Bealltaine: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 03:41, 28 August 2013

Bealltaine Click on the tune title to see or modify Bealltaine's annotations. If the link is red you can create them using the form provided.Browse Properties <br/>Special:Browse/:Bealltaine Query the Archive
Theme code Index	1324 5753
Also known as	Butchers of Bristol (2) (The), Five Miles from Town (2), Geary's Hornpipe, Mullingar Races (2), May Day (2), Rover through the Bogs, Taylor's (Hornpipe)
Composer/Core Source
Region	Ireland
Genre/Style	Irish
Meter/Rhythm	Hornpipe/Clog
Key/Tonic of	G
Accidental	1 sharp
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	4/4
History
Structure	AABB
Editor/Compiler	Elias Howe
Book/Manuscript title	Book:1000 Jigs and Reels
Tune and/or Page number	p. 30
Year of publication/Date of MS	c. 1867
Artist
Title of recording
Record label/Catalogue nr.
Year recorded
Media
Score ()

X:1
T:Bealltaine
T:May Day
M:C
L:1/8
R:Hornpipe
S:Joyce - Ancient Irish Music (1873)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:G
D | GABG ABcA | defd dcBA | BcBG ABAG | FGAB cAGF | 
GABG ABcA | defd dcBA | B2d2 cAGF | DGGA G2 :|
|: (3def | g2 eg f2 ed | g2 eg f2 ed | defg abag | f2 dd dedc | 
B2 BG AF D2 | BdBG ABcA | defd cAGF | DGGA G2 :||

BEALLTAINE (May Day). AKA and see "Butchers of Bristol (2)," "Five Miles from Town (2)" (Pa.), "Geary's Hornpipe," "Mullingar Races (2)," "May Day (2)," "Rover through the Bogs," "Taylor's Hornpipe." Irish, Hornpipe. G Major. Standard tuning. AABB. One Pennsylvania version of this tune is called "Five Miles out of Town" ("Five Miles From Town") though there are other tunes by this name as the title is a "floater." Bealltaine (pronounced 'Beltina') is was a major holiday of the Celtic peoples, and in the agrarian culture signaled the time when the cattle were driven from the low pastures to the higher ones to graze.

Source for notated version: learned by Joyce from his father, presumably as a boy in the 1840's in Limerick; though he also heard it in 1853 among the miners at the head of Glenmalure, county Wicklow, "where I found it was well known and a favourite dancing tune" [Joyce].

Printed sources: Howe (1000 Jigs and Reels), c. 1867; p. 30. Joyce (Ancient Irish Music), 1873/1890; No. 32, p. 34.

__NORICHEDITOR__

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
 {{Abctune
 |f_tune_title=Bealltaine
-|f_aka=Butchers of Bristol (2) (The), Five Miles From Town (2), Geary's Hornpipe, Mullingar Races (2), May Day (2), Rover through the Bogs, Taylor's (Hornpipe)
+|f_aka=Butchers of Bristol (2) (The), Five Miles from Town (2), Geary's Hornpipe, Mullingar Races (2), May Day (2), Rover through the Bogs, Taylor's (Hornpipe)
 |f_country=Ireland
 |f_genre=Irish
@@ Line 16: / Line 16: @@
 |f_theme_code_index=1324 5753
 }}
-<abc float="left">
+<pre>
 X:1
 T:Bealltaine
@@ Line 26: / Line 26: @@
 Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
 K:G
-D | GABG ABcA | defd dcBA | BcBG ABAG | FGAB cAGF | GABG ABcA |
+D | GABG ABcA | defd dcBA | BcBG ABAG | FGAB cAGF |
-defd dcBA | B2d2 cAGF | DGGA G2 :: (3def | g2 eg f2 ed | g2 eg f2 ed |
+GABG ABcA | defd dcBA | B2d2 cAGF | DGGA G2 :|
-defg abag | f2 dd dedc | B2 BG AF D2 | BdBG ABcA | defd cAGF | DGGA G2 :||
+|: (3def | g2 eg f2 ed | g2 eg f2 ed | defg abag | f2 dd dedc |
-</abc>
+B2 BG AF D2 | BdBG ABcA | defd cAGF | DGGA G2 :||
-<br>
+</pre>
-<br>
-<br>
-<br>
-<br>
-<br>
-<br>
-<br>
-<br>
-<br>
-<br>
-<br>
-<br>
-<br>
-<br>
-<br>
 <p>
 ----
@@ Line 52: / Line 36: @@
 <p><font face="garamond, serif" size="4">
-'''BEALLTAINE''' (May Day). AKA and see "Butchers of Bristol [2]," "Five Miles From Town [2]" (Pa.), "Geary's Hornpipe," "Mullingar Races [2]," "May Day [2]," "Rover through the Bogs," "Taylor's (Hornpipe)." Irish, Hornpipe. G Major. Standard tuning. AABB. One Pennsylvania version of this tune is called "Five Miles Out of Town" ("Five Miles From Town") though there are other tunes by this name as the title is a "floater." Bealltaine (pronounced 'Beltina') is was a major holiday of the Celtic peoples, and in the agrarian culture signalled the time when the cattle were driven from the low pastures to the higher ones to graze.
+'''BEALLTAINE''' (May Day). AKA and see "[[Butchers of Bristol (2)]]," "[[Five Miles from Town (2)]]" (Pa.), "[[Geary's Hornpipe]]," "[[Mullingar Races (2)]]," "[[May Day (2)]]," "[[Rover through the Bogs]]," "[[Taylor's Hornpipe]]." Irish, Hornpipe. G Major. Standard tuning. AABB. One Pennsylvania version of this tune is called "[[Five Miles out of Town]]" ("Five Miles From Town") though there are other tunes by this name as the title is a "floater." ''Bealltaine'' (pronounced 'Beltina') is was a major holiday of the Celtic peoples, and in the agrarian culture signaled the time when the cattle were driven from the low pastures to the higher ones to graze.
 <br>
 <br>
-Source for notated version: learned by Joyce from his father, presumably as a boy in the 1840's in Limerick; though he also heard it in 1853 among the minoers at the head of Glenmalure, county Wicklow, "where I found it was well known and a favourite dancing tune" [Joyce].
+Source for notated version: learned by Joyce from his father, presumably as a boy in the 1840's in Limerick; though he also heard it in 1853 among the miners at the head of Glenmalure, county Wicklow, "where I found it was well known and a favourite dancing tune" [Joyce].
 <br>
 <br>
-''Printed sources:'' Howe ('''1000 Jigs and Reels'''), c. 1867; pg. 30. Joyce ('''Ancient Irish Music'''), 1873/1890; No. 32, pg. 34.
+''Printed sources:'' Howe ('''1000 Jigs and Reels'''), c. 1867; p. 30. Joyce ('''Ancient Irish Music'''), 1873/1890; No. 32, p. 34.
 </font></p>
 __NORICHEDITOR__