Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on March 20th 2002 by Brad Maloney.
This tune has been added to 87 tunebooks.
Also known as Kitchen Gal.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Kitchen Girl, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
a4g4 | efed c2 cd | ecef gaba | g2e2 e2 ef :||
abaf gagg | efed cdef | g2 d2 efed |1 c2A2A2 eg :|2 c2A2A2 A2 ||
New England
I've put up posts about "New England" tunes, when I do this I'm referring to the now almost dead New England Music Tradition. It was a conglomeration of Scottish, English, Irish & (later) French Canadian. It also borrows heavily from the Fife & drum rep. The Fiddler's Fakebook has a good blurb about New England music that is vague, but on the money....
"Many New England musicians hold danceability as the yardstick with which to measure a fiddler's playing. Some play in an ornamented style a la Irish or Scottish & some in a simpler English fashion. While many of the tunes are specifically New English (New English??) many are also of celtic origin"
-Fiddler's Fakebook
Some other Tunes popualr in the New England Tradition are:
Haste to the Wedding
Whiskey Before Breakfast
Merrily Kissed the Quaker
Teviot Bridge
Avalon Reel
Banish Misfortune
Black Nag
Bonnie Kate (older scottish single reel version)
Etc.
This isn't what's played in irish sessions in New England, this is a subset within the bigger picture of "Celtic" music.
~b
# Posted on March 20th 2002 by Brad Maloney
A great tune, this. I have heard it now and again in some of the less traditional Irish sessions. Does anyone hear the resemblance to the Shetland reel, 'The New Rigged Ship' (another 'foreign' tune which has found its way into Irish sessions)?
# Posted on March 20th 2002 by OrganicPeatCreature
This is only the A part....
The B part is what makes this tune interesting, with some fine syncopation.
# Posted on January 2nd 2006 by JONATHAN2001
Kitchen Girl
This how I use to play "Kitchen Girl":
X: 1
T: Kitchen Girl, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Ador
a4g4 | efed c2 cd | e2 f2 gaba | g2 e2 e4|
e2 a2 g2 ag | efed cdef | g2 d2 efed | c2A2A4 :|
ABcA BA G2 | ABAG E2 EG | ABcd e>=f e2 |
ABcA BA G2 | ABAG E2 AB cBAc BA G2 | A4 A4 :|
# Posted on January 2nd 2006 by nigelg
Kitchen Girl & New-Rigged Ship
"Kitchen Girl" and "New Rigged (New-Riggit) Ship" indeed resemble each other--in fact, you can hear this resemblance very clearly on the Boys of the Lough "Good Friends--Good Music" CD (Philo 1051) where the two are played in succession on track 9.
# Posted on June 21st 2006 by rabrams
Kitchen Girl
It's safe to say that the ONLY source for all USA versions of Kitchen Girl stem from the A Jabbour's collection from Virginia fiddler Henry Reed... Though this is the case, the tune still has many modern variants...
nigelg's abcs are a picture of the whole tune, while the one posted here at the session (sheet music) is just the high part with a 2nd variation of that part...
The ending phrase "cBAc BA G2" seems to be the American generic filler ending to many "modal" tunes and gets under my skin a little....
try this ending phrase with the tune--
| c2 A2 GDAG | E2 A2 A4 :|
It is powerful to drop to that low D...
But dont take my word for it....
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=afcreed&fileName=reedt019/afcreedreedt019.db&recNum=0&itemLink=S?ammem/afcreed:@field(TITLE+@od1(Kitchen+Girl++transcription+))
I dont use the word awesome very often but that transcription and Reed's variations would fit the bill.
# Posted on December 8th 2006 by The Merry Highlander
ALso- Not a New England Tune
Only if you consider Virginia to be New England , would this fit as a "New England" tune as referenced previously... which having family in Virginia, I think you'd get a funny look by calling it NEw England
# Posted on December 8th 2006 by The Merry Highlander
This is more or less how I have it. I first heard it played by the Hollow Rock String Band, and it has since been coloured by my own fallible memory:
X: 1
T: Kitchen Girl, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Amix
a4g4 | efed c2 cd | e2 ef gaba | g2 e2 e4|
a2af gagf | efed cdef | g2d2 efed | c2A2A4 :|
AB=cA BAGB | ABAG EDEG | A2B2=c2d2 | e3f e4|
AB=cA BAGB | ABAG EGAB | =c2A2 BAG2 | A3B A4 :|
I've also heard an alternative ending to the A-part:
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Amix
a4g4 | efed c2 cd | e2 ef gaba | g2 e2 e4|
a2af gagf | efed c2cB | ABcd efed | c2A2A4 :|
And there's considerable variation as to where the long notes are and where the quaver(1/8-note)-runs are.
# Posted on September 22nd 2008 by OrganicPeatCreature
and another B part variation from South Yorkshire
K: D
A/B/|:=ccBB|A/B/A/G/ E A/B/|
=ccBB|^c2cA/B/|=ccBB|A/B/A/G/ E E/F/|GEDB,|A,2A,:|
# Posted on September 22nd 2008 by geoffwright
I learnt this with the B part it A minor... Not sure where from either...
# Posted on February 1st 2009 by Andrew James