Sean Frank's

reel

Key signature: Eminor

Submitted on May 25th 2001 by Jeremy.

This tune has been added to 74 tunebooks.

Also known as Brian Boru, Col Me Bain, Colonel McBain, Johnny's Wedding, The Smoky House.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• ALive by Kúla
• Altan: Live by Altan
• An Phíb by Dicky Deegan
• Angelina Carberry And Martin Quinn by Angelina Carberry And Martin Quinn
• Battle Songs Of The Toucan Pirates by Toucan Pirates
• Came The Dawn by Seamus Creagh
• Celtic Dream by Oisin
• Ceol Tire by Various Artists
• Colin Grant by Colin Grant
• Cuig by Blackbeers
• First Flight by Gerald Trimble
• Frankie Gavin And Alec Finn by Frankie Gavin And Alec Finn
• Handprints by Donna Long
• House Party by Máire O'Keefe
• In Colour by Cara
• Land's End by Michael Rooney And June McCormack
• Mac Bones And The B Band by Mac Bones And The B Band
• Martin Hayes by Martin Hayes
• Moving Cloud by Moving Cloud
• Music On The Wind by Sean Moloney
• Suantrai by John Canny, Kevin Carey And Terence O'Reilly
• The Tidy Cottage by Turlach Boylan
• The Wynd You Know by Ronan Browne
• Wooden Flute Obsession Disk 1 by Various Artists
• Wooden Flute Obsession: Volume 3, Disc 2 by Various Artists
• Yours Truly by Natalie MacMaster

X: 1
T: Sean Frank's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Emin
| (3GFE BE (3GFE BE|(3FED AD (3FED AD|(3GFE BE (3GFE BE|AGFG E2 EF|
(3GFE BE (3GFE BE|ABAG FD D2|G2 GF GBdB|AGFG E2 EF|G2 GF GBdB|
ABAG FA A2|(3Bcd ed efge| fedf e2 f2|
efed B2 d2|ABAG FD D2|G2 GF GBdB|AGFG E2 EF|

This tune works nicely as a slow reel.

I've included triplets in the music above, something I hardly ever do. I find that this tune sounds very flat without them.

Personally, I like to play this tune quite slowly, but I've also heard it played fast. A compromise would be to play it like a hornpipe.

# Posted on June 2nd 2001 by Jeremy

Oh, I mistakenly post the tune with the name "Colonel McBain" last night. Just in case, I searched for the tune with its fragment before posting it, but I didn't notice Jeremy post it already.

I totally agree with Jeremy about the speed. I like playing it after "Terry Teehan's."

# Posted on November 9th 2002 by slainte

Sean Frank's

My name is Sean Frank and I came across this by accident on the net. Very nice song.

# Posted on March 31st 2003 by seanliam

Sean Frank's reel

I know quite a different tune by the same name: a D modal reel that is often played after Tuttle's (Casey's) reel. If anyone is interested I will send the sheet music as a Mozart or MS WORD file

# Posted on November 16th 2005 by rabrams

Frankie Gavin's tune was different than this setting, which is out of the books, I think. I think Frankie was in D but tuned up a little. He paired it with the Bunch of Green Rushes, which is in D "Minajor" or whatever you want to call it. I prefer his setting, which was also played by Michael Coleman, in G...Mixolydian? B was both nat and flat. He called it Malloy's. John Doherty recorded a very similar reel, on Bundle and Go. Related to O'Dowd's and the Curragh Races.

# Posted on December 11th 2005 by Kevin Rietmann

I believe Mother's Delight is more similar to this reel.

# Posted on December 11th 2005 by slainte

"Johnny's Wedding" / etc. ~ reel

Also known as Colonel McBain, Sean Frank's, The Smoky House.
Key signature: d minor (also played in g & a minor)
Submitted on April 28th 2006 by OsvaldoLaviosa.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/5713

# Posted on February 6th 2007 by ceolachan

& e minor...

# Posted on February 6th 2007 by ceolachan

... also known as 'Brian Boru', 'cos it is, in fact, a version of the same tune as is posted here as a march:

http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/271/comments#comment293389

(I hope I've got this right this time, chaps)

# Posted on June 24th 2007 by benhall.1