Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on February 6th 2007 by slainte.
This tune has been added to 9 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Major Moran's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
B2BG ABGE|DGBG AGED|B2BA Bcde|1 dBAG EGDG:|2 dBAG EGDE||
G2GF G2BG|A2AG A2BA|Bded BcdB|1 AcBG AGEF:|2 AcBG AGEG||
Bdgd Bdgd|egdg egd2|Bdgd Bdgd|1 egfa ~g3d:|2 egfa gedc||
Major Moran's (reel)
Learned from Roscommon fluter Patsy Hanly's playing: http://www.lafferty.ca/music/irish/flute-geezers/patsyh1.mp3 (Found on Rich Lafferty's flute tape page: http://www.lafferty.ca/music/irish/flute-geezers/) I recently heard John and James Carty play it on the radio and got its name. I don't know much about the tune, so any info will be appreciated.
# Posted on February 6th 2007 by slainte
great tune! thanks for posting it. Don
# Posted on February 9th 2007 by Dont
Major Moran's
I recently realised this reel can be a 3-part version of the Primrose Lasses: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/789
# Posted on June 5th 2007 by slainte
They have their similarities, but can you really say that one is a version of the other?
# Posted on June 5th 2007 by Dow
Who says one is a version of the other? I just wrote it "can be." Seems I should teach you English.
# Posted on June 5th 2007 by slainte
Hope you won't take it the wrong way. I just don't use the smiley.
# Posted on June 6th 2007 by slainte
Maybe you meant "could", then, sensei?
# Posted on June 6th 2007 by Dow
Anyway, this is duplicated http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/4287
# Posted on June 30th 2008 by Dow
This is a Roscommon tune
Different enough in the last part, right? Since Catherine McEvoy recorded this version very recently, it's going to be more popular. A bit of reserach shows that the title refers to Johnny Moran, a fiddle and flute player from Elphin, Co. Roscommon.
Watch and listen to John McEvoy and John Wynne play this tune together:
http://comhaltas.ie/music/detail/john_mcevoy_and_john_wynne
# Posted on June 30th 2008 by slainte
Just because a couple of bars are different doesn't mean it's a completely different tune. It's just a different setting of the same tune, that's all
# Posted on June 30th 2008 by Dow
Yeah, they obviously derive from the same tune. That suggests this is a relatively old tune rather than a recent composition. Thanks for adding the info.
# Posted on June 30th 2008 by slainte
Here's a new link to Patsy Hanly's mighty playing of this reel: http://www.lafferty.ca/files/flute-geezers/patsyh1.mp3
From Rich Lafferty's Flute Geezers Page: http://www.lafferty.ca/music/irish/flute-geezers
I like playing a couple of other N. Connaught reels after it:
The Flowers of Red Mill: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/2867
The Pretty Girls of Mayo: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1954 (2nd version)
# Posted on June 30th 2008 by slainte