Annotation:Templehouse Reel (The)

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TEMPLEHOUSE (REEL), THE (Teac An Teampuill). AKA- “Temple House Reel.” AKA and see "Evergreen (The)," “Evergreen Lasses,” “Fowling Piece (The),” "Monongahela College" (Pa.), "Mother Carey's," "Old Temple House Reel,” “Pretty Maids of Bulgaden,” “Pretty Girls of Bulgaden,” “Rising of the Lark,” “Tipsy House (The)." Irish, Reel. E Minor (most versions): E Dorian (Feldman & O’Doherty]. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Allan's, Flaherty, Tubridy): AAB (Harker/Rafferty, Kennedy, O'Neill/1001, O’Neill/Waifs): AABB' (O'Neill/Krassen). The melody is current in both jig and a reel forms, but appears to be derived from a Scottish strathspey, “Sruan Robertson’s Rant (1),” published by Robert Bremner in 1757. As O’Neill (1913) remarks: “Each in its class is a tune of distinct merit, though identical in tonality.” Templehouse is the name of a lake in County Sligo. The title appears in a list of tunes in his repertoire brought by Philip Goodman, the last professional and traditional piper in Farney, Louth, to the Feis Ceoil in Belfast in 1898 (Breathnach, 1997). The melody was recorded in 1931 by Galway’s Ballinakill Ceili Band (paired with “Knocknagow Reel”) under the title “Fowling Piece (The).” The band’s pianist Anna Rafferty, points out guitarist Paul de Grae, unusually centered her accompaniment on C major chords. O’Neill (1922) remarks: “Altho the ‘Templehouse Reel’ first appeared in print in the O'Neill Collections, a more fluent setting of it memorized from the playing of ‘Jimmy’ O'Brien may be permissible. The latter, dealt with at considerable length in Irish Minstrels and Musicians (1910) hailed from the County Mayo, and was a very tasty performer on the Irish or Union pipes. He died at Chicago in 1885.” See also the Shetland tune “Up and Down/Doon The/Da Harbour.”

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - conical ("Clark's") whistle player Jim Donoghue, 1910-1990 (Drimacoo, Monasteraden, County Sligo) [Flaherty]; fiddler Simon Doherty (County Donegal) [Feldman & O’Doherty]; Jimmy O’Brien (Chicago) [O’Neill/Waifs]; New Jersey flute player Mike Rafferty, born in Ballinakill, Co. Galway, in 1926 [Harker].

Printed sources : - Feldman & O’Doherty (The Northern Fiddler), 1979; pp. 105 & 244b (appears as untitled reel). Flaherty (Trip to Sligo), 1990; p. 178. Harker (300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty), 2005; No. 120, p. 36. Kennedy (Traditional Dance Music of Britain and Ireland: Reels and Rants'), 1997; No. 190, p. 44. McDermott (Allan's Irish Fiddler), v. 1920's; No. 65, p. 16. O'Neill (Krassen), 1903; p. 101. O'Neill (Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems), 1907; No. 505, p. 96. O’Neill (1913), p. 134. O’Neill (Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody), 1922; No. 269. Tubridy (Irish Traditional Music, Book Two), 1999; p. 19.

Recorded sources: - Copely Records 9-119 (78 RPM), Paddy Cronin (195?). Gael-Linn CEF 114, Noel Hill & Tony MacMahon - "I gCnoc na Graí." Library of Congress, 1938, Patrick Bonner, St. James, Beaver Island, Michigan.

See also listings at:
Jane Keefer’s Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources []
Alan Ng’s Irishtune.info []