The Dawn

reel

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on February 4th 2008 by lazyhound.

This tune has been added to 16 tunebooks.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• A Compilation by Natalie MacMaster
• Across The Pond by Kevin Griffin, Roger Burridge And Others
• Came The Dawn by Seamus Creagh
• Chasing The Dawn by Jenny Crook And Henry Sears
• Contentment Is Wealth by Matt Molloy And Sean Keane
• Cooley by Joe Cooley
• Dance Music Of Ireland: Volume 4 by Matt Cunningham
• Dance Time In Ireland by Larry McKee And The Shandonairs
• Down From Bell Harbour by Chris Droney
• First Through The Gate by Brian Conway
• Flea Ceoil by Various Artists
• Flute For The Feis by John Doonan
• For The Same Reason by Anders Trabjerg And Tak Tamura
• Forever By Dingle Shore by Slaudeen
• From Galway To Dublin: Early Recordings Of Traditional Irish Music by Various Artists
• Heart Behind The Bow by Kimberly Fraser
• In Your Ear by Seamus Egan
• Irish Button Accordion by Billy Moran
• Irish Traditional Music by Jim McKillop
• Memories Of Galway by Seamus Walshe
• Nice To Meet You by Kaitlin Hahn
• On TSean - Am Anall by Danny O'Donnell
• Second Story by Open House
• Seoltai Seidte (Setting Sail) by Various Artists
• Soh It Is by Craobh Rua
• Star Of Ireland by Finbarr Dwyer
• Tear The House Down by The Fables
• That's The Spirit by James Keane
• The Best Of De Danann by De Danann
• The Best Of Don Messer by Don Messer
• The Hurricane by Donagh Hennessy And Mark Crickard
• The Mist Covered Mountain by De Danann
• The Morning Mist by Joe Burke
• The Plain Of Jars by Brian Kelly
• The Steeplechase by Brendan Mulvihill And Donna Long
• Uilleann Piper by Tommy Martin

X: 1
T: Dawn, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
D2FA G2Bd | A2ce d2fd | edfd gdfd | egfe dBAF |
D2FA G2Bd | A2ce defg | a2af c'bag |1 fgef d2AF :|2 fgef d3A||
d2dA BAFA | B2ec dcBA | (3ABA eA fAeA | dfAd fABc |
d2dA BAFA | B2ec dcBA | (3ABA eA fdAG | FGEF D3A |
d2dA BAFA | B2ec dcBA | (3ABA eA fA eA | dfAd fgbc' |
d'2c'd' bc'ab | gafg efde | cd Bc ABGA | FGEF D4 ||

The Dawn (reel in D)

This version in D was brought to my attention recently in a session and doesn't appear to be on this database. It appears to be sufficiently different to merit its own slot.

# Posted on February 4th 2008 by lazyhound

Hmm.. third octave notes... seems like my kind of thing...

# Posted on February 5th 2008 by JosephofCK

This should be fun to play

# Posted on February 5th 2008 by JosephofCK

The Dawn (reel in D)

Some fiddlers may feel concerned that this tune means they'll have to shift up into the 4th position, and if they've never gone out of the 1st position - this tune is one of those very rare occasions in Irish fiddle music where you need to - then those high notes are naturally going to feel as inaccessible as the far side of the Moon.

This isn't really the proper part of this forum to discuss technique, but I'll just say that a few lessons with a teacher (maybe a classically-trained teacher) will show that getting up to the 4th position, staying there, and coming back down again really isn't all that difficult.

An alternative for the fiddler is to play the tune in G, one string down. This will keep everything comfortably in the 1st position. Unfortunately, this will cause problems for those instruments that can't reach below D or C, like the normal flute and most whistles . . .

# Posted on February 5th 2008 by lazyhound

The Dawn (reel in D)

In my recent comment http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/16774/comments#comment348021 I gave an illustration of one way of playing the last couple of bars of the A-part of this tune - there are other ways of playing it, of course.

# Posted on February 19th 2008 by lazyhound

"The Dawn Reel" in A

Key signature: A Major
Submitted on June 30th 2001 by martin t.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/167

# Posted on March 2nd 2008 by ceolachan