Annotation:Dennis Ryan's Slip Jig
Tune properties and standard notation
DENNIS RYAN'S SLIP JIG. AKA and see "Cathal McConnell's (Slip Jig)," "Cock and the Hen." Irish, Slip Jig. B Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Dennis Ryan is a fiddler from Co. Offaly. It has been changed in the process. The third note in the first part was a high G in the original. Cathal (McConnel) learned it as F# putting the tune into the key of B Minor rather than G and thus changing it's whole nature" (Boys of the Lough). The group Lunasa recorded the tune on their album "Otherworld" as "Cathal McConnell's." The tune seems to originally have been called "The Cock and the Hen."
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Boys of the Lough, 1977; p. 12. Miller & Perron (Irish Traditional Fiddle Music), 1977; vol. 1, No. 62.
Recorded sources: