Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on May 25th 2001 by Jeremy.
This tune has been added to 814 tunebooks.
Also known as Belfast, Cincinatti, Cork, The Cork , The Cork, Fred WIlson's Clog, Harvest Home, Harvest Homes.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Harvest Home, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Dmaj
|:AF|DAFA DAFA|defe dcBA|eAfA gAfA|(3efe (3dcB AGFE|
DAFA DAFA|defe dcBA|eAfA gfec|d2 f2 d2:|
|:cd|eAAA fAAA|gAfA eAAA|eAfA gAfA|(3efe (3dcB (3ABA (3GFE|
DAFA DAFA|defe dcBA|eAfA gfec|d2 f2 d2:|
The melody of this tune is kind of insipid and I can understand why a lot of people don't like it. Still, it's a lot of fun to play and it's a great tune for practicing triplets.
# Posted on June 2nd 2001 by Jeremy
Fun with a tired tune
I heard some joker of a fiddler in Australia play this tune in d minor. I've been doing it lately, and it's pretty fun. Especially if you stick to the gypsy-esque flattened 6th kind of minor rather than the modal kind. (Sorry, forgot all my theory in high school or I'd be more specific). Start in d major, and just as everyone starts to groan, go middle-eastern on them.
# Posted on June 25th 2001 by Kerri Brown
Fun with tired tunes
Heh, heh. That's pretty funny. I've done the same myself with some other oft-played tunes. You know those polkas that Planxty did, Denis Murphy's, etc.? They can be fun to turn into eastern-sounding minor things.
For some real fun, play "The Boys Of Malin" with every note pushed up a semitone *except* the open strings (works best on a fiddle or banjo, I guess). I call the result "The Secret Agents Of Malin".
# Posted on June 25th 2001 by Jeremy
I took transcribed this direct from a copy of fwd'd sheet music. This is a setting by Paddy Killoran, it follows suit to most Sligo settings I've heard...
T:Harvest Home
M:C
L:1/8
S:Paddy Killoran
R:Hornpipe
K:D
vcud | vD2 FA (DA)FA | vd(ef)c (dc)BA | v(e/f/g)fa (ga)fg | ve(dc)B (AG)FE |
vD2 FA (DA)FA | d(ef)c (dc)BA | (e/f/g)fa (ge)cA | d(gf)e d2 AF |
vD2 FA (DA)FA | d(ef)c (dc)BA | (e/f/g)fa (ga)fg | ve/uf/vedB (AG)FE |
vD2 FA (DA)FA | d(ef)c (dc)BA | ve/uf/vgfa (ga)fg | d(gf)e d2 cd |
v(eA)A/A/A (fA)A/A/(A | gA)fA eAA/A/A | v(e/f/g)fa g(gf)g | edcB A(GF)E|
vD2 FA (DA)FA | d(ef)c (dc)BA | (e/f/g)fa (ge)cA | d(gf)e d2 cd |
v(eA)A/A/A (fA)A/A/(A | gA)fA eAA/A/A | v(e/f/g)fa g(af)g | e/f/ed/c/B A/G/AF/G/E |
vD2 FA (DA)FA | d(ef)c (dc)BA | (e/f/g)fa (ge)cA | d(gf)e d2 |
# Posted on February 7th 2002 by Mad Baloney
Who dosen't like it?
Personally, I think this is a real beaut of a tune! Fab on the fiddle. If it aint no good - how come its on so many albums eh?
# Posted on July 8th 2005 by richrua
I too think this is a great tune, and as a flute player, it is a good challenge, especially to roll the repeated 'A's in the second part at speed with all the accompanying jumps....
# Posted on November 14th 2005 by NeilC
"The Harvest Home Hornpipe" ~ a few associates:
"The Cliffs Hornpipe" / "Fred Wilson's Clog"
Submitted on December 4th 2001 by Mad Baloney.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/412
"The Old Harvest Home Hornpipe" / "The Cliffs Hornpipe"
Submitted on July 16th 2003 by PCL.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1824
The "Cliffs" / "Fred Wilson's" is also collected and played in the key of F Major (one flat ~ Bb)...
# Posted on June 9th 2006 by ceolachan
"Higgin's Hornpipe"
Submitted on January 27th 2004 by gian marco.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/2441
# Posted on June 9th 2006 by ceolachan
Bowing Harvest Home...
I'm having a lot of trouble with Harvest Home... In general should you use one bow for the dotted eighth-sixteenth sequence? Somehow I can't get it to sound smooth. Any advice? This also applies to hornpipes in general. Thanks in advance.
Gabe
# Posted on May 21st 2007 by Munichg
youtube entry:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hi2WRvtzsg&mode=related&search=
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by Alf Tupper
The Harvest Home
I'm amazed that nobody has mentioned that The Harvest Home is also, and always was, known as 'The Cork Hornpipe'
# Posted on June 19th 2007 by Free Reed
and your evidence for that is...................?
# Posted on June 19th 2007 by Kenny
Harvest home - cork hornpipe
JC tune finder brings up a Cork Hornpipe in G from an irish site which is not Harvest Home, and one in D which is .......
(In the tune collection here Cork HP is lsited as an alternative name - or did that just get done?)
Chris
# Posted on June 20th 2007 by spindizzy
Kenny - Evidence ...Forty years playing for old dancers who wouldn't feel comfortable dancing a hornpipe unless it was either The Cork or The Boys of Bluehill and would ask for it by name.
# Posted on June 23rd 2007 by Free Reed
Comhaltas thinks it's called the Cork Hornpipe too
http://comhaltas.ie/music/detail/cork_hornpipe/
# Posted on February 23rd 2008 by fool4jesus
My new favorite tune
i just learned on the mandolin after playing it numerous times on the guitar. i have a much greater appreciation for this tune.
# Posted on September 7th 2008 by insidejoke
Belfast Hornpipe = Harvest Home
I love playing this song. Try this followed with O'Donnell's Hornpipe.
James Galway & Kevin Conneff recorded this under the name "Belfast Hornpipe" on the "Dances For Flute" cd.
# Posted on October 3rd 2008 by standrewscross
Earliest reference???
Does anyone know the earliest reference to this tune? There is a Harvest Home that appears from the 1690s to the 1750s, but it's not this tune (Simpson, Claude M. "The British Broadside Ballad..." [1966; Rutgers, New Brunswick] pp. 289-90.) I'm looking to date this hornpipe to it's earliest appearance. Any music historians out there who'd like to take on the search?
# Posted on November 13th 2008 by croi