Molly's Graduation

hornpipe

Key signature: Edorian

Submitted on February 24th 2007 by MTGuru.

This tune has been added to 8 tunebooks.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• The Ring Sessions by James Kelly
• Traditional Music From Cape Breton by Various Artists

X: 1
T: Molly's Graduation
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Edor
(3=ccc|B2BA G<B FB|EFGA BA (3Bcd|e2BB egfe|dcdA BAFA|
B2BA G<B FB|EFGA BA (3Bcd|egfe dBA=c|BAFD E2:|
(3BBB|bzfz e3e|bagf efec|d2dB ABAG|FEDF AD (3FGA|
B2BA G<B FB|EFGA BA (3Bcd|egfe dBA=c|BAFD E2:|

Molly's Graduation

Another nice tune by Cape Breton fiddler Dougie MacDonald, from the Ring Sessions album. Alan Ng identifies the tune as a strathspey. But it's played more as a hornpipe, with the exception of the strathspey figure in measures 1, 5 and 13.

To my ear, the tune is a actually variant setting of The Rights of Man:
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/83

It also has some similarity to The Ashplant, the one in D major:
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1139

# Posted on February 24th 2007 by MTGuru