Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on February 17th 2007 by ceolachan.
This tune has been added to 9 tunebooks.
Also known as Ag Trasnail Na Caoile, Ag Trasnáil Na Caoile.
X: 1
T: Crossing The Channel
M: 9/8
L: 1/8
R: slip jig
K: Dmaj
|: B | A2 A AFA B2 d | f2 f fed e2 f | a2 a afd c2 A | Bcd gec d2 :|
|: f | a2 a aba f2 d | g2 f ged c2 A | a2 a aba f2 d | BB/c/d gec d2 :|
|: c/B/ | ABA AF/G/A Bcd | fgf fed ee/f/g | aba afd cBA | d2 f gec d2 :|
|: f/g/ | afa aba fed | gf/g/a ged cBA | af/g/a aba fed | dd/e/f g2 c d2 :|
"Crossing the Channel to Eire"
~ Alan Corsini reminded me of the neglect and this tune. It has been some time since I was over on the other side, that side anyway. We have a few long overdo trips and visits to make. That shore is one of our many considered 'homes', as much as we can have one... In a restless mood and job hunting and an email from Alan reminded me of yet another slip jig, which I think I also have some other version here to hunt up...
# Posted on February 17th 2007 by ceolachan
For some reason I remember this as "Crossing the Channel to Eire / Ireland" ~ but I haven't been finding that title in anything I have here... My mind has had its fun with me before, a constant entertainment and frustration...
# Posted on February 17th 2007 by ceolachan
“Ceol Rince na hÉireann IV”
Compiled and edited by Breandán Breathnach
An Gúm, Dublin, 1996
ISBN: 1-85791-143-1
Page 23, tune #49: “Ag Trasnáil na Caoile”
# Posted on February 17th 2007 by ceolachan
"Crossing the Channel" ~ Scottish!?
While I may have first heard it in Eire, my sources suggest Scotland for at least its earliest transcription...
# Posted on February 17th 2007 by ceolachan
“Kerr’s Fourth Collection of Merry Melodies”
James Spiers Kerr
444 tunes ~ Scottish and 'Irish' ~ reels, jigs, Strathspeys, Highland schottisches, country dances, hornpipes, clog dances, waltzes, polkas ~ etc…
Page 23, tune #203: “Crossing the Channel”
# Posted on February 17th 2007 by ceolachan
Channel Crossings
A friend of my father's, a Mayoman and used to travelling between Mayo and England by boat . . . and also to Scotland by boat as a Harvester and Howker logically assumed that travel between England and Scotland would also be by boat!
Another channel to cross?
# Posted on February 17th 2007 by Alancorsini