Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on October 27th 2002 by lazyhound.
This tune has been added to 20 tunebooks.
Also known as Houlichan's, Houlihan’s, Houllichan's, Hulichan's, Huligan, The Huligan, Hullichan's, The Hullichan, Hullichans.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Hullichan
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Gmaj
|:GAG BGB|ded dBG|cBc ege|dBG A2D|
GAG BGB|ded B2g|fed cBA|G3 G3:|
|:ded Bcd|ece e2e|fgf def|gBd gfe|
ded Bcd|ece gfe|ded cBA|G3 G3:||
From the New England Fiddler's Repertoire collection.
Trevor
# Posted on January 4th 2004 by lazyhound
"New England Fiddler's Repertoire"
Randy Miller & Jack Perron, 1983 / 2nd edition 2003
page 8: "Hullichan"
http://www.randymillerprints.com/
http://www.randymillerprints.com/fiddletunebooks.htm
"168 classic traditional contra dance melodies, from Batchelder's Reel to Money Musk to Portland Fancy and beyond -- the standard contra tunes in one source."
~ also their publication:
"Irish Traditional Fiddle Music"
# Posted on November 26th 2005 by ceolachan
"Hullichan's Jig" ~ the swing hold
While this is a tune played on this island, more usually English and Scottish settings and ceilidhs, and North America, there are also a few dances associated with it, and a way of swinging...
The swing first, or one way with it:
* Facing your partner move forward and to the left until you are standing beside each other, Right-shoulder to Right-shoulder ~
* Both of you bend your Left-arm placing it behind your back, palm out (kind of like a 'full-Nelson') ~
* put your R-arm out to the side and linking arms through and behind your partners back taking their Left-hand in your R-hand / their Right-hand in your Left-Hand...
Other descriptions of the hold & swing Online with other ways to swing:
http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/~tcd/aboutus/swings.htm
http://www.io.com/~entropy/contradance/articles/swing-positions.html
# Posted on December 11th 2006 by ceolachan
The swing hold is also referred to by some as 'The Tulloch'...
# Posted on December 11th 2006 by ceolachan
Another way of describing the hold ~ Link Right-arms with your partner and then reach behind their back, while at the same time place your left arm behind you and take your partners Right-hand in your Left...
# Posted on December 11th 2006 by ceolachan
The Hullichan Jig / The Hullichan Roundabout / & another?
Are these still danced at English & Scottish ceilidhs?
The first two dances have been published in a number of different books, English and Scottish and American, including the English Folk Dance & Song Society's "Community Dance Manual"...
# Posted on December 11th 2006 by ceolachan
The Hullichan Jig / Hullichan's Jig / Reel of Tulloch / Hooligan's Jig / Houlihan’s Jig
The music used is a 32 bar jig, AABB
The following description is twice through the music, or 64 measures / bars...
Formation: a set of 4 dancers / 2 couples in line M1 & m2 = men / W1 & w2 = women
Partners facing, women in the centre back-to-back M- -W w- -m
# of Bars / Measures: the description
1 - 8: Partners pas-de-bas to each other 16 beats M- -W m- -w
1 - 8: Partners 'Hullichan' for 16 beats M-W w-m
Finish with Women facing each other in the centre of the set M- W- -w -m
1 - 8: Women pas-de-bas to each other 16 beats, men do nothing
1 - 8: Women 'Hullichan' for 16 beats M- W-w -m
Finish with Women back-to-back having changed places, facing the other man
1 - 8 pas-de-bas with other man 16 beats M- -w W- -m
1- 8: turn other for 16 beats M-w W-m
Finish with the Men facing each other in centre of set w- M- -m -W
1 - 8: Men pas-de-bas to each other for 16 beats, women admire
1 - 8: Men 'Hullichan' for 16 beats w M-m W
Finish facing your partner, couples having exchanged positions, men in the middle
w- -m M- -W
Repeat as you please...
Another description online as called by Bryan Low:
http://www.ceilidhmor.com/
http://www.ceilidhmor.com/dances/
# Posted on December 11th 2006 by ceolachan
"The Hullichan Jig" ~ D Major
Discussion: What One Octave Tunes in D exist?
# Posted on September 19th 2007 by Sarah the Flute
http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/15202
This is to give them a change from the slip jigs I've been dishing out ~
X: 2
T: The Hullichan Jig
M: 9/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: D Major
|: A |
D2 D FDF | A2 A AFD | GFG B/c/dB | AFD E2 A |
DED FD/E/F | ABA F2 d | cBA GFE | D3 D2 :|
|: F |
A2 A FGA | B2 B BG/A/B | cdc ABc | dF/B/A dcB |
ABA FGA | BGB d2 B | cBA GFE | D3- D2 :|
# Posted on September 27th 2007 by ceolachan