Sean Frank's

reel

Key signature: Eminor

Submitted on May 25th 2001 by Jeremy.

This tune has been added to 85 tunebooks.

Also known as Brian Boru, Captain McBane's, Col McBain , Col Me Bain, Colonel McBain, Johnny's Wedding, The Smoky House.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

ALive by Kúla
Altan: Live by Altan
An Ph�b by Dicky Deegan
Angelina Carberry And Martin Quinn by Angelina Carberry And Martin Quinn
Battle Songs Of The Toucan Pirates by Toucan Pirates
Came The Dawn by Seamus Creagh
Cóisir: House Party by Máire O'Keeffe
Celtic Dream by Oisin
Ceol Tire by Various Artists
Colin Grant by Colin Grant
Cuig by Blackbeers
First Flight by Gerald Trimble
Frankie Gavin And Alec Finn by Frankie Gavin And Alec Finn
Handprints by Donna Long
In Colour by Cara
Land's End by Michael Rooney And June McCormack
Mac Bones And The B Band by Mac Bones And The B Band
Martin Hayes by Martin Hayes
Moving Cloud by Moving Cloud
Music On The Wind by Sean Moloney
Suantrai by John Canny, Kevin Carey And Terence O'Reilly
The Celts Play Connecticut by Various Artists
The Tidy Cottage by Turlach Boylan
The Wynd You Know by Ronan Browne
Traditional Fiddle Music From East Clare by Paddy Canny
Winds Of Change by Geraldine MacGowan And Anne Conroy
Wooden Flute Obsession Disk 1 by Various Artists
Wooden Flute Obsession: Volume 3, Disc 2 by Various Artists
Yours Truly by Natalie MacMaster

Details ABC Sheetmusic Comments

Details ABC Sheetmusic Comments

Details ABC Sheetmusic Comments

This tune works nicely as a slow reel.

I've included triplets in the music above, something I hardly ever do. I find that this tune sounds very flat without them.

Personally, I like to play this tune quite slowly, but I've also heard it played fast. A compromise would be to play it like a hornpipe.

# Posted on June 2nd 2001 by Jeremy

Oh, I mistakenly post the tune with the name "Colonel McBain" last night. Just in case, I searched for the tune with its fragment before posting it, but I didn't notice Jeremy post it already.

I totally agree with Jeremy about the speed. I like playing it after "Terry Teehan's."

# Posted on November 9th 2002 by slainte

Sean Frank's

My name is Sean Frank and I came across this by accident on the net. Very nice song.

# Posted on March 31st 2003 by seanliam

Sean Frank's reel

I know quite a different tune by the same name: a D modal reel that is often played after Tuttle's (Casey's) reel. If anyone is interested I will send the sheet music as a Mozart or MS WORD file

# Posted on November 16th 2005 by rabrams

Frankie Gavin's tune was different than this setting, which is out of the books, I think. I think Frankie was in D but tuned up a little. He paired it with the Bunch of Green Rushes, which is in D "Minajor" or whatever you want to call it. I prefer his setting, which was also played by Michael Coleman, in G...Mixolydian? B was both nat and flat. He called it Malloy's. John Doherty recorded a very similar reel, on Bundle and Go. Related to O'Dowd's and the Curragh Races.

# Posted on December 11th 2005 by KLR

I believe Mother's Delight is more similar to this reel.

# Posted on December 11th 2005 by slainte

"Johnny's Wedding" / etc. ~ reel

Also known as Colonel McBain, Sean Frank's, The Smoky House.
Key signature: d minor (also played in g & a minor)
Submitted on April 28th 2006 by OsvaldoLaviosa.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/5713

# Posted on February 6th 2007 by ceolachan

& e minor...

# Posted on February 6th 2007 by ceolachan

... also known as 'Brian Boru', 'cos it is, in fact, a version of the same tune as is posted here as a march:

http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/271/comments#comment293389

(I hope I've got this right this time, chaps) :-/

# Posted on June 24th 2007 by ethical blend

This tune is in the Gunn Book (Fermanagh 1865) as Captain McBane's Reel in the key of G minor

# Posted on November 12th 2009 by The Archivist

"Sean Frank's Reel" ~ which has the melodic structure of a double reel

# Posted on February 5th 2012 by ceolachan