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'''LADY ON THE ISLAND''' (An Bhean Uasal ar an Oileán). AKA - "Lady of the Island." Irish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Breathnach, Flaherty, Miller & Perron, Mulvihill, Tubridy): AAB (Brody, O'Neill, Taylor). Ciaran Carson, in his book Last Night's Fun (1996), eloquently describes flute player Seamus Tansey's playing of this tune, then comments: "'The Lady' is very rarely used as a first tune, because it's so handy for going into from another tune, or for tacking on to the end of a set if you can think of nothing else. It's a kind of floating tune which gets promiscuously attached to other tunes; come to think of it, it's a variant of '[[Rolling on the Ryegrass]]'". It has been suggested that the title refers to the Statue of Liberty, in New York Harbor, built in 1884. However, the Philadelphia-based uilleann piper and pipe maker William Taylor noted it down for a friend, Henry Mercer, who wrote that Taylor had learned it in Ireland before he emigrated to America c. 1870 (see Nick Whitmer's biography at https://livesofthepipers.com/1taylorwilliam.html) | |f_annotation='''LADY ON THE ISLAND''' (An Bhean Uasal ar an Oileán). AKA - "Lady of the Island." Irish, Reel (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Breathnach, Flaherty, Miller & Perron, Mulvihill, Tubridy): AAB (Brody, O'Neill, Taylor): AA'BB' (Prior). Ciaran Carson, in his book Last Night's Fun (1996), eloquently describes flute player Seamus Tansey's playing of this tune, then comments: "'The Lady' is very rarely used as a first tune, because it's so handy for going into from another tune, or for tacking on to the end of a set if you can think of nothing else. It's a kind of floating tune which gets promiscuously attached to other tunes; come to think of it, it's a variant of '[[Rolling on the Ryegrass]]'". It has been suggested that the title refers to the Statue of Liberty, in New York Harbor, built in 1884. However, the Philadelphia-based uilleann piper and pipe maker William Taylor noted it down for a friend, Henry Mercer, who wrote that Taylor had learned it in Ireland before he emigrated to America c. 1870 (see Nick Whitmer's biography at https://livesofthepipers.com/1taylorwilliam.html) | ||
|f_source_for_notated_version=Seán Keane with the Chieftains (Ireland) [Brody, Miller & Perron]; flutist Eamonn de Stabaltun (Ireland) [Breathnach]; fiddler Jimmy Murphy (b. 1938, Meelick, near Swinford, County Sligo) [Flaherty]; fiddler Brendan Mulvihill (Baltimore, Md.) [Mulvihill]. | |||
|f_printed_sources=Breathnach ('''Ceol Rince na hÉireann vol. I'''), 1963; No. 188, p. 73. Brody ('''Fiddler's Fakebook'''), 1983; p. 162. Flaherty ('''Trip to Sligo'''), 1990; p. 41. Miller & Perron ('''Irish Traditional Fiddle Music vol. 1'''), 1977; No. 43. Miller & Perron ('''Irish Traditional Fiddle Music'''), 2nd Edition, 2006; p. 82. Mulvihill ('''1st Collection'''), 1986; No. 205, p. 55. O'Neill ('''O'Neill's Irish Music'''), 1915; No. 303, p. 151. Prior ('''Fionn Seisiún 3'''), 2007; p. 5. Taylor ('''Crossroads Dance'''), 1992; No. 21, p. 16. Tubridy ('''Irish Traditional Music, vol. 1'''), 1999; p. 18. | |||
|f_recorded_sources=3 SCONES 2008, Dermy Diamond, Tara Diamond, Dáithí Sproule - "Seanchairde/Old Friends" (2009). Coleman Music Center CHC 009, Dick Brennan & Tommy Hunt - "The Coleman Archive, vol. 2: The Home Place" (2003. Reissue recording by various artists. The cut was originally recorded in Ireland c. 1932). Green Linnet SIF 1018, Joe Heaney (with Gave O'Sullivan) - "Joe & the Gabe." Island 9379, Chieftains- "Chieftains 3" (1971). Shanachie 79006, Mary Bergin- "Feadoga Stain/Traditional Irish Music." Shanachie 79023, "Chieftains 3" (1971/1982). Tara 3001, Planxty - "After the Break." Kilfenora Ceili Band - "Irish Traditional Fiddle Music." Shaskeen - "My Love is in America." Dale Russ - "Jody's Heaven." Paddy O'Brien (Co. Offaly) - "The Paddy O'Brien Collection." Various artists - "The Pride of Erin." | |||
|f_see_also_listing=Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/l01.htm#Ladonthi]<br> | |||
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/l01.htm#Ladonthi]<br> | |||
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [http://www.irishtune.info/tune/1077/]<br> | Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [http://www.irishtune.info/tune/1077/]<br> | ||
Hear a 1971 recording by flute player J.J. Gardiner at the Comhaltas Archive [http://comhaltasarchive.ie/search?tab=tracks&q=lady+on+the+island#/tracks/8946]<br> | Hear a 1971 recording by flute player J.J. Gardiner at the Comhaltas Archive [http://comhaltasarchive.ie/search?tab=tracks&q=lady+on+the+island#/tracks/8946]<br> | ||
Hear a 1973 recording by Tony Smith and Michael Gavin at the Comhaltas Archive [http://comhaltasarchive.ie/search?tab=tracks&q=lady+on+the+island#/tracks/10197]<br> | Hear a 1973 recording by Tony Smith and Michael Gavin at the Comhaltas Archive [http://comhaltasarchive.ie/search?tab=tracks&q=lady+on+the+island#/tracks/10197]<br> | ||
Hear a recording of James Scanlan, Martin Wynne and Lad O'Beirne playing the tune at the Comhaltas Archive [http://comhaltasarchive.ie/search?tab=tracks&q=lady+on+the+island#/tracks/3473] (2nd tune, following "[[Boys of the Lough (The)]]"). | Hear a recording of James Scanlan, Martin Wynne and Lad O'Beirne playing the tune at the Comhaltas Archive [http://comhaltasarchive.ie/search?tab=tracks&q=lady+on+the+island#/tracks/3473] (2nd tune, following "[[Boys of the Lough (The)]]"). | ||
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LADY ON THE ISLAND (An Bhean Uasal ar an Oileán). AKA - "Lady of the Island." Irish, Reel (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Breathnach, Flaherty, Miller & Perron, Mulvihill, Tubridy): AAB (Brody, O'Neill, Taylor): AA'BB' (Prior). Ciaran Carson, in his book Last Night's Fun (1996), eloquently describes flute player Seamus Tansey's playing of this tune, then comments: "'The Lady' is very rarely used as a first tune, because it's so handy for going into from another tune, or for tacking on to the end of a set if you can think of nothing else. It's a kind of floating tune which gets promiscuously attached to other tunes; come to think of it, it's a variant of 'Rolling on the Ryegrass'". It has been suggested that the title refers to the Statue of Liberty, in New York Harbor, built in 1884. However, the Philadelphia-based uilleann piper and pipe maker William Taylor noted it down for a friend, Henry Mercer, who wrote that Taylor had learned it in Ireland before he emigrated to America c. 1870 (see Nick Whitmer's biography at https://livesofthepipers.com/1taylorwilliam.html)
