Can anyone help me find the scores for these two jigs? If possible online, but print if not. I love 'em and can’t find the scores (“Quaker” is Irish and “Geese” is Scottish if that helps)
Thanks folks
The Quaker is in the Dance music of Willie Clancy. There are several jigs called the Geese in the bog (a five or six part jig in D), the one I call that is probably not the one you are looking for.
(be ready to get confused)The one you are looking for is probaly the one also known as The kid on the mountain, which was recorded by Balinasloe piper Dinny Delaney in 1899 on a Cylinder recording. However this is not the tune generally known as the Kid on the mountain (which is a slip jig).
This ABC should do it, we sometimes play it one tone up, which works as well.
This one however is not scottsh so maybe you are looking for a completely different one (there is a ‘Grouse in the bog’ which I think as a title sounds more like a scotsman)
T:Geese in the Bog, The
T:Kid on the mountain
T: Dinny Delaney’s
R:jig
M:6/8
K:C
cEE GEE|cEE GAB|cEE GED|EAA A2B|
cEE GEE|cEE GAB|cBA GED|EAA A2B:|
|:cde g2e|gea ged|cde ged|eaa age|
cde g2e|gea ged|cBA GED|EAA A2B:|
[ This Message was edited by: Peter Laban on 2001-12-10 10:15 ]
Thanks Peter. You’re right, confusing! I got a link from Stan Stahl which took me to the Geese in the Bog I was looking for, plus a Merrily Kissed the Quaker version too. I’ll check out this version
Have you tried JC’s ?
Just put in a word from the title of the tune your after
John Chambers’ Tune Finder is a VERY nifty site.
Not only will it find tunes, but it will often find tunes by the names of the dances they go with. At least for Scottish country dances, JC’s will even find sets.
Adrienne
Nit picking, perhaps, but the name of the tune in various Highland bagpipe collections I have is “Merrily Kissed The Quaker’s Wife.”
(At least I presume that is the tune you are learning, and not an Irish one called Merrily Kissed The Quaker The Geese In The Bog.)
Mal
Nit picking, perhaps, but the name of the tune in various Highland bagpipe collections I have is “Merrily Kissed The Quaker’s Wife.”
(At least I presume that is the tune you are learning, and not an Irish one called Merrily Kissed The Quaker The Geese In The Bog.)
Mal
ERRATA!
Well, I was so flummoxed with the Merrily Kissed The Quaker, The Geese in the Bog set that I made a MISTAKE!
The Scottish tune is titled “Merrily Danced the Quakers Wife” .. which makes a little more sense when one comes to think about it, …(providing one is not the Quaker.)
I think you’ll find this is a Scottish tune, and that “The Geese in the Bog” is Irish.
As a rule I have found that the Irish adopted more Scottish reels and hornpipes than vice versa, but sometimes renamed them. Conversely , the Scots did not adopt too many Irish double jigs, but when they did they keep the Irish names. And as far as I know, they have not adopted many (if any) slip jigs.
The strathspey seems to be peculiar to Scottish music, accompanying a dance of the same name, and Polkas and Schottishes are sometimes encountered in Scottish music, but I have not seen any in Irish collections, and all are played to accompany dances at Scottish ceilis.
Do the Irish have country dance tunes that are not reels, jigs or hornpipes? And if so, what are they called?
Mal
Thanks for all your help folks. The JC Tunefinder site has been a revelation!
Mal - I know of two titles: “Merrily Kissed The Quaker” and “Merrily Danced The Quaker’s Wife”, but I don’t know if they’re the the same tune. The one I was after (and got from JC) is the one played by Liam O’Flynn on the Planxty CD (the first title). I’d be surprised if it was Scottish, it sounds very Irish to me, but then “Drowsy Maggie” sounds Irish as well but is in fact English - so who knows!