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The Morning Dew

reel

Key signature: Edorian

Submitted on May 25th 2001 by Jeremy.

This tune has been added to 879 tunebooks.

Also known as Giorria Sa BhFraoch, Hare Among The Heather, The Hare Among The Heather , The Hare Among The Heather, Hare In The Heather, The Hare In The Heather, Morning Dew, Sundew.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

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X: 1
T: Morning Dew, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Edor
|:E3B2AFD|EDEB BAFD|E3B2AFA|BcdB AFDF:|
|B2eB fBeB|B2eB AFDF|B2eB fBeB|BcdB AFDF|
B2eB fBeB|B2eB AFDF|Bdeg fdec|d2dA BAFD|
|B2EB GBEB|B2EB AFDF|B2EB GBEB|BcdB AFDF|
B2EB GBEB|B2EB AFDF|Bdeg fdec|d2dA BAFD|
|:BAGF EFGA|B2GB A2GA|BAGF EFGA|BcdB AFDF:|

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The Morning Dew sheetmusic
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This is one of those rocking E minor reels that sounds its best when played fairly fast.

This is actually a three part tune. The last two parts I've shown here are basically variations of each other.

I really like that long E note at the start of the tune. The note has an unusual length which then gives the whole bar a syncopated rhythm.

# Posted on June 2nd 2001 by Jeremy

Long E note

That long E note sounds really neat if you slide up to it from the D below. It gives the tune a sort of haunting begining to it, which sounds really neat.

-Max

# Posted on December 4th 2003 by Max Becher

Drowsy maggie

this one works well with drowsy maggie, in the E dorian

# Posted on January 19th 2004 by gravelwalks

If you omit the last staff as shown here (the "variation") you have the tune as I understood it to be commonly played. This would be the 3-part ABC order.

On "An Historic Recording Of Irish Traditional Music" Paddy Canny and co. play it in CAB order.

# Posted on February 20th 2004 by Test

"The Morning Dew"

Does anyone have the tablature of this reel. I'm playing a Sol/Do accordeon and really enjoy Tony MacMahon's version !!
Thanks in regard

# Posted on June 4th 2004 by Ingo

Morning Dew: Joe Cooley's version

I heard that Tony MacMahon plays Joe Cooley's version of the Morning Dew on his solo album from the 80's. The transcription on this website is nothing like that. It might be helpful to cite the source of a particular setting of a tune.

# Posted on August 12th 2004 by bbbox

The Morning Dew

I've just found this tune probably derives from Sleepy Maggie (http://thesession.org/tunes/display.php/787), and therefore closely related to Jenny's Chickens (http://thesession.org/tunes/display.php/756). Maybe I'm not the first one to notice the connection among these common tunes.

# Posted on January 31st 2005 by slainte

3rd and 4th measures

a nice variation I've heard on the 3rd and 4th measures is
G3d2BAG | FAdc dAFD

# Posted on February 13th 2005 by micelfife

Was this tune composed by Paddy Moloney?

# Posted on June 27th 2006 by 52Paddy

No

# Posted on June 27th 2006 by Kenny

Morning Dew: An Interesting Version

On HIstoric Recording of Traditional Irish Music from... with Paddy Canny et al, there is a combination of the order. First comes the second two lines( in the sheet music) of Part B, then Part A, then the whole of Part B, then Part A, then the first two lines of Part B, then Part C, then Part A and the first two lines of Part B, then Part C, then the first two lines of Part B. It seems very different order, but very nice to play.

# Posted on October 30th 2006 by enirehtac

I love this tune after My Love is in America

# Posted on November 2nd 2006 by BE

2nd part

Anyone else only play an 8 bar 2nd part?

# Posted on December 21st 2006 by Kheelch

Morning Dew: John Doyle version

Thought I'd add this version off "Evening Comes Early" by John Doyle. Played through 2(2AB) with some variations the second time through before changing to the "The Morning Star".

X:1
T:Morning Dew
C:Trad. arr. John Doyle
L:1/8
Q:1/4=150
M:4/4
K:Dm
|:D3A zG FE | DE FA GE FC | D3A zG FG | AB cA GE FC :|
G_A dc eg dc/_e/ | _zd zc AG FG | Ac df de e2 | c3A GE FG |
G_A dc eg dc/_e/ | _zd dc zG FG | G/8A/1c df e3d | z3A GE FG |
G/4G3/4F GF DE FG | A2 FA GA =B/4A3/4F |GF GF DE FG | AF cA [G2G2] FG |
G/4G3/4F GF DE FG/B/ | z2 FA GA A/4G3/4F | G/8G/1F GF DE FG/B/ |zF cA [G2G2] FG |]

Cheers

# Posted on May 13th 2007 by TimBuk2

Reel: Morning Dew - who recorded it?

I've got a few ideas for backing for Morning Dew.
I'm wondering who has recorded it before, so that I can see if my ideas are original or not!
Thanks

# Posted on August 19th 2007 by Bean

Re: Reel: Morning Dew - who recorded it?

http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/69

# Posted on August 19th 2007 by s.g.

Re: Reel: Morning Dew - who recorded it?

So...just about everyone.

# Posted on August 20th 2007 by mcdevincabe

Re: Reel: Morning Dew - who recorded it?

Wow!
That is a lot of artists...
I better get listening to them to check if I'll be stepping on anyones toes.
The backing will contain a loose-skinned djembe, two tight skinned bonjos, fretless bass and a reggae style on the guitar.
The melody will be played on a Low G concert flute! and a regular wooden flute.
- hopefully it goes well :)

# Posted on August 21st 2007 by Bean

Solas recorded it

They started it with a tune called Coconut Dog.
Here's a video. And yes, it ROCKS! lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD_3CnaeCoM

# Posted on February 6th 2008 by Fishmonger

This tune goes really well after the Cup of Tea..... for some reason that tune gives it such a brilliant build up!

# Posted on January 25th 2009 by An Kammneves

Chieftains' version

hello every one ! do you know where can i find the score of the chieftains version in The Very Best of ?
it's for me the best version of Morning Dew !!

thank you !

# Posted on March 4th 2009 by harmonico

Woohoo!

I LOVE this reel! thanks for posting it :)

# Posted on July 1st 2009 by ceilidh7

Morning Dew

Played by Martin Hayes - the 3rd tune
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96bKIE37gwQ&feature=related

# Posted on September 13th 2009 by bogman

Morning Dew

And by Matt Malloy and John Carty.......starts about 2.15
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwsWTllBSvA&feature=related

# Posted on September 13th 2009 by bogman

"The Morning Dew" ~ another look at Jeremy's transcription

X: 1
T: Morning Dew, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Edor
|: E3 B- BAFD | EDEB BAFD | E3 B- BAFA | BcdB AFDF :|
|: B2 eB fBeB | B2 eB AFDF | B2eB fBeB |[1 BcdB AFDF :|[2 Bdeg fdec | d2 dA BAFD ||
|: B2 EB GBEB | B2 EB AFDF |[1 B2 EB GBEB | BcdB AFDF :|[2 Bdeg fdec | d2 dA BAFD ||
|: BAGF EFGA | B2 GB A2 GA | BAGF EFGA | BcdB AFDF :|

Before adding the next ~

# Posted on April 6th 2010 by ceolachan

"The Morning Dew" ~ Bulmer & Sharpley ~ only 3 parts

"Music from Ireland, Volume One", 1974
Dave Bulmer & Neil Sharpley, page 8, tune #21
ISBN: 0-9503784-02

X: 3
T: Morning Dew
B: "Music from Ireland, Volume One", Bulmer & Sharpley, page 8, tune #21
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Edor
|: ~E3 B BAFA | EDEB ADFA | ~E3 B BAFA | BcdB ADFA :|
|: ~B2 eB fBeB | ~B2 dB AFDA |[1 ~B2 eB fBeB | dcdB ADFA :|[2 Bdef gfge | dcdB ADFA ||
~B2 GB FBEB | ~E2 EB AFDA | ~B2 GB FBEB | dcdB ADFA |
~B2 GB FBEB | EDEB AFDA | BAGF EFGA | BcdB ADFA |]

I've changed the second part to 1st & 2nd endings, as bars 1 & 2 and 5 & 6 are identical. Something similar could also be done with the 3rd part, if reducing the 2nd and 6th bars to being equivalent, which they basically are ~

|: ~B2 GB FBEB | ~E2 EB AFDA |[1 ~B2 GB FBEB | dcdB ADFA :|[2 BAGF EFGA | BcdB ADFA |]

This transcription did not have the 4th part which begins ~ |: BAGF EFGA | ~

# Posted on April 6th 2010 by ceolachan

"The Morning Dew" ~ 3-parts, Michael Coleman

X: 4
T: Morning Dew, The
L: 1/8
M: 4/4
K: EDor
~E3 B BAFA | EBEB AGFG | ~E3 B BAFA |[1 BddB AGFD :|[2 BddB AGFA ||
B2 eB fBeB | ~B2 dB ADFA | B2 eB fBeB | dcdB ADFA |
B2 eB fBeB | FBBG ADFA | B/c/d eg fAec | dcdB ADFA ||
BEGF EFGA | BEGB ADFA | BEGF EFGA | BddB ADFA |
BEGF EFGA | BEGB ADFA | ~B2 GB EBGB | BAdB AGFD |]

# Posted on April 8th 2010 by ceolachan

"The Morning Dew" ~ where & when did that 4th part start?

I've seen this single reel given the AABBCC, the AABBCD, and the AABBCCDD. When and where did that 4th bit creep into the tune? I think I first learned it as AABBCC. Was it some insane arranger of butchery by the likes of The Chieftains or Steeleye Span that decided it needed a 4th part? Michael Coleman and Tommy Peoples only play three parts...

Yes I know, the esoteric, but sometimes the madness in me grabs hold and tries to shake an answer out of me, and at the moment isn't being satisfied but still craves an answer. Rather than do this on my lonesome, searching for a possible answer to another late night niggling question, I thought ~ why not involve other mad folk in the mayhem? :-P

If you've no answer then off topic inuendos or slagging will do as sideline entertainment, but I don't have to tell you that do I...

How do you take this one? ~ 3 tablets or four? What's the norm around your neck of the woods?

# Posted on April 8th 2010 by ceolachan

Re: "The Morning Dew" ~ where & when did that 4th part start?

what fourth part?

# Posted on April 8th 2010 by Earl Cameron

Re: "The Morning Dew" ~ where & when did that 4th part start?

Does the 4th part go 'diddly um da dum da dum da diddly um de dee ..."?

# Posted on April 8th 2010 by dogbox

Re: "The Morning Dew" ~ where & when did that 4th part start?

Never heard a fourth part to it, but then, I've never actually heard that tune in a session. It's one of those lovely classics that just got retired for being TOO GOOD.

# Posted on April 8th 2010 by Danjo

Re: "The Morning Dew" ~ where & when did that 4th part start?

I've never heard a 4th part either, and this is one of my favorite tunes. There are two different ways to play the C part.

One C popularized by the Chieftains goes |B2 EB GBEA|BAGB ADFA| and the C as widely played (and on Martin Hayes' Lonesome Touch cd) goes |BAGF EFGA|BAGB ADFA|. But these are both "C" parts.

# Posted on April 8th 2010 by Will Harmon

Re: "The Morning Dew" ~ where & when did that 4th part start?

I suspect that is what Jeremy meant to offer in his transcription, the two ways with the C-part ~

"The Morning Dew"
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/69/comments

X: 1
T: Morning Dew, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Edor
|: E3 B- BAFD | EDEB BAFD | E3 B- BAFA | BcdB AFDF :|
|: B2 eB fBeB | B2 eB AFDF | B2eB fBeB |[1 BcdB AFDF :|[2 Bdeg fdec | d2 dA BAFD ||
|: B2 EB GBEB | B2 EB AFDF |[1 B2 EB GBEB | BcdB AFDF :|[2 Bdeg fdec | d2 dA BAFD ||
|: BAGF EFGA | B2 GB A2 GA | BAGF EFGA | BcdB AFDF :|

I also think that in one situation where I'd heard it given a 4-part treatment was to fit the usual 32 bars required by many dances, which can easily be filled by 16-part single reels, or the rare 4-part single reel, and in this one instance a 3-part being fiddled to fit. But I've also heard it similar to the way that Jeremy's transcription goes, dipping high on the B-part, low on the C-part, and then the scale treatment of the variant C-part, something similar to that illustrated above.

# Posted on April 8th 2010 by ceolachan

Or was it Jeremy's intent to offer 4-parts? ~ Musn't assume anything...

# Posted on April 8th 2010 by ceolachan

Re: "The Morning Dew" ~ where & when did that 4th part start?

Ceol,

I've never heard of it being four parts but like Miss L, I have heard two alternative versions of the C part.

# Posted on April 8th 2010 by TheSilverSpear

Re: "The Morning Dew" ~ where & when did that 4th part start?

I did, before asking this here, dig up a ton of listens and transcriptions, ABCs & dots, and ALL were just 3-parts, except one very weird one from an unidentified source, but it sounds pretty rough, like a session recording in a tightly packed and noisy pub...

# Posted on April 8th 2010 by ceolachan

~ or a dance...

# Posted on April 8th 2010 by ceolachan

Re: "The Morning Dew" ~ where & when did that 4th part start?

The way I learned this tune back in the 70's was different from both the Chieftans version and the way people play it in sessions now.

It started on the high part, what's usually the B part.

The other thing, the way I learned the C part was a "rocking" part

B2EB GBEB | B2EB AFDF etc.

The "run" was only at the very end, the way so many polkas etc have a "run" at the end

BAGF EFGA etc.

But the way I hear it in sessions nowadays they play that ending run over and over again, so that the C part is nothing but runs up and down the scale.

# Posted on April 8th 2010 by Richard D Cook

Re: "The Morning Dew" ~ where & when did that 4th part start?

most people I know play the C part as a run, but I much prefer it "rocking".

if i'm playing it on my own at home I sometimes play the running C part as an introduction, then play AABBCC using the rocking C. Long time ago I would finish it again on a running C last time through after the ( for me normal) rocking C. Haven't done that in a long time though and never played it like that outside of playing on home on me own.

I think it is a tune that does lend itself to being started on a part other than A if it will follow bettre in a set. But i'd have thought the running C a bettre candidate for this than the B

- chris

# Posted on April 8th 2010 by ramblingpitchfork

Re: "The Morning Dew" ~ where & when did that 4th part start?

Didn't it come from Coleman, as a variation he played in the third part the second time around?

# Posted on April 8th 2010 by Georgi

Re: "The Morning Dew" ~ where & when did that 4th part start?

I just play both c parts interchangably at any point in the part each variation also having it's own versions and variations. I consider them to be the same and they sound good together (being in unison on most of the beats) as long as the rhythm doesn't get hairy.

# Posted on April 9th 2010 by Earl Cameron

Re: "The Morning Dew" ~ where & when did that 4th part start?

so first time through I might play

B2 EB GBEB | B2 GB ADFA | B2 GB FBEB | BcdB ADFA |
BAGF EFGA | B2 GB ADFA |B2 EB GBEB | dcdB ADFA|

and then vary the second time through that part but the second time through the tune maybe I'll play just the upward and downward scales. I always just decide based on who's playing what version among the other players, and which players I am trying to mesh with at any moment in time

# Posted on April 9th 2010 by Earl Cameron

C parts Morning Dew

Bail ó Dhia oraibh! Greetings to one and all!

I’ve read this post with great interest as The Morning Dew is one of my favourite tunes.

In the time I’ve been playing I have always known it to be a three part tune, most renditions being in a simple A B C form.

However, in these thirty odd years or so of playing, I must say that I have heard so many different interpretations of the C part that I have developed a version which I use for gigs [as opposed to sessions] which adds a part each time, saving the “bolder” versions till last, eg

A B Ci

A B Ci Cii

A B Ci Cii Cii etc

If it’s going okay, and I’m in the zone so to speak, I might recall five or more variations. I must say that I ALWAYS acknowledge that these are interpretations gained from playing with other musicians.

All the best

Brian xx

# Posted on April 9th 2010 by briantheflute

Doh't you just love it when a tune shrugs off attempts to straight jacket it ~ 8-)

Come on Brian, don't leave us guessing... ;-) Let's see at least some of those variations.

Glad to see this moved to where it belongs, expecting that would happen as the normal course of discussions on a given tune. Thanks to Jeremy for the move, and for letting it go a spell in discussions before that.

Richard's comment strikes a bell with me, not unlike most highland flings and other single reels, where there's a second ending in the final part, in this case the C-part, and in a sense, as previously mentioned ~ AABBCD. Here's a couple of takes going that way, and hoping to lure out more from the likes of Brian ~

X: 5
T: Morning Dew, The
L: 1/8
M: 4/4
K: EDor
~E3 B BAFA | EBEB AGFG | E^DEB BAFA | BddB AGFD |
E3 B BAFA | EBGB AGFG | ~E3 B BAFA | BcdB AGFA ||
~B2 eB fBeB | ~B2 dB ADFA | B2 eB fBeB | dcdB ADFA |
BEeB fBeB | EBBG ADFA | B/c/d eg fAec | d2 dB ADFA ||
B2 GB FBEB | BEGB ADFA | BEGF EFGA | BddB ADFA |
BAGF EFGA | B/c/B GB AD F/G/A | ~B2 GB EBGB | BGdB AGFD |]

X: 6
T: Morning Dew, The
L: 1/8
M: 4/4
K: EDor
E^DEB BAFD | EGBE ADFA | E^DEB BAFA | BddB AGFD |
E3 B BA F/G/A | EBGB AGFD | E/E/E EB BAFA | BcdB AGFA ||
B2 eB fBeB | ~B2 dB ADFA | B2 eB fBec | dB B/c/d ADFA |
B/c/B eB fB e2 | EB-BG ADFA | B/c/d eg fAec | d/f/e dB ADFD ||
BEGF E/E/E GA | BEGB ADFA | BEGF EFGA | Bd-dB ADFA |
BEGF EFGA | BEGB ADFA | ~B2 GB FBEB | BGdB ADFD |]

# Posted on April 9th 2010 by ceolachan

X: 6
E^DEB BAF=D | EGBE ~ though it is fun to carry the sharpened D there too, an into the following E...

# Posted on April 9th 2010 by ceolachan

Paddy Canny's version

This is the version I got from Paddy Canny on Historic Recording of East Clare.....my best idea. This is my favourite version, however, it starts on the 3rd part, whether by design or not, I don't know. This is how they play it, I think 4 times through. I really wonder it's just 2 variations of part C. No one I've heard plays it like this though.

X: 1
T: Morning Dew, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Edor
B2 EB GBEB | B2 EB ADFA | B2 EB GBEB | BAdB ADFA |
B2 EB GBEB | B2 EB ADFA | B2 EB GBEB | BAdB AFED ||
|: E3 B- BAFD | EDEB AFDF | E3 B- BAFA | BcdB AFDF :|
B2 eB fBeB | B2 dB ADFA | B2 eB fBeB | dcdB ADFA |
B2 eB fBeB | B2 dB ADFA | Bdeg fdec | dcdB ADFA ||
B2 EB GBEB | B2 EB ADFA | B2 EB GBEB | BAdB ADFA |
B2 EB GBEB | B2 EB ADFA | B2 EB GBEB | BAdB AFED ||
|: E3 B- BAFD | EDEB AFDF | E3 B- BAFA | BcdB AFDF :|
B2 eB fBeB | B2 dB ADFA | B2 eB fBeB | dcdB ADFA |
B2 eB fBeB | B2 dB ADFA | Bdeg fdec | dcdB ADFA ||
|: BAGF EFGA | B2 GB ADFA | BAGF EFGA | BcdB ADFA :|
|: E3 B- BAFD | EDEB BAFD | E3 B- BAFA | BcdB AFDF :|
B2 eB fBeB | B2 eB AFDF | B2 eB fBeB | BcdB AFDF |
B2 eB fBeB | B2 eB AFDF | Bdeg fdec | d2 dA BAFD ||
|: BAGF EFGA | B2 GB ADFA | BAGF EFGA | BcdB ADFA :|
|: E3 B- BAFD | EDEB BAFD | E3 B- BAFA | BcdB AFDF :|
B2 eB fBeB | B2 eB AFDF | B2 eB fBeB | BcdB AFDF |
B2 eB fBeB | B2 eB AFDF | Bdeg fdec | d2 dA BAFD |]

# Posted on April 10th 2010 by enirehtac

Morning Dew

Sorry, missing bar at the beginning.

X: 1
T: Morning Dew, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Edor
|| B2 EB GBEB | B2 EB ADFA | B2 EB GBEB | BAdB ADFA |
B2 EB GBEB | B2 EB ADFA | B2 EB GBEB | BAdB AFED ||
|: E3 B- BAFD | EDEB AFDF | E3 B- BAFA | BcdB AFDF :|
B2 eB fBeB | B2 dB ADFA | B2 eB fBeB | dcdB ADFA |
B2 eB fBeB | B2 dB ADFA | Bdeg fdec | dcdB ADFA ||
B2 EB GBEB | B2 EB ADFA | B2 EB GBEB | BAdB ADFA |
B2 EB GBEB | B2 EB ADFA | B2 EB GBEB | BAdB AFED ||
|: E3 B- BAFD | EDEB AFDF | E3 B- BAFA | BcdB AFDF :|
B2 eB fBeB | B2 dB ADFA | B2 eB fBeB | dcdB ADFA |
B2 eB fBeB | B2 dB ADFA | Bdeg fdec | dcdB ADFA ||
|: BAGF EFGA | B2 GB ADFA | BAGF EFGA | BcdB ADFA :|
|: E3 B- BAFD | EDEB BAFD | E3 B- BAFA | BcdB AFDF :|
B2 eB fBeB | B2 eB AFDF | B2 eB fBeB | BcdB AFDF |
B2 eB fBeB | B2 eB AFDF | Bdeg fdec | d2 dA BAFD ||
|: BAGF EFGA | B2 GB ADFA | BAGF EFGA | BcdB ADFA :|
|: E3 B- BAFD | EDEB BAFD | E3 B- BAFA | BcdB AFDF :|
B2 eB fBeB | B2 eB AFDF | B2 eB fBeB | BcdB AFDF |
B2 eB fBeB | B2 eB AFDF | Bdeg fdec | d2 dA BAFD |]

# Posted on April 10th 2010 by enirehtac

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