Key signature: Gminor
Submitted on August 29th 2006 by Ger the Rigger.
This tune has been added to 14 tunebooks.
Also known as Scully Casey's.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Sculley Casey's
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Gmin
BAG AGF|DGG G2 A|~B3 ~c3|dcd fdc|
BAG AGF|DGG G2 A|BGd cA^F|AG^FG2A:|
~B3 ~c3|dcd fdc|dgg gfg|a{b}ag fdc|
~B3 ~c3|dcd fdc|BAG Adc|AGF G2 A|
~B3 ~c3|dcd fdc|dgg gfg|a{b}ag fdB/c/|
(dga bag|^fdg ^fdc|AGA cA^F|AGG G2 A|
This is transcribed from Kevin Crehan's An Bhabog Sa Bhadog. When trawling through to see if this one had been posted, I saw that people had suggested a tune of the same name was the same as Young Tom Ennis (named the Banshee's Wail over the Mangle Pit by Martin Hayes; almost identical version played by Brian Rooney in Leitram to London). The A part is certainly similar, but the B part is quite different. Again, another suggestion for an identically named tune seems to have been Bryan O'Lynn, but although there's a similarity in some respects I think they're quite different tunes.
# Posted on August 29th 2006 by Ger the Rigger
The Mouse in the Cupbaord
This seems to be an jnteresting variation on 'the Mouse in the Cupboard' http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1454
Sufficiantly different for it to stand vey nicely on its own but I feel the link has to be made.
# Posted on August 29th 2006 by hetty
Now that's a very good point. Change the key to Gmaj and they go together like beans and cornbread. After reading hetty's posting I looked up the Fiddler's Companion (http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers). Here's what Andrew Kuntz has to say:
SCULLY CASEY’S JIG [3]. Irish, Jig. A Minor (Breathnach): A Mixolydian (Feldman & O’Doherty). Standard. AABB. The tune has been called a dorian mode setting of “The Mouse in the Cupboard,” originally in the major mode. Source for notated version: fiddler Peter Turbit [Feldman & O’Doherty]. Breathnach (CRE III), 1985; No. 16, pg. 9. Bulmer & Sharpley (Music from Ireland), vol. 3; 60. Feldman & O’Doherty (The Northern Fiddler), 1978; pg. 233 (appears as second “Untitled Jig” on page). Green Linnet SIF 3002, Kevin Burke & Jackie Daly – “Eavsedropper.”
# Posted on August 29th 2006 by Ger the Rigger
Have just this minute put the two together (albeit on piano - easier to rattle the two off in their differing keys) with "mouse in the cupboard" first in 'G'major then into "Sculey Casey's" in 'G' minor. Brilliant!!!
Am now looking forward to my renovated B/C/C# box to try them out on. Thanks a bunch 'Gerrrrrrrrrrrreat'
# Posted on August 29th 2006 by hetty
Duplicate
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/3437
The version posted here I call "Quilty Shore", like the one off Micheal O'Raghallaigh's Nervous Man.
# Posted on August 29th 2006 by Dow
You're right Noxious. It's the same jig...alternate key and the reference to Quilty's Shore (not the one I know) threw me. Might also do to correct the spelling of 'Sculley' in tune 3437.
# Posted on August 30th 2006 by Ger the Rigger
Sorry, I was thinking of Quilty's Mountain. This is the same as the Quilty Shore (as Pat Canny plays it in my collection).
# Posted on August 30th 2006 by Ger the Rigger