Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on April 17th 2004 by Mad Baloney.
This tune has been added to 17 tunebooks.
Also known as Martin Reilly's, Martin Rilly's, Michael Reilly's, Twilight In Portroe.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Martin Riley's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
|:G2dB cAEA|DFAF GABG|Bdge dBG2|(3ABA cA BGAF|
G2dB cAEA|DFAF GABG|Bdge dBG2|(3ABA GA BGG2:|
|:B2dB eBdB|GABG ABGE|DGBd GBdg|edef gedc|
B2dB eBdB|GABG ABGE|DGBd GBdB|cBAc BGG2:|
Martin Riley's
Basically this is a flute version of "The Dawn", this setting comes from John Skelton. Don't be mislead that this is a just another flute tune because It's a killer tune one any instrument. It's also a lot more social than it's partypiece cousin.
# Posted on April 17th 2004 by Mad Baloney
Michael Reilly's
This "G" version of "The Dawn" I've always known as "Michael Reilly's". I was intending to post it soon as it's the only tune missing from the database from the recording I recently posted for the "Music From The Coleman Country" LP. The first bar is different from what is posted, probably John Skelton changed it to go on to the flute, since it goes down on to the bottom string on the fiddle. I'll post the setting I know later.
# Posted on April 18th 2004 by Kenny
I think if only a few notes are an octave lower & the tune has the same name than Jeremy would like the ABC's posted under the comments section as a setting.
# Posted on April 18th 2004 by Mad Baloney
Michael Reilly's
The version I know:
G,B,DB, CEGE | DFAF GBdB | ce e2 dBGB | cABG AGED |
B,2 DB, CEGE | DFAF GBdB | ce e2 dBGB |1 AcBA BG G2 :| 2 AcBA BGGA ||
B2 dB eBdB | GB B2 AFGE | DG,B,D EGAB | cdef gfgd |
B2 dB eBdB | GB B2 AFGE | DG,B,D EGAB | cedc BG G2 :||
Incidentally, I see from the recordings that John Skelton has also has it as "Michael", not "Martin".
# Posted on April 19th 2004 by Kenny
But then.............
This gets very silly. I have it as "Michael Reilly", Brad has it as "Martin Riley", and John & Kieran's CD has it as "Michael Rilly" !!
# Posted on April 19th 2004 by Kenny
I ment to submit it as Martin Rilly's. John Skelton said that he either met Martin Rilly or a relative of his - I don't remember all the details. But he had the correct name before Double-barrelled went to the press. The names of tunes named after obscure musicians get transmuted quicker than a bunny in a viagra factory.
# Posted on April 19th 2004 by Mad Baloney
Martin O'Reilly was a Galway piper who died over a hundred years ago. The only surviving recording of him is a reel called the O'Connor Donn, this is on the Piper's Broken Finger by the Boys of the Lough. In the liner notes Cathal McConnell is said to be only taking a guess at what O'Reilly played - the recording is very badly damaged, you only hear O'Reilly intermittently!
Don't know if this is the same man referred to here.
# Posted on August 24th 2004 by Kevin Rietmann
Doesn't matter if it's Martin or Michael anyway cuz it's Twilight In Portroe.
# Posted on April 18th 2005 by Dow
What Dow means is this the Sean Ryan composition "Twilight in Portroe", transposed to G and mangled a bit.
Seems like the G setting is usually called "Michael Reilly's" in Sligo, certainly three of the current (as I write this) seven recordings listed here use that name for their version of "Twilight in Portroe".
And of course, it's misidentified as "The Dawn" on Contentment is Wealth, probably because the first two bars are based on the same musical idea. Not sure if it would be a good idea to add that name to the list here or not...
# Posted on January 10th 2008 by Sol Foster
"Twilight In Portroe" C: Sean Ryan
Key signature: A Major
Submitted on January 12th 2005 by Dow.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/4091
# Posted on January 11th 2008 by ceolachan
"The Dawn"
Key signature: A Major
Submitted on June 30th 2001 by martin t.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/167
# Posted on January 11th 2008 by ceolachan