Key signature: Emajor
Submitted on June 7th 2006 by brokenfiddle.
This tune has been added to 10 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Houseboat, The
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Emaj
|:fgf cAc|e2e GAB|cAF a2a|ged cde |
fgf cAc|e2e GAB|cAF agf|ecg ffe :|
|:cAF cAF|F=dd cAF|GBe ecB|AcA GcG |
cAF =d2d|cfa c'ba|agf ecB|BgB ffe:|
fac' c'ba|agf ecB|A3 ecB|BAG EGB|
cfa c'ba|agf ecB|BgB gfe|Bce f2e|
fac' c'ba|agf ecB|A3 ecB|BAG EFG|
A3 B2B|cfa c'ba|agf ecB|AAG F3 |
More info
The key is actually F# dorian, but that wasn't available as an option on the tune submission form. I used E major, which has the same sharps and flats, on Jeremy's advice.
I transcribed this from the playing of Mick McAuley, from his album _An Ocean's Breadth_, as heard on WGBH's _A Celtic Sojourn_ radio program on May 20, 2006.
I was blown away by Mick's rendition of this tune, and searched frantically for the sheet music, but couldn't find it here or elsewhere on the 'net. So I made the effort to transcribe it myself.
While there is a tune here at TheSession.org called the Houseboat, that one's a reel while this one's a jig, and musically they're also completely different.
# Posted on June 7th 2006 by brokenfiddle
Link to the original podcast
If you want to hear Mick's playing yourself, the Celtic Sojourn podcast it was in is still available for download here as of today:
http://streams.wgbh.org/online/celt/celt_2006_05_20.mp3
and it looks like it should still be available for the next couple of months. Because the podcast is 3 hours of music encoded at 128kbps MP3, the download is 140MB, and is throttled, and seems to take about 15-20minutes on a broadband connection.
# Posted on June 7th 2006 by brokenfiddle
The key's actually F#min, not F#dor, but F#min isn't listed either.
# Posted on June 7th 2006 by Dr. Dow
Oh I beg your pardon, the 1st part is F#dor, but not the 2nd part. My bad.
# Posted on June 7th 2006 by Dr. Dow