The Broken Pledge

jig

Key signature: Ddorian

Submitted on February 12th 2005 by Will Harmon.

This tune has been added to 40 tunebooks.

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Folktrax 174 - Michael Gorman (fiddle) With Margaret Barry (banjo) by Michael Gorman
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McGreevy And Cooley by John McGreevy And Seamus Cooley
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The Collection by Old Blind Dogs
The Friendly Visit by Frank Brunel And Vincent Rosinach
The Gaelic Heritage: Traditional Music From Connemara by Various Artists
The Lonesome Touch by Martin Hayes
The Mirthical Reel by Steve Mulhern And Ian Laws
The Morning After by Beneche
The Morning Dew by Brendan Mulvihill And Donna Long
The Poet And The Piper by Seamus Heaney And Liam O'Flynn
The Rowsome Tradition: Five Generations Of Uileann Piping by Kevin Rowsome
The Seventh Veil by Theresa Kavanagh
The Silver Spire by Karen Tweed
The Sligo Champion (CD 2) by Michael Gorman
The Tempest by Robbie Hannan
The Trip To Carrick by Lamond Gillespie, Cormac Cannon And John Blake
The Well Tempered Bow by Liz And Yvonne Kane
Three Shouts From A Hill by Cian
Traditional Music From Clare And Beyond by Gearoid O HAllmhurain
Within A Mile Of Dublin by Paul O'Shaughnessy And Paul McGrattan
Wooden Flute Obsession: Volume 3, Disc 2 by Various Artists

Details ABC Sheetmusic Comments

The Broken Pledge

This is a jig setting of the tune, transcribed from the first go round on the Kane Sister's "Well Tempered Bow" cd.

I've always like the reel, and this jig version does it justice, and a good tune in its own right. But I'm a sucker for D dorian tunes....

# Posted on February 12th 2005 by Will Harmon

A strange medley

Any thoughts about this medley I'd like to put together of two tunes posted today? The first is a D Dorian jig version of The Broken Pledge, that Will transcribed from The Kane Sisters. Then it goes into a 4/4 march in G Major, The North Wind, that Kenny got from a Teada album. (Maybe I should run this by John Blake!) I'd call the set The Broken Wind. I had fun coming up with that and just thought I'd give you all a whiff of the craic.

# Posted on February 12th 2005 by GaryAMartin

Re: A strange medley

Lol Gary, you could also include The Blast of Wind (a slip jig), and The Day the Ass Ran Away (a slide).

# Posted on February 12th 2005 by Will Harmon

Re: A strange medley

You could slip in The Smell of the Bog, The Convenience.... King of the Parpers. Sorry.... Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse...

I think I'll wind up now.

# Posted on February 12th 2005 by CreadurMawnOrganig

Re: A strange medley

Well, yes, Touching Cloth and Sitting on the Throne....

# Posted on February 12th 2005 by Will Harmon

I learnt this tune as a reel 20 years ago, and this jig version is boring to me.

The Kane Sisters should not have changed the nature of the tunes like that. Better to write a new tune than to jigify some reel.

Sounds poor inspiration, doesn't it ?

# Posted on February 13th 2005 by Emmanuel Delahaye

Ehm... The Musical Priest Jig

T:The Musical Priest Jig
M:4/4
L:1/8
C:Gian Marco
R:reel
N:Dedicated to Emmanuel Delahaye
K:BMin
A|FBB Bcd|cBA ecA|FBB Bcd|cAc B2:|
|:c|dcd fed|cAe AfA|dcB fga|edc B2:|
||:c|dBb afb|aec Ace|dBb afb|aec B2:|

# Posted on February 13th 2005 by gian marco

To each his own. I've know the reel for years as well, but happen to like the jig just fine. And I doubt that Liz and Yvonne should get credit for the jig version--"changing the nature of the tune" by reframing reels as jigs and vice versa is a long-standing and well-supported custom in this tradition and it's likely they learned it from someone else (I don't have the liner notes so can't say for sure).

There are damn few "should not's" in this music, thank goodness.

# Posted on February 13th 2005 by Will Harmon

Broken pledge

"we got this jig version of the 'broken pledge from Cork fiddle player Deirdre Moynihan"

thats what it says on the cover of their album.

# Posted on February 14th 2005 by galway-fiddle

There you have it. Thanks g-f!

# Posted on February 15th 2005 by Will Harmon

Kevin Rowsome Version

My attempt at transcribing Kevin Rowsome's playing:

||:ed BA Be eB| dG AG FA DA|EF GA Be ec| (3.B.cB Ad Bf gf
| ed BA ~B3 c|dG AG FA DA|EF GA Be ec|~B2 Af Be eB:||
||:ed BA (3B.c.d ef|g2 ef fd Bc|dA FA dc de|fd (3B.c.d fb af
|ed BA (3B.c.d ef|g2 ef fd BA|~G3 F GA Be|dB AF Be eB:||

# Posted on January 4th 2009 by Anthony Shostak

Rowsome Verstion Correction

My apologies, these ABCs were to have been for the reel version.

# Posted on January 4th 2009 by Anthony Shostak

I also found this tune a bit boring and hard to follow the melody, although I have no problem with people turning reels to jigs and jigs to reels.

# Posted on August 23rd 2009 by buailteoir