Twilight In Portroe

reel

Key signature: Amajor

Submitted on January 12th 2005 by Dow.

This tune has been added to 16 tunebooks.

Also known as The Dawn.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• A Compilation by Natalie MacMaster
• Across The Pond by Kevin Griffin, Roger Burridge And Others
• Équinoxe by Celtic Fiddle Festival
• Came The Dawn by Seamus Creagh
• Chasing The Dawn by Jenny Crook And Henry Sears
• Contentment Is Wealth by Matt Molloy And Sean Keane
• Cooley by Joe Cooley
• Dance Music Of Ireland: Volume 4 by Matt Cunningham
• Dance Time In Ireland by Larry McKee And The Shandonairs
• Down From Bell Harbour by Chris Droney
• First Through The Gate by Brian Conway
• Flea Ceoil by Various Artists
• Flute For The Feis by John Doonan
• For The Same Reason by Anders Trabjerg And Tak Tamura
• Forever By Dingle Shore by Slaudeen
• Four On The Floor by Natalie MacMaster
• From Galway To Dublin: Early Recordings Of Traditional Irish Music by Various Artists
• Heart Behind The Bow by Kimberly Fraser
• In Your Ear by Seamus Egan
• Irish Button Accordion by Billy Moran
• Irish Traditional Music by Jim McKillop
• Just As The Sun Was Setting by John Drury
• Memories Of Galway by Seamus Walshe
• Nice To Meet You by Kaitlin Hahn
• On TSean - Am Anall by Danny O'Donnell
• Second Story by Open House
• Seoltai Seidte (Setting Sail) by Various Artists
• Soh It Is by Craobh Rua
• Star Of Ireland by Finbarr Dwyer
• Tear The House Down by The Fables
• That's The Spirit by James Keane
• The Best Of De Danann by De Danann
• The Best Of Don Messer by Don Messer
• The Hurricane by Donagh Hennessy And Mark Crickard
• The Mist Covered Mountain by De Danann
• The Morning Mist by Joe Burke
• The Plain Of Jars by Brian Kelly
• The Steeplechase by Brendan Mulvihill And Donna Long
• Uilleann Piper by Tommy Martin

X: 1
T: Twilight In Portroe
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Amaj
A,2CE DEFD|E2GB ABcA|df~f2 edcA|BAcA BAFE|
A,2CE DEFD|E2GB ABcA|df~f2 edcA|1 B2AB cAA2:|2 B2AB cAAB||
|:c2ec fcec|ABcA BAFA|~E3F ABcA|defg aefe|
c2ec fcec|ABcA BAFA|~E3F ABcA|1 dfed cAAB:|2 dfed cAA2||

Twilight In Portroe

A Sean Ryan tune that has often been mistaken for "The Dawn" http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/167. Note that only the 1st two bars are similar, and then they diverge into completely different tunes. The B-parts do not resemble each other at all. I think the reason that this tune started getting called The Dawn is that De Danann mistakenly recorded it under that title on their album "The Mist-covered Mountain", but there may well be earlier recordings of it with that title, I'm not sure. This transcription is based on the De Danann recording, but I first heard the tune played in a session in Cambridge (UK) played as The Dawn, and presumably learnt from the afore-mentioned album. I have a recording of that session on tape, and there is an amusing conversation afterwards along the lines of "that's not the Dawn I know!" and "that's not how so-and-so plays the Dawn - the B-part's completely different!".

# Posted on January 12th 2005 by Dow

I've already added "The Dawn" as an alternative name, so save yourself the effort of adding it again.

# Posted on January 12th 2005 by Dow

Alias Martin Reilly's

See "Martin Reilly's" - already posted in the key of "G".

# Posted on January 12th 2005 by Kenny

Ah well spotted Kenny. Even my advanced search didn't pick that up. But, "Martin Reilly's"? ',

# Posted on January 13th 2005 by Dow

Do you mean Michael Reilly's?

I've seen the version in G called "Michael Reilly's" several times, never "Martin Reilly's". It's "Michael" on Music from the Coleman Country, The Mountain Road, and Trip to Sligo. It's on Peter Horan and Fred Finn's album as well -- I don't have liner notes for that but I'm guessing they also call it "Michael Reilly's".

Perhaps "Martin" comes from the fact Music from the Coleman Country paired the tune with one of Martin Wynne's?

It's a great tune, at any rate. Though having the low first notes makes it hard to get other people playing along with the tune on whistle....

# Posted on January 20th 2005 by Sol Foster

BTW, I don't know how these things usually working around here, but the "recordings of a tune by this name" thing is really misleading in this case, as some (most?) of those recordings are of the "real" "The Dawn".

Also, we were just wondering the other day if Sean Ryan's name might be a deliberate reference to the other tune -- twilight versus dawn.

# Posted on January 20th 2005 by Sol Foster

"Martin Riley's" = "Twilight In Portroe" transposed and mangled into G...

Key signature: G Major
Submitted on April 17th 2004 by Mad Baloney.
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# Posted on January 11th 2008 by ceolachan