Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on April 23rd 2006 by ceolachan.
This tune has been added to 18 tunebooks.
Also known as Mountain Ranger, The Mountain Ranger's, The Mountain Rangers, Mountain Top, The Mountain Top, Rose Bud, The Rose Bud, Rosebud, The Rosebud.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Mountain Ranger, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Dmaj
|: A>G |F>Ad>e f2 e>f | g>fe>d B2 A>G | F>Ad>e f>dc>d | b>af>d e2 A>G |
F>Ad>e f2 e>f | g>fe>d B>dA>G | F>Ad>f e>dc>e | d2 (3edc d2 A>G ||
F>Ad>e f2 e>f | g>fe>d B>A (3A^GA | F>Ad>e f>dc>d | b>af>d (3efe (3dB//A//G |
F2 d>e f2 e>f | g2 e>d (3Bcd A>G | F>A (3def e>Ac>A | d>AF>A D2 d>e ||
f>dc>d B>dA>d | F>Ad>e f>dc>d | b>da>d g>fe>d | B>e (3e^de c>=de>g |
f>dc>d (3BcB A>G | (3FGA d>e f>dc>d | b>da>d g>df>d | (3cBA B>c d2 d>e ||
f2 c>d B2 A>G | F>Ad>e f2 c>d | (3bcb (3agf (3gag (3fed | B>e (3eee c>A (3AAA |
f>d (3ddd B>d (3ddd | A>d (3ddd F>d (3dcd | (3bc'b (3aba (3gag (3fgf |1 B>ec>A d2z2 :|2 e>c (3ABc d3 ||
The Mountain Top/The Mountain Ranger
This is well-known in New England as "The Mountain Ranger Hornpipe," where it is played in the key of Bb for contra dances (without the dotted hornpipe rhythm, of course).
Printed in "New England Fiddler's Repertoire."
# Posted on April 23rd 2006 by celticladda
"The Mountain Top Hornpipe" ~ another key and take on it:
K: Bb Major
|: F |
D2 F>B d2 c>d | e>dc>B (3GAG F>E | D2 F>B d>BF>B | (3cdc (3BAG (3FGF (3 EDC |
D2 F>B d2 (3Bcd | e2 c>A F2 F>E | D>FB>d c>BA>c | B2 F2 B,3 :|
|: c |
d>BA>B G>BF>B | D>BF>B d>BA>B | g>Bf>B e>d (3dcB | G>c (3c=Bc G>c (3cde |
d>BA>B G2 F>B | D>BF>B d2 A>B | g2 f>B e>Bd>B | c>AF>A B3 :|
# Posted on April 23rd 2006 by ceolachan
"The Mountain Top" / "The Mountain Ranger" ~ as a 'reel' in Bb...
Submitted on September 10th 2003 by fiel.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1966
# Posted on April 23rd 2006 by ceolachan
Scottish ~ American ~ Irish ~
& it wouldn't surprise me to find it in the Southern Hemisphere too... This appears in "Kerr's Merry Melodies, Volume 2", and I know a load of those editions made their way southwards, as well as being in Roche's, Cole's, Ryan's, etc... It has been and can be played swung as is it's earliest notations and sources, or straight for New England style hornpipes...
# Posted on April 23rd 2006 by ceolachan
Corrections ~
Originally the notation submitted went into the Bb Major version, which was the reason for the second ending:
|2 e>c (3ABc d3 ||
I had also hoped the repeats would repeat the whole of the 64 bars with variations given before the change into Bb Major, but instead it repeats only the last 8 bars. I have removed the second ending and repeats in the ABC's, as well as making a correction that slipped for bar-3 of the 2nd repeat of the B-part of the tune, a run of triplets:
| (3bc'b (3agf (3gag (3fed |
Also, with 'repeats' within any 8 measures of the melody, the A-part or B-part, as is classic, measures 1 & 2 (& 3) are basically the same as measures 5 & 6 (& 7). Because of this I have given possible variations in bars 5 & 6 (& 7), as is true for the repeats of both parts. These are choices, classic hornpipe dénouement variations slipped in here include descending runs of triplets:
K: D Major
| (3bc'b (3agf (3gag (3fed |
| (3bc'b (3aba (3gag (3fgf |
& something similar in the Bb version, part-A, measure 4:
| (3cdc (3BAG (3FGF (3 EDC |
These can continue in numerous ways into the eighth measure, leading to the close/hold on the tonic, D or d for D Major...
# Posted on April 23rd 2006 by ceolachan
The first way with this 32 bar hornpipe and its repeat with added variations are now given separately in the ABC's in what I hope is a clearer and less confusing way.
# Posted on April 23rd 2006 by ceolachan
For 'enob' ~ "The Mountain Ranger Hornpipe"
http://www.thesession.org/members/display/692
The first mention this as a hornpipe in 'D Major' is in the comnents for another hornpipe suggested as a good choice for a pairing:
"The Harp and the Shamrock Hornpipe"
Key signature: G Major
Submitted on July 6th 2003 by gian marco.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1802/comments
# Posted on April 23rd 2006 by ceolachan
"Fourmilehouse" ~ Alan & John Kelly
http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/319
Track 8 ~ Hornpipes:
"The Mountain Ranger" / "The Harp & Shamrock"
# Posted on April 23rd 2006 by ceolachan
"The Mountain Ranter Hornpipe" ~ Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia
"Boomerang"
Troy MacGillivray ~ piano, fiddle and stepdancer
Trolley Records-02
http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/702
Track 5 ~
Hornpipes: Mountain Ranger / White Fish in the Rapids / Chandler's
# Posted on April 23rd 2006 by ceolachan
Mountain Ranger ~ The Mountain Ranger ~ The Mountain Ranger Hornpipe ~
not 'Ranter'...
# Posted on April 23rd 2006 by ceolachan
~ the capping off of my own ranting:
I know, slap my hand, I should have waited. I was just working on this tune when my wife hauled me out for a long contryside walk. As she was pulling me out of this chair I went ahead and hit the Enter key, quickly submitted the ABC's I'd just roughed out from my playing before they were really ready. Note the belated 'comments'... As a 'certified' 'dyslexic' I should know better than to rush anything. I was just playing this lovely melody this morning, with several names for it and memories, having tripped across it in several places and times. I wasn't sure whether to submit it or not, since there was already the reel form on site, but it is significanly different aside from just the key and the swing, and Jeremy has deigned to let it remain. I have now patched and bandaged and joined up some of the dots in the comments, including re-submitted the exorcised Bb take on it. As mentioned earlier, originally the two keys were joined up, D Major twice through and leading into the Bb Major version, the later having been removed with the notes (N: ~) explaining the variations, repeats and key change... I play this very relaxed and unhurried this way, even down as low as around 105 - 110 bpm...
# Posted on April 23rd 2006 by ceolachan
'c', it seems you are now back to "work."
# Posted on April 23rd 2006 by slainte
Work?! ~ Slainte, with this one I was actually thinking of you. I even checked out the Bb version on winds with you in mind ~ replacing the low drops to C and B to c and b ~ and hey, it lies nicely on a D whistle or flute, honest ~ heh, heh, heh! No, really, I was thinking of you and was going to email you and say it would be a good one for you to practice half holing and cross fingering on ~ Bb, Eb and F natural. Take it slowly if you're as daft as me to try it... I've been enjoying it there it there and on other instruments...
# Posted on April 23rd 2006 by ceolachan
Damn, "it there it there", I need some need some beauty sleep...
# Posted on April 23rd 2006 by ceolachan
It is almost 7:00am here. I am going to bed to bed now.
# Posted on April 23rd 2006 by slainte