Miss Susan Cooper

reel

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on October 7th 2002 by SPeak.

This tune has been added to 63 tunebooks.

Also known as Mary Finn's, Miss Susan Cooper's, Susan Cooper.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• Dorney Rock by Kevin Macleod
• Heat Of The Moment by Pierre Schryer And Ian Clark
• Jig It In Style by Sean Keane
• New Numbers by 422
• No Afore Time by Hom Bru
• Regrouped by Boys Of The Lough
• Relative Minors by Qristina And Quinn Bachand
• Shetland Dialect - Language Of The Fiddle by Various Artists
• Shetland Fiddle Music by School Of Scottish Studies, University Of Edinburgh
• Standing Room Only by Eliot Grasso
• The Legendary Down Home Recordings by Various Artists
• The Tidy Cottage by Turlach Boylan
• Tracin' by Gearóid Ó HAllmhuráin And Patrick Ourceau
• Traditional Fiddle Music Of Cape Breton Volume 3 Bras D'Or House by Various Artists

X: 1
T: Miss Susan Cooper
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
ABc|:dfed BedB|BAFA DAFA|ABde fa^ga|g2fg egfe|
dfed B2dB|A2FA DAFA|ABde fagf|eAce d2dc:|
|:Bcde fB(3BBB|def^g a2gf|e2ce Aece|g2fg egfe|
dfed B2dB|BAFA DAFA|ABde fagf|1 eAce d2dc:|2 eAce dABc||

This tune was composed by Ronnie Cooper from Shetland.

# Posted on October 7th 2002 by SPeak

Miss Susan Cooper

A great little reel which I haven't heard before (the minor sounding bit at the start of the "B" part is particularly catchy) - many thanks S Peak !! This proves without doubt that the best tunes are always the most straightforward and this one definitely deserves to join that illustrious group such as Cooley's, the Silver Spear, the Foxhunters, etc which will always remain with us.

# Posted on October 8th 2002 by Bannerman

One one of the CD's in the BBC Scottish Tradition series, Shetland fiddler Willie Hunter Jr. plays this tune. Presumably closer to Ronnie Cooper's original than the version here, there are a number of minor differences, but the one major difference is the 3rd bar of the B part, which he plays:

|eAce a2^ga|

# Posted on October 8th 2002 by OrganicPeatCreature

This version is similar to Bonnie Rideout's "Kindred Spirits" recording. This is the version from Sean Keane's "Jig It in Style".

# Posted on October 8th 2002 by SPeak

I might add that the variations are few and far between.

# Posted on October 8th 2002 by SPeak

This tune was also recorded by the Boys of the Lough, on their Regrouped album. It's in a set with two other Ronnie Cooper tunes, The Tushkar and Millbrae. Aly Bain plays them at breakneck speed. Brilliant stuff

# Posted on October 8th 2002 by Marc

Goes well after "Gordon's favourite", another Ronnie Cooper reel.

# Posted on October 9th 2002 by Kenn

Mary Finn's Reel

I found Mary Finn's on www.sessioneer.org It looks like the same tune with major changes in the second part. Does anyone know more?

# Posted on December 15th 2006 by JollyTinker

Add the ABCs here for comparison...

# Posted on December 15th 2006 by ceolachan

What a nice tune. The 1st part reminds me of Vincent Broderick's Fox On The Prowl, and maybe a few other similar tunes.

# Posted on October 4th 2007 by Dow

It only took 35 years, but this is the lead tune in Fairport Convention's Dirty Linen!!!

# Posted on September 4th 2009 by I_Fel