Key signature: Amajor
Submitted on March 11th 2009 by Mix O'Lydian.
This tune has been added to 9 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Dornoch Links
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Amaj
|: a/f/ | eA cB/c/| eA Aa/f/ | ec cB/c/ | fB Bc/d/ |
e/f/e/d/ cB/A/| ce ac | df Be/d/ | cA A :|
|: e | a2 ef/g/ | ae/d/ cB/A/ | a2 e/f/e/c/ | dB Be |
a2 ef/g/ | a/e/f/d/ cB/A/ | df Be/d/ | cA A :|
Dornoch Links
Another abc transcription from my old copy of Kerr's Caledonian.
Scottish. For want of anything closer, I've submitted it as a polka - but strictly speaking, it is a quickstep.
It takes its name from a golf course on the NE coast of Scotland:
http://www.scottishgolfhistory.net/dornoch_early_golf.htm
Somewhat surprisingly, golf has been played at Dornoch since 1619, though I don't think the tune is as old as that!
Q. Has anyone heard the tune, asked for the title, then written down: "Door Knock Lynx"?
Q. Are there any other tunes named after golf courses?
# Posted on March 11th 2009 by Mix O'Lydian
Pat O'Connor...
...fiddle player living in east Clare, plays this on his album "The Humours of Derrybeha" (CR004CD, track 6). He calls it a 'schottische'.
Also, Mary Mac Namara calls it "Joe Bane's" - she can be heard playing it on "Ceol na mBan, Clare women of music & song" (DRCD004, track 8).
It's a popular tune in east Clare but no-one calls it Dornoch Links.
David
# Posted on August 15th 2011 by DavidT
It's also on the Mulcahys'
"Notes from the Heart" album as Joe Banne's (fling) and the first tune on Jack Talty and Cormac Begley's "Na Fir Bolg", as Joe Bane's (barndance). Ho hum.
Mix O'Lydian, as for naming tunes after golf courses (or vice versa) there's St Andrews, which is a fine tune, well-known here in east Clare and a very famous golf course.
There's a course at Slieve Russell, another nice tune; what about Bantry Bay? And does "The Wearing of the Green" count? 8))
David
# Posted on December 29th 2011 by DavidT