Key signature: Edorian
Submitted on June 17th 2002 by slainte.
This tune has been added to 134 tunebooks.
Also known as Ingenish.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Ingonish
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Edor
Bee efg|fef dBA|Bee efg|fdc d3|
Bee efg|fef dBA|B3 Bcd|AGF E3:||
BEE BEE|FEF DFA|BEE BEE|FED E3|
BEE BEE|FEF DFA|B3 Bcd|AGF E3:||
Ingonish
This is a composition by a Cape Breton Fiddler, Mike McDougall. Personally I prefer starting with the second part.
Closely related to "The Creel of Turf."
# Posted on June 17th 2002 by slainte
Sorry for the mistakes
When I posted the tune, I mistakenly wrote AFE E3, but it should be AGF E3. I've already modified ABC detail.
# Posted on June 19th 2002 by slainte
Names
I know this tune, in Aminor, but called the ten penny bit, and i always thought it was trad. Scottish....? Good Tune though, all the same!
# Posted on June 20th 2002 by Fiddlin Mad
Yeah i know it as ten p bit too. But I play it in a different key and i leatnt it with the parts the other way round.
# Posted on June 20th 2002 by Wackadack
Accident?
Yeah, I know what you both mean.
In fact, I learned the Irish tune in A minor called Tenpenny Bit first, and I was surprised when I came across Ingonish in Calico's album. But several tunes have Tennpenny Bit, so I did not mention to avoid confusion.
I'm not sure whether this tune is traditional and mistakenly attributed to Mike MacDougall, or unconsciouly he imitated Tenpenny Bit.
# Posted on June 20th 2002 by slainte
In order of submission and for easy comparison:
The Tenpenny Bit
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/109
The Creel of Turf (Up Sligo)
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/537
# Posted on October 26th 2004 by ceolachan
It's a bit of a cheek of Mike McDougall to call this tune his own composition - it doesn't particularly offer any new material. It's clearly the A and B parts of the 2 trad tunes above just patched together and swapped round. It's a nice little jig though.
# Posted on April 30th 2005 by Dow
Just read that it's in doubt whether he was the composer, and it's thought the tune might be Irish in origin, which to me seems likely. Perhaps it's a sort of setting of two half-remembered tunes peculiar to Cape Breton, as arranged and played by Mike MacDougall...
# Posted on April 30th 2005 by Dow
Isn't it strange Mike MacDougall named a misremembered Irish tune after his birthplace? Not sure, but maybe it was just arranged and popularised by Mike MacD. and people started to associate it with the place where he came from.
A lovely jig penned by Mike MacD: http://thesession.org/tunes/display.php/3088
# Posted on April 30th 2005 by slainte
That is a nice one yes. They don't sound to me like they've been written by the same person though. That one you've linked to sounds very Scottish/English to me, as opposed to straight trad Irish like this one.
# Posted on April 30th 2005 by Dow
Another nice tune attributed to the same person: http://thesession.org/tunes/display.php/1796 It doesn't sound Irish either.
# Posted on April 30th 2005 by slainte
"The Ingonish Jig"
Mike MacDougall, like other musicians, has had things ascribed to him that he personally took no credit for himself. It is more likely that someone else gave it this name and maybe had learned it from Mike, with the later confusions. Also shared with the rest of us, the problem of memory. It doesn't always work and sometimes that history of not working is passed down from one musicians to another, or from one person writing the sleeve notes for a recording to listening others. We are all so impressionable, eh?
# Posted on November 28th 2005 by ceolachan
Not fortetting the half remembering tunes ~ and sometimes combining bits together from different sources... There have been some interesting results from remembering one part and not another and improvising to fill in the blanks... Really, how much change is necessary before it can be considered a distinct 'other' and given it's own identity in a name?
# Posted on November 28th 2005 by ceolachan
Not Mike's Composition
I'm now convinced that this is a traditional Irish tune. You'll see why if you look at John and James Kelly's version of "Up Sligo": http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/537/comments#comment204723
# Posted on April 9th 2006 by slainte
The story I got (can't recall if I heard it from Jerry Holland or read it in one of his tunebooks edited by Paul Cranford) is that MacDougall found himself playing the tune some time after returning from a trip to Ireland and didn't know whether he had composed it, remembered it, or something in between. It seems to me that by the time anybody realized what tune or tunes it came from, the name and its association with MacDougall had stuck.
# Posted on April 9th 2006 by GaryAMartin
Another version
X:1
T:Ingonish Jig
R:jig
Z:as played by Steph Geremia on The Open Road
M:6/8
L:1/8
K:Edor
Bee efg|fef dBA|Bee efg|afe dcA|
Bee efg|fef dBA|(3Bcd B AFD|~E3 EFA:|
|:BEE BEB|AFD DFA|BEE BEB|ABc d2c|
BEE BEB|AFD DFA|(3Bcd B AFD|~E3 EFA:|
# Posted on October 15th 2009 by brotherstorm