Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on March 5th 2004 by turophile.
This tune has been added to 29 tunebooks.
Also known as The Booley House Jig, Cuir Barr Air, Rouse It.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Top It Off
M: 9/8
L: 1/8
R: slip jig
K: Dmaj
|:B|A2F~F3d2A|Bcde2cd2B|A2D FGAd2A|BcdA2F~D3|
A2D~D3d2A|Bcde2cd2B|A2D FGAd2A|BcdA2FD2:|
|:g|f2Ad2cd2f|e2=cc2Bc2e|d2GB2GB2d|^c2AA2ea2g|
f2Ad2cd2f|e2=cc2Bc2e|d2A B^cde2c|d3d3d2:|
This slip jig is a version of the reel "The Sunny Banks." The Chieftains play the slip jig and the reel on track 1 of Bonaparte's Retreat. The album notes refer to the reel as a version of the slip jig "Top It Off."
# Posted on March 5th 2004 by turophile
"Connemara" / "The Connemara" ~ mystery tune?! & sibling
Submitted on April 19th 2006 by ceolachan.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/5685
Check out the variations here and also the 3/4 relative with 'snaps'...
# Posted on April 19th 2006 by ceolachan
"The Sunny Banks" / "The Flowers of Ballymote"
single reel & highland fling
Submitted on February 20th 2003 by milesnagopaleen.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1453
# Posted on April 19th 2006 by ceolachan
Sounds like a hop jig.
# Posted on April 19th 2006 by Phantom Button
"Top It Off" / "Rouse It" ~ 16 bars / measures
R: Hop Jig
|: d |
c2 A A2 c f2 c | def gfe fed | c2 A A2 c f2 c | ded c2 A F2 :|
|: f |
a2 f f2 e f2 a | g2 _e e2 ^d e2 g | f2 d d2 ^c d2 f |1 edc gfe f2 :|
2 edc gfe fe ||
A similar version in this key can be found in –
"Dance Music of Ireland, 2nd Collection" ~ Levy, 1873
&
"Traditional Dance Music of England and Ireland:
Slip Jigs & Waltzes" ~ Kennedy, 1999
Both of these transcriptions are 16 bars/measures in length... This is as I know and have known it, and is what 'feels right', rather than the 32 bars/measures given here... I have other notations of this tune and all are 16 measures. The AAB versions are with an A-part of 4 bars that repeats and a B-part of 8 bars that do not repeat. One modern notation has a similar set of notes but they had the 8 bar B-part repeat, making a tune of 24 bars/measures...
# Posted on April 19th 2006 by ceolachan
K: F Major, sort of...
Sorry, I forgot...
# Posted on April 19th 2006 by ceolachan
K: C Major-ish
|: G |
E2 G G2 ^F G2 G | A2 d d2 c BAG | E2 G G2 ^F G2 G | ABc d2 B c2 :|
|: =f |
e2 c c2 B c2 e | d2 _B B2 A B2 d | c2 A A2 ^G A2 c |1 B2 G G2 B d2 :|
2 ABc d2 B c2 ||
# Posted on April 19th 2006 by ceolachan
Playing havoc with a melody, kickin' it up ~
I have been having great fun with this one, playng just the one melody in its different forms and in variations, here's one direction I've taken it:
9/8 Slip Jig ~ 9/8 Hop Jig ~ 3/4 Highland ~ 4/4 Highland ~ 4/4 Reel
Here are some of the 9/8 slip jiggish ways I've taken it:
K: D Major
|: B |
AGF AGF d2 A | Bcd edc d2 B | AGF AGF d2 A | Bcd AGF D2 :|
|: g |
f2 d dcd dcd | e2 =c cBc cBc |1 d2 B B^AB BAB | c2 A A^GA AG :|
2 d=cB dcB d^cB | AGF edc d2 ||
# Posted on April 21st 2006 by ceolachan
Version in Martin Hayes' Welcome Back Here
Same tune, very different version though, so I'm almost tempted to post it separately. Also #69 in CREI.
X: 1
T: Top It Off; The Booley House
M: 9/8
L: 1/8
R: slip jig
K: Dmaj
A2GF2A dcA |B2 c d2 e fdB|A2GF2A dcA|BdB AFA D3|
f2 d d2 f agf|e2 d c2 e gfe|f2 d d2 f agf|efd cdB A3|
f2 d d2 f agf|e2 d c2 e gfe|d2 c B2 c dcB|efd cdB A3||
# Posted on April 30th 2008 by Ger the Rigger
"The Booley House" / "Cuir Barr Air" / "Top It Off"
Key signature: D Major
Submitted on April 30th 2008 by Ger the Rigger.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/8492
The above Martin Hayes version given a place of its own...
# Posted on July 3rd 2008 by ceolachan