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Title search - please help!

Title search - please help!

I'm searching for the name of a tune--dancers, you may be able to help. It's the "Beginner Reel" on Mike and Merv's "A Collection of Irish Dance Music" (http://www.celticmerchant.com/musicfordance.html) and it's also the first reel on Track 3 of Olive Hurley's Complete Ceili Collection, disc one (http://www.celticmerchant.com/comceilcol.html). If you've ever seen the World Championships video (1994), Trinity Academy won in the Under 13 Choreography to this tune. It's a fairly common tune, so I'm sure it's already on the site--however, I have no idea what it's called! I love this piece, and it's been driving me up the wall trying to find it. Does anyone know its name(s)?

# Posted on June 9th 2003 by whisper2thewater

Re: Title search - please help!

Speed the Plough also called Off in the Morning-but the version on this site is actually Jackie Coleman's under the incorrect name.

# Posted on June 9th 2003 by Greenwiggle

Re: Title search - please help!

Huh...doesn't sound like either of the Jackie Coleman's I know, wiggle. I've heard this tune from time out of mind, having started off as a dancer, but haven't the slightest what it's called...it doesn't sound like the Speed the Plough I know, either.

Zina

# Posted on June 9th 2003 by Zina Lee

Re: Title search - please help!

The tune is Off in the Morning, which also goes by the name Spped the Plough, but it's a different tune than the Speed the Plough in Dmaj that shows up at many sessions (at least here in the States).

A transcription from Henrik Norbeck is on the woodenflute tune database (http://tunedb.woodenflute.com/tunedb/tune_search_logic.html), but a closer setting to what's on those ceili cds might go as follies:

If we can all agree on what to call it (Off In the Morning?), I'll post it in the tune archives here.

# Posted on June 9th 2003 by Will CPT

Re: Title search - please help!

Well, never mind. I posted it in the tunes as Off in the Morning, with a few minor tweaks to the above abcs. Hope this helps, whisper.

# Posted on June 9th 2003 by Will CPT

P.S.

Greenwiggle, the Dmaj Speed the Plough in the tunes here is similar too but also significantly different than Jackie Coleman's--they are two distinct tunes. And Off in the Morning/Speed the Plough is yet another distinct tune. Plus Trevor's setting of another Speed the Plough, and that doesn't even get us into the American old-timey or Texas swing tunes by the same name. Clear as mud, eh?

# Posted on June 9th 2003 by Will CPT

Re: Title search - please help!

I think Greenwiggle was mixing up Jackie Coleman's and Tom Billy's, which is another name for Speed The Plough in D.

# Posted on June 10th 2003 by Dow

- which is what Will just said, so I obviously need to go back to bed and get more sleep.

# Posted on June 10th 2003 by Dow

Re: Title search - please help!

Thanks SO much, all of you! Trying to find the name was absolutely driving me up the wall.

# Posted on June 10th 2003 by whisper2thewater

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