Tom Keane's

reel

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on February 21st 2007 by Othello.

This tune has been added to 9 tunebooks.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

Drops Of Spring Water by Comhaltas Concert Tour 2004
Fiddle And Concertina Player by John Kelly
Music Of Dreams by Tony Mac Mahon, Iarla Ó Lionáird, Noel Hill
Music Of Dreams by Noel Hill And Tony MacMahon With Iarla O Lionaird
Seoda Ceoil by Various Artists
Seven Years Of Listening by Mick O'Brien And Caoimhin O'Raghallaigh

Details ABC Sheetmusic Comments

Details ABC Sheetmusic Comments

If anyone should recognize this tune, I'd love to know the name of it.

# Posted on February 21st 2007 by Othello

your abc's need some work i think

# Posted on February 22nd 2007 by tnoumarap

much easier to read like this, I think anyway!

# Posted on February 22nd 2007 by tnoumarap

Key

The key is definitely Amix. It circles around A permanently and has a low seventh (g).

# Posted on February 22nd 2007 by Reelin´ man

Duplicated

Both the submitted abc and the one in the comments above are a mess. Put the barlines in the right place and you get Scotch Mary http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/96.

# Posted on February 22nd 2007 by Dow

your right, i'm not thinking straight now! and I knew it rang a bell somewhere in my head!

# Posted on February 22nd 2007 by tnoumarap

But

"Put the barlines in the right place and you get Scotch Mary"

Yes, but it's quite a different version to the one posted there (although I see you have posted a version simiar to this one in the comments). If Othello had provided a title, I would happily grant it ''different tune' status - in fact, I would be very surprised if it doesn't turn out already to have been posted as a tune in its own right, with its own title. If every tune-that-could-be-considered-just-an-alternate-setting-of -another-tune were to have its database entry removed and placed on the comments page, there would only be half-a-dozen tunes here, each with 500 alternate settings posted in the comments.

But then, I've been known to do The Guardian crossword.

# Posted on February 22nd 2007 by OrganicPeatCreature

Yes, it is quite a different version, indeed.

# Posted on February 22nd 2007 by Dow

I think the 1st part might be a bit of a mix up with the Monaghan Twig, though. I'd want to know what the source was, i.e. if it's transcribed from a session tape, or whether it's half-remembered from a friend's playing or whatever.

# Posted on February 22nd 2007 by Dow

Yeah, it's just a composite of two fairly common reels and so doesn't deserve a separate entry.

# Posted on February 22nd 2007 by slainte

"it's just a composite of two fairly common reels and so doesn't deserve a separate entry."

If we were to grant 'tune' staus only to those tunes, none of whose parts were shared with any other tune, we'd only be left with three entires - and a half, for the odd stray B-part.

MIxing up tunes, intentionally or unintentionally, must have played a significant role in the augmentation of the collective repertoire of Irish traditional musicians to the many thousands of tunes it now includes. The problem with all this modern technology (email and eye-pods and mustard-boards and windproof smoke signals) is that it all happens so much quicker - so quick, in fact, that we notice it happening.

# Posted on February 22nd 2007 by OrganicPeatCreature

My first time

It is the first ABC i've ever made, so I am pretty sure it is a mess..
I learned the tune a couple of years ago from a danish band.
I have no idea what they have done to it

# Posted on February 22nd 2007 by Othello

You've gotta watch those Danes, they are always adding extra parts to old standards and mixing things up...

# Posted on February 22nd 2007 by ceolachan

Options for 'first tunes' ~

Some folks, when they are unsure of their ABC's or the title of a tune, have been using the 'Discussions' area to seek help and answers, I think that isn't a bad idea, rather than roughing it out here... Maybe you'll consider that option next time 'Othello'...

"And of the Cannibals that each other eat, the Anthropophagi, and men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders."
~ Othello / Shakespeare

# Posted on February 22nd 2007 by ceolachan

Gan Ainm - Options for 'first tunes' ~

I had the pleasure of seeing a professional performance of "Othello" here in Bristol at the Tobacco Factory Theatre a couple of weeks ago. Just a Shakespeare would have liked it - the stage was a floor area surrounded on all four sides by no more than five tiered rows of seats, the actors entering and exiting via the entrances used by the audience. No scenery, just a handful of props as required - table, chairs, a bed for the final scenes. Costumes were vaguely Late Victorian/Edwardian, and no curtains of course - the divisions between scenes being done by controlling the lights. The result was an immediacy and closeness between the audience and actors that is impossible to get with a curtained stage looking out over an audience. I felt that I was actually an invisible observer in every scene, as a fly-on-the-wall, as it were.

The actor who played Iago had a remarkably good singing voice for the Elizabethan song he sang in the first act, and was accompanied live by another member of the cast playing a guitar very well. The part of Iago was a virtuoso performance. It's the longest part in Shakespeare and the actor was on stage for almost every scene for a 3-hour period, with some devilishly long speeches (how did he learn it all?). He exuded a quiet but intense malevolence arising out of jealousy of his General, Othello. The give-away of his attitude was when he said his age was 35 - surely bad news career-wise for someone who was, at that age, still an ensign, the most junior commissioned officer rank. Today, he'd doubtless be called a "loser" - a dangerous loser.

You can find out about current and forth-coming Shakespeare productions at http://www.sattf.org.uk/ - "sattf" = "Shakespeare At The Tobacco Factory".
"Othello" finishes on March 17.

# Posted on February 25th 2007 by lazyhound

:-) I wish we'd been there. It sounds perfect...

# Posted on February 25th 2007 by ceolachan

So near and yet so far away...

# Posted on February 25th 2007 by ceolachan

"Scotch Mary" / "The Abbey Reel"

# Posted on January 14th 2008 by ceolachan

Tom Keane's / Abbey reel

Sorry, but that Scotch Mary is nothing like the Abbey that I know, which goes like this...
A3 B A2 GE | A2 GA BddB | A2 AB AGEF | G2 GA Bd d2 etc

# Posted on June 20th 2009 by robinlew