Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on October 2nd 2001 by Will CPT.
This tune has been added to 223 tunebooks.
Also known as Hall's Favourite, Maudebawn Chapel, Ryan's.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Maudabawn Chapel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
|:G3 D E2 DB,|G,A,B,D EGDB,|G,A,B,D GABd|gabg eaaf|
|gbag efge|dged B^cde|g2 fa gedB|AcBA GEED:|
|:E2 BE dEBE|Ed^cB AFDF|~E3 F GFGB|AF (3FFF DFAF|
|EBBA B3 B|BAGA B^cde|f2 af gfe^c|dBAF GEED:|
Maudabawn Chapel
Someone was asking for Ed Reavy tunes, and this is probably his most popular composition. I know it was posted within a discussion thread on this site, but I was surprised to see it hadn't been officially posted yet. So here 'tis.
Talk about getting a lot of mileage out of one phrase. Mr. Reavey found a musical and engaging way to repeat GABD in three octaves within the first 4 bars of this reel, which--once you know that--makes it easier to learn. Aim for a steady stream of notes, with perhaps less accent on the beat than you might normally apply to a reel. The only other hazard are those shifty little c's--from natural to sharp and back.
The B Part starts off like Drowsy Maggie, and the "standard" second bar continues in that vein: |E2 BE dEBE|E2 BE AFDF|...but I like Kevin Burke's variation (as posted here) because it helps me avoid derailling into Drowsy Maggie at this point. Then you can use the standard way as a variation the next time round.
Eileen Ivers does this as an air, and she Eminors out the first bar of Part A: |GEED DE2 D|G,A,B,D EGDB,|...a variation I really enjoy, even at a more typical reel tempo. In fact, I usually start the tune this way, and then use the |G3 D E2 DB,| version the second time through.
For more ideas, listen to Kevin Burke's latest cd, In Concert. You can also hear Reavey himself on a tribute album, titled Ed Reavy, released in 1979.
Ed Reavy was a fiddler and prolific composer of more than 400 peculiarly fluid, meandering tunes. He was born in 1898 in County Cavan at Maudabawn. This tune is named for the local church.
Reavy moved to the States in 1912 and ended up in Drexel Hill, a suburb of Philadelphia, working as a plumber. He died in 1988.
# Posted on October 2nd 2001 by Will CPT
Two A-part endings
A lot of players play the last four bars of the A part different on the repeat. The whole A part is thus:
|:G3 D E2 DB,|G,A,B,D EGDB,|G,A,B,D GABd|gabg eaaf|
[1gbag efge|dged B^cde|g2 fa gedB|AcBA GEED:|
[2 ~g3a b/2a/2g a/2g/2f | gfed eage| dged BedB| AGBA GEED||
# Posted on May 25th 2003 by pchaffee