Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on December 29th 2005 by jdicarlo.
This tune has been added to 31 tunebooks.
Also known as Gort Na Mona.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Tir Rafartaigh
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Gmaj
G2A | B/c/dB B2A | ~G3 GAG | E2D D2G | GDd BAG | ~A3 ABc | dcA G2A |
B/c/dB B2A | ~G3 GAG | E2D D2D | BAG ABc | d2d dge |
fga b2a | age deg | a2g gfg | ded g2f- | fd2 BAG | ABc dge | fga b2a |
a2b agf | ~e3 deg | B2c A3- | AB/A/G ABc | d4 gf | dcA :||
From Flook's "Haven." Written by Michael Rooney. A 6/8 tune that isn't quite a jig, and although there are definitely two parts, it's not entirely clear where the first ends and the second begins. They've recorded it in Bb, but Brian plays his F-whistle with G-fingers and so I've notated it thusly.
# Posted on December 29th 2005 by jdicarlo
It's the right length to be a slip jig, the repeated bits in the first half fall in the right places for that, but the second half doesn't have the repetitions you'd expect.
I haven't heard it, but it looks pretty reasonable in 9/8 and even sounds decent that way in BarFly's midi player.
# Posted on December 30th 2005 by GaryAMartin
A Slip Jig
This is definitely a slip jig. This is according to the liner notes written by Rooney himself for the CD "Draiocht" he recorded with his wife June McCormack.
# Posted on December 31st 2005 by Jason G
See http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/2143 where this tune is shown as a slip jig which is how it's more commonly played.
# Posted on January 2nd 2006 by Bannerman
Actually this tune is actually the slip jig "Gort na Mona". It's been recorded by Michael Rooney in a set with the (other) tune Tigh Rabhartaigh. It can be found here:
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/2087
I think Flook probably scrambled up the names when they went and scrambled up the meter. I have to say that I like both. It would be fun, and Donal Lunny-esque, to play the slip jig into the jig.
# Posted on January 9th 2006 by jdicarlo