Coen's Memories

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Theme code Index	15L5L2 51H74
Also known as	Cottage in the Grove (3) (The), Speed the Plow, Tommy Coen's, Tommy Coen's Reel (2), Paddy Canny's (1)
Composer/Core Source	Biography:Tommy Coen
Region	Ireland
Genre/Style	Irish
Meter/Rhythm	Reel (single/double)
Key/Tonic of	E
Accidental	2 sharps
Mode	Dorian
Time signature
History
Structure	AABB
Editor/Compiler
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Treor vol. 4 No. 1
Tune and/or Page number
Year of publication/Date of MS	1972
Artist	Biography:De Danann
Title of recording	Mist Covered Mountain (The)
Record label/Catalogue nr.	Shanachie 79005
Year recorded
Media
Score ()

COEN'S MEMORIES. AKA - "Tommy Coen's." AKA and see "Tommy Coen's Reel (2)," "Paddy Canny's (1)." Irish Reel. E Minor (Dorian). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed by Urrachree, Aughrim, East Galway, fiddler and accordion player Tommy Coen (1910-1974), most famous for his composition "Christmas Eve." Coen's day job was a conductor on Connemara busses, and in later life he lived in Salthill. "Coen's Memories" is similar to Roche's "Cottage in the Grove (1) (The)," also known as "McGovern's Favorite" (as recorded by Paddy Killoran) and "Maurice Casey's Fancy."

Source for notated version: fiddler Jimmy Murphy (b. 1938, Meelick, near Swinford, Co. Sligo) [Flaherty].

Printed sources: Flaherty (Trip to Sligo), 1990; p. 43 (appears as "Unknown"). Treoir, 1972, vol. 4, No. 1.

Recorded source: Shanachie 79005, De Dannan - "The Mist Covered Mountain." "Music at Matt Molloy's" (appears as "Tommy Coen's").

X: 1
T:Coen's Memories
T:Tommy Coen's
T:Cottage in the Grove, The
R:reel
C:Tommy Coen (1910-1974)
D:De Danann: The Mist Covered Mountain
D:Music at Matt Molloy's
Z:id:hn-reel-227
S:Henrik Norbeck <henrik.norbeck:MAILBOX.SWIPNET.SE> irtrad-l 2001-8-14
M:C|
K:Edor
EDB,A, B,EFA|B2eB dBAF|D2DF E2DB,|A,DFD EDB,A,|
B,E~E2 DEFA|B2eB dBAF|DEFA dBAF|1 DEFD E2EF:|2 DEFD E2EA||
|:Be~e2 fedB|eBfe dBAF|~A3B d2fd|edef d2BA|
Be~e2 fedB|e2fe dBAF|DEFA dBAF|1 DEFD E2EA:|2 DEFD E2EF||
"Variations:"
~E3D EFGA|B2eB dBAF|DEFD E2DB,|A,B,DF EDB,A,|
B,E~E2 DEFA|Be~e2 dBAF|DEFA B2AF|1 DEFD E2EF:|2 DEFD E2EA||
|:Be~e2 fedB|e2fe dBAF|AFAB d2fd|edef d2BA|
Be~e2 fedB|egfe dBAF|DEFA B2AF|1 DEFD E2EA:|2 DEFD E2EF||