Key signature: Adorian
Submitted on May 18th 2006 by Dow.
This tune has been added to 32 tunebooks.
Also known as Maire Ni Grasaig.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Mary Grace
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Ador
cA~A2 EA~A2|BGdG BG~G2|cA~A2 EA~A2|cded cA~A2|
cA~A2 EA~A2|BGdG BG~G2|AGAB cBcd|egdB cA~A2||
(3Bcd ef ~g3d|BG~G2 DG~G2|(3Bcd ef g2fg|egdB cA~A2|
(3Bcd ef ~g3d|BG~G2 DG~G2|(3Bcd ef g2fg|~a3f gfed||
Mary Grace
I recall playing this with Geoff Pollitt when I was in the UK last year. The setting I've given here is a really basic one. There's a lot of room for variation with this one. For me it might typically come out like this:
X: 1
T: Mary Grace
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Ador
cA~A2 EAAc|Bgdc BGGB|czAG EA~A2|cded cAAB|
cAAG ~E3z|Bdde BGGB|AEAB cGcd|(3efg dB cA~A2||
(3Bcd ef ~g3d|BGAG DGGA|(3Bcd ef (3ggg fg|(3efg dB cA~A2|
(3Bcd ef gaed|BG~G2 DG~G2|(3Bcd ef (3ggg fg|~a3f gfed||
# Posted on May 18th 2006 by Dow
This tune reminds me of:
John Egan's: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/909
Harry Bradley's: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/3328
# Posted on May 18th 2006 by slainte
Thanks for posting this one Dow.
Hopefully more people will get to know it now.
It's a really good tune which I tend to play more on the mandolin now, with triplets instead of rolls.
Go and get on with your thesis!
# Posted on May 23rd 2006 by Geoff Pollitt
The digital hair shirt
Good aside Geoff, sock it to 'em. He is spending far too much time on this site lately, which can only mean he is putting off the inevitable. Is it 'inevitable'? Well, whatever the outcome, there will be some kind of 'fiddler' to answer to...
# Posted on May 23rd 2006 by ceolachan
Nice to see this tune here by the way, to be reacquainted, though my memory has a few different ways with it. Also, I didn't have a name for it...
# Posted on May 23rd 2006 by ceolachan
This tune is also in the Francis O'Neill Collections. Here is another take on it under that reacquaintance:
K:A Dorian
|: B |
cA (3AAA EAcA | BGdc BG (3Bcd |
1 cA (3AAG E>A (3AAB | cded cAA :|
2 A^GAB c2 gd | egdB cA (3AAG ||
|: cdef g2 gd | BG (3GGG DGBG |
(3Bcd ef g2 fg |1 egdB A2 AG :|2 a2 af ged ||
# Posted on May 23rd 2006 by ceolachan
Shut up the two of you. I come on this site to relax and forget about work and all I get is bloody nag nag nag. There's no escape. Go and do your marking Geoff, and your lesson planning, and all that other paperwork we expect you teachers to be doing these days.
# Posted on May 23rd 2006 by Dow