Key signature: Dmixolydian
Submitted on September 8th 2001 by OrganicPeatCreature.
This tune has been added to 40 tunebooks.
Also known as An Bhean Tincéara, Bean A' Tincéara, Bean Tinceara, Reel In D, The Tinker's Wife.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Johnny Allen's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmix
FG | A3B AGFG | AccB c2Bc | A3B AGFE | DGGF G2FG |
A3B AGFG | Adde f3g | afge fded | dcAF G2 :|
FG | A3g fded | Add^c dAFG | A3g fded | dcAF G2FG |
A3g fded | Add^c defg | afge fded | dcAF G2 :|
Johnny Allen's
I heard this tune in a session at Pepper's pub, Feakle, E.Clare this August and it was one of those which sent a shiver down my spine. It's got a steely blue-grey feel to it, if you'll excuse the obscure analogy. Fortunately I managed to pick up a tape of 'Music and Songs from East Clare' in Scariff, which had this tune on it (recorded in the very same pub, incidentally), so I was able to get down the notes properly, and find out a name for it (there's no point asking a musician for the name of a tune.
I don't know if it is actually an E. Clare tune, but it is certainly popular in that area.
Whatever you do, don't rush it. Savour every note of it.
# Posted on September 8th 2001 by OrganicPeatCreature
I think this is the same tune as Within a Mile of Dublin -- Will has a variation of this already posted -- but what a serendipitous thing, I was listening to Na Connerys Part II today, and was wondering what tune it was that they played with the Bobby Casey's that I posted a while back -- and this is it!
Zina
# Posted on September 8th 2001 by Zina Lee
Within a Mile of Within a Mile of Dublin
I hadn't nothiced that. It's not actually the same tune that I know as 'Within a Mile of Dublin', but it's certainly not a mile away from it.
Let's not forget, even reputable artistes sometimes get names wrong. It's people such as myself, with a limited repertoire of tunes, who still have the surplus brain capacity to remember precisely what name goes with what tune.
# Posted on September 10th 2001 by OrganicPeatCreature
Names
There's a 3 part version of this tune (with an extra part in the middle). Also, Mrs. Crotty, the legendary Clare concertina player, recorded a significantly different 2-part version, under the name of "Bean a' Tincéara" or "An Bhean Tincéara".
A translation would be most welcome.
# Posted on September 10th 2001 by OrganicPeatCreature
An Bean a' tincéara
...is the gaelic for "the tinker's wife", i think.
# Posted on March 7th 2004 by Washoo
Related tunes
This has long been one of my favorite tunes. As an accompanist as well as a fiddler, I find it exemplary of a certain style of D Mixolydian tune which alternates between C natural and C sharp on ascending and descending melodic passages, choices which may vary across different players' settings or even as variations in one player's rendition. (For example, I will often play the C in the last bar of both A and B parts as C# rather than C natural.) Also, the strong phrase endings on the G note give the tune a sweeping grandeur (especially, I believe, when accompanied by a G and not just a repeated C chord) which makes it a gem of the traditional repertoire.
I know a closely related tune, which I learned from the playing of Tim Britton, called "The Tinker's Daughter." I haven't heard Ms. Crotty's version; it would be very interesting to know if they are related tunes.
# Posted on September 28th 2004 by Mark Simos
Mark, do you also play the C in the 4th bar of the B part as C#?
I also love the effect of the major 7 sound that the descending notes have. I play around with the Cs on tunes like The Old Gooseberry Bush for the same reason. Of course there are many other tunes where this adds dimension as well.
# Posted on April 8th 2006 by Phantom Button