Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on February 21st 2008 by PaddyCmusic.
This tune has been added to 13 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Brendan McCann's Visit
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
|:dB B2 dGBd|cBcd efge|dB B2 dGBG|A2 FA DAFA|
dB B2 dGBd|cBcd efge|dG (3Bcd gdBG|1 FGAF G2 ge:|2 FGAF G2 Bc||
|:dB B2 dBgb|aged efge|dB B2 dGBG|AD (3EFG ABcA|
dB B2 dBgb|agef g3 e|dG (3Bcd gdBG|1FGAF G2 Bc:|2FGAF G2 ge||
"The Elder" Paddy O'Brien Composition
Paddy O'Brien of Nenagh Co. Tipperary wrote this reel. I learned it from Colin Nea's album "The Pure Box". In the sleeve notes he attributes the tune to Father Kelly, but having heard Eileen O'Brien play it on Geantrai and have the tune attributed to her father, I'm convinced it's one of Paddy's. We can always verify it by checking his book of compositions, and I'd be glad if someone could as I don't have it.
Nice tune though all the same. Has that Paddy O'Brien trait of being a mangling of a load of different trad tunes but, hey, I couldn't do it.
# Posted on February 21st 2008 by PaddyCmusic
Please don't do this!
I'd appreciate if none of you stuck "Paddy O'Brien's" as an alternative title. Thank you.
# Posted on February 21st 2008 by PaddyCmusic
"Brendan McCann's Visit" ~ C: Paddy O'Brien
"The Compositions of Paddy O'Brien"
J.D.C. Publications Ltd., 1992
Page 50: "Brendan McCann's Visit"
Pretty much as given, except with lead-ins for the two parts ~
A-part ~ |: ge | ~ | FGAF G2 :|
B-part ~ |: Bc | ~ | FGAF G2 :|
# Posted on February 21st 2008 by ceolachan
Thanks 'c'. That's verified that. Glad to see it's close to the original too.
# Posted on February 21st 2008 by PaddyCmusic
Almost right on ~ actually, it is, as the few differences are not notewise... Even the lead-ins are there, you've just included them as first and second endings... It's a lovely tune, but I'm partial to his tunes anyway...
# Posted on February 21st 2008 by ceolachan
Sure about gender ?
Are you sure it's not BRENDA McCann ? Great fiddler from Fermanagh - see my comments on "The Humours Of Swanlinbar" on the "Hidden Fermanagh Vol.1 CD".
And Paddy - some eejit's put it in as "Paddy O'Brien's" with the resulting chaos. You, as the person who posted it, can edit and delete the alternative title.
# Posted on February 21st 2008 by Kenny
Well it's definitely Brendan according to Colin Nea's album. I would say it's Brendan if 'c' posted it under that name as he has the book of compositions, presumabely.
Thanks for telling me that Kenny. I never knew I could edit the alternative titles.
# Posted on February 21st 2008 by PaddyCmusic
I reckon there's an idiot creeping around these parts...
# Posted on February 21st 2008 by mehitabel23
who?
# Posted on February 21st 2008 by woD
The book has it as Brendan, a different neighbourhood...
wod, was it you?
# Posted on February 21st 2008 by ceolachan
Forget it. Let him/her have his fun for the time being...jeez, why can't people grow up!
# Posted on February 21st 2008 by PaddyCmusic
I hand myself in! Sorry Paddy, I won't do it again.
# Posted on February 21st 2008 by woD
Apology
Sorry lads, my mistake - I should have checked first. Colin Nea's notes are quite specific about Brendan McCann. And it is Brendan in the book. Nice tune - thanks for posting it, Paddy.
# Posted on February 21st 2008 by Kenny
But ~ it wouldn't be the first time a book got a tune name wrong, or confused, or mixed up... There are Brendans and Brendas involved in this music with the surname McCann... I've seen this listed elsewhere as "Brendan McCann's Visit", does anyone actually know the story behind the tune? ~ the title? Many folk travelled to meet Paddy, and to share music and a pint with him in his favourite pub...
# Posted on February 21st 2008 by ceolachan
I'm not familiar with the recording, is there anything else said about the tune in the notes?
# Posted on February 21st 2008 by ceolachan
Oh yes ~ "he attributes the tune to Father Kelly" ~ nevermind...
# Posted on February 21st 2008 by ceolachan
oh it was YOU woD
who are you anyway?
i reckon we should be friends
# Posted on February 21st 2008 by mehitabel23
Quick Paddy, axe that "Paddy O'Brien's"... It also has happened with Sean Ryan compositions...
# Posted on February 21st 2008 by ceolachan
Notes
" ... a Paddy O'Brien composition in honour of Brendan McCann, who is from Moate, Co.Westmeath, but has lived in America for many years."
# Posted on February 21st 2008 by Kenny
Kenny, where are those notes from. It's no longer Paddy O'Brien's! All is forgiven woD
I've no background info to the tune. Other than Colin Nea, I've only heard it played by Eileen O'Brien (Paddy's daughter) on geantrai. Gerry 'banjo' O'Connor who was that week's presenter said that the set of reels she played where ones composed by Paddy. He gave "Brendan McCann's Visit" the title of the first one there too. Well, that's as much as I can scrape out of the barrell's end. Definitely a tune which deserves more recognition though!
# Posted on February 21st 2008 by PaddyCmusic
From the sleeve-notes accompanying Colin Nea's cassette, which I bought a couple of years ago from a music shop in Inverurie, near Aberdeen. How it got there, I've no idea.
# Posted on February 22nd 2008 by Kenny
Really? I seem to have misplaced my copy of the notes from the CD version but I'm almost convinced they are different and Colin called this a Father Kelly tune.
# Posted on February 22nd 2008 by PaddyCmusic
Don't think so...
Not on the cassette notes. Fr.Kelly was mentioned in relation to another tune, but not this one. If it was one of Fr.Kelly's compositions, what would it be doing in Paddy O'Brien's book ?
There's no mistake here, Paddy. I looked at the cassette insert, and Paddy O'Brien's book last night. Sorry to have been the source of confusion.
# Posted on February 22nd 2008 by Kenny
You? ~ never... Thanks for the added information, appreciated...
# Posted on February 22nd 2008 by ceolachan
Not at all, thanks Kenny. I knew it wasn't a Father Kelly tune but I'm just surprised the cassette notes state it as a Paddy O'Brien tune and the CD ones call it a Father Kelly one. Hey, maybe I'm mistaken. I'll have to look at the notes again when I find. I'd really hate to find out I was mistaken and the source of confusion. Well, whatever Colin says on the CD, it's definitely a Paddy O'Brien tune so I'll leave it!
# Posted on February 22nd 2008 by PaddyCmusic