The Rooms Of Dooagh

jig

Key signature: Cmajor

Submitted on December 20th 2003 by geoffwright.

This tune has been added to 31 tunebooks.

Also known as Pat Canny's, Petticoat Loose, Petticoate Loose, Petticoats Loose, The Rooms Of Dooah.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• An Fhidil by Various Artists
• Angelina Carberry And Martin Quinn by Angelina Carberry And Martin Quinn
• Far From Home by Boys Of The Lough
• Open Road by Boys Of The Lough
• Out Of The Flames by Matt Seattle
• Reed Only by Tim Collins/Brian McNamara
• The Family Album by The McCarthys
• The Horse's Tail by Zoe Conway
• The Shores Of Lough Graney by P.J.Hayes And Martin Hayes
• The South West Wind by Ronan Browne And Peter O'Loughlin
• The Thing Itself by Maeve Donnelly And Peadar O'Loughlin
• The Unseen Hours by Malinky
• Traditional Irish Tunes Played On The Tin Whistle (1/2) by Geraldine Cotter
• Traditional Music From East Clare by Mary MacNamara
• Under The Moon by Martin Hayes
• William Winter's Quantocks Tune Book by Robert Harbron, Nancy Kerr, Miranda Rutter, Tim Van Eyken

X: 1
T: Rooms Of Dooagh, The
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Cmaj
|:GEE cEE|GAG G2A|GEE cBc|ded dcA|
GEE cEE|GAG G2g|^fed cAG|Add dcA|!
GEE cEE|GAG G2A|GEE cBc|ded dcA|
GEE cEE|GAG G2g|^fed cAG|Add def||!
g3 ged|cAB cde|g3 ged|eaa age|
gea ged|cAB cde|fed cAG|Add def|!
g3 ged|cAB cde|g3 ged|eaa age|
gea ged|cAB cde|fed cAG|Add dcA:|

The Rooms of Dooagh

From Mary Macnamara - TM from East Clare - This tune refers to a cave system between Maghera and Tulla

# Posted on December 20th 2003 by geoffwright

This tune is in Dmix, not in Cmaj. I mean they are all F#.

# Posted on April 5th 2006 by slainte

Compare the second part of Bryan O'Lynn's: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/4139

# Posted on April 5th 2006 by slainte

The Rooms of Dooagh

It sounds like the "home" is Cmaj to me, even with all the F#s.

Regardless, I like this in Dmaj (?) and follow with "The Walls of Liscarrol" in Edor, a pairing from a Mary McNamara CD.
X: 1
T: Rooms Of Dooagh, The
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmaj
dB || AFF dFF | ABA AdB | AFF dcd | efe edB |
AFF dFF | ABA A2a | ^gfe dBA |1 Bee edB :|2 Bcd ef^g ||
a3 afe | dBc def | a3 afe | fbb ba^g |
a3 afe | dBc def | a^gf edA | Bee ef^g |
a3 afe | dBc def | a3 afe | fbb ba^g |
af^g afe | dBc def | a^gf edA | Bef edB ||

I play the B part without repeating it.

# Posted on April 5th 2006 by joesmith

Modal soup?

Odd modality. To me, it sounds like a four bar cycle that starts in C major and ends in D dorian, with two pickup notes to restart in C major. Two of the cycles have a brief flirtation with C lydian and then into D dorian. I count three F naturals and two F sharps.

# Posted on April 5th 2006 by Bob himself

Call for a show of hands.

# Posted on April 5th 2006 by joesmith

Well, if you force me to choose, I'll say C major, since the D dorian part doesn't get firmly anchored. In general, how do you name a key when the tune clearly starts in one mode and clearly ends in another? Is there a convention about that?

# Posted on April 5th 2006 by Bob himself

If there's a convention, let's have it soon, in Costa Rica!

# Posted on April 5th 2006 by joesmith

I'd be very curious to find out when this tune was composed in relation to Brian O'Lynn's. One of these tunes seems to have inspired the other. My suspicion is that this one came after Brian O'Flynn's. It seems to be a variation on the first part that experiments with the tonality a bit. If I were writing out ABCs for it I would use Ador as the base key.

Here's the version of Brian O'Flynn's that I'm referring to.

http://thesession.org/tunes/display.php/830

# Posted on April 5th 2006 by Phantom Button

Alan Ng's irishtune.info shows the earliest source in transcription or recording for O'Lynn's to be 1903; for Rooms of Dooagh, 1992.

# Posted on April 5th 2006 by joesmith

Ah... very good, Laitch. Yup, I'd say this tune is a very interesting variation of Brian O'Lynn's. I'm not suggesting it was intentional; I think many tunes that are variations of existing tunes are composed without the intention or even the conscious knowledge of the tune that it is a variant of. Tom Doorly, of Danu, wrote a tune called "Are You Ready Yet?" that is as close to "Major Harrison's Fedora" as this tune is to "Brian O'Lynn's." I never asked him, but I doubt it was intentional.

# Posted on April 6th 2006 by Phantom Button

The Rooms of Dooagh

Another closely related tune called "The Short Grass" here: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/3058

In the sleeve notes of Mary MacNamara's solo album, Jackie Small informs us that this tune was named after "a cave system in the hills between Maghera and Tulla," East Clare. Maeve Donnelly and Peadar O'Loughlin recorded it as Pat Canny's Jig. Pat was Paddy Canny's father.

# Posted on April 6th 2006 by slainte

The Rooms of Dooagh

Watch and listen to Claire Keville and Pat O'Connor play this jig: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBNBAu6pbUs

To correct myself, there are two F naturals in the second part.

# Posted on February 4th 2007 by slainte