Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on February 23rd 2010 by niall_kenny.
This tune has been added to 8 tunebooks.
Also known as Carraig Na G-Caiseal, Rock Of Cashel, The Rock Of Cashel, Rocks Of Cashel, The Rocks Of Cashel March.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Rocks Of Cashel, The
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Gmaj
GB d2 | e/d/c/B/ d2 | GB d2 | e/d/c/B/ A2 |
GB d2 | e/d/c/B/ d2 | ge dB | cA A2 :|
GB c/B/A/B/ | GB c/B/A/B/ | GB c/B/A/B/ | cA AB |
GB c/B/A/B/ | GB c/B/A/B/ | ge dB | cA A2 :|
Bd g2 | g/f/e/d/ g2 | Bd g2 | g/f/e/d/ gb |
Bd g2 | g/f/e/d/ g2 | ge dB | cA A2 :|
GB c/B/A/B/ | c/B/A/B/ c/B/A/B/ | GB c/B/A/B/ | cA AB |
GB c/B/A/B/ | c/B/A/B/ c/B/A/B/ | gedB | cA A2 :|
I have a recording of this tune on a CD from Kenny but no name of performers attached. It is played as a slide and then a polka. I found the name from using the Reverend's ABC tune search, but suspect the recording did not have correct name hence no match here. Does anyone recognise it?
# Posted on February 24th 2010 by niall_kenny
It sounds like Harry Bradley with a fiddler (possibly Jessie
Smith?) before a live audience
# Posted on February 24th 2010 by niall_kenny
The Chorus
It is indeed Harry and Jesse Smith, [ note spelling - Jesse's a "he" ] and they call the tune the "Chorus". They played it both as a jig and as march/polka. It came from a recording "Ptarmigan" sent me, recorded live at a group competition, I think in Derry a few years ago. I'd have to go back and look at the CD notes, but I seem to remember that Dick and his wife, with Marcas O'Murchu and a few others won it, and Harry's trio were third. I'm biased, but I think that this outstanding piece of playing should have won it, at least on the basis of what I heard from the CD. I'm also 99% sure that this is originally a Northumberland or North-East of England tune. I'm sure "Dow" or someone else here might recognise it. It also bears a resemblance to the tune used for a North-East of Scotland bothy ballad called "Hap-An-Row", or "The Reel Of Stumpie".
# Posted on February 24th 2010 by Kenny
"The Rocks of Cashel" ~ march
You'll find more information here ~
"The Fiddler's Companion" - Andrew Kuntz
http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/index.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/ROC.htm
# Posted on February 24th 2010 by ceolachan
"The Rocks of Cashel" ~ "The Chorus Jig"
In Bunting's third collection he had this melody listed as "The Chorus Jig". We all screw up now and then...
# Posted on February 24th 2010 by ceolachan
"O'Neill's Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies" - 1903
Page 342, tune #1819
X: 2
T: Rocks of Cashel, The
S:O’Neill – Music of Ireland (1903), No. 1819
N: for comparison, 4/4 changed to 2/4, which I also think fits the melody better, as a march
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: march
K: GMaj
|: GB d2 | e/d/c/B/ d2 | GB d2 | e/d/c/B/ A2 |
GB d2 | e/d/c/B/ d2 | ge dB | cA AB :|
|: GB c/B/A/B/ | gB c/B/A/B/ | GB c/B/A/B/ | cA AB |
GB c/B/A/c/ | dB c/B/A/B/ | ge dB | cA AB :|
Bd g2 | g/f/e/d/ g2 | Bd g2 | g/f/e/d/ gb |
Bd g2 | g/f/e/d/ g2 | ge dB | cA AB |
GB c/B/A/B/ | c/B/A/B/ c/B/A/B/ | GB c/B/A/B/ | cA AB |
GB c/B/A/B/ | c/B/A/B/ c/B/A/B/ | ge dB | cA AB ||
You'll find dots here, in 4/4 and with staccato ~
O'Neill's Music of Ireland ~ Free Sheet Music Dot Net
http://www.freesheetmusic.net/oneills.html
http://www.freesheetmusic.net/oneills20/TheRocksOfCashel.pdf
# Posted on February 24th 2010 by ceolachan
"O’Farrell's National Irish Music for the Union Pipes", 1804
X: 3
T: Rock of Cashel
B: "O’Farrell's National Irish Music for the Union Pipes", 1804
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: march
K: DMaj
|: DF A2 | AG/F/ A2 | DF A2 | AG/F/ EF |
DF A2 | AG/F/ A2 | dB AG/F/ | GE EF :|
|: DF d2 | cB/A/ d2 | DF dF | BE EF |
DF d2 | cB/A/ d2 | dB AG/F/ | GE EF :|
|: DF Fd | FE FA | DF Fd | GE EF |
DF/G/ AF | BG cA | dB AG/F/ | GE EF :|
Na Píobairí Uilleann
http://www.pipers.ie/
O'Farrell's Collection of NATIONAL IRISH MUSIC for the UNION PIPES
http://www.pipers.ie/IMCO/OFNIM.htm
Rock of Cashel ~ Sibelius Scorch
http://www.pipers.ie/IMCO/OFNIM45a-RockofCashel.HTM
# Posted on February 24th 2010 by ceolachan
"Rocks of Cashel" ~ 1810 and another take in D Major
X: 4
T: Rocks of Cashel
S: The music manuscript copybook of Ann Winnington, New York, c. 1810
N: adjusted for comparison, from 4/4 to 2/4
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
K: DMaj
|: DF A2 | B/A/G/F/ A2 | DF A2 | B/A/G/F/ ED |
DF A2 | B/A/G/F/ Ac | dB AF | GE EF :|
|: DF d2 | d/c/B/A/ d2 | DF d2 | d/c/B/A/ df |
DF d2 | d/c/B/A/ d2 | dB AF | GE EF :|
|: DF G/F/E/F/ | G/F/E/F/ G/F/E/F/ | DF G/F/G/F/ | GE EF |
DF G/F/E/F/ | G/F/E/F/ G/F/E/F/ | dB AF | GE EF :|
# Posted on February 24th 2010 by ceolachan