The Galway

hornpipe

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on May 21st 2001 by Jeremy.

This tune has been added to 158 tunebooks.

Also known as Galway, McDermott's No.1.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• A Dance Visit To Ireland by McCusker Brothers Ceilidhe Band
• A Man Apart by Sean Maguire
• A Roof For The Rain by Greenfire
• Best Of Irish Fiddle by Florie Brown
• Brothers Together by Sean And Jim McGuire
• Bruach An TSulain by The Abbey Ceili Bnd
• Bruach An TSuláin by The Abbey Céilí Band
• Citternalia by Joseph Sobol
• Collection Of Jigs And Reels by Shaskeen
• Far Away Dreams by Claddagh
• Fifty-Odd Years by Jimmy Power
• I Will If I Can by John Carty
• Ireland's Best Session Tunes CD 2 by Waltons Recording
• Ireland's Own Traditional Accordionist by Finbarr Dwyer
• Keltish by Keltish
• Macalla Na HÓige by Hugh Healy And Colm Healy
• Man Of Achievement by Sean Maguire
• Music At The House by Brendan Bulger, Marty Fahey And Kathleen Gavin
• Music Of A Champion by Brendan McGlinchey
• No Afore Time by Hom Bru
• No Borders by Meascán
• Northern Lights by Kevin And Seamus Glackin
• Plays The Irish Tenor Banjo by Kieran Hanrahan
• Rattlin' Banjos (part 1) by Gerry O'Connor
• Riverdance And Other Famous Irish Songs And Dances by Various Artists
• Seven Streams by The Turloughmore Ceili Band
• Seven Years After by Sirkus
• Sliabh Notes by Sliabh Notes
• Star Of Ireland by Finbarr Dwyer
• Step This Way by David Lindquist
• Take A Bow by Matt Cranitch
• The Back Door by Cherish The Ladies
• The Ballydesmond Polka by Dan Herlihy And John Drew
• The Boys From The Blue Hill by Vinnie Kilduff
• The Gallowglass Ceili Band by The Gallowglass Ceili Band
• The Mason's Apron by The Madden Brothers
• The View Across The Valley by The Brady Family
• To Hell With The Begrudgers by Seamus Tansey And Jim McKillop
• Traditional Irish Music by William Sullivan
• Traditional Music On The Hammer Dulcimer by John Rea
• Tuned In by Johnny Murphy
• Two Champions: Irish Traditional Music At Its Best. by Sean McGuire And Joe Burke
• Uncommon Bonds by Mick Moloney

X: 1
T: Galway, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Dmaj
|:FE|D2 FA dAFD|CDEF G2 FE|D2 FA dcdf|edcB AGFE|
D2 FA dAFD|CDEF G2FG|AdcB AGFE|D2 CE D2:|
|:de|f2 fg fedc|BABc B2 Bd|e2 ef edcB|A2 ce a2 AB|
d2 df edAF|GFGA BdcB|AdcB AGFE|D2 CE D2:|

The setting I've shown here is really just the bare bones of the tune and should really be considered just a starting point.

When I play this hornpipe, I throw in quite a lot of triplets. In fact, just about anywhere that a note is held longer than usual (except perhaps at the end of a bar), I turn it into a triplet. So the low D at the start of the first part, or the high F at the start of the second part, can be transformed into a quick DED or FEF respectively.

Try variations on the end of the tune with triplets, as well. You could play DED CDE D, for instance.

# Posted on June 2nd 2001 by Jeremy

A "Galway Hornpipe" set

We like to play the "Galway Hornpipe" followed by the "Brown Chest" and then "Cronin's Hornpipe" We play lots of triplets too. Mary Ann

# Posted on April 13th 2005 by beacheroo

Galway on pipes, whistle?

I'm sure this has an obvious answer, but how would a someone playing a whistle or pipes approach playing the low note in the second and forth bars of this tune without playing it in another key? Would they play the same not in a higher octave or would they just wait till the next tune in the set?

# Posted on September 24th 2006 by Colin E.

Galway Hornpipe

Does anyone have any ideas of where to put in triplets. The only recording I've heard (that I can play from) is by the Gallowglass ceili band, put I can't tell how they do the triplets. Thanks

# Posted on September 25th 2006 by enirehtac

Catherine : try to get a listen to Hom Bru's recording of this tune on their CD "No Afore Time". It's a great moderately-paced version to learn from.
As far as triplets go, Jeremy has said it all at the start - it's one of those tunes that is played very idiosyncratically by each different player, but a lot put triplets in the 4th bar that sound very much like the 4th bar of "HArvest Home", so you could try that for starters

# Posted on September 26th 2006 by Bren

Colin: you could just play it as a D or an E, or turn the C-D into a D crann.

SSDSA

# Posted on June 18th 2007 by Yeruvan