Annotation:Mama's Pet (1)
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MAMA'S PET [1] (Peata Mamaí). AKA and see "Mammy's Pet," "Downing's Reel," "Peata Mamaí (1)," "Pheata Mamaí," "Timothy Downing." Irish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (O'Malley): AA'B (O'Neill, Taylor). Many versions of the tune exist. Breathnach's "Peata Mamaí" is perhaps a distant version of this setting. O'Neill (1922) remarks: "In boyhood days I memorized the first part of this reel from the fiddle playing of Mr. Downing a gentleman farmer who taught me the rudiments of music on the flute. Thirty-five years later the second part was supplied by A.S. Beamish, another West Cork musician. Being without a name the tune was called 'Timothy Downing' or 'Downing's Reel', in the O'Neill Collections. With a third part obtained from the famous fiddler John McFadden of Mayo, this tripartite reel is presented under its presumably true name."
Source for notated version: Pat O'Brien [Bulmer & Sharpley]; students of New York fiddler John McGrath (1900-1955, originally from County Mayo) [O'Malley]; Timothy Downing/A.S. Beamish [O'Neill].
Printed sources: Bulmer & Sharpley (Music from Ireland), 1974, vol. 1; No. 34. O'Brien (Jerry O'Brien's Accordion Instructor), 1949. O'Malley (Luke O'Malley's Collection of Irish Music, vol. 1), 1976; No. 5, p. 3. O'Neill (Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody), 1922; No. 205. Taylor (Through the Half-Door), 1992; No. 20, p. 16.
Recorded sources: Coleman Center CD CC004, Harry McGowan, Mick Loftus & Jim Corry - "The Mountain Road" (1999. Various artists. "A Compilation of tunes popular in South Sligo"). Coleman Music Center CHC 009, flute player Roger Sherlock - "The Coleman Archive, vol. 2: The Home Place" (2005. Various artists). Green Linnet GLCD 1211, Kevin Crawford - "In Good Company" (2001. Learned from button accordionist Máirtin O'Connor, although the version is credited to East Galway flute player Eddie Moloney). Shaskeen - "Atlantic Breeze." Shaskeen Records OS-360, Andy McGann, Joe Burke, Felix Dolan - "A Tribute to Michael Coleman" (c. 1965).
See also listings at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources []
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info []
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