Template:Featured Tune

X:1
T:Humors of Lisadel
M:4/4
L:1/8
R:Reel
K:EDor
gf|:eB~B2 eBdB|AF~F2 EDB,A,|B,E~E2 B,EGE|FB~B2 FBdf|
eB~B2 eBdB|AF~F2 EDB,A,|B,E{G}ED EFGA|(3Bcd ed e2gf:|
|:eB~B2 A2FA|d2 df edef|df~f2 dfbf|afdf edBc|
d2 fd BcdB|AF~F2 ABde|~f2ef dfbf|afdf e2gf:||

HUMORS OF LISADEL (Pléaráca Lios an Daill). AKA "Humours of Lissadell." AKA and see "Musical Bridge (The)." Irish, Reel. E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Lissadell is a place name from County Sligo, the subject of some of the writings of the poet Yeats. The tune was the composition of the great fiddler John McGrath (1900-1965) of Co. Mayo and New York, according to his nephew Vincent McGrath, and was originally titled "Musical Bridge (The)," after a structure in Belmullet. However, other's dispute the claim for McGrath. Breathnach (1963) notes that Boston button accordion player Jerry O'Brien has a setting of this tune in his Irish Folk Dance Music (168). The tune was popularized by south Sligo fiddler Paddy Killoran [1] (1894-1974), an immigrant to New York City.

Source for notated version: flute player Éamonn de Stabaltún (Ireland) [Breathanch]; fiddler Fred Finn (1919-1986) (Kiltycreen, Kilavil, County Sligo); Frank McCollam (Ballycastle, County Antrim) [Mulvihill].

Printed sources: Breathnach (CRÉ I), 1963; No. 191, p. 74. Flaherty (Trip to Sligo), 1990; p. 80. Mulvihill (1st Collection), 1986; No. 128, p. 34. Taylor (Where's the Crack), 1989; p. 7.

Recorded sources: Coleman Music Center CHC 009, fiddler Jim Rawl (Co. Leitrim) - "The Coleman Archive, vol. 2: The Home Place" (2005. Various artists). Folk-Legacy FSE 78 (LP), "Seamus and Manus McGuire." Folkways FW 8876, ..."