I recorded this tune a few weeks ago at a session at The Swannanoa Gathering in North Carolina and I didn’t get the name of it. Below is my best effort at transcribing the recording. Does this look familiar to any of you? Do you know the name? Is it old or recently composed, and if so who wrote it? Any help is appreciated.
Mulvihill’s it is! I listened back to De Danann’s Mist Covered Mountain and confirmed it, which is why the tune sounded so familiar to me. I guess it’s the variation that kept me from getting a hit at The Session. Either that or the ornamentation which is always hard to guess at. Anyways, thanks for the help Mr. Gumby and MTGuru!
Much better to use a search that is more organic and less literal. The search engine at thesession is literal (as is google). You’d be better off using tunepal or abctunesearch.org.
Didn’t the composer Fr. Kelly call this “Derry Craig Wood” - or did that title come from somewhere else ? Like most people, I would imagine, I first came across the tune recorded by “De Danann” as “Mulvihill’s”, but one of the best versions I ever heard was by Maire ni Grada and the Casey sisters, Maire and Nollaig playing it at a concert at the London Irish Festival in 1981 - pure magic !
Incidentally, this is one of those tunes which can cause havoc in a session, because of the order of the parts. I think the original was as posted by the OP, but “De Danann” started with what is the 3rd part above, I seem to recall. Steph Geremia has a wonderful version of it too, which I thoroughly recommend [ along with the rest of that CD ].