Hunting The Hare

slip jig

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on October 6th 2004 by ceolachan.

This tune has been added to 38 tunebooks.

Also known as The Wigsborough Hunt.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• Best Of Irish Ceili Music by Various Artists
• Fermanagh Ceili by Pride Of Erin Ceili Band
• For As Many As Will by Haste To The Wedding
• Live In Ennis by The Bowhouse Quintet
• The Chanter's Tune by Na Fili
• The Kilmore Fancy by Catherine McEvoy And John McEvoy
• Traditional Irish Tunes Played On The Tin Whistle (1/2) by Geraldine Cotter
• Warming Up by Martin Mulhaire, Séamus Connolly And Jack Coen

X: 1
T: Hunting The Hare
M: 9/8
L: 1/8
R: slip jig
K: Dmaj
|:A|F2 A ABA d2 A|Bcd e2 d cBA|
F2 A ABA d2 A|Bcd edc d2:|
|:g|f2 d dd/e/f g2 e|a2 f efd cBA|
[1 fef def g2 e|a2 f edc d2:|
[2 fd/e/f gfg a2 A|BB/c/d edc d2||

In the chat over someone's recent submission of a 'straight' slip jig as a mazurka, I realized this similar slip jig hadn't yet been submitted to the site...

# Posted on October 6th 2004 by ceolachan

It sort of reminds me of 'Top it Off' which I think is posted., but has differences in the second half. Nice tune though.

# Posted on October 6th 2004 by jakki S

Interesting to compare:

http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/2608

# Posted on October 6th 2004 by ceolachan

Do you think these two slip jigs could've originated as the same tune, but diverged through time to produce two tunes with noticeable differences and similarities? Any possibility that they were written by the same hand?

# Posted on October 7th 2004 by jakki S

I think you've got it in one Jakki. I've come across this sort of thing many times. Even when collecting what was supposed to be the same tune from half a dozen musicians within an area of a few square miles in say Fermanagh. You'd think they'd have some agreement. Sometimes there would be, but sometimes you'd get enough difference that you could call them different tunes from the same root. While others work heatedly to 'standardize' everything, that evolutionary spark is one of the proofs there's life. It excites me to find things that you suddenly realize are really from a shared root, in the same genetic line. You find that with the dances too. I've done 'The Lancers' all over the place, including a Finnish version, a French Canadian one, several varieties of Cape Breton's way with it, on two versions, US, Canada, Eire and even Carribean... What a kick, each distinct but each from a common parent...

# Posted on October 7th 2004 by ceolachan

Quick note: Ha! - there was usually greater difference between generations than by geography...

# Posted on October 7th 2004 by ceolachan

I have this tune under the title of 'Wigsborough Hunt' I play this as the first of a set of three, namely 'The Irish jig' (a slip jig) and 'Jack in the Green'. Jack in the Green has a super 'B' music. Will post these shortly.

# Posted on October 9th 2004 by hetty

Slip jigs and 3/2 hornpipes

When hornpipes stopped being in 3/2 some of them migrated to slip jigs, "Dusty Miller" being an example, Does anyone know of any others?

# Posted on October 15th 2004 by Alancorsini

Video,, "Hunting The Hare".

To hear this slipjig played go to=
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rqA1_qLJp9M
jim,

# Posted on February 12th 2008 by FIDDLE4