Key signature: Bmixolydian
Submitted on May 3rd 2007 by ethel.
This tune has been added to 18 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Ian Morrison's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Bmix
b | B2d/2c/2B f2dB | f2fg fecB | A2cA e2cA | e2fe cBBc |
B2d/2c/2B f2dB | f2fg fece | face f2bf | a2ce fBBc |
B2ba b2fa | b2ab affg | a2bf a2ce | a2ba geeg|
face f2af | b2ab affg | afce f2bf | a2ce fBBc |
Ian Morrison's Reel
This is Ian Morrison’s Reel as requested a couple of weeks back. I’ve only ever heard it played by Alan Stivell (it’s on both ‘Chemins de Terre’ and ‘Olympia’ I think), and the minute I heard it I was hooked - a fantastically rousing pipe tune. Sadly, I don’t play pipes but I play it on fiddle and I think it works well.
My fuller transcription of Alan’s version probably isn’t 100% accurate, but looks like this:
X: 1
T: Ian Morrison's Reel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
Q: 1/2=116
K: Bmix
b | B2d/2c/2B f2dB | f2fg fecB | A2cA e2cA | e2fe cBBc |
B2d/2c/2B f2dB | f2fg fece | face f2bf | a2ce fBBc |
B2ba b2fa | b2ab affg | a2bf a2ce | a2ba geeg|
face f2af | b2ab affg | afce f2bf | a2ce fBBc |
B2d/2c/2B f2dB | f2fg fecB | A2cA e2cA | e2fe cBBc |
B2d/2c/2B f2dB | f2fg fece | face f2bf | a2ce fBBc |
B2b^a b2fe | fbb^a b2=ab | eaab afec | eaab a2fe |
fbb^a b2fe | fbb^a b2=af | eBce f2bf | a2ce fBBc |
f2f2fBBc | fBBc (3edc (3BcA | (3edc (3BcA EFAB | cfec B2 (3Bcd|
f2f2 fBBc | fBfe cBAc | fBce f2bf | a2ce fBBc |
B2b^a b2fe | fbb^a b2=ab | eaab afec | eaab a2fe |
fbba b2fe | fbba b2af | eBce f2bf |a2ce fBBc
I like to go into Gravel Walks after it by changing the last bar to: |a2gf e=dcB
# Posted on May 3rd 2007 by ethel
Wrong
The reel Stivell recorded as "Morrison's Reel" was "John Morrison of Assynt House" which is in Amix and has 6 parts.
I'm sorry to have to say this, ethel, but this is nothing like it, and in my opinion, should be deleted.
And I see it's already in 3 tune books !
# Posted on May 3rd 2007 by Kenny
The Wrong Ian Morrison
Oh dear! I can only apologise and am not sure how I've managed to muddle this up with whatever the real Ian Morrison's is. I tranbscribed it about 4 years ago off a friends CD, and now only have a copy of it on a CD with no cover/track listing attached.
How do you go about getting a tune deleted once its been submitted?
# Posted on May 3rd 2007 by ethel
No need to delete it - that is far too dramatic! Just find out what the tune is called and change the name - easy.
# Posted on May 3rd 2007 by No Cause For Alarm
It's not a different tune. It's 2 parts of "JM of AH" b- albeit in a different key than the one in which it was composed. I'd guess the mistake is with whoever made the recording ethel transcribed it from. I've nothing against playing a tune in a "different" key, but how many people here would have been happy to let a tune be posted if it was only 2 parts of "Colonel Fraser" or the "Bucks" ? Would that have been allowed to stay without any comment ?
# Posted on May 3rd 2007 by Kenny
Any chance of someone posting the whole thing? I've been after this for ages! A great tune.
Cheers
# Posted on May 4th 2007 by Geoff Pollitt
John Morrison of Assynt House
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/7152
# Posted on May 7th 2007 by Kenny
Rene Werner
Rene Werner was the fiddle-player who played this on the Alan Stivell Chenis de Terre LP - he ran a workshop on Irish Fiddling when I was living in the wilds of rural SW France back in the 80's - amazing! I've been looking for a transcription, and whatever it's called, it's what I was looking for, thanks!
I wonder what has happened to him?
# Posted on January 7th 2008 by funmumlu
Not so fast
hi ethel but your transcription IS (roughly ) how it is starts on the Stivel record however authentic or not it may have been .. kenny's number may be the original/trad but it is not what we hear on the album which clearly starts and plays as yours does with a high B in emajor and alternating with a sharp G however yours is not all of it! so i think we still await a full transcription of Stivell's IMR
any offers???
# Posted on July 27th 2008 by boatman62
Next of kin
Has it occurred to you the first part of this reel is v similar to the 1st part of the Bag of Spuds?
I've known both reels for years but have only noticed today!
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/579
# Posted on December 20th 2008 by birlibirdie
Four years after the original contribution - I'm obviously late. Thanks to Ethel, not bad. Stivell also seems to be playing it in Bmix so your transcription is handy. Here is the Amix original referred to above by Kenny. Stivell's, if based on this, is a substantial deviation: http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/tuneget?F=GIF&U=http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/7152&X=1&T=JOHNMORRISONOFASSYNTHOUSE
# Posted on April 19th 2011 by lukegarry