Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on March 23rd 2002 by Josh Kane.
This tune has been added to 238 tunebooks.
Also known as Seas Cinn, Shaskeen.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Shaskeen, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
E | DG~G2 AGAB | cded cAAc | BG~G2 AF~F2 | GBAG FD~D2 |
DG~G2 AGAB | cded cAAg | f2fe fdcA | BGAF G~G2 :|
B | dggf g2fg | abag fddc | BG~G2 AF~F2 | GBAG FDD |
|1 B| dggf g2fg | abag fddc | BG~G2 AF~F2 | GBAF G~G2 :|
|2 A | BG~G2 cA~A2 | d^cde dcAg | ~f2fe fdcA | BGAF G3 ||
This is a tune I learned off "The Mountain Road: A Compilation of Tunes Popular in South Sligo" CD. It's one of my most favorite tunes.
# Posted on March 23rd 2002 by Josh Kane
Shaskeen
I agree with Josh - one of the most melodic reels ever composed, and one which plays well on any traditional instrument. Also one of the few tunes which I have never heard called by any other name.
# Posted on March 24th 2002 by Kenny
Yepp...
With a name like "Shaskeen," who'd want to call it by another name?
# Posted on March 24th 2002 by Josh Kane
An Seasguin (which, of course is pronounced Shaskeen) - apparently it's a river, or at least a tributary of the River Shannon.
# Posted on February 24th 2004 by Rudall the time
In the third last bar, something about that C# makes me want to play the other C in that bar as a C natural, instead of waiting for the next bar. Does anyone play it this way?
# Posted on February 25th 2005 by treecipitation
The Shaskeen
The very first bar of the tune is rarely played as in Josh's transcription. Here's another version, inspired by Mike Rafferty's flute playing:
K: Gmaj
E|DG~G2 ABcA|dfed cA~A2|BdBG ~A3F|GBAG FDDE|
DG~G2 ABcA|dfed cAAe|f2de fdcA|AGFA ~G3:|
B|dggf g2fg|~a3g fdde|~f3d egfg|abag fddc|
dggf g2fg|~a3g fdde|f2de fdcA|AGFA ~G3B|
dggf g2fg|~a3g fdde|~f3d egfg|abag fddc|
~B3G ~A3F|GBAG FDDe|f2de fdcA|AGFA ~G3||
The second part sometimes has a different structure like this:
B|dggf g2fg|abag fddc|BdBG ~A3F|GBAG FDDB|
dggf g2fg|~a3g fdde|f2de fdcA|AGFA ~G3B|
dggf g2fg|abag fddc|BdBG ~A3F|GBAG FDDA|
BG~G2 AF~F2|dfed cAAe|f2de fdcA|AGFA ~G3||
# Posted on March 22nd 2007 by slainte
Shaskeen Reel
Slainte's setting is the one I'm also most familiar with, and it is a great reel whichever way it's played. My Love is in America follows it very well - I think it's a Miltown thing as I remember the combination being played a few times at Willie Clancy some years ago.
# Posted on March 22nd 2007 by Bannerman
Watch and listen to Tansey play this reel and the New Copperplate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abi-lhnXoSY
# Posted on June 16th 2007 by slainte
Another lovely playing of this tune: http://comhaltas.ie/music/detail/comhaltaslive_244_4_fergus_mcgorman_with_two_old_reels_on_flute
# Posted on March 3rd 2008 by slainte
The Symbols
Ok, I dont know that much about sheet music seeing as I've been reading notes in abc form most my life, and not like how it is done on this site, so can someone explain to me what the " ~ " symbol above some of the notes means? Thanks.
# Posted on January 10th 2009 by Joe Bloggs
~ roll on Columbia, roll on, and on, and on, ad nauseum
It's a tilde and is used to show an ornament, in our case showing an opportunity to execute any of many ways to play a 'roll'. They should only be interpreted as suggestive rather than prescriptive. In the many given in this transcription, what I'd call overkill, they would by many be interpreted as a basic form of a 'long rolls'... Most tunes could be abused into a succession of rolls, and sadly some folks seem to get their kicks out of beating a good melody to death by that means of torture...
# Posted on January 10th 2009 by ceolachan
Actually, this transcription ain't that bad. It could have been a lot worse, for example ~ the first few bars of the B-part:
B | dg ~g2 ~g3 f | ~a3 g fd ~d2 | BG ~G2 AF ~F2 | ~G3 A FD ~D2 | ~
# Posted on January 10th 2009 by ceolachan
Unusual
This tune comes across as unusual when first begining with it on the whistle/flute. Hard to get the head around it.
# Posted on January 16th 2009 by Joe Bloggs
Hornpipe?
Is there a hornpipe version of the shaskeen and if so can someone tell me where I can find it on the web?
# Posted on April 16th 2011 by dinn2
Hornpipe
Hornpipe (clog):
http://abcnotation.com/tunePage?a=www.oldmusicproject.com/AA2ABC/1201-1800/Abc-1701-1800/1703-Shaskeen/0000&p=y
mp3 on this page:
http://www.sligo-man.com/JignReels/jigs-n-reels/Pages/hornpipe.htm
# Posted on April 16th 2011 by Weejie
See comments.....
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/3175
# Posted on April 16th 2011 by Kenny