Julia Delaney's

reel

Key signature: Ddorian

Submitted on March 13th 2002 by Mad Baloney.

This tune has been added to 505 tunebooks.

Also known as Julia Delaney, Julia Delaney's, Julia Delany's, Julie Delaney's, Julie Delany's, La Sorcière, Le Reel Des Sorcières, Maude Millar's Highland, Reel De La Sorciere, Reel Des Sorcières, Voodoo.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

...Born For Sport by Paul O'Shaughnessy And Harry Bradley
1975 The First by The Bothy Band
Aleanna by Aleanna
Banish Misfortune by Mithril
Barde by Barde
Bruscar Bán by The Culchies
Cape Breton Fiddle Music Not Calm by Howie MacDonald And Ashley MacIsaac
Captain Hopper's Mutiny by Bowi
Cat In A Cannon by Needfire
Celtic Reign by Celtic Reign
Dear Old Erin's Isle: Irish Traditional Music From America by Various Artists
Draw The Bow by Malachy Bourke
Drink The Night Away by Blackbeers
Eileen Ivers by Eileen Ivers
Elftones by The Elftones
Finnegan's AWake by Finnegan's AWake
Fire In The Kitchen by The Chieftains
Glackin by Paddy Glackin
Gone Dancing by Fine Friday
Hawthorn by Carlos Plumley And Mike Herr
Hit The Bricks... by Waking Maggie
If The Cap Fits by Kevin Burke
Jettaruta by Mauvais Sort
Kilkenny Road by Kilkenny Road
La Route De L'orgie by Toutatis
Live: Rough Around The Edges by Syncopaths
Looking For A Rock by Juniper
Magie by Les Frères Brunet
McGreevy And Cooley by John McGreevy And Seamus Cooley
Mind The Pipes by Leonard Barry
Music For Solo Violin by Gilles Apap
North Amerikay by Dale Russ And Finn Macginty
One by Murphy Roche Irish Music Club
So Far by Eileen Ivers
Spirit Of The Isles: A Concert For Beltane by Various Artists
Step This Way by David Lindquist
Tear The House Down by The Fables
The Celtic Fiddle Of Liz Knowles by Liz Knowles
The Greystone Ramblers by Greystone Ramblers
The Irish Experience by The Irish Experience
The Nettles by The Nettles
The Ring Sessions by James Kelly
This Side Up by Tania Elizabeth
Three Bean Salad by Three Bean Salad
Tin Whistles by Paddy Moloney And Sean Potts
Tone Roads by Wild Asparagus
Trad by Colcannon
Traditional Irish Music From County Clare by Martin Vaughan
True...Never Been Known To Lie by Knot Fibb'n
Undertones by Adrian Barker And Ben Stephenson

Details ABC Sheetmusic Comments

Julia Delaney's

I don't know too much about this tune - I learned it from Bob Drouin. I think it might have northern origins, as I've heard lot's of Glackin's play it & T. Peoples played it alot as well. Nonetheless it's a nice tune - it's good fast or slow & there's a lot of room to add your own little things too.

# Posted on March 13th 2002 by Mad Baloney

Great tune!

Thanks--this is one of my favorite tunes. I believe it appears in O'Neill's collection, but there aren't any notes about origin. I understand Julia (and a few other Delaneys) were related to Captain O'Neill--nieces or grandchildren.

# Posted on March 15th 2002 by mvhplank

Julia Delaney's

You can listen to this tune at http://www.rte.ie/radio/ceolnet/ . go to Musicians -> The Bothy Band -> Julia Delaney's.

# Posted on August 13th 2002 by harry

O'Neil

Is it just me, or is the O'Neil version of this tune unplayable?
http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/gettune?F=GIF&U=/~jc/music/book/oneills/1850/X/1401_bs.abc&X=1401&T=JULIADELANEY&N=JuliaDelaney.gif

# Posted on March 10th 2003 by glauber

Julia Delaney's by Paddy Moloney and Sean Potts

Paddy Moloney and Sean Potts do a really interesting version of this tune on their old album "Tin Whistles." It's just the two of them doing a duet on whistle with a bodhran accompanying them. The version they do sounds very dramatic.

Daniel Petrie

# Posted on February 18th 2004 by LCorinth

Probably is a northern tune, as was mentioned. The second part looks distincly Scottish. Many of the scottish tunes that were taken up in Ireland were changed to versions suitable to something other than the highland pipes (pretty obvious) which might explain the f naturals and the low first part.

# Posted on April 12th 2004 by Paddy

Tin Whistle

This one is quit difficult to play on a D whistle in the key it's written in here (D dorian). However, it becomes a lot simpler if you shift it up to E dorian. Then you just need to play it on a C whistle to get back to the original key.
And yes, the O'Neill's version is completely different ( and unplayable ).

# Posted on July 1st 2004 by harry

I think I heard this tune played by Kane sisters on radio. I don't know how they call it.

# Posted on July 2nd 2004 by slainte

Kevin and Micheal

Kevin Burke used to do a mean slow version of this in his days touring with Micheal O'Domhnaill - nothing much like it is on If the Cap Fits. Lots and lots of oh so sensitive variations. Haven't heard the Bothy version. Tried harry's link, above, but it appears to be long gone :-(

Then again, I have a pal who plays a much friskier version on the banjo - guess what? Lot's of oh so sensitive (totally different) variations.

# Posted on January 17th 2005 by kris

Another version from a session tape.

||:d=cAG F2DF |E2CE FEFA |dBAG F2EF| Add^c defe|d=cAG F2DF |E2CE FEFA |d
BAG F2EF|1 Add^c d4:||2 Add^c d2de||
:fede fagf |e=cgc acgc |fede fagf |edcB Adde |fede fagf |ecgc acgc |fedf
edcB |Add^c d2de:||

# Posted on July 1st 2005 by Washoo

Oups. Bar 3 and 7 are better as |dBAG F2DF|.

# Posted on July 1st 2005 by Washoo

Same Tune

This tune sounds like Eileen Curren in a different key.

# Posted on November 29th 2005 by JACKB

Julia Delaney's

I think this tune is closely related to Maude Miller: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/65

# Posted on December 10th 2005 by slainte

Will, help! Or someone -- you once posted what key James Kelly and Zan MacLeod play this in on the Ring Session cd -- do you remember off hand what that key is? Inquiring minds, I'm having a lesson and can't remember, hope you're online!

# Posted on January 31st 2006 by Zina Lee

Zan picks it in Gm.

# Posted on February 1st 2006 by Will CPT

Thanks!

# Posted on February 1st 2006 by Zina Lee

PVB session playlist

||: dcAG F2 EF | E2 CE FEDc# | dcAG F2 DF | Addc# defe | dcAG F2 EF | E2 CE FE Dc# | dcAG F2 DF | Addc# d4:||
||: f2 fe fagf | ecgc acgc | fede fagf | edc#e d2 de| f2 fe fagf | ecgc acgc | fede fdca | addc# d2 de:|| addc# d4 |

Somewhat different.
Played after The Tempest as a set.

# Posted on June 27th 2006 by Rune Stone

PVB session playlist

Julia Rythym
||: Dm | C Dm| Dm | Am Dm :|| (x2)
||: Dm | C | Dm | A Dm :|| (x2)

# Posted on June 27th 2006 by Rune Stone

PVB Session =

Portneuf Valley Brewing Company ~ Pocatello, Idaho, U.S.A.
Submitted on December 28th 2005 by nipdigler.
http://www.thesession.org/sessions/display/1197

# Posted on June 27th 2006 by ceolachan

Bothy Band version

The one I play is loosely based on the Bothy version. The Fiddler's Companion (http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/JR._JZ.htm) has quite a bit of the history.

X:1
T: Julia Delaney's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Ddor
|dcAG F2DF | E2CE F2A,F | dcAG EFDF| A~d3 defe |
dcAG D~F3 | D ~E3 D ~F3 | dcAG EFDF|1 A~d3 ~d3z:|2 A~d3 ~d3 e||
|f2de fagf | ecgc acgc | fAde fagf| eBcB A d{e}de|
fAde fagf | (3edcgc acgc | fedf edcB|1 A ~d3 ~d3 e :|2 A~d3 ~d3z|

# Posted on August 16th 2006 by Ger the Rigger

Paul O'Shaughnessy recorded a great Donegal version of this tune on the recent duet album with Harry Bradley.

# Posted on August 16th 2006 by slainte

There is an excellent version of this tune in Jerry Holland's fiddle tune collection.

# Posted on October 21st 2006 by Fiddle Inferno

As a Highland

Con Cassidy recorded this well-known tune as "Maude Millar's Highland."

# Posted on September 4th 2007 by slainte

IMPOSSIBLE on the pipes

I like this tune but it's impossible to play it as notated on a concert D set. Most of the transitions between the F naturals and other notes are awkward at best, even with good technique on the key, half holing, etc.

Also, the C natural is TERRIBLE as a pedal tone to second octave notes like g and a.

Solution for pipers: Transpose to E dorian and play it on a C chanter. Or just play the whistle.

BTW how come fiddlers can change the key of a perfectly good tune in G major or D major and it's cool and funky but if a piper takes a tune that's very hard on the pipes in its "normal" key and makes it work better within the limitations of the chanter that's seen as naff or weak or too demanding of everyone else?!

Can you say "DOUBLE STANDARD," folks?

# Posted on February 6th 2008 by Hanley

Impossible on pipes

That's because they don't understand how hard it is to actually play the pipes, so what do they care.

# Posted on August 12th 2008 by tin_whistler

Here's an easier substitute: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/65

# Posted on August 13th 2008 by slainte

The issues with keys generally depend on whether the listener has anything resembling perfect pitch. If he or she has, playing tunes in keys they weren't written in can be cringing to listen to. A common example for me is Calliope House when played in anything other than E Major.

This tune has D minor written all over it!

# Posted on August 26th 2008 by martin clarke