Barrel Rafferty

Barrel Rafferty Click on the tune title to see or modify Barrel Rafferty's annotations. If the link is red you can create them using the form provided.Browse Properties <br/>Special:Browse/:Barrel Rafferty Query the Archive
Theme code Index	5L113b 5L7bL17bL
Also known as	Barrel O'Rafferty, Barrel Rafferty's Jig
Composer/Core Source
Region	Ireland
Genre/Style	Irish
Meter/Rhythm	Jig/Quadrille
Key/Tonic of	A
Accidental	1 sharp
Mode	Dorian
Time signature	6/8
History
Structure	AABB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Brendan Breathnach
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Ceol Rince na hÉireann vol. 2
Tune and/or Page number	No. 82, p. 44
Year of publication/Date of MS	1976
Artist	Biography:Mike and Mary Rafferty
Title of recording	Dangerous Reel (The)
Record label/Catalogue nr.	Kells Music 9509
Year recorded	1996
Media
Score ()

X:1
T: Barrel Rafferty's
S: M. Rafferty
Q: 325
R: jig
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
K: Ador
D | E2 A AGE | A2 B c2 E | EDE GFG | A2 A GED |
E2 A AGE | A2 B c2 d | ege dBG | A3 A2 :|
d | e2 a aga | b2 a g2 e | ede g2 g | a2 e ged |
e2 a aga | b2 a g2 e | age dBG | A3 A2 :||

BARREL RAFFERTY'S (JIG). Irish, Jig. A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The title comes from the nickname of the flute-playing father of East Galway/New York flute player Mike Rafferty, whose lung capacity would fill a barrel.

A young Mike Raffety and his father, Barrel Rafferty on the family homestead, East Galway

Sources for notated versions: whistle player Tom Gaffey (east County Galway) [Breathnach]; New Jersey flute player Mike Rafferty, born in Ballinakill, Co. Galway, in 1926 [Harker].

Printed sources: Breathnach (CRÉ II), 1976; No. 82, p. 44 (appears as untitled single jig). Black (Music's the Very Best Thing), 1996; No. 321, p. 172. Harker (300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty), 2005; No. 170, p. 53.

Recorded sources: Kells Music 9509, Mike & Mary Rafferty - "The Dangerous Reel" (1996).

__NORICHEDITOR__