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Liz Kelly's

slide

Key signature: Amixolydian

Submitted on January 30th 2005 by Zina Lee.

This tune has been added to 23 tunebooks.

Also known as Denis O'Keeffe's, Dinny O'Keeffe's, Eileen O'Riordan's, Forget Your Troubles, Liz Kelly.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

Around The World For Sport by Shegui
Dance Music Of Ireland: Volume 11 by Matt Cunningham
Different State by Paudie O'Connor
Irish Traditional Concertina Styles by Various Artists
Many's A Wild Night - Domhnach Is Dalach by Jackie Daly
Music From The Edge Of The World by Cran
On Oiche Go Maidin by O'aces
One More Time by McComiskey, Mulvihill And McLeod
Streetlife by Patrick Street

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Learned from the lovely CD One More Time, recorded for the Culkin School of Dance, as played by Brendan Mulvihill. Because they play it rather slowly on the recording (for dancers just learning the single jig steps) and because of the relative simplicity of the melody, I've learned this one (along with Off She Goes) while teaching classes, whether I liked it or not and without any trying whatsoever.

# Posted on January 30th 2005 by Zina Lee

Single jigs

I've listed this a slide. I know technically it's a single jig but it's the nearest category.

I'm sure there's a difference between slides and single jigs but I haven't figured it out yet. I'm hoping somebody can explain it to me.

Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Anyone?

# Posted on January 30th 2005 by Jeremy

Are you kidding, I've only just worked out the diff between hops and slips. I think. :-p

Thanks, Jeremy!

# Posted on January 30th 2005 by Zina Lee

BTW -- look, look, Jeremy, I got the mode right the first time without asking anyone!

# Posted on January 30th 2005 by Zina Lee

We've had that debate a few times, and if memory serves, came to the tentative conclusion that slides feature longer phrases and tend to end on a dotted quarter-quarter note couplet. Most trad "experts" I've read or heard on this subject say beyond the length of phrase (which is often a subjective matter) and ending rhythm, there are no real distinctions between single jigs and slides.

# Posted on January 30th 2005 by Will CPT

Amen! - now we can pass the beans...

# Posted on January 30th 2005 by ceolachan

This is a really nice tune, a close variant of an old favourite... I'm surprised this hasn't found its way here already, in some form. I have a few versions on this and will return with one...

# Posted on January 30th 2005 by ceolachan

Here's another take on it., a simple variant. I haven't gone through all my notes yet for alternate names but will add these as and if I ever find them...

# Posted on January 30th 2005 by ceolachan

Isn't a single Jig a different thing to dancers and musicians? The speed we normally play "jigs" is more what the dancers would consider a single jig, whereas the double jig is danced at a pace so slow that most Trad musicians have trouble playing it that slow.

# Posted on January 31st 2005 by Donough

A single jig is a kind of dance, yes, but like jigs and reels and such, the music can be played at any speed. As it happens, the single jig IS danced quite quickly -- it's probably the most traditional of all the dances as currently danced under the commission. I believe Helen Brennan posits that it's descended from the moneen jig, which I don't believe anyone now knows what it looked like.

# Posted on February 1st 2005 by Zina Lee

It's played as part of a set of slides on the Meitheal CD by Seamus Begley and Steve Cooney

# Posted on February 1st 2005 by Conán McDonnell

Is it called Liz Kelly's there too, Conán?

# Posted on February 1st 2005 by Zina Lee

Single jigs

I heard that the double jig was quite a late development and designed for step dancers - the step was danced on one foot (one foot leading) but dancers liked to show that they could dance a mirror image of the step and danced it off the other foot. So; one step - one foot = once through. One step - rght and left foot = twice through. Therefore a double jig

# Posted on February 6th 2005 by Alancorsini

. . . Reels

and of course the same for reels

# Posted on February 6th 2005 by Alancorsini

The same for all of them, Alan! I dunno about that theory. The reasons I don't know about that is that one, in some of the other forms of Irish stepdancing (Connemara, for instance), they dance one long step of 16 bars, there's no right or left foot, (as there is in Munster or southern style dancing, which is what a large number of Irish stepdancers dance) and two, the reason that the dance is known as both the double and treble jig is the same reason the little double tap of the tap under the foot is called both a double or a treble (or a rally, or a shuffle).

# Posted on April 5th 2005 by Zina Lee

P.S.

Conán! Answer the question!

# Posted on April 5th 2005 by Zina Lee

P.P. S.

What IS it about single jigs that stir up so much comment, anyway?

# Posted on April 5th 2005 by Zina Lee

Duplicated here in different versions @ http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/4375 and http://thesession.org/tunes/display/4379.

# Posted on May 27th 2007 by Dow