The Fiddle Recital hosted by Aidan Connolly will be held in the Sliabh Luachra Heritage Centre Scartaglin Village Co Kerry on Saturday May 18 which is World Fiddle Day at 2pm
All fiddle players are invited to take part regardless of age , if you only learn some of the sets then bring your fiddle and join in .
This is just one event which takes place bethween May11 and May18 which celebrates Denis Murphy who passed away 50 years ago in 1974.

World Fiddle Day Recital 2024- Aidan Connolly Tribute to Denis Murphy

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The shimmering calm is broken as The Organism arrives. It moves with glorious majesty, yet there is something unsettling about it. None knows from whence is comes. None knows its mysterious purpose. None knows if it will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity... or an era of horror. All stand in awe. For good or ill, The Organism is here.

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The Organism Arrives

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QUE ESTA CLASE SEA PARA

RSH R ALON BEN NINA, DAVID BEN SARA,SARA BAT ROSA,DAVID BEN SOFIA, RAQUEL BAT SOPHIA, NAOMI BAT GLORIA,SOPHIE BAT CECILIA,MIRIAM BAT BELUZ, YOSEF BEN SOPHIA Y KOL AM ISRAEL

MATIR ASURIM Y YESHUA SHELEMA TEOFILO BEN VICTORIA 
LN KOL AM ISRAEL

PREPARATE PARA ROSH HASHANA- RAB SHAUL MALEH

Our heroes watch the most deadpan comedy of the year.

We Just Watched... The Killer

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Notes Paul De Grae
This is the tenth and final set of Denis Murphy tunes selected by Aidan Connolly for the fiddle recital on 18 May. I will shortly combine all ten sets into a booklet which will be available for free download as a .pdf or Word document; the booklet will contain additional text, photos, and links to the archive recordings of Denis Murphy from which these sets have been selected.

Soundcloud link to slow recording by Aidan is below; ABCs below also.



10. Reels: Sliabh Maol, The Game Cock.

Sliabh Maol, or Maol Mountain, is for some reason now called Barr an Bheithe ("high place of the birch"), anglicised as Baraveha; perhaps because it's now covered in conifer plantations and is no longer "maol" (bald). At 451m, it is the highest hill in the east Kerry area; in a valley on its flank rises the mighty Blackwater river. The blind fiddler Philip Walsh lived there, and may have composed this reel; Breandán Breathnach printed it as "Walsh's Reel" in "Ceol Rince na hÉireann", vol. 1, no. 70, from the fiddler Dennis Cronin. Whether Philip Walsh or not, whoever composed this reel somehow managed to make something fresh while using the much hackneyed opening gambit of some variant of a G major arpeggio.

The second tune is descended from the Scottish reel, "The Game Cock", in vol. 6 of James Aird's "Selections" (1803); that title is used in "Ceol Rince na hÉireann", vol. 4, no. 62 (as a slide) and vol. 5, no. 158, as a reel. The slide came, untitled, from the David Collins mss.; the reel was played for Breathnach by Denis Murphy and Mollie Myers Murphy (no relation: her husband Willie Murphy was a nephew of Tom Billy Murphy). The CRÉ transcription shows just two parts; the third part shown here differs only by one note from the first part, but is worth having anyway. Denis and Mollie played the parts in this order: A-B-C-B-A-B-C-B.

Jackie Daly composed a different third part, and christened the reel "The Bog Carrot"; he recorded it on the first Buttons and Bows album. "Sound as a bog carrot" is a phrase that Jackie heard used by Jackie Small (coincidentally the editor of vols. 4 and 5 of CRÉ). To avoid confusion, it seems useful to continue to use "The Game Cock" as the title for the version without Jackie Daly's third part.



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Sliabh Maol

Key G (F#)

DEF | G- BG DGBG | DGBG D'BGB | AFDF ABCD' | E'F'G' F'A' G'E'D'B |

G- BG DGBE' | D'BGB D'- E'F' | G'- F'G' E'CAG | FED EF G- || (x 2)

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

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



The Game Cock

Key D (F#, C#)

FAD'A BAD'A | BCD' AF E- E- | FAD'A BAD'A | BCD' AF D-- || (x 2)

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

BAD'A BAD'A | BCD' AF E- E- | FAD'A BAD'A | BCD' AF D-- || (x 2)

WFD Recital 2024: Set No 10

Notes from Paul De Grae
This is the sixth 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.



6. Slides: untitled, Art O'Keeffe's.

The first tune comes from a recording made when Cathal McConnell, Len Graham and Maura McConnell visited Denis in 1972. I have not yet been able to identify it; Aidan wonders if it might be a single jig that Cathal brought with him from Fermanagh. With luck, we might have some information on it before World Fiddle Day.

The second tune is named after a neighbour and good friend of Denis's from Lisheen, who was a singer and one of the last surviving members of the Lisheen fife-and-drum band with whom Denis's father Bill "The Waiver" played. There are several other slides named for him. This one is also in the Johnny O'Leary book, no. 345, as "Denis McMahon's Slide"; and it has also acquired the rather drawing-room title of "Echoes of Killarney". But "Art O'Keeffe's" is what it's called on the RTÉ CD of Denis Murphy. PW Joyce has a similar setting, but as a song air, "The Yellow Horse", in his "Old Irish Folk Music and Songs" (1909), from a manuscript "lent to me in 1873 by Mr. J. O'Sullivan, of Bruff, Co. Limerick."

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Untitled slide

Key G (F#)

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

D'- B B- E' D'- B BAB | E'- C A- G A-- E'G'E' |

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

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

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

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



Art O'Keeffe's

Key G (F#)

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

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

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

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

WFD Recital 2024 : Set No 6

Notes - from  Paul De Grae
This is the fifth 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.



5. Jigs: Duggan's Favourite, Sixpenny Money.

The first tune has that title in the Johnny O'Leary book; I have not found it anywhere else. Johnny got it from Mikey Duggan of Knockrour East, Scartaglin, a well-known fiddle player and one of Pádraig O'Keeffe's many former pupils. He also learned from Denis Murphy and from a neighbour, Eileen Spillane (concertina, fiddle), whose home was a rambling house, with storytelling and a half set in the evenings. Mikey died in 2012 at the age of 91. He was a major influence on fiddler Matt Cranitch and had a great store of tunes, which he shared generously. He received the 2006 Patrick O'Keeffe Traditional Music Festival Award for services to Sliabh Luachra music.

The second tune is a nice version of this well-known jig. The second D note shown in bar 3 of the first part is a variation on the repeat.

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Duggan's Favourite

Key D (F#, C#)

A- F DFA | BE'E' BE'E' | D'- B AFA | BCD' E'D'B |

AFE DFA | BE'E' BE'E' | F'G'A'F' E'D'E' | F'D'D' D-- || (x 2)

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

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



Sixpenny Money

Key D (F#, C#)

AFA D'AF | BAG FGE | DFA A(or D)FA | D'F'D' E'- D' |

AFA A- A | BAG FGE | DFA AFA | D'F'D' E'- D' || (x 2)

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

F'-- G'-- | A'F'D' E'CB | ABA AFA | D'F'D' E'- D' || (x 2)

F'-- G'B'B' | (variation)

WFD 2024 Recital : Set No 5

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 third 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.

3. Slides: Barrack Hill, If I Had a Wife.

This set was recorded by Johnny O'Leary on the album, "Johnny O'Leary of Sliabh Luachra"  (Craft CRCD01), which was produced to accompany Terry Moylan's book of the same name; in that book, Johnny says of the second tune, "The Chieftains got it from myself and Denis", after Paddy Moloney and Seán Keane visited Kerry and spent several days listening to them play.

"Barrack Hill" was first printed under that title in the Stanford/Petrie "Complete Collection", no. 926; a similar but not identical setting is in O'Neill's "Dance Music of Ireland", no. 410. Petrie commented: "This kind of jig is called in Munster a single jig. It had a peculiar kind of dance. Same as a Scotch tune." The latter reference is presumably to the strathspey, "The Haughs of Cromdale", from which this tune does indeed seem to have been derived.

Polkas and slides are notorious for having no titles, or else being named for whoever last played them; the "Barrack Hill" title probably stuck because at one time every town would have had a military garrison, an essential feature of life if the natives fail to appreciate the benefits of occupation by a foreign power. Those Royal Irish Constabulary barracks that survived The War of Independence were quite often used as dance halls in the 1920s.

The first tune has acquired a song, beginning "The Cat Jumped into the Mouse's Hole and Didn't come Down 'til Morning", a sung version of the first phrase, which is how the dancers would identify it for a visiting musician unfamiliar with local tune titles. The full version is in the sleeve notes of the Johnny O'Leary album.

The title "If I Had a Wife" serves a similar mnemonic purpose; the verse is sung on The Chieftains recording: "If I had a wife,/ The plague of my life,/ I'll tell you what I'd do:/ I'd buy her a boat/ And set her afloat,/ And paddle my own canoe." An ornamented transcription of Denis's playing of it is in Breandán Breathnach's "Ceol Rince na hÉireann", vol. 2, no. 70, as "Nellie Mahony's Slide; Breathnach notes that Denis also called it "Mad Dancing."
Barrack Hill

Key A minor (F#)

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

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

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

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

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

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

If I Had a Wife
Key G (F#)

B- A ABD' E'- D' D'- B | AGA B- A G- D D-- |

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

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

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

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

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

WFD Recital 2024 : Set No 3

Notes - Paul De Grae
This is the second 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.

2. Jigs: The Humours of Castlecomer, Quinn's.

The first jig is in the O'Neill collections in a similar setting; O'Neill seems to have borrowed it from Levey's second collection, published in 1873.

The second jig 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.64. A version of it is in the O'Neill collections as "Philip O'Neill", probably named for Francis O'Neill's eldest brother; O'Neill said it was "Memorized from my mother's lilting." "The Two-and-Sixpenny Girl" in "Ryan's Mammoth Collection" has a very similar first part but a different second part.

The Humours of Castlecomer

Key E minor (F#, C#)
E-- E F A | BC D' A  B- C | D' E' D'  D' C B | A B A  F E D |

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

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

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

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

E-- E F A | BC D' A  B- C | D' C B  A F D | E F E  E-- ||
Quinn's Jig

Key G (F#)
G B B  B- D' | C A A A B C | D' B G G F G | A B G F E D |

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

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

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

WFD Recital 2024 : Set No 2

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

འཁྲིད་མཁན། སེར་བྱེས་དགེ་བཤེས་ངག་དབང་སངས་རྒྱས། 
ཁྲིད་གཞུང་གི་མཚན་ཆ་ཚང་། བསྟན་བཅོས་དབུ་མ་ལ་འཇུག་པའི་རྣམ་བཤད་དགོངས་པ་རབ་གསལ་གྱི་དཀའ་གནད་གསལ་བར་བྱེད་པའི་སྤྱི་དོན་ལེགས་བཤད་སྐལ་བཟང་མགུལ་རྒྱན་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། ། མཛད་པ་པོ། རྗེ་བཙུན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་མཚན།༼༡༤༦༩ - ༡༥༤༥༽ སེ་རའི་མཁན་རབས་བཅུ་གཉིས་པ་དང་། རྗེ་བཙུན་ཡིག་ཆ་མཛད་པ་པོ་ཡིན།

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