Snow On The Hills

reel

Key signature: Gmajor

Submitted on May 16th 2008 by justjim.

This tune has been added to 26 tunebooks.

Also known as Snow Covered Hills, The Snow On The Hills.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• Across The Borders by Battlefield Band
• In The Fields In Frost And Snow by Chris Norman And David Greenberg
• Revenge Is Sweet by Molly's Revenge
• The Little Cascade by Ben The Hoose
• The Open Road by Steph Geremia
• The Wind Among The Reeds by Tommy Keane And Jaqueline McCarthy
• Threads by Battlefield Band
• Uilleann Pipes And Whistles - Traditional Music From Co. Monaghan by Martin McCormack

X: 1
T: Snow On The Hills
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
|:G2dG BGdG|GABd cAFA|G2dG B^cde|fdcB cAFA|
G2dG BGdG|GABd cAFA|GABc defg|fdcB cAFA:|
|:dgga bgag|dggf d2cA|dgga bgag|fdcB cAFA|
dgga bgag|dggf d2fg|abag fgfe|defd cAFA:|

Not quite straight out of O'Neil's, this is how I've come to play it. I make it third in a set after The Rose in the Garden and The Morning Star Reel. Despite the name co-incidence, it is NOT an alternate form of The Gravel Walk.

# Posted on May 16th 2008 by justjim

There are a lot of common things to other G major (pipe) reels, like Gibert Clancy's - Nice tune anyway!

# Posted on May 19th 2008 by swisspiper

this has bugged me for ages, its the tune the Dubliners play before the Salamanca reel,
although they play it differently to the version here

# Posted on January 18th 2009 by patk

Tommy Keane's / Tommy Reck's version

X: 1
T: Snow On The Hills
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
|:G2dG BGdG|G2dB cAFA|G2dG BG3|defd cAFA|
G2dG BGdG|G2dB cAFA|GABc dfeg|1 fdcA G2(3DEF:|2 fdcA G2Bc||
|:dg3 bg3|dg3 decA|dg2 bgag|fdcA GABc|
dg3 bg3|dg3 defg|a3g f3e|defd cAFA:|

From here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7ssJd6QrPg&feature=related

# Posted on January 14th 2010 by Nico

B@gg@r......

Just spent the best part of an hour transcribing this from Steph Geremia's CD where it's called "Snow Covered Hills". I've put the alternative title in so that it's linked to the recording.
Here's my transcription, anyway :

G2 dG BGdG | G2 dB cAFA | G2 dG Bcde | fdcB cAFA |
G2 GA BGBd | GBdB cA FA | GABc dAeg |1 fdcA AGFA :|2 fdcA GABc |
dg g2 bgag | dg g2 decA | dg g2 bgag | fdcA G3 B |
dg g2 b2 ag | dg g2 defg | a2 ge fdeg |1 fdcA GABc :|2 fdcA G4 |

Steph's playing of this is as good an example of Irish flute playing as I've ever heard. Just beautiful music.

# Posted on May 13th 2010 by Kenny

Don't know how to add a reference to another recording, as this is my first submission (is this possible?), but a fine rendering of this tune appears on "The Mountain Groves" by Emmett Gill, second item on the first track, published by NPU and subtitled "The Ace and Deuce of Piping Volume 2". A lot of other good performance on this CD as well!

# Posted on August 8th 2011 by Donncha S. Ó Maidín

Snow On The Hills

Donncha - to do what you want to do, enter the details of the recording yourself (in the menu list on the right hand side, click "Recordings" then "add a new recording") as the album you refer to isn't listed here already. The this tune will automatically link to the new recording entry.

# Posted on August 9th 2011 by nigelg

I'll add a bit to Donncha's comment: Snow on the Hills is one of the tunes that Tommy Reck recorded, it's usually added to the Peter O Loughlin tape but I think it's one of a few tunes that was actually taken from radio broadcasts. Tommy Keane also recorded it.

# Posted on August 9th 2011 by Prof. Prlwytzkofski