The Parting Glass

reel

Key signature: Aminor

Submitted on October 21st 2006 by Fiddle Inferno.

This tune has been added to 40 tunebooks.

Also known as The Peacock's Feather, The Peacock's March, The Peacock.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• A Rival Heart by Mark Evans
• Across The Waves by Cherish The Ladies
• Aengus by Aengus
• An Calmfhear: The Trooper by Johnny O'Leary
• An Mileoidean Scaoilte by Johnny Connolly
• An Tobar Gl�é by Neil Mulligan
• Anarchy And Rapture by Annwn
• Angelina Carberry And Martin Quinn by Angelina Carberry And Martin Quinn
• Beginish by Beginish
• Briary Lads by Aidan Crossey
• Ceilizemer: Shalom Ireland by The Freilachmakers Klezmer String Band And Driving With Fergus
• Dance Music Of Ireland: Volume 9 by Matt Cunningham
• Farewell To A Friend by Green Highland
• Fourmilehouse by Alan And John Kelly
• Fourmilehouse by Alan And John Kelly
• Frankie Gavin And Alec Finn by Frankie Gavin And Alec Finn
• Gaoth An Fhomhair - Autumn's Wind by Samhradh
• Glass Of Beer by Greenhouse
• Hives Of Honeyed Sound by Padraic Mac Mathuna
• Horkstow Grange by Steeleye Span
• Hungry Grass by Hungry Grass
• I Can Hear You Smiling by Josephine Marsh Band
• IAANJ Session V by Mike And Mary Rafferty And Session Musicians
• On Fire! by The Cottars
• Pipeline by Pipeline Dermot Hyde And Tom Hake
• Rattlin' Banjos (part 2) by David McNevin
• Sean-Nos Nua by Sinead O'Connor
• Skylark by Skylark
• Stormy Weather by Beginish
• Sweet Nyaa by Moving Cloud
• The Best Of Irish Jigs And Reels Vol.1 by Various Artists
• The Crooked Road by William Coulter
• The Hills Of Glengarry by Aonghas Grant
• The Liffey Banks by Tommy Potts
• The Lightning Fields by Robin Bullock
• The Living Wood by Maire Ni Chathasaigh And Chris Newman
• The Million Dollar Tip by Billy Goats Gruff
• The Parish Platform by Rattle The Boards
• The Parting Glass by The Churchfitters
• Top Of Coom by Conal Ó'Gráda
• Traditional Music On Fiddle, Banjo, And Harp by Oisin MacDiarmada, Brian Fitzgerald, And Michael O Ruanaigh
• When All Is Said And Done by Danu

X: 1
T: Parting Glass, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Amin
|:e>d | c2 B>c A2 AB | cdec d2 cd | e2 a ^f g=fed | c2 a2 g2 e>d |
c2 B>c A2 AB | cdec d2 cd | e2 af gfed | c2 A2 A2 :|
|: e>f | gfga gfed | e2 A2 A2 B>A | gfed cBcd | e2 G2 G2 e>d |
c2 B>c A2 AB | cdec d2 cd | e2 af gfed| c2 A2 A2 :|

This is technically a reel but also works well as an air.

# Posted on October 21st 2006 by Fiddle Inferno

Comes out here more march-like than reel-like. I've heard it many times as an air and, of course, heard many a singer sing the song. In dance music form it is more commonly played in a hornpipe version as "The Peacock's Feather" Never heard it as a reel.

# Posted on October 21st 2006 by LongNote

"technically a reel"?

I've always thought of 'Parting Glass' as a song air, never a reel. What makes it 'technically' a reel?

# Posted on October 28th 2006 by hetty

"The Parting Glass" / "The Peacock's March"

As a 'reel', it's 'single', without the repeats given here, the same as for the song. Also, as a single reel, it would be played more like a reel, with some differences compared to this transcription, though maybe this is meant to be more of an American style reel. However, song aside, it's earliest entity is as a march, and the earliest source for it that I know of is that old standby, "O'Farrell's Pocket Companion",vol. IV, 1810, where he calls it simply "The Peacock", a march...

# Posted on November 9th 2006 by ceolachan

"The Peacock's Feather" ~ Reel ~ one take on it with a few rolls

K: E Dorian (can also be played minor, e or a)
|: BA |
GEFD ~E3 F | ~G3 B ~A2 GA | B ~e3 edBA |1 G ~E3 (3DED :|
2 GEFD (3EFE B^c ||
(3dcd Bd ~e2 (3Bcd | edBG ~A2 Bc | d ~B3 edBA | GEFE D2 BA |
~G2 FD ~E3 F | GFGB (3ABA GA | Be (3def edBA | GE (3FED E2 ||

# Posted on November 9th 2006 by ceolachan

"The Peacock" ~ the march

Key signature: e minor
Submitted on November 11th 2006 by ceolachan.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/6359

# Posted on November 11th 2006 by ceolachan

"The Peacock's Feathers" ~ hornpipe / barndance ~ a distant cousin, 'in name only'?

ey signature: d minor
Submitted on April 29th 2002 by wordridden.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/663

# Posted on November 11th 2006 by ceolachan