Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on July 19th 2007 by ceolachan.
This tune has been added to 8 tunebooks.
Also known as Rowsome's, Rowsome's Jig.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Parnell's March
M: 12/8
L: 1/8
R: slide
K: Gmaj
|: d2 c |
B2 G B2 c d3- d2 c | B2 G B2 c d3- d2 c |
BdB GBd edc BA^G | Add d^cd Add cec |
B2 G BBc d3- dBG | c2 B cde gag f/g/fe |
d2 B GBd cAF DEF | A2 G GFA G3 :|
|: ggf |
e/f/ec cBd c3 gfe | d2 B BAc B3 G2 B |
ddd d^cd edc BA^G | Add d^cd Add cec |
B2 G BBc d3- dBG | c2 B cde gag f/g/fe |
d2 B GBd cAF DEF | A2 G GFA G3 :|
"Parnell's March" ~ transcribed from the fiddling of Con Cassidy
This is a lovely little march and Con's version of it is lovely... There is another take on this here where I first found it recorded as 'gan ainm'. I have sent emails out to the contributor hoping they'd give it a name, but no response. Anyway, I'm hoping the two takes are different enough, at least geographically, that this lovely version will survive with dots of it's own. Anyway, the other take follows...
# Posted on July 19th 2007 by ceolachan
"Gan Ainm" = "Parnell's March"
Key signature: G Major
Submitted on April 6th 2006 by ceili.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/5654
# Posted on July 19th 2007 by ceolachan
"Parnell's March" ~ The Fiddler’s Companion, Andrew Kuntz
http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/index.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/PAR_PAY.htm
PARNELL’S MARCH. The tune was recorded by piper Joe McKenna under the title “Rowsome’s Jig(s),” referring to his teacher, Leo Rowsome. Harry Bradley informs the tune has a long association with the uilleann pipes, having been included in Tadhg Crowley’s 1936 pipe tutor (“published the same year as Leo Rowsome’s tutor; there hadn’t been a tutor for the pipes in over a hundred years and all of a sudden two fall out of the hat in the same year!”). He believes Crowley may have borrowed heavily from Highland Bagpipe repertoire, and thinks “Parnell’s March” may have had a pipe band association. Sol Foster (Ir-trad 12/15/05) notices the tune has a strong resemblance to Newfoundland fiddler Rufus Guinchard’s tune “Uncle Manual Milks the Cow.” Foster says the title was invented by Guinchard, and that the tune “was just a nameless one floating around the northwest portion of Newfoundland in the early 1900’s.” Topic TSCD 669, Willy Taylor, Joe Hutton & Will Atkinson (et al) – “Ranting and Reeling: Dance Music of the north of England” (1998. Atkinson {b. 1908} of Crookham, Northumberland, was an harmonica player, Taylor a fiddler and Hutton a Northumbrian small-piper).
X: 1
T: Parnell’s March
M: 12/8
L: 1/8
N: more or less as played in north Kerry
Z: lesl, adapted PdG
K: G Major
|: d2 c |
BGd BGD d3 d2 c | BGD B2 c ded d2 c | BcB BGd edc BAG | ABA d^cd Ad^c c2 =c |
BGD BGD ded d2 B | c2 B c2 e ~g3 gfe | d2 B GAB c2 A FGA | {B}A3 G2 F G3 :|
|: g2 f |
e3 c2 B c2 e gfe | d3 ded B3 B2 c | d3 d^cd ed=c BAG | ABA d^cd Ad^c d2 =c |
BGD BGD ded dcB | ~c2 B c2 e ~g3 gfe | d2 B GAB c2 A FGA | {B}A2 G G2 F G3 :|
I've included the 12/8 transcription above, as given in 'The Fiddler's Companion', for comparison...
# Posted on July 20th 2007 by ceolachan
"Parnell's March" & dance ~
Of the several dances that this 6/8 (12/8 - which I actually think represents this march best) march would combine with beautifully, there is the following single-jig (slide) couple dance, and a notation for it ~
"The Marine"
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/3370/comments
# Posted on July 20th 2007 by ceolachan
12/8 March ~ !!!
(that's me cowering in a hoody with dark glasses
That niggle and agreement, only hesitating because we hadn't previously a 12/8 transcription for a march, has been pestering me... So, shoot me, I've just given in to my senses, my feeling for this great tune, and given it the measure it deserves, that describes best how it swings, which is 12/8. I've changed the ABCs to show that and moved this to the category of 'slide'... It just is, and I love it, but I was lacking nerve, but hey, why else am I anonymous? So, there's my confession, and I suspect if anything just a few Hail Marys will find me salvation?
# Posted on July 20th 2007 by ceolachan
Who will strike first? ~ Dow? ~ Kenny? ~ Nicholas?
# Posted on July 20th 2007 by ceolachan
Notice I waited to see if Jeremy would let this survive... Maybe it is some beige version of cowardace?
# Posted on July 20th 2007 by ceolachan
"Parnell's March" & dance ~ some other possibilities
Two-Step / Quickstep
another single jig dance: "The Peeler and the Goat"
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/5327/comments
The Gie/Gei/Gay Gordons ~ in the comments
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/4947/comments
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/4679/comments
# Posted on July 20th 2007 by ceolachan
two questions. one, where does this fall compared to the march on father charlies album, and second, why do all of your abc's, when changed to notes, have a really long first measure that takes up a whole line? and i only know this because i usually like the tunes you post, i'm not trying to be nasty or anything! thanks, don
# Posted on July 22nd 2007 by Dont
Don, sorry,
1.) ~ while I've heard Father Charlie's music before, I don't have the album to compare it with. I'd love it if someone transcribed that so we could compare. Here's a question back to you ~ is it the same melody, close, or something different by the same name?
2.) Are you meaning the lead-in ~ |: d2 c | ~ which doesn't cause a 'long 1-measure line' here, but will if you enter the ABCs as given into some software packages. Some will do it, some won't. If you want to avoid that you could do either of the two following things before entering it into say Concertina.net's tune converter, add the back slash or bring the first line up to the lead-in measure ~
|: d2 c |\
B2 G B2 c d3- d2 c | B2 G B2 c d3- d2 c | ~
~ or ~
|: d2 c | B2 G B2 c d3- d2 c | B2 G B2 c d3- d2 c | ~
# Posted on July 22nd 2007 by ceolachan
If I had the recording of Father Charlie I would have transcribed that to add here, as the original, with my take given as an alternate, or as another take to compare with others... If anyone wants to send me that track I would gladly transcribe it and add it here...
# Posted on July 22nd 2007 by ceolachan
Nice to see this tune resurface. I learned it off a tape from an East Durham session some years ago. I am the guilty party who wrote it down in 12/8, ;) however I did this only cos that was how it sounded to me when I was asked to do the write down of what I heard. I never imagined it was a slide, at least not the way I'd heard it played. I did think it was a march or something with long phrases. Anyways, the version I heard had 2 pipers playing 2 slightly different sets of notes at the same time. Then somehow there was the conversation with Paul DeG and so we have the Kerry setting now too out of him. - Lesl
# Posted on July 23rd 2007 by LH
I usually play this followed Jockey to the Fair. The two go nice together.
# Posted on March 19th 2008 by Crionadh