Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on December 3rd 2005 by Frank_Flute.
This tune has been added to 17 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Joe Cant's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
AB cA e2dB|(3.G.G.G BG dGBG|ABcA e2dB|cABG EAA2 :|
Aa2g e2ed|cdef g2fe|Aa2g e2ed|cABG EAA2|
Aa2g e2ed|cdef g2fe|agfe gfed|edef g2ea|]
wow! very nice!
# Posted on December 3rd 2005 by gian marco
French/Breton band Gwendal recorded it in the 70s. Like many of those bands around then it lapsed into a jazz section before returning to the reel. (I really dislike mixing folk with jazz! Can't stand Eileen Ivers' stuff). Nice tune this. I like the little syncopation in the second part. Oh no, maybe I do like jazz!
# Posted on December 3rd 2005 by Gords
I've been enjoying playing this morning, though it feels nicer if I end with a low G to lead back into the first part - whatever. But is not the key of the 1st part in A dorian?
# Posted on December 3rd 2005 by the wounded hussar
Joe Cant's Reel
Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 568
# Posted on December 3rd 2005 by swisspiper
Gwendal / Joe Cant's
Gwendal plays it more like that:
K: Gmaj
AB (3cBA e2 dB|~G BG dGBG|AB(3cBA e2 dB|cABG EAA2 :|
~a3g e2 ed|cdef g2 fe|~a3g e2ed|cABG EAA2|
a2 ag e2 ed|cdef g2 fe|agfe gfed|edef ~g3|]
# Posted on December 3rd 2005 by swisspiper
Personally, I prefer ending on A, but each to their own. The whole tune is A dorian, so the key signature should, and does, have one sharp.
# Posted on December 3rd 2005 by Gords
Gwendal version
I´ve heard Gwendal playing this tune. It´s wonderful!!
About folk and jazz..Have you heard Deiseal??
# Posted on December 5th 2005 by eduard
Your various comments have got me wondering about how to conclude the B part. How about E and C instead of E and A? And for the last time 4 eights GEDB and a sustained A? I think it would have to be the last tune in a set.
# Posted on December 5th 2005 by lukegarry
Joe Cant's reel
If the tune is A dorian, the key signature could just as easily have no sharps (or flats) and an F sharp accidental. This is more obvious if you're playing an accompaniment. I like this tune a lot -- my band follows it with Castle Kelly, which (for us) solves the question of how to end it.
# Posted on December 6th 2005 by Tracie
In O'Neill's it is written with no sharps in the key signature and accedentals when there are F#s. Either way it is not in Gmaj and there is a A dorian option when submitting a tune.
# Posted on August 17th 2007 by Unseen122