Man Of Aran

reel

Key signature: Bminor

Submitted on September 18th 2002 by Mark Cordova.

This tune has been added to 132 tunebooks.

Also known as The Man Of Aran, Man Of Arran, The Man Of Arran, Men Of Aran.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• Attention All Personnel by Croft No. Five
• Ceol Ar An BhFeadóg Stáin by Donncha O'Briain
• Continental Reel by Birkin Tree
• Craic Of Dawn by An Tor
• Cruinn by Academy Of Irish Music Chicago
• Cuckanandy by Moving Cloud
• Dísirt Tola : Traditional Music From Clare And Dublin by Various Artists
• Donncha O'Briain by Donncha O'Briain
• Irish Cream by Irish Cream
• Irish Whistles by Various Artists
• Live by Blazin' Fiddles
• Loosely Connected by Niamh Parsons
• Shady Woods by Tommy Martin
• The Boys Of Sligo by Dervish
• The Celtic Fiddle Of Liz Knowles by Liz Knowles
• The Great Divide by Emerald
• The Sound Of Ireland CD1 by Various Artists
• True...Never Been Known To Lie by Knot Fibb'n
• Up She Flew by Dana Lyn
• Whirlwind by Brian Hughes

X: 1
T: Man Of Aran
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Bmin
|:FBfe dB (3BBB|Aced cA A2|FBfe dB B2|FB B2 cB B2|
FBfe dB B2|ce e2 ce e2| f3e dB B2|cedc dB B2:|
|:df f2 df f2|ce e2 ce e2|df f2 df f2|c2ec dB B2|
dfaf dfaf|cege cege|dfeg fB B2| f3e fedc:|

Known Around Dallas

I asked the name of this tune several times at sessions before. It was about time I did somthing about. I enjoy the piece - that's about all I can add.

# Posted on September 18th 2002 by Mark Cordova

Perhaps I should let in a few more details.

Folk very commonly change all those quarter notes to triplets and the Dotted quarters to rolls. The choices are all your's but it sounds much nicer if you articulate it a little. I suggested in the first measure how I thought the rest of the A part should go.

# Posted on September 18th 2002 by Mark Cordova

Is this the one that Darach de Brun wrote? http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display.php/505

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# Posted on September 18th 2002 by Zina Lee

By Darach de Brun

I missed it the first time around - thanks Zina.
Mark

# Posted on September 19th 2002 by Mark Cordova

Yes, Darach de Brun - and there's another one of his ('The Maple Leaf', I think - no connection with Scott Joplin's tune of the same name), which goes nicely after this one.

# Posted on September 19th 2002 by CreadurMawnOrganig

Great tune indeed

Its my Dad that wrote this tune, Its absolutly brilliant.

# Posted on October 26th 2004 by TinWhistleManDeBrun

"The Maple Leaf "- by Darach de Brun

http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/1050

# Posted on October 26th 2004 by ceolachan

Man Of Aran

First tune here by Tara Breen, Cathal King and Noel Ryan.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Urwz6EMJkc&feature=rec-fresh+div

# Posted on October 11th 2009 by bogman

Donncha O'Briain had the two of them in the first set of his album, lovely stuff

# Posted on March 23rd 2010 by Loughcurra

As played by Dervish

This is (more or less) the superb tinwhistle-version by Dervish on "Boys of Sligo":

X:48
T:Man of Aran
R:reel
M:C
K:Bm
|:FBfe dB~B2|~e2ed cA~A2|FBfe dB~B2|cedc dB~B2|
fBeB dB~B2|~e2ed cA~A2|(3Bcd (3cde d2 (3efg|[1~f2fe dBBA:|[2~f2fe dBBc||
|:Adfd Adfd|cdec fcec|dAFD FAdA|cedc dBBc|
defd Adfd|cdec fcec|(3Bcd (3cde d2 (3efg|[1~f2fe dBBc:|[2~f2fe dBBA|]

# Posted on January 19th 2012 by Tin Grinder