Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on July 26th 2001 by Will Harmon.
This tune has been added to 52 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: McDonagh's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
A|:defd A2 (3AAA|(3Bcd ef gfec|defd A2 (3ABc||1 dBAG FDDA:|2 dBAG FDDB||
|Adfd Adfd|Acec fcec|Adfd Adfd|faag fedB|
|Adfd Adfd|Acef gfec|defg a2 (3aaf|gfeg fddA|
McDonagh's Reel
McDonagh's is a common session tune in some circles, and I'd heard it played many times over the years without knowing its name. But I was listening in at a star-studded session in the Gaithersburg (Maryland, USA) Hilton after hours (and after the day's concerts at the 1999 Washington Irish Festival), and caught the tune as played by Brian Conway, Patrck Mangan, Eliot Grasso, Tom Doorley, Cillian Vallely, and John Doyle. So there it is--the B part is infectious and can get a whole roomful of non-dancers instantly tapping their feet. Fiddlers will do well to keep as many fingers down as possible (holding the ds and fs) without inadvertently muting one note or the other. In the A Part, I hit the quarter-note A in the first measure on an up-bow so I can play the next bowed triplet down-up-down, and then slur the next triplet all on a single bow stroke.
Enjoy!
# Posted on July 26th 2001 by Will Harmon
It has this west-Atlantic flavour
# Posted on June 4th 2007 by birlibirdie
Go here for a similar tune http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/4588
# Posted on September 18th 2007 by Dr. Dow
Birlibirdie, what exactly do you mean by "west-Atlantic flavour"?
# Posted on September 18th 2007 by Dr. Dow
Like a Quebec gigue or Capebreton feel to it?
Here's a Scottish Pipe friendly version:
X: 1
T: McDonagh's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
defd A2 (3AAA|(cdg fedc|defd A2 (3ABc|1 dBAG ADDA:|2 dBAB cded||
|adfd Adfd|Acec fdec|adfd Adfd|faag fedB|
|Aafd adfd|Acef gfec|defg a2 (3aaf|gfeg fddA|
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by birlibirdie
I mean, is sounds like the many Quebecan tunes whose down beats fall on Major chord notes. But does Quebec count as an Atlantic province I wonder? North-West if you prefer but West-South-West of Ireland!
My 'scottish pipe friendly' version above has mistakes in it: You might prefer something more like this here;
X: 1
T: McDonagh's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
d2fd A2AB|cdeg fedc|dAfd A2(3ABc|dBAa fddA|
dedB A2(3ABc|defg fedc|dafd aaaf|dBAg fddA||
|adfd adfd|Aced fdd[bf]|adfd adfd|faaf d2f#g|
|adfd Adfd|Acef gfec|defg a2 (3aaf|gfeg fddA||
# Posted on April 13th 2010 by birlibirdie