Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on May 24th 2006 by Dow.
This tune has been added to 11 tunebooks.
Also known as Miss Johnstone's Hop, Miss Johnstone's Hop Jig, Miss Johnstone's Slip.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Miss Johnstone's
M: 9/8
L: 1/8
R: slip jig
K: Gmaj
B2d c2A G3|D2G B2A G2g|f2d c2A G2D|F2G A2B c2A:|
|:B2d ^c2e d3|B2d g2a bag|B2d ^c2e d2f|a3 f2a gfe:|
Miss Johnstone's Mazurka
This appears on Dervish's At The End Of The Day and is their own development of a Paddy O'Brien composition called Youghal Quay http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/2628. On the album they follow the mazurka with the reel, and because the reel is misidentified as an older tune called Miss Johnstone's http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/2411, the mazurka version has also acquired that title. The mazurka is played with swing, but for simplicity's sake arrow signs have not been included in the transcription.
# Posted on May 24th 2006 by Dow
"Miss Johnstone's Slip" is showing ~
Obviously those who did this 'deed' are more familiar with slip jigs than mazurkas. I would first say, learn a few and get intimate with them, to the point of understanding, before attempting to turn someone else's tune into one, but as a slip jig it ain't half bad. As a mazurka ~ (I've deleted that bit...)
T: Miss Johnstone's Slip
M: 9/8
L: 1/8
R: slip jig
K: G Major
|: B2 d c2 A GAG | D2 G B2 A G2 g | f2 d c2 A G2 D | F2 G A2 B cBA :|
|: B2 d c2 e d2 | B2 d g2 a bag |1 Bcd c2 e d2 f | a3 f2 a gfe :|
2 b2 g agf g2 e | d2 A F2 A cBA ||
# Posted on May 24th 2006 by ceolachan
Of course there'd be an 'oops', bar one of part-B:
|: Bcd c2 e d2 c | ~ the last beat, I forgot to fill it out, which could also be a simple d3...
# Posted on May 24th 2006 by ceolachan
I'll meet you halfway, 'c'. I've changed the abc. It's only got half the bars it needs to be a mazurka, and all phrasing's wrong, right? So in that case the problem is not the tune itself, and not the fact that they changed P O'B's composition, but that they called it a mazurka in the liner notes, when in fact it's a hop jig. It is a hop jig isn't it?
# Posted on May 24th 2006 by Dow
Hey I just did it in time too. Jeremy converted the abc into sheetmusic only seconds after I edited it
# Posted on May 24th 2006 by Dow
Some more hop jigs...
Here are some more tunes that might go well in a set with this one:
The Boys Of Ballisodare http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1340
Another Jig Will Do http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/276
The Butterfly http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/10
The Dusty Miller http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/4323
The Dusty Miller http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/28
The Rocky Road To Dublin http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/593
The Snowy Path http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/104
# Posted on May 24th 2006 by Dow
Yeah, it's a hop jig, you can tell by the few triplet combinations and the preponderance of 'N2 N' beats throughout...the 'Hump-ty Dump-ty" of it...
damn you're quick...
# Posted on May 24th 2006 by ceolachan
Wow! Did I say quick? Where'd all those links to hoppitys come from. Damn, it is the miracle of Tao...
# Posted on May 24th 2006 by ceolachan
You know, it probably isn't Dervish's fault, knowing and acknowledging their talents. They probably had some record producer do the liner notes... All is forgiven...
# Posted on May 24th 2006 by ceolachan
Given the second ending I gave it, I'd finish it by adding this as an extra bar, a fremata on the G3. How do you add a fermata in ABC's anyway?
|| Bcd c2 A G3 ||
# Posted on May 24th 2006 by ceolachan
May the circle be unbroken ~
reel: Miss Johnson / Miss Johnson's / Miss Johnston /
Miss Johnstone / Miss Johnstone's
Submitted on January 19th 2004 by Kenny.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/2411
& hay what, a version of this slip is there in the comments, though why it is given as 3/4, well, it wouldn't be the first time. I've seen 4/4 barndances written out as 12/8 too...go figure...
# Posted on May 24th 2006 by ceolachan
Just looking at the other hop jigs there, it seems that hop jigs don't need a 2nd ending to make them hop jigs, but (like flings) they do sound nice with one just to round off the tune and bring you smoothly back into the A-part. So here goes, here's my effort:
...2 b2g a2f g2e|d2c A2B cBA||
...2 a2f g2e d2B|A2G A2B cBA||
...2 a2c' f2a g2a|b2g a2g fed|| or a2c' f2a g2a|b2g f2d cBA||
...2 a3 a2g f2g|a2b a2g fed|| or a3 a2g f2g|a2g f2d cBA||
# Posted on May 24th 2006 by Dow
I like the long start of the alternate takes on a second ending, that a3, nice, but I went too far on one take off from it:
...2 a3 a2 g f2 c' | bag fed cBA ||
NOTE: Yeah, I know, as you know, that "Miss Johnson" with all her aliases is not the same tune as "Youghal Quay", but the other notation for this slip is in the comments for that lady rather than than this spit of sea...
# Posted on May 24th 2006 by ceolachan
Second Endings ~
A last comment on 'second endings', they help the dancer(s), serve as a guide, whether for group or solo dancing. They also give something to create around, for those better dancers ~ those who do more than hammering it out as loudly as possible, those fond of 'showing off' , but instead as inspiration and guidance for those with a greater empathy with the music and the musician(s), those who have an honest understanding, respect and consideration of the music, as evidenced in a want to 'accompany' it rather than beat it to death underfoot....
Whoa! ~ I must have recently had something that disagreed with me. Maybe I need a nap...
# Posted on May 24th 2006 by ceolachan
What is this thing called a "dancer"?
# Posted on May 24th 2006 by Dow
LOL!
# Posted on May 24th 2006 by ceolachan
For anyone still not bored with our ramblings about the mazurka/hop jig distinction, check out this previous submission from our very own 'c' http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/5685.
# Posted on May 24th 2006 by Dow
The Devil made you do that...
# Posted on May 26th 2006 by ceolachan
LOL I knew you'd enjoy it
# Posted on May 27th 2006 by Dow