This is a tune written by Bill Whelan and performed by Liam O’Flynn (accompanied by Donal Lunny on the bodhran). Anyone know where I can get the sheet music for this tune?
PJ
Where are you seeing this tune?
djm
It’s part of the Time Dance composition of BW (1992) performed by Planxty. It also appears at the end of the Seville Suite.
X:96
T:Barrack Street
R:reel
S:From the playing of Martin Nolan
Z:John Walsh wms2-reel-24
M:C|
L:1/8
K:G
M:3/4
GA|BE~E2 G2|
M:5/4
AD~D2 AD ~D2Ac|
M:C|
BE ~E2 GFGA|(3.B.c.d ef gefd|
BE~E2 G2AD|~D2 AD ~D2Ac|BE ~E2 GFGA|(3.B.c.d ef e2:|
ef|gebe gebe |faad faaf|gebe gebe|fedf ~e3 f|
(3.g.f.e be gebe|faad faaf|~g3 e ~f3 d|(3.e.f.g fd e2:|
Hmmm. Doesn’t look like it.
Hmmmm. I listened to it. Sounded pretty much like it to me.
I stand corrected.
Thanks very much for the help. (now to transpose it to Bb …)
Junior Crehan wrote it.
Tommy
From the Album Sleeve of Seville Suite:
"Timedance '92
- The Humours of Barrack Street.
- Isercleran.
- The Ballymun Regatta.
In 1981, RTE commissioned Donal Lunny and myself to write a piece of music which would be used as the centrepiece for their presentation of Eurovision in that year. ‘Timedance’ was performed by Planxty and subsequently released as a single. This 1992 re-recording affords not only a pleasurable opportunity to reassemble most of those involved in the original, but also a chance to have a new look at the treatment - eleven years on. In the event, we decided to leave much as it was, but there is a new arrangement of ‘The Ballymun Regatta’."
In fact, I’ve just found another post from Peter Laban in the whistle forum:
"In 1981 Ireland hosted the Eurovision songcontest and a special commissioned piece was put together by Planxty in co-operation with Bill Whelan and Nollaig Casey. It was called ‘Timedance’. It opened with a reel learned from Junior Crehan (The Dublin Lasses which they called the Humours of Barrack street which is a related tune but not quite the same) in which oddly enough an extra half a bar was inserted (I assume not by mistake but the confusing oddity was copied for years by all sorts of people). The reel was followed by a semi-classical piece and the set ended with a modern ‘rock’ like try out for the later Moving Hearts. The pipes carried the melody in all three parts. The last two parts, Iscleran and the Ballymun Regatta, were the first attempts at composition by Donal Lunny. The whole thing was supporting a group of dancers (not the trad kind)and it was received well.
Of course when Ireland won the Eurovision again some time later RTE thought they could pull off such a thing again and knocked on Bill Whelan’s door. ‘Riverdance’ sounded like a good follow up I suppose."
JUnior didn’t write that particular one, Flynn did get it from Junior, can’t recalll if it was a half bar extra or a half bar left out but there was something odd with the version they did there. Fiddler Eamonn McGivney who played for a long time with Junior maintains that Planxty had the wrong name, can’t remember exactly how the misnomer went about (I have posted about it before here for you archivists). The tune is fro mthe Big Pat’s tune family and it’s in O neill’s but I can’t reacall under what name at the moment.
(edited to tidy up the spelling etc, posting was originally cut short by a pupil knocking on the door for his lesson)
Peter,
Would that be Dublin Lasses (you refer to it in the whistle forum posting).
P
I believe Breathnach calls it Dublin Lasses (not to be confused with the other one). O’Neill calls it Murtough Mulloy. Martin Mulvihill also wrote out the tune but without a name. Actually now that I look, Eight and Forty Sisters from the 1912 Roche collection is pretty much the same tune (and perhaps a little closer to the “lifted” version).
When that came out, I remember it as a variant tune, one with several close versions. When people are commissioned to do pieces like this, they are ‘forced’ to include original work for royalties, future rights, etc.
So, when I have my opportunity to do a movie with Minnie Driver as co-star (a love story set in the 1880s between the colleen and the blind piper), I’ll be playing the Loggin’ Reel (and it will sound a bit like another tune in the tradition with a similar name).
Yessiree, that Minnie Drive is a one-a hot-a momma, yessiree you betcha. 
I was thinking of the Dublin lasses but I was cut short posting my previous post and looking in O Neill’s found the F version of the Boys of Ballisodare under that title, hadn’t really time to think or look up anything.
According to Eamonn McGivney the tune properly called Humours of Barrack Street is the one Bobby Casey recorded as Tie the Ribbons and Planxty had the name wrong for the Timedance piece.
I remember the first time I heard this tune…I bought the “Time Dance EP” and stuck it on my record player…sounded like O’Flynn was playing the tune very moodilly on pipes that were pitched in A or something…Then I realized it was a 45 and I was playing it at 33 1/3…
I kinda liked it better that way…