Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on July 3rd 2007 by spindizzy.
This tune has been added to 13 tunebooks.
Also known as Dusty Millar, The Dusty Millar, The Dusty Miller.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Dusty Miller
M: 3/2
L: 1/8
R: three-two
K: Gmaj
B3 c d2 B2 A2 G2 | F2 A2 A2 B2 c2 A2 |B3 c d2 B2 A2 G2 | D2 G2 G2 B2 A2 G2 :|
B2 c2 d2 e2 f2 g2 | a2 A2 A2 c2 B2 A2 |B2 c2 d2 e2 f2 a2 | g2 G2 G2 B2 A2 G2 :|
Dusty Miller 3/2 hornpipe
I picked this hornpipe up from local sessions where it is played in a set :
Rusty Gulley
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1208
Dusty Miller
and Our Cat has Kitted.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/7434
The tune comes from "John of the Greeny Cheshire Way" tune collection (1700s......)
which is stuffed full of 3/2 hornpipes (you have been warned)
The melody is akin to the slip jig posted here at
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/28
Chris
# Posted on July 3rd 2007 by spindizzy
Nice clean transcription!
# Posted on July 3rd 2007 by Dow
Ah, you must be a good person - I see you play EC
# Posted on July 3rd 2007 by Dow
Good News
John of the Greeny Cheshire Way will soon be back in print after years of unavailability
# Posted on July 3rd 2007 by chrisormston
Two Chrises, a 3/2, a Dowist monk & good news, so no worry about vampires or demons here...
# Posted on July 4th 2007 by ceolachan
Dusty Miller
Thanks for the nice words, Dow - I can't take all the credit for the transcription though - I just tweaked the nearest version found online to fit what I'd learned (they were all close).
Still, us EC players are all nice people, aren't we
Let me know when you think the board can take any more 3/2s!
Chris
# Posted on July 4th 2007 by spindizzy
Dust to dust...
this was often played at the english session in greenwich and i've always liked it.
if my memory is right we also used to play it as a set with the other tunes mentioned above in Chris' first comment.
mind you,that's no surprise as John Offord was and remains a regular at that session.
# Posted on July 4th 2007 by biggus dave
Surely the tune is the 'slip jig' 9/8 sig: The Dusty Miller' from O'Neills 1001 Gems Dance Music of Ireland. just played with a different time sig?
# Posted on July 8th 2007 by Free Reed
The 3/2, in general, predates the 9/8... This tune, and in its 3/2 form, predates O'Neill by a couple of centuries...
# Posted on July 8th 2007 by ceolachan
1700s anyway...dance & tune...
# Posted on July 8th 2007 by ceolachan
The 9/8 works better
Whether John of the Green way knew this before O'Neill I don't know, but This transcription doesn't convey the bounce and joy of the tune as i know it.
# Posted on July 9th 2007 by Fliúiteadóir
Dusty Miller & 3/2 HPs
3/2 Hornpipes really bounce along, but the dots probably don't convey too well where the emphasis goes (and it can shift around!). It's probably something you need to hear. (Its probably easier to find a good mp3 of Rusty Gulley to get an idea of how to swing these)
Anyway - each version has it's own merits.
Chris
# Posted on July 9th 2007 by spindizzy
Dusty Miller & 3/2 HPs
Ok - here's a cracking 3/2 (rusty gulley) on pipes - it's the last tune on the page.
http://www.asaplive.com/FARNE/Learn.cfm?ccs=188&cs=417
# Posted on July 9th 2007 by spindizzy
The joy of bounce...
well i'm not sure any transcription can ever 'convey the bounce and joy of the tune' no matter how it's written down.
you might as well berate a screenplay for not being the film,imo.
fwiw i think Chris' transcription is pretty close to what i remember playing.
it's up to us to put the joyous bounce into it.
still,if you know how to translate bouncy joy into abc i for one would n't mind a butcher's!
# Posted on July 10th 2007 by biggus dave