Key signature: Cmajor
Submitted on May 7th 2003 by Dow.
This tune has been added to 39 tunebooks.
Also known as The Cloon, The Humours Of Toomagh, Throw It Across.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Cloone, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Cmaj
|:e|dcAE ~G3A|GEcE ~G3e|dcAE ~G3A|GEcE EDDe|
dcAE ~G3A|GEcE ~G3A|c2ec gced|cAGE EDD:|
|:B|c2ec gcec|~g3a gede|c2ec gcea|gedc AGGB|
c2ec gcec|~g3a gedg|agec d2ed|cAGE EDD:|
Cloon or Cloone?
"Cloon" as in Cloon nr. Claregalway, "Cloon River" or "Cloone" Co. Leitrim?... Anyone?
Sometimes in D major, but why not play it in C - I mean look how many other D major reels there are. Dervish play a different setting in D, available at Norbeck's #680. I think the setting I've transcribed is more suitable for a sessions, but I'm not sure, maybe the Dervish setting is becoming popular in some places.
# Posted on May 7th 2003 by Dow
One good reason for playing this tune in C is that it has no F-naturals in it, so theres no awkward fingering involved for whistle and keyless flute players. Tunes played in C have a quality about them which is different from the common keys of D and G (I would not like to stipulate as to whether this is due to some inherent nature of the key or to the relationship between fingerings and acoustics of the instruments - probably largely the latter, given that pitch standards have varied enormously over the last 4 centuries) and this should be exploited to the full.
# Posted on May 9th 2003 by granama
The Cloon
I've done a pretty careful transcription of Malloy's setting of this tune for any of you fluties out there who are interested in such things, and here's the abcs.
X:1
T:Cloon, The
S:Matt Malloy
Z:Jack Gilder
M:4/4
L:1/8
R:reel
K:Cmaj
dcAE ~G3A|GEcE ~G3c|dcAE ~G3A|GEcGE D~D2|!
dcAE ~G3A|GEcE ~G3A|c2ec ~g3e|dcAG ED~D2:||!
c2ec gcec|~g3a gede|c2ec gceg|gedc AGEG|!
c2ec gcec|~g3a gedg|gedc ~d2ed|cAGE ED~D2:||!
# Posted on August 12th 2004 by Phantom Button
I didn't know he played flute as well as being an actor! Has he done any recordings?
# Posted on August 12th 2004 by Dow
It's MOLLOY then!
Wise guy!
# Posted on August 12th 2004 by Phantom Button
Cloon - Border Collies
Here's the way the Border Collies recorded it:
X:1
T:Cloon Reel
R:reel
D:Border Collies: Unleashed
Z:Jack Gilder
M:C|
K:D
d|fedB ~A3F|FEDF ~A3d|fedB ~A3F|FEDE FEEd|!
fedB ~A3F|FEDF ~A3B|d2fd ~a3f|1edBA FEE:|2edBA FEE2||!
d2fd adfd|~a3b afef|d2fd adfd|ABde feef|!
d2fd adfd|~a3b afea|bafd e2fe|1dBAF FEE2:|2dBAF FEE||!
# Posted on December 11th 2004 by Phantom Button
"Cloone", co. Leitrim ?
The slievenotes from "the missing reel" album could help clarify this.
I can't quote from it now but the celticgrooves.homestead.com review says: "A magnificent 1990 release by Sligo fiddle player Seamus McGuire and Leitrim flute player John Lee, featuring great tunes and local settings from the South Sligo and Leitrim traditions"
I think I remember reading there that the tune came from Leitrim and it definitely is played by John Lee on this album.
They call it "the Cloone reel" (but is it a "true" reel?)
# Posted on January 4th 2005 by birlibirdie
*Not* The Cloone Reel??
What's in a name? The Cloone Reel which Jack Gilder and the Session's sheet music section gives (which is in a 'sort of' d minor key) is not the same reel as is played on the Missing Reel which is another tune altogether and in a more recognisable G major.
# Posted on June 4th 2005 by GerryMcCartney
Please 'do' notice this:
There aren't too many tunes in the key of C in the Irish trad. repertoire (the hundred of 'CMajor' tunes listed on this site are to be played on, say, a C whistles, not the usual D) ...
...but the finger pattern for this tune is very natural (bar the turn, easier if transposed to D*) to the D whistle!!
How do youse play it? C or D'?
Have you ever tried a CD (no pun intended) duet on this?
Which do you prefer?
Do you play it in a set?
I think I only play one other tune in this way (ie CMAj on Dwhistle) but can' t think of it now. (let's c... mm... well, it will be for another time...)
(*it was by accident I stumbled on the D version -or was it at a session? It's not often heard there either...)
# Posted on September 29th 2006 by birlibirdie
for another instance of a 'true' C tune, see also: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1643 (Johnny Loughran's or Con McGlinchey's.(reel)
# Posted on September 29th 2006 by birlibirdie
And another?
I suppose that any tune based on the twin pentatonic modes Am / C (respectively without the 6th and 2nd and 4th and 7th) (which is less common than the the less ambiguous third-less pentatonic scale for those who are into modes) is a potential candidate for this little collection, really. (the likes of the Chicago reel, etc...) Here's another one -depending on whether you hear it in A or C-;
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/345 (The Kerryman's Daughter (reel))
# Posted on September 29th 2006 by birlibirdie
'true C' tunes: other candidates...(to try and test)
in the Jigs category:
cathe-http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/5147 (Wakin' Nancy (jig) (1st part only, rearranged a bit)
-http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/4563 (The Funny Mistake (slip jig) 2nd part only not very convincing though)
-http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/2277 (The Rooms Of Dooagh (jig)) (drop all f's!)
-why not Pedwar Post O'r Gwely (jig) http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/5600
-http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/4638 (Michael Burke's (jig)) (drop the only f)
-in A? C lydian? http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/3979 (Merrily Kicked The Quaker (jig)
-in A? http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/3842/details (The Lisnagun (jig)
Last but not least:
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/4047 (Liam O'Connors (jig)
# Posted on September 29th 2006 by birlibirdie
Welcome back to 'C News'
Our reporter, live from 'thesession':
-so what's the C-tuation outhere like today, B?
-Rr...there's that last part of: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/42/details The Gravel Walk (reel) that shifts nicely into 'C', we love it!
True, the tune has A written all over it, though. Over!
# Posted on September 30th 2006 by birlibirdie
See http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/2660 for the other version in D, sometimes called the Humours of Toomagh.
# Posted on March 1st 2007 by Dow