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The Milliner's Daughter

reel

Key signature: Gmajor

Submitted on February 4th 2003 by Dow.

This tune has been added to 106 tunebooks.

Also known as The Millner's Daughter.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

A Stone's Throw by Michael Cooney
A Tribute To Joe Cooley by Frankie Gavin, Paul Brock, Charlie Lennon
At The End Of The Day by Dervish
Between The Sets by Barefield Ceili Band
Fiddledance by Frank Ferrel And Friends
Flower Of The Red Mill by Sarah Blair
Hit The Bricks... by Waking Maggie
House To House by Randal Bays And Roger Landes
Ireland's Whistling Ambassador by Micho Russell
Irish Jigs by Paul Hutchinson, John Hymas And Tony Harris
Irish Traditional Flute Solos And Band Music From Kerry And Tipperary by Billy Clifford
Irish Traditional Music In America: Chicago by Various Artists
Irish Traditional Music Of County Clare by Bernard O'Sullivan And Tommy McMahon
Leo Rowsome: Classics Of Irish Piping by Leo Rowsome
Macalla Na H�ige by Hugh Healy And Colm Healy
No Trouble At All by Noel Lenaghan
Potsticks by Sean Moloney
Set Dances Of Ireland, Volume III by Various Artists
Set On Stone by The Kilfenora Ceili Band
Sugrú by Eilish O'Connor
The Dangerous Reel by Mike And Mary Rafferty
The Family Album by The McCarthys
The First Month Of Summer by Buttons And Bows
The Flags Of Dublin by Paddy Glackin, Mick O'Brien And Mick Gavin
The Pipering Of Willie Clancy. Vol 2 by Willie Clancy
The Return From Fingal by Séamus Ennis
The Silver Spire by Karen Tweed
Think Before You Think by Danu
Tony McManus by Tony McManus
Traditional Music On Fiddle, Banjo, And Harp by Oisin MacDiarmada, Brian Fitzgerald, And Michael O Ruanaigh
Untitled by Liam O'Flynn

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What I really wanted to post was Liam Kelly out of Dervish -'s "Oh-my-God" version of this from "At The End Of The Day", but it's one of those cases of either a session version or virtuosic showcase piece. Liam Kelly plays it as a double reel (as it is sometimes played at sessions) and it goes something like the following (with some of the grace notes omitted):

|:G2BG DG (3Bcd|{g}~a3g fdcA|FGBG dG (3Bcd|cAFG AG{A}GF|
GdBG DG (3Bcd|{g}~a3g fdcA|FG{A}GF D2Bd|cAFG AG{A}GF:|
|:d~g2f d~g2f|df~f2 d~f2e|d2gf ~g3f|d2de fdcA|
dg~g2 b2ag|e~f2e ~f3g|af{a}ge fd~e2|d2 (3efg fdcA:|

Does anyone here play this as a double or mixed single/double? I really like that 2nd part repeated...

# Posted on February 4th 2003 by Dow

nice tune dow

# Posted on February 4th 2003 by bb

Willie Clancy's "Milliner's Daughter"

Notated by Pat Mitchell from a recording of Willie Clancy playing in Miltown Malbay at Easter 1971.
( graces notes omitted )

G|~G2BG DGBG|~A2eg fdcA|~G2BG DGBG|AD~F2 ABcA|
~G2BG DGBG|.A2~g2 fd^cA|~G2BG DGBG|cAFA AGG||
B||.dg~g2 .dg~g2|.de~f2 .de~f2|.dg~g2 .dg~g2|d^cde fdcA|
dg~g2 bgad|fdd(e~f3)g|af (3.g.f.e) fdec|d^cde fdcA||

# Posted on February 5th 2003 by gian marco

... and another one: this is how John McEvoy tought it on Willie Clancy Week 03. I like the different ways part A goes in its first and second half

|:G2BG DGBG|A2 (3efg fdcA| G2BG DGAB| cAFG AGGF |!
G2BG DGBG|A2 (3efg fdcA | GB ~B2 dB ~B2 |1 cAFG AGGF:|2 cAFG AGGB|!
:dg~g2 dg~g2|df~f2 df~f2|dggf gagf|d^cde fd=cA|!
dg~g2 bgaf|d^cde f2 fg|afge fde^c|d2 eg fd=cA:||!
|"End"d2 eg fd=cA|G4 z4||!

# Posted on July 26th 2003 by crannog

Yepp...

*raises hand*
Double reel.

# Posted on September 18th 2003 by Josh Kane

Yet another good version (yup, as a double reel)

This is my interpretation of a Liam Kelly performance... I think it's off of Spirit and it really rocks...

# Posted on December 18th 2004 by bestcraic

I had always played this as a double reel, but more recently have heard it in my local session as a single reel. I prefer it as a double though.

# Posted on December 11th 2005 by Jason G

Related tunes

I suspect this reel is related to fluters' or pipers' classics such as "Trim the Velvet," "Kiss the Maid behind the Barrel," and "the Steampacket." IMO this one would be an easy substitute for all the above, and a great tune for beginning flute players, including me.

Well, the tune closest to this is actually "the Green Groves of Erin": http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/41 They are in fact identical tunes in different keys. If you have learned one but not the other yet, why not try and learn it? It'll take just a minute. They really go nicely together, just like the Copperplates.

# Posted on May 7th 2006 by slainte

East Galway Version (single reel)

Here's the version of the tune recorded by the Ballinakill Traditional Dance Players in 20's or early 30's.

K: Gmaj
G2BG DGBG|A2(3efg fdcA|G2BG DGBd|cAFG AGGF|
G2BG DGBG|A2(3efg fdcA|GB~B2 FA~A2|cAFG AGG2||
dg~g2 dg~g2|df~f2 df~f2|dg~g2 bgag|d^cde fd=cA|
dg~g2 bgag|d^cde ~f3g|afge fde^c|d^cde fd=cA||

You can actually listen to the historic recording of the legendary group: http://www.juneberry78s.com/sounds/ListenToIrishDance.htm

Yesterday I took one of the members of this site called "browndog" to the session I occasionally go. He played a similar version as a double. I believe he learned the tune from Ballinakill-born flute player Mike Rafferty, who in turn learned it from the Ballinakill Traditional Dance Players.

# Posted on May 31st 2006 by slainte

Where I learned it...

Hi Slainte!

Wow! Here it is almost two years later and I'm just now seeing your comment for the first time. I am honored to be mentioned by you. I still have wonderful memories of meeting you and attending your session.

In spite of all of the tunes that I learned from Mike Rafferty at Catskills Irish Arts Week in 2004, this was not one of them.

I learned this one in CIAW 2000, from Clare flute player, Siobhan Kelly -- now living in New Jersey, USA with husband Willie (fiddler). Her setting is quite a finger-twister on flute, for me, but I love it.

お疲れ様です。

# Posted on February 14th 2008 by browndog

"The Milliner's Daughter" ~ as a highland fling

Messin' with your minds... ;-)

# Posted on February 14th 2008 by ceolachan

Just let me know when you're back. We should swap some tunes.

# Posted on February 14th 2008 by slainte