E' | D'BAF D'F F- | EDFE D--- ||

Set 5 - Reels

Notes from Paul De Grae
4. Fling and slides: Turn Hill, Carrigkerry Slide, Con Cassidy's
John Carty learned these tunes from Dan Brouder, who kindly supplied some local information. The fling, Turn Hill, is named after a place in West Limerick, between Templeglantine and Rooskagh; the tune was played by John Joe Hartnett (flute player from Athea) and Moss Murphy (fiddler from Templegantine), from whom Dan learned it. Carrigkerry is a village, also in West Limerick, and this slide also comes from the playing of John Joe and Moss. Dan credits Donegal fiddler Con Cassidy with composing the third tune.

 

As proof that good music knows no boundaries, both of these slides are very much associated with Con Cassidy and Donegal music; they are played as jigs in Donegal (Altan recorded Con Cassidy's on their album "The Red Crow"), and they have also become naturalised here in the south-west. I remember hearing Máire O'Keeffe and Michelle O'Sullivan playing them in Tralee in the early 1980s.

 

Turn Hill

E'F' G'  E'- D'  B- D'  G'-- | G- B  D'- B  G- B  D'- G' |

E'F' G'  E'- D'  B- D'  G'- A' | G'- E'  D'- E'  BA-  A-- ||  (x 2)

A'- E'  A'- B'  A'- E'  A'- B' | G'- E'  G'- A'  G'- E'  G'- B' |

A'- E'  A'- B'  A'- E'  A'- B' | G'- E'  D'- E'  BA-  A-- ||  (x 2)

 

The Carrigkerry Slide

F' | G'- F' E'F'G' | D'- B BAB | C- A AGA | B- G GBD' |

G'- F' E'F'G' | D'- B B- C | AA'A' D'E'F' | G'-- D'E'F' || (1st time)

                                                           |  G'-- G'- A' || (2nd time)

B'- G' G'F'G' | B'- G' G'F'G' | A'- F' F'E'F' | A'- F' D'- G' |

B'- G' G'F'G' | B'- G' G'F'G' | E'A'A' D'E'F' | G'-- G'- A' || (1st time)

                                                                | G'-- G'D'C || (last time)

 

Con Cassidy's

B-- BAB | D'- C A- F | G-- GFG | B- A A- B |

C-- CE'G' | E'- D' B- C | D'E'D' CAF | G-- D- A || (1st time)

                                                       | G-- G- G' || (2nd time)

F'- D' D'E'F' | G'F'G' A'- G' | F'- D' D'E'D' | C- A A- E' |

F'- D' D'E'F' | G'F'G' A'- G' | F'G'F' E'F'E' | D'-- D'- G' ||

F'- D' D'E'F' | G'F'G' A'- G' | F'- D' D'E'D' | C- A A- G' |

F'- D' D'E'F' | G'F'G' A'- G' | F'G'F' E'F'E' | D'E'D' CD'C ||

To finish | B-- ABA | G---- ||

Set 4 - Fling and 2 Slides

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