Carolan's Cap

polka

Key signature: Gmixolydian

Submitted on July 21st 2009 by peirol.

This tune has been added to 6 tunebooks.

Also known as Carolan's Nightcap, Carolin's Nightcap, O'Carolan's Nightcap.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• Acousticity by The Albion Band
• Carolan's Receipt by Derek Bell
• Celtic Sessions by William Coulter
• The Black Rose by Jesse Autumn With Barry Phillips
• The Complete Works Of Turlough O' Carolan (1670-1738) - Disc 7 by J.J. Sheridan

X: 1
T: Carolan's Cap
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Gmix
G |F/E/D/C/ EG |c>d ed |cA GE |D2 DG/F/ |
F/E/D/C/ EG |cc de |EG d/c/A |G2 G ||
c/d/ |eg ga |ge g/e/d/c/ |
eg ag |ed de/g/ |ag/e/ g/e/d/c/ |
d/c/d/e/ ge/d/ |cB/c/ dc |AG G |]

I hope this .abc works &c. for it is the first tune I have submitted in this format. (Can I add an image of the score somehow?)

This is the tune as "The Complete Works of O'Carolan" gives it. I remember that there are some differences to the version I used to play many years ago on Celtic harp. But I cannot remember them, so here I stick to the work cited.

# Posted on July 21st 2009 by peirol

The abc will be made also into sheet music soon, but you'll have to wait a bit. I'm curious to know about the part that says the meter is 1/8, how would you count that? Or was that a mistake?

# Posted on July 21st 2009 by JosephofCK

The (former) 1/8 should be an upbeat. After playing around with the data for a bit I think that the mistake should now be fixed.

# Posted on July 23rd 2009 by peirol