Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on June 22nd 2005 by darinkelly.
This tune has been added to 10 tunebooks.
X: 1
T: Reel De Denis Magee
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
dedB edBG | AcBA GEDG | dedB edBG | AcBA G2Bc | dedB edBG | AcBA GEDG | dedB edBG | AcBA G4 | dedB edBG | AcBA GEDG | dedB edBG | AcBA G2Bc || dedB A2FD | ADFD EDAD | dedB ADFD | EDEF G2Bc | dedB A2FD | ADFD EDAD | dedB ADFD | EDEF G2AB || c3A B3G | AGFE DFAB | c3A B3G | AcBA G2AB | c3A B3G | AGFE DFAB | c3A B3G | AcBA G4 ||
Not Irish, but...
I just heard this for the first time in quite a few years, and it struck me as one of the very few reels I've heard a Cajun fiddler play. Dennis Magee is up there with Wade Frugé and Dewey Balfa in my opinion in the pantheon of Cajun fiddling, and I heard this played by Michael Doucet in about 1983. Might it work in an ITM set? Your comments, please...
It's a quirky tune, kind of off-balanced... all parts are 4 measures: the first part seems to be triple, the last two double. For backers, the second part lays heavily on the dominant and ends back on G; The third part begins on the subdominant and also ends in the tonic key of G.
Enjoy... hope to hear this one at a session sometime.
DK
# Posted on June 22nd 2005 by darinkelly
The Wild Cajun
I have learned this tune in D, and it bears a resemblence to "The Wild Irishman". Not the same tune, but they have similarities.
Good post Darin.
# Posted on June 23rd 2005 by snorre
It sounds like pieces of three different tunes squashed together there, but just the A parts:
First reminds me of Walsh's Fancy
Second of The Donegal
Third of Green Fields of America
Like it! I have a weakness for the French-ish tunes of all sorts. Although it's all Seltic-Venusian, afterall, eh? Maybe you WILL hear it at a session sometime, DK.
# Posted on June 23rd 2005 by grymater