The Parting Glass
reel
Key signature: Aminor
Submitted on October 21st 2006 by Fiddle Inferno.
This tune has been added to 80 tunebooks.
Also known as The Cork March, The Peacock's Feather, The Peacock's March, The Peacock.
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- An Mileoidean Scaoilte by Johnny Connolly
- An Tobar Glé by Neil Mulligan
- Anarchy And Rapture by Annwn
- Angelina Carberry And Martin Quinn by Angelina Carberry And Martin Quinn
- Beginish by Beginish
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- Bubble And Squeak by Bubble And Squeak
- Ceilizemer: Shalom Ireland by The Freilachmakers Klezmer String Band And Driving With Fergus
- Celtic Nyckelharpa by Gavin Pennycook
- Dance Music Of Ireland: Volume 9 by Matt Cunningham
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- Farewell To A Friend by Green Highland
- First Steps by The Jig Is Up!
- Fourmilehouse by Alan And John Kelly
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- Hives Of Honeyed Sound by Padraic Mac Mathuna
- Hollywood by The Voice Squad
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- IAANJ Session V by Mike And Mary Rafferty And Session Musicians
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- Pipeline by Pipeline Dermot Hyde And Tom Hake
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- Sean-Nos Nua by Enter The Haggis
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- Skylark by Skylark
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- Stormy Weather by Beginish
- Sweet Nyaa by Moving Cloud
- The Autumn Time Is Coming by Anam Chara
- The Best Of Irish Jigs And Reels Vol.1 by Various Artists
- The Crooked Road by William Coulter
- The Hills Of Glengarry by Aonghas Grant
- The Liffey Banks by Tommy Potts
- The Lightning Fields by Robin Bullock
- The Living Wood by Maire Ni Chathasaigh And Chris Newman
- The Million Dollar Tip by Billy Goats Gruff
- The Parish Platform by Rattle The Boards
- The Parting Glass by The Churchfitters
- The Pretty Blue Seagull by Frank Claudy, Paul De Grae, Patrick O'Dea, Anne And Joe Skelton
- Top Of Coom by Conal Ó'Gráda
- Traditional Music On Fiddle, Banjo, And Harp by Oisin MacDiarmada, Brian Fitzgerald, And Michael O Ruanaigh
- Virginia by Birkin Tree
- When All Is Said And Done by Danu
X: 1
T: Parting Glass, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Amin
|:e>d | c2 B>c A2 AB | cdec d2 cd | e2 a ^f g=fed | c2 a2 g2 e>d |
c2 B>c A2 AB | cdec d2 cd | e2 af gfed | c2 A2 A2 :|
|: e>f | gfga gfed | e2 A2 A2 B>A | gfed cBcd | e2 G2 G2 e>d |
c2 B>c A2 AB | cdec d2 cd | e2 af gfed| c2 A2 A2 :|
This is technically a reel but also works well as an air.
# Posted on October 21st 2006 by Fiddle Inferno
Comes out here more march-like than reel-like. I've heard it many times as an air and, of course, heard many a singer sing the song. In dance music form it is more commonly played in a hornpipe version as "The Peacock's Feather" Never heard it as a reel.
# Posted on October 21st 2006 by LongNote
"technically a reel"?
I've always thought of 'Parting Glass' as a song air, never a reel. What makes it 'technically' a reel?
# Posted on October 28th 2006 by hetty
"The Parting Glass" / "The Peacock's March"
As a 'reel', it's 'single', without the repeats given here, the same as for the song. Also, as a single reel, it would be played more like a reel, with some differences compared to this transcription, though maybe this is meant to be more of an American style reel. However, song aside, it's earliest entity is as a march, and the earliest source for it that I know of is that old standby, "O'Farrell's Pocket Companion",vol. IV, 1810, where he calls it simply "The Peacock", a march...
# Posted on November 9th 2006 by ceolachan
"The Peacock's Feather" ~ Reel ~ one take on it with a few rolls
K: E Dorian (can also be played minor, e or a)
|: BA |
GEFD ~E3 F | ~G3 B ~A2 GA | B ~e3 edBA |1 G ~E3 (3DED :|
2 GEFD (3EFE B^c ||
(3dcd Bd ~e2 (3Bcd | edBG ~A2 Bc | d ~B3 edBA | GEFE D2 BA |
~G2 FD ~E3 F | GFGB (3ABA GA | Be (3def edBA | GE (3FED E2 ||
# Posted on November 9th 2006 by ceolachan
"The Peacock" ~ the march
Key signature: e minor
Submitted on November 11th 2006 by ceolachan.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/6359
# Posted on November 11th 2006 by ceolachan
"The Peacock's Feathers" ~ hornpipe / barndance ~ a distant cousin, 'in name only'?
ey signature: d minor
Submitted on April 29th 2002 by wordridden.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/663
# Posted on November 11th 2006 by ceolachan
Parting Glass as March
Have seen this tune called The Cork March
# Posted on August 12th 2010 by Alancorsini
See "The Peacock" link just previous, the march...
# Posted on August 13th 2010 by ceolachan