Key signature: Dmixolydian
Submitted on March 10th 2004 by violynnsey.
This tune has been added to 44 tunebooks.
Also known as An Bóthar Nua.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: New Road, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmix
D2FA d2dB|cAAG Eccd|DEFA dged|cAAG ED (3A,B,^C|
DEFA dged|cAAG Ec (3ccc |ABcA d2ed|cAGE ED (3DDD|
d2 fg afge|cdef ge^ce|d2 (3efg agfa|gfga fdfg|
a2df afdf|ge^ce fgfe|d2 (3efg agfa|gfga fdde|
~f2de fAgf|eA^cA ~g3a|~f2de fafg|fde^c Adde|
~f2de fAgf|eA^cA gafg|afge (3B^cd ed|^cAGE ED (3A,B,^C|
The New Road
This is the first tune in a medley of three played by Maeve Donnelly. The third tune in this set I posted a few days ago, and is called "Delia Crowley's." Once I can post the last tune in the medley, I think you all will find it makes a smashing set!
There are many variations on this tune I have found, but this version is the one Maeve plays on her recording, "Maeve Donnelly."
Enjoy!
Lynnsey
# Posted on March 10th 2004 by violynnsey
Free tune mp3
If you would like to hear this reel set, here is a free mp3 you can download from Maeve Donnelly's page at www.irishfiddle.com. Here is the link: http://www.irishfiddle.com/maeve_donnelly.html
# Posted on March 10th 2004 by violynnsey
Tune evolution
This is in O'Neill's collection, and it's recognizeably the same tune, with a little imagination - but I'd love to see versions in between that and this. Is anybody familiar with any??
This recording is roughly a 3-part single reel, and has beautiful flow. As written down by O'Neill, it's a 2-part single reel that's kind of grindey-repetetive. I can't help but like Maeve Donnelly's tune better (that's a great album altogether!), but I'd be really interested to know how much of that is her personal variation and how much of that might be common to people who know the tune.
So here's my question: who knows this tune in a non-Donnelly version, and what's it like?
# Posted on October 15th 2005 by concertinette
Paddy Fahy version
I believe this particular version of the tune comes from the playing of Paddy Fahy. Charlie Piggott and Gerry Harrington also recorded the same version of the tune and cite Fahy as the source in the notes of the recording. I haven't got her recording, but it's not unlikely Maeve Donnelly picked it up from her fellow East Galway fiddler. I heard another East Galway fiddler Breda Keville play it on the radio.
# Posted on February 1st 2007 by slainte
There's a version in CRE vol 4 (113) from a manuscript by Sean Reid. That is I think a closer version to the one Claire and Breda Keville play on 'The Hop Down', that version shows a close relation with Corney is Coming.
# Posted on February 1st 2007 by <>-_-_-<>
1959/60 New York setting
Bronwyn de Paor plays a lovely setting in this clip (at about 6:41)
http://comhaltas.ie/music/detail/comhaltaslive_241_final_highlights_from_2007/
# Posted on July 28th 2008 by airport
it actually starts at about 9:09
# Posted on July 28th 2008 by airport