Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on October 28th 2006 by saxwhistle.
This tune has been added to 10 tunebooks.
Also known as Back O' The Haggard, Kevin Joyce, Standing Abbey, Woodcock Hill.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Back Of The Haggard, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Dmaj
(3ABc|:dcdf ec (3ABc|dBGB AFDF|EGFA GEgf| (3efe (3dcB A2 (3ABc|
dcdf edeg|fefg afdA|(3Bcd cB (3ABA (3GFE| (3DFA (3dAF D2 (3ABc:|
|:(3EAA Ac ecAc|edcB Adfa|gfeg fedf|(3efe (3dcB (3ABA (3GFE|
DFAF EGBG|FAdf afdA|BdcB (3ABA (3GFE|(3DFA (3dAF D2z2:|
LOVELY HORNPIPE
This is a lovely arpeggioic (if that is a word!) hornpipe. rarely played and sometimes neglected but beautiful all the same.
there is another on the data base of ths name but is an extreme if not totally different version.
enjoy playing it!
# Posted on October 28th 2006 by saxwhistle
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/3129
# Posted on October 30th 2006 by Dow
The Back Of The Haggard - It's the same as Woodcock Hill
It's the same as a hornpipe called Woodcock Hill, which is on a Patrick Street album. Lovely tune, though.
# Posted on October 31st 2006 by nicholas
A haggard is an orchard,if I'm not mistaken.
# Posted on November 1st 2006 by dafydd
An orchard?
well i asked my father and he said that his uncle used to call his dung heap a haggard....
like a big heap of sh*te piled up against a wall....
if this is the correct definition of a haggard then im lost to think why anyone would name sucha lovely tune after it....
mabye it means the back of a haggard person
# Posted on November 1st 2006 by saxwhistle
Standing Abbey ~ form Roche Collection
This tune appears in the Roche collection under the titles "Woodcock Hill" and "Standing Abbey."
K: D
A2 | dcdf ecAc | dBGB AFDF | EGFA GBgf | edcB AABc |
dcdf e^deg | fefg afdA | BdcB AGFE | D2 d2 d2 :|
B2 | A^GAc ecAc | edcB Adfa | gfeg fedf | (3efe (3dcB (3ABA (3GFE |\
DFAd EGBd |
FAdf afda | BdcB (3ABA (3GFE | (3DFA (3dfa d' z :|
The Roche's melody is fundamentally the same as the other ones given on this website... in fact they're all rather similar, like fraternal twins moreso than cousins. I surmise that their largest differences would arise from the inherent characteristics of the instrument that O'Neill transcribed his version from (being pipes or flute).
This version might be more fiddle-friendly: notice the wonderully uplifting final bar of the B-part. A challenge for all ye 4-stringed knights of pure intonation... and yes, changing the key to G is cheating!
# Posted on October 11th 2008 by gravelwalks
Find another version here.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/3129/comments
# Posted on October 11th 2008 by gravelwalks
Grymater's version via Brendan Mulvihill
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/5851/details
# Posted on October 11th 2008 by gravelwalks