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'''BOYS IN THE GAP [1]''' (An Buachaill sa Bhearna). AKA - "[[Boy in the Gap]]." AKA and see "[[Boys of Cappoquin (The)]]," "[[Farmer's Lass (The)]]." Irish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABB (Breathnach/vol. 1, Flaherty): AABA (Cole): AABB (Miller & Perron, Songer): AABB' (Breathnach/vol. 3): ABCD (Mitchell). The Boys of the Lough say this tune is a good flute tune and a great favorite of flute player Paddy Taylor, who has added a third part, and this is the version most popular in modern sessions. Bernard Flaherty (1990) notes that the tune was always played in County Sligo as a two-part tune, until late, when the three-part version (popular throughout Ireland) took hold. A version of the tune appears in the large mid-19th century music manuscript collection of County Cork cleric and uilleann piper Canon [[biography:James Goodman]] under the title “[[Farmer's Lass (The)]].” The 'boy/gap' title holds sexual connotations for some. | |f_annotation='''BOYS IN THE GAP [1]''' (An Buachaill sa Bhearna). AKA - "[[Boy in the Gap]]." AKA and see "[[Boys of Cappoquin (The)]]," "[[Farmer's Lass (The)]]." Irish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABB (Breathnach/vol. 1, Flaherty): AABA (Cole): AABB (Miller & Perron, Songer): AABB' (Breathnach/vol. 3): ABCD (Mitchell). The Boys of the Lough say this tune is a good flute tune and a great favorite of flute player Paddy Taylor, who has added a third part, and this is the version most popular in modern sessions. Bernard Flaherty (1990) notes that the tune was always played in County Sligo as a two-part tune, until late, when the three-part version (popular throughout Ireland) took hold. A version of the tune appears in the large mid-19th century music manuscript collection of County Cork cleric and uilleann piper Canon [[biography:James Goodman]] under the title “[[Farmer's Lass (The)]].” The 'boy/gap' title holds sexual connotations for some. | ||
|f_source_for_notated_version=accordion player Sonny Brogan (County Sligo/Dublin, Ireland) [Breathnach, vol. 1] and piper Paddy Moloney (Ireland) [Breathnach, vol. 3]; flute player Sonny McDonagh (b. 1926, Rinnarogue, Bunninadden, County Sligo, Ireland) [Flaherty]; piper Willie Clancy (1918-1973, Miltown Malbay, west Clare) [Mitchell]; George Penk (Portland, Oregon) who learned it from Dennis Rothrock who learned it from the album "Boys of the Lough" [Songer]; Boys of the Lough [Miller & Perron]; [[biography:Rev. Luke Donnellan]] music manuscript collection, c. 1909 (Oriel region, south Ulster) [O'Connor]. | |||
|f_printed_sources=Breathnach ('''Ceol Rince na hÉireann vol. I'''), 1963; No. 132, p. 53. Breathnach ('''Ceol Rince na hÉireann vol. III'''), 1985; No. 101, p. 51. Cole ('''1000 Fiddle Tunes'''), 1940; p. 27. Donnellan ('''Journal of the County Louth Archaeological Society, vol. II, No. 2'''), 1909; No. 94 (as "Boy in the Gap"). Flaherty ('''Trip to Sligo'''), 1990; 121. Miller & Perron ('''Irish Traditional Fiddle Music vol. 2'''), 1977; No. 31. Miller & Perron ('''Irish Traditional Fiddle Music'''), 2nd Edition, 2006; p. 52. Mitchell ('''Dance Music of Willie Clancy'''), 1993; No. 47, pp. 56-57. O'Connor ('''The Rose in the Gap'''), 2018; No. 198, p. 102. '''Ryan's Mammoth Collection''', 1883; p. 53. Songer ('''Portland Collection'''), 1997; p. 38 (appears as "Boy in the Gap"). Vallely ('''Learn to Play the Tin Whistle with the Armagh Pipers Club'''), vol. 3; 15. | |||
|f_recorded_sources=Claddagh Records CC2, Paddy Moloney - "Paddy Moloney, The Chieftains" (1969). GTD Heritage Trad. HCD 008, Tommy Peoples - "Traditional Irish Music Played on the Fiddle" (appears as "Boy in the Gap"). Shanachie 79002, "The Boys of the Lough" (1973). | |||
|f_see_also_listing=Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://ibiblio.unc.edu/keefer/b13.htm#Boyinthg]<br> | |||
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://ibiblio.unc.edu/keefer/b13.htm#Boyinthg]<br> | |||
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [http://www.irishtune.info/tune/199/]<br> | Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [http://www.irishtune.info/tune/199/]<br> | ||
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BOYS IN THE GAP [1] (An Buachaill sa Bhearna). AKA - "Boy in the Gap." AKA and see "Boys of Cappoquin (The)," "Farmer's Lass (The)." Irish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABB (Breathnach/vol. 1, Flaherty): AABA (Cole): AABB (Miller & Perron, Songer): AABB' (Breathnach/vol. 3): ABCD (Mitchell). The Boys of the Lough say this tune is a good flute tune and a great favorite of flute player Paddy Taylor, who has added a third part, and this is the version most popular in modern sessions. Bernard Flaherty (1990) notes that the tune was always played in County Sligo as a two-part tune, until late, when the three-part version (popular throughout Ireland) took hold. A version of the tune appears in the large mid-19th century music manuscript collection of County Cork cleric and uilleann piper Canon biography:James Goodman under the title “Farmer's Lass (The).” The 'boy/gap' title holds sexual connotations for some.
