Annotation:New Demense (1) (The)
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NEW DEMENSE [1] (An Tirteac Nuad). AKA and see "Cailín Fionn (An)," "Cavan Reel (The)," "College Grove (The)," "Connacht Reel (1) (The)," "Green Jacket (The)," "Milestone (1) (The)," "Millstone (1) (The)," "Miss Corbet," "Miss Corbett's Reel," "New Domain (The)," "Old Locks and Quays of Galway (The)," "Whiskey in the Jar/Whiskey in the Jug." Irish, Reel. D Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'B. Both O'Neill editions give the key as D major, though the key clearly should be in the mixolydian mode. "The New Demense" is contained in the 1865 manuscript collection of the Gunn family, County Fermangh, in two parts. A Scottish relation (and perhaps antecedent) is "Miss Corbett"/"Miss Corbett's Reel" printed in the late 18th century by Glasgow publisher James Aird, and in Edinburgh John McGlashan (1798). See also "New Demense (2) (The)," a variant from Chicago musician John Ennis, and "New Domain (The)," a distanced cognate version collected in County Cork. Alan Jabbour finds "Pat Carney's Reel" in Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883) a cognate tune.
Source for notated version: Chicago fiddler James Kennedy who had the tune from his father, a celebrated local fiddler from Ballinamore, County Leitrim [O'Neill]. [O'Neill].
Printed sources: O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 1208, p. 228. O'Neill (Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems), 1907; No. 484, p. 93.
Recorded sources:
See also listing at:
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [1]