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This is the ninth set of Denis Murphy tunes selected by Aidan Connolly for the fiddle recital on 18 May. Soundcloud link to slow recording by Aidan is below; ABCs below also.

9. Jigs: Rattle the Quilt, The Stick Across the Hob.

The first jig is another tune that Breandán Breathnach transcribed from Denis's playing in 1966; it is no. 53 in vol. 5 of "Ceol Rince na hÉireann". In that book Jackie Small writes: "Printed in Treoir, Vol. 2, number 3, p12, as 'Tom Billy's Jig', where there is a note with it: 'see Padraig Ó Caoimh's manuscript'." The book version lacks the third part shown here, which however is really just a variation on the first part.

"Rattle the Quilt" is a variant of "Apples in Winter", in a higher key; the first parts are more or less the same, the others less similar. Denis's nice four-part version of "Apples in Winter" is on the RTÉ CD of his music; it is similar to the version in "Ceol Rince na hÉireann", vol. 2, no. 33, from County Limerick fiddler James McEnery, titled "The Unfortunate Rake", which Breathnach said was Philip Walsh's setting; Walsh was a blind fiddler from Maol Mountain, near the Murphy home in Lisheen, the source of "Walsh's Hornpipe", among other tunes.

The second tune is a wonderful version of one of the best-known jigs in the repertoire, usually known as "Morrison's", because it was popularised by Sligo fiddling legend James Morrison on a 1936 recording made in New York. Morrison got it from a member of his band, accordion player Tom Carmody from Dromlought, near Listowel in North Kerry, who in turn had it from his father Maurice. Morrison recorded it as "Maurice Carmody's Favourite" (apparently one batch was mis-labelled "Maurice Comedy's Favourite"), but it was known in Kerry as "The Stick Across the Hob". Johnny O'Leary played a three-part version, basically the same as Denis's, which he got from Pádraig O'Keeffe in Lyons' pub in Scartaglin, and christened it "Lyons' Favourite"; it's in Terry Moylan's book of Johnny's music, no. 198. The three-part version is sometimes called "O'Keeffe's Morrison's", but Pádraig didn't have to go to Morrison for it; the tune never left Kerry.

The repeat of the second part is written out in full to show some variations. As before, long notes would be ornamented.

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Rattle the Quilt

Key A minor (F#)

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

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

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

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

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

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



The Stick Across the Hob

Key E minor (F#)

Repeats written out in full

E-- B-- | ABB AFD | EDE B-- | E'BB AFD |

E-- B-- | ABB AFA | BAF ABD' | E'D'B AFD ||

E-- B-- | ABB AFD | EDE B-- | E'BB AFD |

E-- B-- | ABB AFA | BAF ABD' | E'D'B ABD' ||

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

WFD Recital 2024 : Set No 9

Notes from Paul De Grae
This is the eighth set of Denis Murphy tunes selected by Aidan Connolly for the fiddle recital on 18 May. Soundcloud link to slow recording by Aidan is below; ABCs below also.



8. Reels: Quinn's, Dónal a' Phumpa.

Like "Quinn's Jig" in set 2, this first tune is most likely named after Seán Quinn, a flute player from Cordal who gave a lot of music to Pádraig O'Keeffe. An ornamented transcription of Denis's playing of it is in Breandán Breathnach's "Ceol Rince na hÉireann", vol. 2, no. 171; it is also in the Johnny O'Leary book, no. 12. In both of those settings, the tune finishes on a high D, which is nice. The tune also appears, untitled, in the book, "Trip to Sligo", page 107(b), so it is not solely a local tune.

It is closely related to "Craig's Reel", no. 488 in O'Neill's "Dance Music of Ireland", which in turn seems to have derived from the Scottish reel, "The Merry Lads of Foss", no. 61 in vol. 4 of Aird's "Selections", published in 1794. Jackie Daly recorded "Craig's Reel" on his "Many's a Wild Night" album.

Breathnach also transcribed the second tune from Denis, and it appears in vol. 5 of "Ceol Rince na hÉireann", no. 147. I don't know who Dónal with the pump was. There is a separate tune called "Dónal a' Clamper's Reel" (a version of "Patsy Tuohey's Favourite"), and I wonder if that was also meant to be the title of this one: the reference would be to Dónal or Daniel O'Sullivan, who owned the dancehall at Clamper where Jack "The Lighthouse" Connell, among others, played in the 1930s and '40s. Clamper Bridge crosses the Araglen river a few miles north of Kiskeam. The title of the polka, "The Shady Road to Clamper", refers to the same place. Or all that could be irrelevant.

In both tunes, many of the long notes (crotchets, or quarter-notes) would be ornamented, typically with a roll.



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Quinn's Reel

Key D (F#, C#, except where marked natural, ♮, in final bar)

D- FA BAFA | D'F'E'D' BE E- | D- FA BAFA | D'BAG FGAF |

D- FA BAFA | D'F'E'D' BE E- | D- FA BAFA | D'BAG FD D- || (x 2)

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

D'- F'D' AD'F'D' | G'- F'G' E'B B- | F'G'F'E' D'CD'B | ABC♮ AG FA D- || (x 2)



Dónal a' Phumpa

Key G (F#)

GEED B- BA | GBD'B AGED | GEED B- BA | GBD'B A- G- |

GEED B- BA | GBD'B AGED | GB B- D'B B- | GBD'B A- G- ||

G'- F'G' E'AD'B | GABG AG E- | G'F'G'F' E'D'BD' | E'A'A'G' A'- G'- |

G'B'G'F' E'ABA | GABA AGED | GB B- D'B B- | GBD'B A- G- || (x 2)

WFD Recital 2024 : Set No 8

Notes from Paul De Grae
This is the seventh set of Denis Murphy tunes selected by Aidan Connolly for the fiddle recital on 18 May. Soundcloud link to slow recording by Aidan is below; ABCs below also.



7. Jigs: Have a Drink With Me, The Girl of the Big House.

The first tune is generally similar to the standard setting, but has a lovely variation in bar 4 of the first part. Francis O'Neill wrote of his setting, "I memorized [it] from my mother's lilting, and as far as I can learn had no circulation outside of my native locality, where unfortunately [it is] even now forgotten" (despite that, his setting is a near-duplicate of "Vaughan's Favourite" in "Ryan's Mammoth Collection", published in faraway Boston). The tune is in the Johnny O'Leary book in the key of A, and without that bar 4 variation, titled "Thade Janey Buckley's Favourite". It is arguably the origin of the tune to which "The Hole in the Bucket" is sung.

The second tune is in Breathnach's "Ceol Rince na hÉireann", vol. 2, no. 40, transcribed from Denis's playing. Julia's recording of it on "The Humours of Lisheen" is very similar. It's likely that they both got it from Tom Billy Murphy: the archaic style is his, and the four-notes-in-the-time-of three figure at the end, linking back to the start of the tune, is a characteristic Tom Billy flourish. This setting differs in several ways from those in O'Neill and Petrie. Petrie got it from PW Joyce, who called it "The Housekeeper"; Petrie described it as "a very characteristic specimen of the true old Irish jig, a very popular dance tune in the counties of Cork, Kerry and Limerick, in all of which it is considered to be very ancient, and to have been originally used as a march." There is another Kerry setting in the Goodman collection, broadly similar but with a third part not found elsewhere.



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Have a Drink With Me

Key G (F#)

BAG EGD | EGD EGA | BAG BAG | EDB, A,B,D |

BAG EGD | EGD EGA | BD'B AGD | EGG G-- || (x 2)

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

B'A'G' A'G'F' | G'F'E' D'BG| B-- AGD | EGG G-- || (x 2)

The Girl of the Big House

Key D (F#, C# except twice where marked as natural, ♮ )

E | F- D G- E | A- D FED | EFA G- E | FED EDE |

FEF GFG | AGA CD'E' | D'CA GEA | DED D- || (x 2)

F | ABC♮ AGF | G-- GFG | A- B C♮AG | ABC D'- E' |

F'E'D' CAG | FAG FED | D'CA GEA | DED D- || (x 2)

last bar on repeat, linking back to start: | DEFA D'CAG ||

WFD Recital 2024 : Set No 7

Notes Paul De Grae 
This is the fourth set of Denis Murphy tunes selected by Aidan Connolly for the fiddle recital on 18 May. Soundcloud link to slow recording by Aidan is below; ABCs below also.

4. Reels: The Bucks of Oranmore, Colonel Fraser.

These are two of the "big reels" in the traditional repertoire, with plenty of opportunity for virtuoso displays of ornamentation and variation. For ease of reading, ornamentation is not shown in these transcriptions, but many of the crotchet notes (quarter notes, or for example "A-" in the ABCs) would be ornamented, usually with a roll. The parts are not doubled.

The first tune seems to be derived from the Scottish reel "The Bucks of Cranmore", named after a place in the Scottish Highlands; as with "The Lads of Leith/Laois", the similarity to Oranmore, in County Galway, accounts for the change in the title. The original two-part tune has been elaborated into more than one multi-part setting in the Irish tradition (as "The Bucks of Oranmore" and also as "The Leitrim Bucks", "The Killavil Bucks", etc.); there's a four-part setting in O'Neill, from the variation addict John McFadden. Denis's three-part setting probably came from Pádraig O'Keeffe: a very similar setting is transcribed from Pádraig's playing in David Lyth's book, "Bowing Styles in Irish Fiddle Playing", vol. 2.

There are conflicting stories as to who Colonel Fraser was, which need not detain us here; his tune also may be Scottish in origin, but it has been thoroughly Hibernicised by now, and there are quite a few versions in the Irish repertoire. Some are in mixolydian mode (with F natural), some in dorian mode (with F natural and B flat). Petrie had a three-part setting, "The Green Fields of Ireland", which he described as "A Connaught Reel". The four-part setting in O'Neill, again from McFadden, is broadly similar to what Denis Murphy played.

The Bucks of Oranmore

Key D (F#, C#)

D'B | A- FA A- D'B | A- FA BE E- | A- FA DAFA | ABD'E' F'E'D'B |

A- FA A- D'B | A- FA BE E- | A- FA DAFA| ABD'E' F'E'D'E' ||

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

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

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

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

Colonel Fraser

Key G (F#)

BG G- DG G- | ABCA BCD' CA | BGGF DGBD' | CAFA AG G- |

BG G- DG G- | ABCA BD'CA | BG G- DGAB | CAFA AG G- ||

D'G' G'- G'A'G'F' | D'BCB ABCA | D'G' G'- A'-- G' | F'D'CA BG G- |

E'F'G'E' D'E'D'B | CBCA BD'CA | GBAC BCD' E'G' | F'D'CA AG G- ||

B- GB D'BGB | A- FA CAFA | B- GB GBD'E' | F'D'CA AG G- |

B- GB GBGB | A- FA FAFA | GBAC BCD' E'G' | F'D'CA BG G- ||

D'G' G'- D'G' G'- | D'F' F'- D'F' F'- | D'G' G'- D'G' G'- | F'D'CA BG G- |

D'G' G'- G'A'G'E' | D'F' F'- F'G'A' E'F| GBAC BCD' E'G' | F'D'CA BG G- ||

WFD Recital 2024 : Set No 4

Notes - Paul De Grae
This is the first set of Denis Murphy tunes selected by Aidan Connolly for the fiddle recital on 18 May. Soundcloud link to slow recording by Aidan is below; ABCs below also.

1. Polkas: The Five Servants, Julia Clifford's.

"The Five Servants" is a story in "Grimm's Fairy Tales" by Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm. There were six servants in the original German story, but the English translation by Edgar Taylor was bowdlerised so as not to frighten the children, and one of the servants with magical powers was omitted. Perhaps it found favour as a polka title because the over-the-top powers of the servants have parallels in Irish mythology.

The second polka was recorded by Julia on the album, "The Humours of Lisheen"; it came from her and Denis's father, Bill "The Waiver" Murphy. In a slightly different setting and with parts reversed, it's the first in the set of "Millstreet Polkas" popularised by Jackie Daly.

The Five Servants

Key D (F#, C#)

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

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

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

A-- F G | ABAG F A | G- E F E | D-- D-- || (x 2)



Julia Clifford's

Key D (F#, C#)

A FF A B | A- F A F' | E'- D' E' F' | D'- A BCD'B |

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

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

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

WFD Recital 2024 : Set No 1

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