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Notation Note: The tunes below are recorded in what is called “abc notation.” They can easily be converted to standard musical notation via highlighting with your cursor starting at “X:1” through to the end of the abc’s, then “cutting-and-pasting” the highlighted notation into one of the many abc conversion programs available, or at concertina.net’s incredibly handy “ABC Convert-A-Matic” at

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**Please note that the abc’s in the Fiddler’s Companion work fine in most abc conversion programs. For example, I use abc2win and abcNavigator 2 with no problems whatsoever with direct cut-and-pasting. However, due to an anomaly of the html, pasting the abc’s into the concertina.net converter results in double-spacing. For concertina.net’s conversion program to work you must remove the spaces between all the lines of abc notation, so that they are single-spaced, with no intervening blank lines. This being done, the F/C abc’s will convert to standard notation nicely. Or, get a copy of abcNavigator 2 – its well worth it.   [AK]

 

 

 

GAMBLER'S HORNPIPE. AKA and see "The Brokendown Gambler." Old‑Time, Breakdown. USA, North Carolina. Tommy Hunter called the tune "The Brokendown Gambler." June Appal 007, Tommy Hunter ‑ "Deep in Tradition" (1976).

           

GAME CHICKEN, THE. English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). England, Yorkshire. G Major. Standard tuning. AABB. Source for notated version: an MS collection by fiddler Lawrence Leadley, 1827-1897 (Helperby, Yorkshire) [Merryweather & Seattle]. Merryweather & Seattle (The Fiddler of Helperby), 1994; No. 53, pg. 42.


           

GAME COCK, THE (An Coileach Comhraic). AKA and see “The Bog Carrot,” “Game Cock Reel.” Irish, Slide (12/8 time). D Major. Standard. AABB. The same melody set as a reel can be found in Ryan’s Mammoth Collection as “Game Cock Reel,” from which the name was taken. Editors Breathnach/Small find another reel setting in the Sliabh Luachra region of southwest Ireland collected from Jack Connell (or Jack the Lighthouse, as he was better known, from the townland where he lived). Kanturk, County Cork, accordion player Jackie Daly added another part to the reel setting and titled it “The Bog Carrot.” They find a more distanced version in the strathspey “Captain Francis Wemyss,” and note the tune is related to “The Western Lasses.” Source for notated version: appears as an untitled tune in a manuscript by David Collins, Abbeyfeale, County Limerick [Breathnach/CRÉ IV]. Breathnach (CRÉ IV), 1996; No. 62, pg. 31. Ossian OSS CD 130, Sliabh Notes – “Along Blackwater’s Banks” (2002).

X:1

T:Game Cock, The

B:Ceol Rince na hÉireann 4, no. 62

R:slide

M:12/8

L:1/8

Z:Transcribed by Paul de Grae

K:D

A|F2 A d2 A {Bc}BAB d2 A|Bcd A2 F E3 E2 A|

F2 A d2 A {Bc}BAB d2 A|Bcd A2 F D3 D2:|:g|

{fg}f3 f2 e d2 e f2 g|a2 f d2 f e3 e2 f|

f3 {a}f2 e d2 e fed|Bcd A2 F D3 D2:||

                       

GAME COCK REEL (An Coileach Comhraic). AKA and see “Along the River Banks,” “The Bog Carrot,” “Captain Francis Wemyss,” “The Maid I First Courted,” “Those Evening Bells Reel,” “The Western Lasses.” American, Irish; Reel. D Major. Standard. ABB. A reel that apparently predates the version set as an Irish slide or single jig also called “The Game Cock” (An Coileach Comhraic). Al Smitley suggests the tune may possibly have been named for the clipper ship Game Cock, a name that appears in American Clipper Ships 1833-1858 by Howe and Matthews, and in fact a few tunes in the Howe/Ryan/Cole’s volumes appear to be named after engineering or transportation accomplishments of the mid-19th century. On further investigation one finds that the Game Cock was an extreme/medium clipper ship built in 1850 by Samuel Hall, East Boston, and sported a figurehead carved in the likeness of a game cock with an out-stretched neck and head. She plied the seas for thirty years, until finally condemned at the Cape of Good Hope in 1880. Source for notated version: fiddlers Denis Murphy and Mollie Murhpy [Breathnach/CRÉ V]. Breathnach (CRÉ V), 1999; No. 158, pg. 78. Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; pg. 4. Ryan’s Mammoth Collection, 1883; pg. 26.

X:1

T:Game Cock Reel

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

S:Ryan’s Mammoth Collection  (1883)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:D

FAdA BAdA|BdAF EE/E/EG| FAdA BAdA|BdAF (3DDD D2|fedc defd|geaf (3eee eg|

fedc defe|dBGE (3DDD D2||fedc defd|geaf (3eee eg|fedc defe|dBAF (3DDD D2|

fedc defd|geaf (3eee ea|faef defe|dBAF (3DDD D2||

                       

GAME OF LOVE, THE (Cluiche an Ghrá). AKA and see "The Aberdeen Lasses," "Bloron's Fancy," "Bond's (Reel)," “Humors of Ballinacarrig,” “Humours of Rockstown,” "The New Custom House," “Paddy the Piper [1],” “Piper’s Son,” “Pride of Rathmore,” “Rory MacNab.” Irish, Reel. E Minor. Standard. AB. A version is in O’Neill’s Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody. Breathnach (1976) says it is called “The Aberdeen Lasses” in County Fermanagh. A Scottish version is “Rory McNab,” printed by the Gows. “The New Custom House” is a related tune. Sources for notated versions: flute player and fiddler Peter O'Loughlin, 1966 (Kilmaley, Co. Clare, Ireland) [Breathnach]; manuscripts in the possession of Chicago Police Sergeant James O’Neill, originally from County Down, many of which were from the playing of his father [O’Neill]. Breathnach (CRÉ II), 1976; No. 293, pgs. 148-149. O’Neill (Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody), 1922; No. 259. Gael-Linn CEF-057, “Jackie Daly & Seamus Creagh.” Green Linnet 1040, Touchstone – “New Land.” Kells Music 9501, Dervish - "Playing with Fire."

X:1

T:Game of Love

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

Z:Ken Fleming

K:EDor

B2EF GFGB|AD (3FED FA (3AAA|B2EF GABc|dcBA Beef|e2EF GABc|dD (3FED FA (3

AAA|~B3A GABc|dcBA BE (3EGE:||Beed egfe|defg afdf|eBBA Bgfe|dcBA BE (3EG

E|Beed egfe|defg ae (3fga|gefg fdef|edBA BE (3EGE:||

X:2

T:Game of Love, The

M:4/4

L:1/8

S:Sergt. James O'Neill manuscripts

Z:Paul Kinder

R:Reel

K:E Minor

dc||BEEF GBdB|AFDE FGAc|BEEF GABc|dBAc BE E2|

BEEF GBdB|AFDE FGAc|BEEF GABc|dBAc BE E2||

Bdef gfge|defg afed|Bdef gfed|BdAc BE E2|

Bdef gfge|defg afdf|g2 ba gfed|BdAc BE E2||

X:3
T:Game of Love, The
D:Dervish: ?
O:Ireland
Z:Nigel Gatherer
L:1/8
M:4/4
K:Em
A|:B2 EF G3 B|AD (3DDD FAAc|B2 EF GAB^c|d^cBA Be e2:|
eB (3BBB egfe|defg a3 z|eB (3BBB egfe|dBAF BE E2|
eB (3BBB egfe|defg a3 z|g3 e f3 d|edBA Be e2|]

           

GAME PLAYED IN ERIN GO BRAGH, THE. Irish, Air & Jig. Ireland, Munster. D Dorian. Standard tuning. One part (Howe): AB (Joyce, Roche). The title refers to the penchant of the Irish to defend themselves forcefully and physically when slighted, according to P.W. Joyce. Source for notated version: from 16 year old Munster girl Peggy Cudmore [Joyce]. Howe (1000 Jigs and Reels), c. 1867; pg. 18. Joyce (Ancient Irish Music), 1890; No. 84, pg. 86. Roche Collection, 1983, vol. 1; No. 34, pg. 17.

X:1

T:Game Played in Erin Go Bragh, The

M:6/8

L:1/8

R:Air and Jig

N:”With life”

S:Howe’s 1000 Jigs and Reels (c. 1867)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:D Minor

G | ADD DcE | EDD D2 d/e/ | fed edc | A=Bc d2d |

edc dcA | GFE F2 G/G/ | ADD DcE | EDD D2 ||

           

GAMES PEOPLE PLAY, THE. See "'Tit Galop Pour Mamou."

           

GAMEST TOAST, THE. Irish, Air (6/8 time). G Major. Standard. One part. Stanford/Petrie (Complete Collection), 1905; No. 501, pg. 127.

X:1

T:Gamest Toast, The

M:6/8

L:1/8

S:Stanford/Petrie (1905), No. 501

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:G

G | G>AG gfg | e>de d3 | G>AG gfg | “tr”e3d3 | G>AG gfg | ede d2d |

cdc BcB | “tr”A3G3 | Bcd d3 | dcB A2A | Bcd ded | cBA G3 |

[GB][Ac][Bd] [B3d3] | [Bd][Ac][GB] [F2A2][FA] | [GB][Ac][Bd] [Bd][eg][Bd] | [Ac][GB][FA] G3 ||

           

GAMESTERS AND LAWYERS, THE. AKA and see "When Once I Lay with another man’s wife," "The King's Delight." The air appears under this title in Gay's Beggar's Opera of 1729. It is also in Playford's Musick's Handmaid of 1678. Lawyers were held in as poor esteem in Gay's time as now-days.

           

GAMHNA GEALA, NA. AKA and see "The White Calves," "The Lovely Calves."

           

GAMHUIN GEAL BAN, AN. AKA and see "Fair‑Haired White‑Skinned Calf, The."

           

GAMMAHO, THE. Irish, Jig. D Dorian? Standard. AABBCC. Source for notated version: Mr. Townsend, Cork (Joyce). Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Song), 1909; No. 671, pg. 336.

X:1

T:Gammaho, The

M:6/8

L:1/8

R:Jig

S:Joyce – Old Irish Folk Songs and Music (1909), No. 671

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:D Dorian

ABA def | edc dcB | ABA d3 | dBG G2B | ABc def | edc dcB | ABA c3 | cAF F3 :|

|: Bcd B2G | A2G B2G | c2A ded | dBG G2B | ABc B2G | A2G B2G | fed cAf |

cAF F3 :: ABA g3 | aba g3 | gba g^fg | dBG G2B | ABA g3 | aba g3 | ac’a fef | cAF F3 :|

           

GAMMALMODIG ATTA. Finnish version of "Soldier's Joy [1]." See note for "The King's Head."

           


GANDAL I bPOLL NA bhFATAÍ, AN. AKA and see "The Gander in the Pratie Hole."

           

GANDER AT THE PIT OF SPUDS, THE. AKA and see “The Gander in the Pratie Hole,” “The Monk.”

           

GANDER IN THE PRATIE HOLE, THE (An Gandal i bPoll na bhFataí). AKA and see “The Brother’s Jig,” “The Friar’s Jig,” “The Gander at the Pit of Spuds,” “The Monk,” “The Monk’s Jig,”  Port an Bráthair,”  Port Padraig na Carra.” Irish, Double Jig. D Major ('A' part) & D Mixolydian ('B' part) {Breathnach, Carlin, Harker/Rafferty, Mallinson}: D Mixolydian {Mitchell}. Standard. AAB (Carlin): AABB (Breathnach, Harker/Rafferty, Mallinson, Taylor/Tweed): AA’BB (Mitchell). A gander is an adult male goose, while a ‘pratie hole’ refers to potatoes, perhaps a refuse pile. Closely related tunes include the “Brother’s Jig”/”Monk’s Jig”/”Port Padraig na Carra” tune group. According to piper Néillidh Mulligan these titles refer to piper Brother Gildas (Padraig Ó Seaghdha 1882—1961), who learned the jig from piper Tom Rowsome (d. 1928, uncle of famous piper Leo Rowsome), who called it “Butler's Jig.” “Port Padraig na Carra” is also closely related tune. Sources for notated versions: piper Seán Potts (Ireland) [Breathnach]; piper Willie Clancy (1918-1973, Miltown Malbay, west Clare) [Mitchell]; New Jersey flute player Mike Rafferty, born in Ballinakill, Co. Galway, in 1926 [Harker]. Breathnach (CRÉ I), 1963; No. 30, pg. 13. Breathnach (Folk Music and Dance of Ireland), 1971; 7. Carlin (Master Collection), 1984; No. 263, pg. 150. Harker (300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty), 2005; No. 232, pg. 71. Mallinson (Enduring), 1995; No. 41, pg. 17. Mitchell (Dance Music of Willie Clancy), 1993; No. 117, pg. 97. Taylor (Traditional Irish Music: Karen Tweed’s Irish Choice), 1994; pg. 5. Claddagh CC15CD, Paddy Moloney & Sean Potts – “Tin Whistles” (1973). Drumlin Records, Brian McNamara – “A Piper’s Dream.” Green Linnet CD 1000, Séamus Ennis – “Forty Years of Irish Piping” (2000. Originally released 1977). Shanachie 79011, Planxty ‑ "Cold Blow and the Rainy Night." Shanachie 79012, Planxty ‑ "The Planxty Collection" (1974). Spring Records SCD1037, Néillidh Mulligan – “The Leitrim Thrush” (Learned from his father, who probably learned it from Tommy Reck, who probably learned it from Leo Rowsome).

See also listings at:

Jane Keefer’s Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources 

Alan Ng’s Irishtune.info

X: 1

T:Gander in the Pratie Hole

M:6/8

L:1/8

R:Jig

K:G

D|G2G EGD|G2G Bdg|efg dBG|AGA BGE|

G2G EGD|G2G Bdg|efg dBG|AGF G2:||

f|gab agf|edg ed^c|deg edB|BAG A2f|

gab agf|edg ed^c|deg edB|AGF G2f|

gab agf|edg ed^c|deg edB|BAG A2A|

G2G EGD|G2G Bdg|efg dBG|AGF G2||

X: 2

T:Gander In the Pratie Hole

Z:Peter Crummy

R:Jig

M:6/8

L:1/8

K:D

G|FAD FAD|GFG EFG|FAD FAD|GED D2 D|

FAD FAD|GFG EFG|fed ecA|GED D2:|]

z|Add ded|=cAB cAG|Add ded|=cAB c2 G|

Add ded|=cAB cde|fed ecA|GED D2:|]

                                   

GANDER’S STRUT, THE. Irish, March (4/4 time). Ireland, northern Ireland. G Major. Standard. AABB. Source for notated version: fiddler Peter Turbit [Feldman & O’Doherty]. Feldman & O’Doherty (The Northern Fiddler), 1979; pg. 246.

                                   

GANDY DANCER'S REEL. New England, Reel. D Major. Standard. AABB. Gandy dancers performed necessary repair functions for railroads, such as replacing worn ties, tamping ballast between ties, and aligning and re-aligning rails. The implements they used—picks, shovels, forks and lining bars-- were often made by the Gandy Manufacturing Company of Chicago Illinois. Since manipulating heavy rails often took a coordinated effort by a team of men, songs or hollers helped to maintain a rhythm and give cues for effort. Often the ‘push’ on a rail came at the end of a sung line, with the men rising and lifting as one, leading to the term ‘dancing’.

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Gandy Dancers, by Lee Russell (1939) for the Farm Service Administration. Collection of the Library of Congress LC-USF33- 012161-M2

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Miller & Perron (New England Fiddlers Repertoire), 1983; No. 142.

X:1

T:Gandy Dancer’s Reel

M:C|

L:1/8

K:D

AG|FD A,D FD A,D|FA Bc d2cd|BE EE cE EE|df ed B2AG|

FD A,D FD A,D|FA Bc d2cd|BA GB AF DF|ED CE D2:|

|:fg|a2ab ag fe|de fg a2gf|ed ef gf ec|df ed B2 (3ABc|

dc df ec AF|GF GB AF DF|GF ED CA, CE|(3DED CE D2:|

           

GANE IS MY JEAN. Scottish, Air (4/4 time). A Flat Major. Standard. AB. From J. Scott Skinner’s Logie Collection (1888). His manuscript copy, arranged by Gavin Greig but excluded from his later Harp and Claymore Collection, is set in the key of A Major. The title may refer to Skinner’s wife Jean, who was admitted to the Elgin Asylum in 1885, following the composer’s bankruptcy, where she resided until her death in 1899.

X:1

T:Gane is My Jean

M:C

L:1/8

R:Air

C:J. Scott Skinner

S:Manuscript copy

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:A

A2 B>A F2 E>F|A2 A>c e3e|f2 a>f e2 c>A|c2 BA F2 EF|

A2 B>A F2 E>F|A2 A>c e2 e>e|f2 a>f e2 c>A|c2 B>A A4||

F2 a>f e2 c>A|c2 B>A F2F2|E2 A>A a2 f>f|ec BA B4|

A2 B>A F2 E>F|A2 A>c e4|f2 a>f e2 c>A|c2 B>A A4||

           

GANGER [1]. A Norwegian dance music form which takes its name from the word 'gang'‑‑to walk. The ganger is a stately ceremonial dance which lends itself to transcription in either 2/4 or 6/8 meter, according to whether duple or triple time is felt. "The 6/8 ganger is usually characterized by a horizontal oscillation of three and two‑note groupings (hemiola). These patterns are superimposed over evenly‑spaced foot‑tapping in a duple meter. The rhythmic counterpoint between bowing rhythm and foot‑tapping thus produces vertical combinations of threes and twos as well" (Hopkins, 1985; pg. 175).

 

GANGER [2], THE.  AKA and see “The Drunken Gauger [4].”

           

GANGLAT EFTER HGORT-ANDERS. Swedish, Walking Tune (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning. AABB. The addition of 'efter', or, in English, 'after' recoginzes famous and inflential fiddlers, in this case Hjort‑Anders. Thompson (Fiddler's Almanac), pg. 55.

           

GANGLAT FRAN APPLEBO. Swedish.

           

GANIVELLE. French, Scottish (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning. AABB. Composed by Frederic Paris. Stevens (Massif Central), vol. 1, 1987; No. 6.

           

GANLEY’S JIG (Port Mhig Sheanlaoich). Irish, Single Jig (12/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning. AABB. Source for notated version: Bernard Bogue (Counties Monaghan and Tyrone) [Breathnach]. Breathnach (CRÉ IV), 1996; No. 64, pg. 32.

           


GANNON’S. Irish, Barndance. Recorded by New York/County Sligo fiddler Michael Coleman.

           

GAOL A THUG MI ÒG, AN. Scottish, Slow Air (4/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning. One part. Martin (Ceol na Fidhle), vol. 4, 1991; pg. 26.

                       

GAOL OF CLONMELL, THE. Irish, Air (3/4 time). A Minor. Standard. One part. “From P. Carew’s M.S.” Stanford/Petrie (1905), No. 362, pg. 92.

X:1

T:Gaol of Clonmell, The

M:3/4

L:1/8

R:Air

S:Stanford/Petrie (1905), No. 362

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:A Minor

E^G | A3 cBA | A G3 AB | c3 edc | c B3 EA | c3e d>c/2d/4 | e4 de | c4 Ac | B A3 ||

cd | e4 cA | d4 ed | c4 BA | {c}B4 EA | c4 dc/d/ | e4 de | c4 Ac | B A3 ||

                       

GAOTH ANEAS, AN. AKA and see “The South Wind.”

           

G(H)AOTH ANIAR, AN. AKA and see "James Ryan's Favourite." Irish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning. ABC. Source for notated version: piper Liam Mac Flannchadha (Ireland) [Breathnach]. Breathnach (CRÉ I), 1963; No. 72, pg. 33.

           

GAOT A CORRUIDEANN AN EORNA, AN. AKA and see "The Wind that Shakes the Barley."

           

G(H)AOTH A CHROITHEANN AN EORNA, AN. AKA and see "The Wind that Shakes the Barley."

           

G(H)AOTH ANIAR ANDEAS, AN. AKA and see "Connie the Soldier," "Coffee and Tea [2]," "Jimmy the Tailor," "The Cherry Grove Jig," "Aineen's Double," "Bacach na Cleithe," "Maire Inis Toirc." Irish, Double Jig. D Mixolydian ('A' part) & D Major ('B' part). Standard tuning. AABB. Source for notated version: piper Sean Potts (Ireland) [Breathnach]. Breathnach (CRÉ I), 1963; No. 29, pg. 13.

           

GARAID-EOGAN LE ATRUGAD. AKA and see "Garry Owen."

           

GARB OF OLD GAUL, THE. Scottish, English; March (4/4 time). A British military march of the Revolutionary War period (Winstock, 1970), and the most famous composition of John Reid, who died in 1806. Reid, ultimately to become a general, began his career as a commissioned ensign in Loudon’s Highlanders at the age of fourteen. As an officer he fought the Jacobites and later served in France. He turned up in North America with the Black Watch in 1755, where he took part in the capture of Montreal.  Reid also was an accomplished and sensitive player on the German flute and a composer of some pieces of merit. He composed a set of minuets and marches, published between 1770 and 1780, of which “Garb of Old Gaul” is one. Reid said the original words were written in Gaelic by a soldier of the Black Watch, although the ones usually associated with the tune were written  (first published in 1765) by General Sir Harry Erskine of Alva in Sterlingshire (who served with the Royal and 25th Regiments, the Royal Scots and the King’s Own Scottish Borderers). By 1769 the Black Watch was playing the air as their slow march, and it was sometimes called “The Highland March” or “The 42nd Regiment’s March” (David Murray, 1994).  Upon his death in 1806 the University of Edinburgh was the recipient of his considerable fortune to establish a Chair of Music, with a concert to be held on his birthday at which some of his compositions would be played, in order that the audience would become acquainted with the type of music in vogue during his lifetime. The Reid Memorial concert is still held each January 13th, with “Garb of Old Gaul” among the pieces played (David Murray, Music of the Scottish Regiments, Edinburgh, 1994).

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The melody still serves as the slow march of all Scottish battalions in the British army. “Cases have been known,” writes David Murray (pg. 176), “where some soldiers have believed that ‘Old Gaul’ was some ancient regimental hero immortalised in music, but the mundane fact is that Gaul was a province of the Roman Empire corresponding to Eastern France and Western Germany. Its natives were reported to have worn a mantle or cloak belted round the body in the style of the ‘Feile Mor’, the belted (Highland) plaid of yore. Hence the kilt is the ‘Garb of Old Gaul,’ and hence too, the words of the opening verse”:

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In the garb of old Gaul with the fire of old Rome,

From the heath-covered mountains of Scotia we come;

When the Romans endeavoured our country to gain,

Our ancestors fought, and they fought not in vain.

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Murray points out that Victorian arrangers altered Reid’s two-part march by arranging it as a slow march, “with an introduction of stunning forgetability, the whole rounded off with a trio of equal mediocrity.” Unfortunately, it is this version that often is heard on a march-card.

                       

GARBH CHNOICÍN FRAOICH, AN. AKA and see “The Rough Little Heathy Hill.”

                       

GARBH CNOICÍN FRAOIGH, AN. AKA and see “The Rough Little Heathy Hill.”

           

GARÇON VOLAGE QUADRILLE, LA. English, Quadrille (6/8 time). G Major ('A' and 'B' parts) & E Minor ('C' part). Standard tuning. AABCC. From the (Thomas) Hardy manuscript collection (19th century) of Dorset. The 'A' part is nearly the same as "Dingle Regatta," and is similar to part of an untitled quadrille in the c. 1837-1840 MS of Shropshire musician John Moore (Ashman, 1991). Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; pg. 212.

           

GARÇON VOLAGE (The Fickle Fellow). AKA and see “”Trip to Cottingham,” “The Village Boy Quadrille.” AKA - “Garcon Volange.” English (originally), Scottish, Canadian; Jig. Canada, Cape Breton. F Major (Ford): G Major (Cranford, Kerr). Standard tuning. ABC (Ford): AA’BBCAA’ (Kerr): AA’BB’CC’ (Cranford). The melody appears in the c. 1800-1850 Browne Family music manuscripts, from England’s Lake District. It appears again in the same manuscripts under the titles "Trip to Cottingham" and "The VIllage Boy Quadrille." Paul Cranford (1997) notes this is a good tune for double fiddling (melody and octave melody), and says that Angus and Archie Neil Chisholm often played it together. No relation to “La Garçon Volage Quadrille” of the Hardy manuscripts, however, “Le Garçon Volage” is a figure of the quadrille dance. Source for notated version: Winston Fitzgerald (1914-1987, Cape Breton) [Cranford]. Cranford (Winston Fitzgerald), 1997; No. 205, pg. 79. Ford (Traditional Music in America), 1940; pg. 84. Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 1; No. 10, pg. 29.

X:1

T:Garcon Volage

M:6/8

L:1/8

R:Jig

S:Kerr – Merry Melodies, vol. 1, pg. 29  (c. 1880’s)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:G

dB|GdB GdB|Adc Adc|Bdg gfg|baa adB|GBd GBd|

Adc Adc|Bdg fef|ggg g2z::b3 g3|aaa a2z|c’3 f3|ggg g2z:||

d3 cBc|d3 cBc|d2d g2d|bag fed|c3 A^GA|c3 A^GA|ced cBA|G2 GG G||

 

GARÇONS DE LA MONTAGNE [1]. French, Bourree a 3 Temps (3/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning. AABB. Stevens (Massif Central), 1987, vol. 2; No. 21.

 

GARÇONS DE LA MONTAGNE [2], LES. French, Bourree (3/8 time). Central France, Province of Auvergne. C Major. Standard tuning. AABB. Stevens (Massif Central), 1987, vol. 2; No. 44.


 

GARDA NUA, AN (The New Policeman). AKA and see "The Tinker's Stick," "Paddy Bolster's Reel," "The Twin Brothers [1]," "Lady Cork's Reel," "The New Policeman [3]." Irish, Reel.

 

GARDEBY GANGLAT. Swedish, Walking Tune. D Major. Standard tuning. AA'BB'. "This is a 'walking tune' (ganglat) form the Swedish town of Gardeby. It is played by fiddlers as they walk to a dance, or to the market" (Reiner). Reiner (Anthology of Fiddle Styles), 1977; pg. 57.

 

GARDEN, THE.  American, Jig. Standard tuning. AABB. A c. 1800’s New England composed melody in 6/8 time from Barrand & Moody’s Northern Harmony: A Collection of Tunes by Early New England Composers (1980). Miller (Fiddler’s Throne), 2004; No. 48, pg. 39.

 

GARDEN GATE, THE. Irish, Slow Air (2/4 time). G Dorian. Standard tuning. One part. Source for notated version: Irish sculptor Patrick MacDowell 1799‑1870. Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Song), 1909; No. 518, pgs. 280‑281.

 

GARDEN OF BUTTERFLIES, THE. Irish. Green Linnett GLCD 1181, Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill - “The Lonesome Touch” (1997).

 

GARDEN OF DAISIES [1], THE (Gort Na Noininead/Noinin). Irish, Long (Set) Dance (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning. AABC (O'Neill/1850): AA'BB' (O'Neill/1001). This once popular set dance, remarks O’Neill (1913), was derived from a slow song air which was familiar to him from his boyhood days in Ulster. He remembered one line:

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My hook began to glitter, my flail it was in order.

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It was not until O’Neill’s next door neighbor, Sergeant Michael Hartnett, gave him the tune as it was played where he lived, however, that O’Neill was able to obtain a full setting. As luck would have it:

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While enjoying a steamboat excursion on the Drainage

Canal a week or so later, what should I hear on the boat

but another of our long-lost tune, played in fine style by

Early and McFadden! It had been sent them by (piper)

Pat Tuohey, who learned it from a fiddler recently

arrived in Boston, and who in turn had picked it up

from Stephenson, the great Kerry piper.

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O’Neill states two ‘inferior’ settings appear in the Stanford/Petrie Complete Collection of Irish Music. See also note for the song “The Palatine’s Daughter,” sung to this tune. Paul de Grae believes “Garden of Daisies” was derived from the air “Sliabh Geal gCua Na Feile.”

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In Irish tradition “Garden of Daisies” is one of the four tunes called the Traditional Sets (i.e. set dances), along with “Job of Journeywork,” “The Blackbird” and “St. Patrick’s Day.”

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O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903/1979; No. 1797, pg. 337. O'Neill (Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems), 1907/1986; No. 974, pg. 167. KEENAN 1, Paddy Keenan – “Na Keen Affair.” Shamrock 1235 (78 RPM), Michael Gallagher (uilleann pipes) {c. 1920’s}.

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T:Garden of Dasies, The [1]

M:C

L:1/8

R:Set Dance

S:O’Neill – Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems (1907), No. 974

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:D