(the) Fairhaired Lass

[Guest Old Leaky]

Can anyone confirm existence of a tune (Irish?) by this name in a JIG (6/8) setting, not the Reel (4/4) that I invariably turn up when I search for it on the net?

[Christian Husmann]

Can anyone confirm existence of a tune (Irish?) by this name in a JIG (6/8) setting, not the Reel (4/4) that I invariably turn up when I search for it on the net?

 

Maybe I can. I had a look in a book called "The dance music of Ireland" - O´Neill´s that is.

There is a tune called Fairhaired Boy.

Might it be that one?

 

Christian

[Anglogeezer]

The tune "Fairhaired Boy" is here Tune

 

The only Fairhaired lass I can find is the reel!

 

regards

Jake

[Christian Husmann]

The tune "Fairhaired Boy" is here Tune

 

The only Fairhaired lass I can find is the reel!

 

regards

Jake

 

That´s the one out of the book (ish) - although the notes only vary a little the whole tune is in C and not A as in your version. Only the gs are marked to be played as sharps...

[spindizzy]

Try looking for it under the irish name "An Paistin Fionn" aka the fairhaired child, girl with the flaxen hair.

 

There's a slow air version, hornpipe and jig in D. They have them at the Seesion site - this is the jig http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1471 though it's still not quite the tune that I have in my head.

 

Chris

[John Wild]

Try these ABC notations. One of them might be what you are looking for.

 

X: 924

T: The Fairhaired Boy.

B: O'Neill's 924

N: "collected by Beamish."

Z: Transcribed by Tom Keays (htkeays@mailbox.syr.edu)

Z: abc 1.6

M: 6/8

R: Jig

L: 1/8

K: A

EAA AGA | Bdd dBd | ege dBA | BAB GED | EAA AGA | Bdd dBd |

| ege dBG | BAA A3 :| eaa eaa | egg ged | ege dBA | BGG GED |

|1 eaa eaa | egg ged | ege dBG | BAA A2 z :|2 EAA AGA |\

Bdd dBd | ege dBG | BAA A2 z ||

 

 

X: 62

T: FAIR HAIRED GIRL

B: O'Neill's 62

M: 3/4

L: 1/16

Z: Transcribed by John Chambers <jc@trillian.mit.edu>

N: "Very slow"

N: "Collected by J.O'Neill"

K: G

(d2 .g2.g2) \

| (g>ab)(a/g/) (g2fe) d2B2 \

| c4 .B2(Bc) .d2(cB) \

| (B2G2) (TA3G) (.G2.G2) \

| G6 (d2 .g2.g2) |

| (g>ab)(a/g/) (g2fe) d2B2 \

| c4 .B2(Bc) (dg)(dc) \

| (B3G) (TA3G) (.G2.G2) \

| G6 || G2 (GABc) |

| .d(e/f/).g.a b2(c' a2f2 \

| (g3a b2)(ag) f2d2 \

| e3d e2({fe}de) (.d2.d2) \

| d6 (d2e3f) |

| (g>ab)(a/g/) (g2fe) d2B2 \

| (c4 B)c(Bc dg)(dc) \

| (B2G2) (TA3G) (.G2.G2) \

| G6 ||

 

X: 3277

T:Fairhaired Boy, The

R:jig

S:Mick Hand

M:6/8

L:1/8

K:Ador

EAA AGA|Bdd dBd|ege dBG|BAB GED|!

EAA AGA|Bdd dBd|ege dBG|1 BAG A2G:|2 BAG A3||!

|:eaa eaa|egg ged|ege dBG|BAB GED|1 eaa eaa|!

egg ged|ege dBG|BAG ABd:|2 EAA AGA|Bdd dBd|!

ege dBG|BAG A2G||

 

X: 11475

T:Fairhaired Boy, The

T:Micho Russell's

R:reel

D:Four Men and a Dog: Shifting Gravel

D:Matt Molloy, Sean Keane, Liam O'Flynn: The Fire Aflame

Z:id:hn-reel-524

M:C|

K:D

~A3G FGAB|=cAdc BGGB|ABAG F2eg|1 fde^c AddB:|2 fde^c Adde||

f2df efde|f2df ecAe|f2df efde|fde^c Adde|

f2df efde|f2df ecAG|ABcd efge|ageg fddB||

 

X: 5694

T:The fairhaired boy

C:anon.

O:Ireland

B:Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 158

R:Double jig

Z:Transcribed by Frank Nordberg - http://www.musicaviva.com

M:6/8

L:1/8

K:Am

EAA AGA|Bdd dBd|ege dBA|BAB GED|EAA A=GA|Bdd dBd|ege dBG|BAA A3:|eaa eaa|

egg ged|ege dBA|BAB GED|[1 eaa eaa|egg ged|ege dBG|BAA A2 z:|[2 EAA A=GA|Bdd dBd|ege dBG|BAA A2 z|]

 

 

 

John Wild

[Guest Old Leaky]

Thanks all, and especially John. At first, I thought I'd drawn a blank but, although the title refers to the masculine, the last tune above is it, albeit with a few variations from what I had in mind. Thanks again.

Edited April 28, 2007 by Old Leaky

[spindizzy]

Try these ABC notations. One of them might be what you are looking for.

 

 

.....

 

| (c4 (Bc dg)(dc) \

 

 

John Wild

 

 

I wonder how you play the smiley !

Edited April 28, 2007 by spindizzy

[Leo]

| (c4 (Bc dg)(dc) \

 

 

I wonder how you play the smiley !

If the "Enable emoticon" Post Option is unclicked it will display properly. If it is enabled and then copied, it creates a blank spot when put into notepad. I suspect it will do the same thing in the "Tune-O-Tron". It looks like capital B end parenthesis is a code for that emoticon. At least that is what it does on my computer.

 

Another option would be to click on reply to the original post. It will come up in the proper letters to copy.

 

Thanks

Leo

Edited April 28, 2007 by Leo

[John Wild]

I wonder how you play the smiley !

 

I don't understand that. it does not appear as a smiley in the notation that I copied and pasted.

 

- John

[asdormire]

Probably just one of them feral emoticoms that escaped from another pst and decided it liked the habitat of yours. Not as common as a feral cat, or as vicious as a feral dog, (i.e. no likely to kill any sheep or harass the cattle) so i wouldn't worry about to much. Probably more like the feral parrot that just showed up on the dairy when I was still in high school. Not a bad companion to have as a cleaned the holding area when I fininshed milking.

 

Alan