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Moran's Return

barndance

Key signature: Fmajor

Submitted on June 21st 2006 by MBAC.

This tune has been added to 31 tunebooks.

Also known as To Daunton Me.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

Around The World For Sport by The Doon Céilí Band
At Home by Rosie Shipley And Matt Mulqueen
Beauty In Tears by The O'Carolan Quartet
Calliope House by Modesty Forbids
Celtic Passion by John Williams, Dean Magraw
Echoes Of Erin by Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann Concert Tour 2006
Hunting The Whale by Jenny Crook And Henry Sears
Into Folk by Rapalje
Lead The Knave by Arty McGlynn And Nollaig Casey
Re-joyce by Maire O'Keeffe, John Faulkner, Jackie Daly, Donal O'Connor

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X: 1
T: Moran's Return
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: barndance
K: Fmaj
Ac|:d2G2 G2cB|A2F2 F2fg|a>gfe fdcA|G2GA B2Bc|
d2G2 G2cB|A2F2 F2fg|a>gfe fdcA|1G2F2 F2Ac:|2 G2F2 F2AG||
F2fe f3g|agfe d2cA|d2g2 g3a|bagf g2fg|
a2ba g2ag|f>gfd c2fg|a>gfe fdcA|1G2F2 F2AG:|2 G2F2 HF2||

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Someone requested this one, so here it is!
I really like this -simple- tune, it's one of the first I learnt.

# Posted on June 21st 2006 by MBAC

Being in F, it sounds a little different but still quite traditional despite that. Was it composed by an Irishman?

It's a good tune for practicing B flats and F naturals because you can play it slow (being a barndance).

# Posted on June 22nd 2006 by 52Paddy

"Old Irish Folk Music and Songs" ~ P.W. Joyce

London, Longmans, Green and Co, 1909 ~ this has also been available as a reprint... This lovely tune is in this collection in the key of F... As a barndance it would be swung...

A note on how the tune would be played:

”Moderately slow" ~ "tender”... I like that. ;-)

# Posted on June 22nd 2006 by ceolachan

"Moran's Return"~ an 'air'...

Sorry, I should have added, having just been reminded, that it is listed as an 'air' and as being AB instead of AABB, and as having been "written down from singers about 1844"... This reminder was courtesy of that great site "The Fiddlers Companion", maintained by Andrew Kuntz:

http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/index.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/MOO_MORM.htm

# Posted on June 22nd 2006 by ceolachan

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Joyce notated it with swing...

# Posted on June 22nd 2006 by ceolachan

Wow, that was quick. I put it on as a request only a few days ago

# Posted on June 22nd 2006 by Aslira

"Moran's Return"

R: Air
K: F Major
Major
(3ABc |
d2 G2 G2 c>B | A2 F2 F2 f>g | agfe fdcA | G2 G>A B2 B>c |
d2 G2 G2 c>B | A2 F2 F2 f>g | agfe fdcA | G2 F2 F2 ||
A>G |
F2 f>e f3 g | agfe d2 c>A | d2 g2 g3 a | bagf g2 f>g |
a2 ba g2 ag | fgfd c2 f>g | agfe fdcA | G2 F2 F2 ||

K:G Major ~ or F on a C wind instrument
(3Bcd |
e2 A2 A2 d>c | B2 G2 G2 g>a | bagf gedB | A2 A>B c2 c>d |
e2 A2 A2 d>c | B2 G2 G2 g>a | bagf gedB | A2 G2 G2 ||
|: B>A |
G2 g>f g3 a | bagf e2 d>B | e2 a2 a3 b | c'bag a2 g>a |
b2 c'b a2 ba | gage d2 g>a | bagf gedB | A2 G2 G2 ||

K: D Major ~ or F on a Bb wind instrument
(3FGA |
B2 E2 E2 A>G | F2 D2 D2 d>e | fedc dBAF | E2 E>F G2 G>A |
B2 E2 E2 A>G | F2 D2 D2 d>e | fedc dBAF | E2 D2 D2 ||
|: F>E |
D2 d>c d3 e | fedc B2 A>F | B2 e2 e3 f | gfed e2 d>e |
f2 gf e2 fe | dedB A2 d>e | fedc dBAF | E2 D2 D2 ||

# Posted on June 22nd 2006 by ceolachan

Oops ~ for the last example given that would be Bb on a Bb instrument, of F on an F instrument...

However, I really feel this melody resolves as Dorian, so in the above offerings:

F = G Dorian ~ ending ~ | agfe fdcA | G6 ||
G = A Dorian ~ ending ~ | bagf gedB | A6 ||
D = E Dorian ~ ending ~ | fedc dBAF | E6 ||

# Posted on June 22nd 2006 by ceolachan

Maybe Joyce didn't like Dorian?

# Posted on June 22nd 2006 by ceolachan

"Moran's Barndance"

K: E Dorian
|: (3FGA |

f2 g>f (3eee f>e | d>c (3dcB (3AAA d>e | f>ed>c d>BA<F | E2 E2 E2 :|

Don't let 'button' see this, he'll get unstuck...

# Posted on June 22nd 2006 by ceolachan

A redo ~ something weird happening with the spacing...

# Posted on June 22nd 2006 by ceolachan

From an old Scottish song

I kow this is a slow air ( from Arty and Nollaig's record ). To see it as a barn dance is a big surprise.

But - another twist - it actually is the tune to an old Scottish song, and may not be an irish tune despite the name. I'll try to find out the name of the song by asking a friend the next few days.

# Posted on June 26th 2006 by Fliúiteadóir

It sounds like a march to me. Some sort of slow march? Maybe one for tired soldiers...

# Posted on June 26th 2006 by Dow

165 - 170 bpm...Yee Ha!

Yes, as said earlier, it is an 'air' (R: air), but because it was placed under this heading I decided to have some fun with it and tried it as a 'barndance', for which it might be passable, but I'm of the same mind as Dow, it actually comes out as a nice march, if better at a funerary pace... ;-)

Even so, when I take it at a good clip (see the heading ~ 165-170 bpm) and dance barndances / schottisches to it ~ it was a kick, is fun, so it can work there too...

# Posted on June 26th 2006 by ceolachan

Robbie Burns

Burns had a song to this air - "To Daunton Me"

# Posted on February 17th 2009 by blarneystar

Moran's Return

Here is the tune "To Daunton Me" for comparison:

# Posted on February 18th 2009 by nigelg