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Tune ID

Tune ID

Hi I heard a jig that goes a little like this, just want to know its name :-)

K: Edor

B, ||: EFD E2 d | BAF dAF | D3 FDF | AFD EDB, |
| EFD E2 d | BAF ABc | ded BdB |1 AFD EDB, :||2 AFD E2 d|
| e3 edB | efg fed | d3

that's all I can think of

Does anyone have an idea?

Much love,

D.J.F.

# Posted on October 7th 2009 by D.J.F.

Re: Tune ID

The usual story, know the tune, don't know the name. Bryan Duggan has a cracking little programme for name-hunters - just play the first few bars on the fiddle, and hey presto... Works nearly every time.

http://www.comp.dit.ie/bduggan/music/matt2/index.php

# Posted on October 7th 2009 by Dragut Reis

Re: Tune ID

It's called Billy McCormick's. I think I know it in A dor, from Paddy Cronin's 'Kerry's Own'.

Check out tunepal.org anyway if you're keen on finding the names.

# Posted on October 7th 2009 by Dragut Reis

Re: Tune ID

Could it be this (found thru Rev's ABC tunesearch)?

X: 1
T: Katy Is Waiting
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Edor
|:BEE cEE|BAF BAF|D3 FEF|A2B AFD|
BEE cEE|BAF BAF|ABc dBF|FED E3:|
|:e3 efg|fed e2A|ABc d2d|ABc dAF|
e3 efg|fed edB|dcd BAF|BAF E3:|

# Posted on October 7th 2009 by Miss Lonelyhearts

Re: Tune ID

Katy is Waiting - http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/3239

# Posted on October 7th 2009 by Miss Lonelyhearts

Re: Tune ID

Miss Lonelyhearts I guess you put "FED E" into advanced search and picked the first Eminor jig to show up?

Look at the notes, your suggestion is nowhere near the tune that I want sorry :-)

Thankyou Dragut Reis, much appreciated.

# Posted on October 7th 2009 by D.J.F.

Re: Tune ID

Sorry Miss Lonelyhearts, I meant you must have copied the notes I said and put it in Reverend's Tune Search and picked the first one, nvm.

# Posted on October 7th 2009 by D.J.F.

Re: Tune ID

Actually, it was the only hit that Rev's tunefinder gave me based on the first four bars of the A part. And while the specific notes are different, the contour and chord progression of Katy is Waiting very closely match your snippet. It's not uncommon for two settings of the same tune to be similar but not identical.

No worries, though. I was only tossing up a possibility.

# Posted on October 7th 2009 by Miss Lonelyhearts

Re: Tune ID

It is, indeed Billy McCorm(a/i)ck's, shown in O'Neil's in Ador

http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/book/oneills/1001/X/0341.abc

And on thesession in G

http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/4591

Strangely, my tune search doesn't find it, even in the contour search. That one will be interesting to debug if I get a chance :-)

# Posted on October 7th 2009 by Reverend

Re: Tune ID

Well, if I can't help i.d. a tune, I can at least reveal a bug in the system. Reminds me of the consultant's creed: "If you can't help find a solution, at least there's money to be made prolonging the problem." ;-)

# Posted on October 7th 2009 by Miss Lonelyhearts

Re: Tune ID

DJF the version you posted is the one on the Mulcahy Family's "Notes from the Heart"

# Posted on October 7th 2009 by Dow

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