Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on July 30th 2003 by Jeeves Tones.
This tune has been added to 47 tunebooks.
Also known as Gillian's Apples, Úllaí Uí Ghiolláin.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Gillan's Apples
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Gmaj
g3 B2A | GBA GBd | efe edB | dBA A2 D |
GBA G2D | GBd g2 a | bag fge | ed^c d3:|
faa faa | faa agf | gbb gbb | gbb bag |
faa faa | faa aga | bag fge | ed^c d3:|
Gillan's apples
Probably the most widely known tune of this name - the 4-part tune in D posted by Will is obviously related.
# Posted on July 30th 2003 by Jeeves Tones
Banish Misfortune
We like Banish Misfortune then this Gillans' Apples as a complementary pair of tunes.
# Posted on July 30th 2003 by geoffwright
Gillian's Apples
Great tune - definitely my favourite jig with this title; the other 4 part one sounds like something else but I can't recall the name.
# Posted on July 31st 2003 by Bannerman
Gillian's Apples
I really like that tune in a set with The trip to Sligo and The Cliffs of Moher as the group Tuatha plays it.
# Posted on August 2nd 2003 by craics90
"Gillan's Apples" / "Gillian's Apples" ~
not all Murphys are the same either:
Key signature: D Major
Submitted on December 4th 2001 by Josh Kane.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/413
Key signature: D Major & "the 4-parts"
Submitted on July 29th 2003 by Will Harmon.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/1854
# Posted on December 7th 2005 by ceolachan
The tune as submitted (which is very close to what I play) could be regarded as a G Lydian tune. As I play the 10-hole diatonic harmonica (blues harp), I can play it as written on a low D harp and follow it with a D major tune such as "Tripping Upstairs" for a nice key change. Morrison's goes well as the third jig in this set! There are very few "G major" tunes that can be played without bending for accidentals on a D harp. Cronin's Hornpipe and The Turnip Jig are two others that spring to mind.
# Posted on February 8th 2007 by Steve Shaw
Apparently it's not Gillian, as a lot of people think, but Gillan, named after John Gillan, tune collector and source for O'Neill.
# Posted on May 1st 2007 by Dr. Dow
John Whelan playing it
It's the third jig in this set:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=p0mV6fcvkv8&feature=channel_page
# Posted on February 4th 2009 by upmine3
Gillian's apples
I'm a little confused about a tune title.
In Ceol Rince vol. 2, tune 7 is called Gillians Apples, Jackson's Growling Cat, and various other things. This tune is a different tune to the one listed on the session under the same name. Is Ceol Rince wrong?
# Posted on April 29th 2009 by Jonathan
Re: Gillian's apples
The one here is wrong as I'd say it was Humours of Drinagh. I don't know about Ceol Rince but the one I know is the g3 B2A|GBA GBd|efe edB| etc.
# Posted on April 29th 2009 by Bannerman
Re: Gillian's apples
An audio version of Gillian's Apples can be heard at http://comhaltas.ie/music/detail/gillians_apples/. The Chieftains recorded a great version of this jig on their second album back in the 1960s.
# Posted on April 29th 2009 by Bannerman
Re: Gillian's apples
The correct Gillian's Apples is in fact here at http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1855. I only got it by posting a segment of the tune; it's incorrectly titled as Gillan's Apples which is why it didn't come up on my original search.
# Posted on April 29th 2009 by Bannerman
Re: Gillian's apples
From The Fiddler's Companion - http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/FCfiles.html.
'The tune was renamed by O’Neill in honor of his source, John Gillan, “to avoid confusion” as the title on the original manuscript was “Apples in Winter” and O’Neill already had a tune by that name (Irish Folk Music, pg. 93). O’Farrell prints a version as “The Apples in Winter.” The tune is often called “Gillian’s Apples,” a miss-hearing of the name Gillan. See also the related “Humors of Dingle [1].” Sources for notated versions: from the manuscript collection of retired businessman and Irish music enthusiast John Gillan, collected from musicians in his home county of Longford and the adjoining Leitrim [O’Neill]; ...'
John Gillan is cited as a source also in 'The Dance Music of Ireland' - http://bit.ly/150xKT.
# Posted on April 29th 2009 by MacCruiskeen
Re: Gillian's apples
The version of Gillian's Apples I learnt in the 50/60s was in key D and is a great uplifting four part jig. It was in the 70s that I first came across the version in Key G which was just two parts and was part of set of jigs Hinchy's - Gillian's Apples and The Humours of Drinagh.
# Posted on April 29th 2009 by Free Reed
Re: Gillian's apples
It appears to me to be in G Lydian as it's often played, with its raised fourth tone. I play it on a standard low D harmonica, no note-bending, which means it's in12th (or first-flat) position in harmonica parlance. I long since worked out that "Gillian" was, in fact, one-eyed.
# Posted on April 29th 2009 by Steve Shaw
Re: Gillian's apples
ITs interesting this should come up. We discussed it at a session I was at last Friday evening. Particularly interesting was whether it was a four part jig. Someone kept calling it Gilligans Apples.
# Posted on April 29th 2009 by zippydw
Last tune in the first set of jigs here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ee_k8zyfU4A#at=78
# Posted on July 1st 2011 by Phantom Button
Eh?
A friend plays this tune as the first in a set of 3 with Morrisons and Tobins. I wrote the name as "Skillens Apples" .... hmmm ...
# Posted on February 12th 2012 by janeh