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The Foxhunter's

slip jig

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on February 14th 2004 by turophile.

This tune has been added to 45 tunebooks.

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X: 1
T: Foxhunter's, The
M: 9/8
L: 1/8
R: slip jig
K: Dmaj
|:F2 FD GE|F2 FD ED| ~F2 F2 GB|AF DF ED:|
|:B2 BA GA|BE ED GA|B2 BA GB|AD DE FD:|

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The Foxhunter's sheetmusic
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Can be heard as part of the set entitled "The Foxhunt" on Chieftains 2, side 1 track 6. It is played straight after "the Foxhunters jig" and is oh! so similar. They play it fast and not at normal mazurka speed but then again it is part of one of the Chieftains renowned tone-pictures.

# Posted on February 14th 2004 by hetty

This is a slip jig and already listed on the database

They don't play it at mazurka speed indeed, because it's a slip jig.
They do play it quite a lick but speeding up a tune doesn't change it's time signature.

# Posted on February 28th 2004 by milesnagopaleen

Mazurka vs. Slip Jig

I checked before I posted this tune, and as far as I could tell, it was not in the database. It is not in the same meter as the Foxhunter's Jig (already in the database), so I posted it separately, using the mazurka meter.

This tune is part of the Fox Hunt -- a programmatic medley of an air and different dance versions of The Foxhunter's. It maps out something like this:

1. AIR: Fiach an Mhadra Rua
2. "VAMP": "Sound effects," with galloping horses on pipes, dogs barking on whistle, hunting horn calls on flute and fiddle
3. SLIP JIG: The Foxhunter's
4. VAMP: Galloping horses on bodhran, hunting horn calls on pipes and fiddle
5. "FAST MAZURKA": Flute, with other instruments playing sound effects. Eventually all instruments are playing the fast mazurka.
6. REEL: The Foxhunter's

The slip jig and mazurka versions in this set sound completely different to me in that the first is in the common 9/8 meter and the latter is in a mazurka 3/4 meter. That's why I posted this as a separate tune.

# Posted on February 29th 2004 by turophile

Fast Slip Jig

On fast slip jigs, see the comment from blarneystar regarding Tommy Hunt's Jig (http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/2579). I'm still unclear how a fast slip jig played in a meter of 3/4 (1-2 1-2 1-2) should be notated in 9/8 (1-2-3 1-2-3 1-2-3). And I'm particularly interested in what to do in the case of this jig, which (as I mentioned before) is not simply a speeded-up version of The Foxhunter's Jig already in the database.

# Posted on March 14th 2004 by turophile

Fast Slip Jig in 9/8

OK, I'm up for the challenge. Here is ABC notation for the "fast slip jig" version of The Foxhunter's in 9/8 meter. It "looks" odd to me -- I don't think I've seen such a beast in O'Neill's (for example) -- but I think it parses fine. I wonder, though, whether many users of this Web site would be able to read it "correctly" as readily as the 3/4 version I originally posted.

X:1
T:The Foxhunter's
M:9/8
L:1/8
R:Slip Jig
K:D
F3 F3/2D3/2 G3/2E3/2|F3 F3/2D3/2 E3/2D3/2| ~F3 F3 G3/2B3/2|A3/2F3/2 D3/2
F3/2 E3/2D3/2:|
B3 B3/2A3/2 G3/2A3/2|B3/2E3/2 E3/2D3/2 G3/2A3/2|B3 B3/2A3/2 G3/2B3/2|A3/
2D3/2 D3/2E3/2 F3/2D3/2:||

So where do I go to claim the Ph.D.?

# Posted on March 15th 2004 by turophile

Mazurkas

May I suggest that you listen to some Donegal music and find out what Mazurkas sound like. Also try listening to something other than the Chieftains.

# Posted on March 24th 2004 by milesnagopaleen

What gives you the impression that I have not listened to Donegal music? What gives you the impression that I do not know what muzurkas sound like? What gives you the impression that I have not listened to something other than the Chieftains?

# Posted on March 27th 2004 by turophile

Another Mazurka(ish) recording

Lunasa records this tune in G major on their album Redwood-- track 7, "Dublin to Dingle," second tune. It's clearly in a 3/4 time signature, and again with only two parts (plus the usual Lunasa variations) instead of the 4 sections that the slip jig has.

# Posted on April 19th 2008 by robin hood

I like the insistance on F in the first part, and on B and E in the second, that can be interpreted/played as the rhythmic barking and yelping of the dogs. The Mazurca form makes it even more striking.

# Posted on May 25th 2010 by birlibirdie

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