Key signature: Aminor
Submitted on November 11th 2002 by lazyhound.
This tune has been added to 62 tunebooks.
Also known as Ben Kelly's Delight, Ben Kiely's Delight, The Boys Of The Lough, Rakes Of Clonmel.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Rakes Of Clonmel, The
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Amin
cBA BGE|EAA A2B|cBc ABc|BGG G2^f|
g^fg ege|dBG Bcd|ecA dBG|EAA A2:|
a|a^ga A2a|ecA A2^f|g^fg G2g|dBG GAB|
cBc C2c|dcd D2d|edc Bcd|ecA A2a|
aea aed|cBc A2^f|gdg gdc|BAB GAB|
cBc C2c|dcd D2d|edc Bcd|ecA A3||
Found this in an old collection of New England fiddle music. The frequent octave leaps are a feature.
-m
# Posted on November 11th 2002 by lazyhound
This tune is also found in O'Neill 1850 as #902, where it is alos known as Boys of the Lough (jig). The O'Neill version doesn't have the numerous octave leaps.
-m
# Posted on November 11th 2002 by lazyhound
John Williams's setting, partially, more or less:
cBA GED|EAA A2B|cBc edc|BGG GAB|
cBc dcd|edc Bcd|ecA GED|EAA A2B:|
a|:aea aed|cBc ABc|g^fg gdc|BGG GAB|
cBc dcd|edc Bcd|ecA GED|EAA A2a:|
It's treacherously close, but I think we're probably going to play it with The White Petticoat following.
# Posted on December 8th 2003 by Zina Lee
Rakes of Clonmel - Canny setting
Here is Paddy Canny's setting of the tune. I got this from the Patrick Ourceau workshop at the EC Tionol. Patrick said that Paddy likes to play this with his Gdor setting of The Cliffs of Moher although, on his Traditional Music From The Legendary East Clare Fiddler recording, he plays it after The Gallowglass.
K: GDor
A|:BAG AGF|DEF G2A|BAB c2B|AFE F2f|
{a}fef ded|cAG ABc|dBG (3FED C|1 DEF G2 A:|2 DEF G2 g|
{a}gdg {a}gdc|BGG G2e|~f3 fcB|AFE FGA|
~B3 ~c3|dcB ABc|dBG (3FED C|DEF G2 g:|
~g3 ~g3|afd dde|~f3 g2B|AFE FGA|
~B3 ~c3|dcB ABc|dBG (3FED C|1 DEF G2 g:|2 DEF G2 A:|
Ken
# Posted on November 16th 2005 by FiddleMeThis
"New England Fiddler's Repertoire" ~ T.J.'s source
Pulled together by Randy Miller & Jack Perron
1983 / 2nd edition 2003
Page 31: "Rakes of Clonmel"
Second Edition, what's new: "Easier-to-read music typesetting, chords added, index by key, list of alternate titles, decorated with over two dozen Randy Miller wood engravings, including "A Time to Dance"."
~ another Randy Miller publication:
"Irish Traditional Fiddle Music"
# Posted on November 26th 2005 by ceolachan
http://www.randymillerprints.com/
http://www.randymillerprints.com/fiddletunebooks.htm
# Posted on November 26th 2005 by ceolachan
Rakes of Clonmel
I like the interpretation of Plumley and Herr in http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/2749. The tune really has a "haunting quality", as they write, and begs to be played in an unhurried fashion.
# Posted on September 28th 2007 by sixholes
Altan's track "Australian Waters" on the "Runaway Sunday" album
A quick thankyou to "Lazyhound" and "FiddleMeThis"! I've spent most of this afternoon hunting for the title to the third tune in the above-named set. It certainly seems to be an arr't of this tune; though playing only parts A and B. Oddly enough as I listened to it more closely I also thought it'd sound well after the Gallowglass.
# Posted on May 5th 2008 by patchsong