Key signature: Cmajor
Submitted on May 17th 2006 by fidkid.
This tune has been added to 13 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Robin's Nest, The
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Cmaj
|:EG| cdc (3Bcd B | cGE CEG | FEF edc | (3Bcd B GAB |
cdc (3Bcd B | cGE CDE | FEF edc | BAB c :|
|:EG| cBc dcd | ga^f g2 =f | ece dBG |cGE FED |
cBc ece | ga^f g2 =f | ece dcB | GAB c :|
Seán Ryan's "The Robin’s Nest "
Is this different enough from
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/2667
to be entered as a tune in its own right?
The version I have here seems closer to what Paddy Canny plays on “Traditional Music From The Legendary East Clare Fiddler” where he pairs it with the New House. (And by the way, I love it when similar sounding tunes get set together. Modulation always sounds dramatic, but sometimes I really enjoy the subtle nuances you get by shifting between similar tunes in the same key, too.)
From “Hidden Ireland – the First Selection of Irish Traditional Compositions of Seán Ryan” compiled by Brian Ryan, page 10. I don’t know if Mr. Ryan composed this from whole cloth or this is his setting of it. Either way, it’s lovely.
# Posted on May 17th 2006 by fidkid
There are certainly striking similarities - but they're not the same tune, in my opinion.
Brian Ryan - what a name. It sounds like somebody shouting into a cave and the echo coming back just in time for the initial 'B' to be eclipsed by the final 'N'. Although, in fact, it is unlike that a plosive would be obscured but a liquid, unless its pronunciation were particularly weak.
# Posted on May 17th 2006 by ragaman
I learned this from Siobhan Peoples as 'Paddy Fahey's'.
# Posted on May 18th 2006 by errik