The High Hill

reel

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on March 30th 2004 by Will Harmon.

This tune has been added to 38 tunebooks.

Also known as Highest Hill.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• An Tris Is A Rian by Claire Keville, John Weir And Eithne Ni Dhonaile
• At Reavy's House by Jim Eagan
• Sunny Spells And Scattered Showers by Solas
• Wake by Finnegan's AWake

X: 1
T: High Hill, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
FG |: ADED A,D (3DDD | FGAc dcAG | ADED A,DEF | GE=CE G2 FG |
ADED A,D (3DDD | FGAB =cBce | d=cAG EFGc | AGE=C DEFG :|
|: Addc d2 cd | ed (3ddd edd=c | A^GAB =cBcd| e=c (3ccc ecdc |
Addc d2 fd | ed (3ddd edd=c | A^GAB =cded |1 =cAGE DEFG :|2 =cAGE DA=cB ||

The High Hill

This is an Ed Reavy composition, set here on the playing of fiddler Jim Egan and piper Elliot Grasso, both from Baltimore, Maryland. They've tweaked the tune a bit (for example, adding those G sharps in the B part), and I like this version better than the 'original' I've seen from the Reavy collection.

Egan and Grasso do this in a set of Reavy tunes, going next into Brefni O'Reilly and then finishing with Ann from Monaghan.

With all the c nats, The High Hill might as well be in D mixolydian, but to my ear the c sharps set the mode and the c nats come as a welcome surprise--a D major tune that wanders for long stretches in D mix, then.

# Posted on March 30th 2004 by Will Harmon