Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on October 28th 2005 by Ptarmigan.
This tune has been added to 15 tunebooks.
Also known as The Flowers Of Antrim, McDermott's No. 2.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: McDermott's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Dmaj
|:dcdA FABA|GFGE C2 ED|CDEF GABc|(3dfe (3dcB A2 fe|
dcdA FABA|GFGE C2 ED|CDEF GABc|1 d2 f2 d2 fe:|2 d2 f2 d2 FG||
|:AFdF AFdF|AFdF A2GF|E=c (3=c=c=c Ec (3=c=c=c|E=c=cB ABAG|
FAdA FAdA|FAdA G2 FG|Eeed cABc|1 d2 f2 d2 FG:|2 d2 f2 d4||
McDermott's Hornpipe
This tune is very familiar but it isn't like any McDermott's tunes that already here so I suspect it has another name?
I lifted it from the Jim McKillop LP - 'Mist in the Glen'.
# Posted on October 28th 2005 by Ptarmigan
It's certainly not the same McDermott's which Andy McGann plays on 'It's a Hard Road to Travel'.
# Posted on October 28th 2005 by Ptarmigan
A Google search on the first measure turned up the following at http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/Mc_MEN.htm :
McDERMOT'S NO. 2. Irish, Hornpipe. Similar to the “Flowers of Antrim [1],” “Marquis of Lorne [1],” “Sligo Fancy” family of tunes. The tune is sometimes considered the last parts of a four-part hornpipe recorded in 1922 by New York/County Sligo fiddler Michael Coleman under the name “McDermott’s,” a name which has stuck. The first two parts of the Coleman piece are also called “The Galway Hornpipe [1]” or “The Baldheaded Bachelor.”
X:1
T:McDermot’s No. 2
R:hornpipe
S:A homemade tape of Con Cassidy of unknown provenance
Z:Transcribed by Larry Sanger
L:1/8
M:4/4
K:D
{a}fe|:dcdA FABA|GFGE CDEF|EFGA Bdcd|(3efe (3dcB Ag{a}fe|
|dcdA FABA|GFGE CDEF|EFGA Bdcd|1 (3efe dc d2fe:|2 (3efe dc d2AG||
[FA]Ad2 [FA]AdA|FAdB GBFA|E=c~c2 Ec~c2|E=c~c2 (3ABc AG|
FAdA FAdA|FAdB GBFA|E2ed cABc|1 d2f2 {de}d2AG:|2 d2f2 d2||
# Posted on October 29th 2005 by GaryAMartin
McDermott's No. 2
Good work there, young Gary. I'll change the name so that there's less confusion with the other McDermott tunes here. Thanks.
# Posted on October 29th 2005 by Ptarmigan
Aka. The Flowers of Antrim
To add some more info, Peter Horan and Gerry Harrington play exactly the same setting of the tune as "The Flowers of Antrim" on their recent album "Fortune Favours the Merry." It seems M. Coleman is the source. (well, as quoted in Gary's comment)
Different settings of the tune already posted:
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/508
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/1261
And the link to McDermott's No.1: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/1261
# Posted on October 29th 2005 by slainte
I think you meant this one, slainte: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/38.
# Posted on October 4th 2007 by Dow
Yeah, that's the one. It seems I was p*ssed.
# Posted on October 4th 2007 by slainte