Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on February 17th 2006 by slainte.
This tune has been added to 13 tunebooks.
Also known as Paddy's Highland Fling.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Killoran's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
D2DB ADFA|BFAF EDB,E|D2DB ADFA|1 Bdec dBAF:|2 Bdec d2dB|]
ABde fd~d2|gefd edBd|ABde fd~d2|gfed BddB|
ABde fd~d2|gefd edBc|d2dc dfaf|gfec dBAF|]
Killoran's Reel
Learned from Kevin Burke and Jackie Daly's swinging duet. I don't know anything about this reel, but the title probably refers to the Sligo fiddler. Simple yet effective tune!
# Posted on February 17th 2006 by slainte
Nice
# Posted on February 17th 2006 by Dow
Lovely reel
I don't know why we haven't heard more of this tune (I haven't heard it before anyway) which I imagine would really swing at a session. It's like a lot of single reels (Boyne Hunt, Shannon Breeze, Red Haired Lass, Mountain Road ......etc, etc) which are simple but so effective.
# Posted on February 17th 2006 by Bannerman
Great tune--I remember this from sessions in Oregon 25 years ago. The name doesn't gibe, but I can't recall what anyone called it back then. Good one, Kieran.
# Posted on February 17th 2006 by Will CPT
I actually recorded K. Burke and J. Daly playing this reel from a radio programme a couple of years ago. It's obviously from their album "Eavesdropper." The sleeve notes of the recording might mention the source of the tune. It's followed by another two single reels: the Boys on the Hilltop and Miss McGuinness. Conal O'Grada joins them for the last one.
# Posted on February 17th 2006 by slainte
"Paddy's Highland Fling"
Thanks for the heads up 'slainte', yes, it makes a lovely highland, but more so, it is familiar, but you know the tricks the mind can play with one. It is familiar as a highland, but I haven't done a search for it yet. I decided first to give it as it pretty much came to me, but doing justice, hopefully, to this transcription first, then a few variations, the first with your flutes and whistles in mind:
R: highland fling
K: D Major
|: A>F |
(3DDD D>B A>D (FGA | B>FA>F E>DB,>E |
D>CD>B A>DF>A| (3Bcd e>c d2 :|
|: (3dcB |
A>Bd>e f>d (3ddd | g>ef>d e>d (3Bcd |
1 A2 d>e f2 (3def | g>fe>d (3BcB :|
2 A>dd>c d>fa>f | g>fe>c d>B ||
For those with limitations here's a variation on Part-A, bar 2:
| BFAF (3EFG FE |
Alternate take on the B-part's second ending:
2 gefd ecdB | gfec (3dcB (3AGF ||
~ and the occassional 'snap' wouldn't go amiss...
# Posted on May 19th 2006 by ceolachan
Another alternate take on the B-part's second ending:
2 a>fg>e f>d (3Bcd | g>fe>d B2 ||
# Posted on May 19th 2006 by ceolachan
Yeah, this is nicer as a highland. I'll do a bit of experiment tomorrow though my interpretation won't be as inventive as yours.
# Posted on May 19th 2006 by slainte