which I’ve only ever found in electronic form, yet I’d like learn it from a recording of a human being playing it in a traditional manner. Unfortunately for me, my hornpipe shares a name with a much more common jig, “The Frost is All Over”, so while I can search for its name and get many hits, they’re all to the wrong tune.
Does anyone know of any recordings of this tune? Ideally available for purchase via download, but I’d be willing to buy a CD with it if it were an otherwise recommended CD.
Or is this tune part of anyone’s repertoire? Would you be willing to record yourself playing it for me? If you’re too shy to post it publicly, you could even email me an mp3 at tangleweedsATgmailDOTcom
I just love that slinky dorian hornpipe thing it has going on. I’m also open to recommendations of other dorian hornpipes.
I think whereever you got it from has the wrong name, and / or possibly not a great version. Looking at your abcs I was struck with some amount of recognition.
Using http://abctunesearch.com/ and your whole abcs, it found a 79% match to the Humours of Ballyconnell (from O’Neill’s. I can’t link to the file, but if you copy the tune (without the header info) into that link and search you’ll see it.)
Searching that title on thesession.org I find: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/2748 where it indeed listed as yet another name, and the one I’m likely most familiar with it by: Séan Ó Duibhir A’ Ghleanna, from a tionol recording, I believe, is where I’ve heard it. You could use either title, I suppose. Unfortunately both the Humours of Ballyconnell (also known as a reel) and Séan Ó Duibhir A’ Ghleanna (an air and a different hornpipe) are in use as names for other tunes. But at any rate, it does indeed appear that the title the frost is all over is not correct at all.
You’ll find a list of recordings on thesession, but do check the comments because many of those recordings will in fact be the other tune (the reel or the hornpipe), rather than this one. There are 4 or 5 recordings mentioned in the comments, all of which would be good to listen to.