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''Recorded sources'': <font color=teal>Wild Asparagus WA 003, Wild Asparagus - "Tone Roads" (1990). </font> | ''Recorded sources'': <font color=teal>Wild Asparagus WA 003, Wild Asparagus - "Tone Roads" (1990). </font> | ||
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Revision as of 05:07, 23 October 2011
Tune properties and standard notation
HIGH PART OF THE ROAD (Ard an Bhóthair). AKA and see "Hill on the Road (The)," "Top of the Road." Irish, Double Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Mitchell): AABB (Taylor): AA'BB (Breathnach): AA'BB' (Cranitch, Songer). Brendan Breathnach gave the tune it's title. Paul de Grae finds relationships with "Blooming Meadows."
Sources for notated versions: piper Willie Clancy/ Liam Mac Flannehadha (1918-1973, Miltown Malbay, west Clare) [Breathnach, Mitchell]; Jimmy McGettrick (b. 1909, Aughris, Rathmullen, Ballymote) [Flaherty]; set dance music recorded at Na Píobairí Uilleann in the late 1980's [Taylor].
Printed sources: Breathnach (CRE I), 1963; No. 18, p. 9. Cranitch (The Irish Fiddle Book), 1996; p. 58. Flaherty (Trip to Sligo), 1990; p. 139 (appears as "Unknown"). Mitchell (Dance Music of Willie Clancy), 1993; No. 133, p. 106. Songer (Portland Collection), 1997; p. 95. Taylor (Music for the Sets: Blue Book), 1995; p. 3.
Recorded sources: Wild Asparagus WA 003, Wild Asparagus - "Tone Roads" (1990).
See also listing at:
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [1]