Annotation:Riding a Mile (2)

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RIDE(ING) A MILE [2] ("Ag Marcuigeade Mile" or "Dean Marcaigeact Mile"). AKA – “Ride a Mule,” “Rise a Mile.” Irish, Slip Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Cole, Kennedy, O'Neill/1850): ABC (O'Neill/1915 & 100M1). The first strain is shared with “Riding a Mile (1),” and thus with the large 9/8 tune family that includes “Cummilum,” “Fairest put on awhile,” “First Slip (The),” “Hey my kitten,” “I don’t care,” “Is cuma liom,” “Mad Moll (1),” “Mile to Ride (A),” “Stamfordham Hopping,” “Stanhope in Weardale,” “Stannerton Hopping,” “Walk a Mile.” The strain is an old one and known throughout Britain and Ireland. A version appears in Henry Playford's collection of Scottish dance tunes published in the year 1698 (as “Mad Moll”). Northumbrian small-pipers knew it by several titles, including “A Mile to Ride,” "Stannerton (or Stamfordham) Hopping,” “Stanhope i' Weardale” and “The Fleet's a Coming.” Northumbrian musician William Vickers printed it three times in his 1770 music manuscript (as “A Mile to Ride,” “Stanhope in Weardale,” and “Stannerton Hopping”).

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - set dance music recorded at Na Píobairí Uilleann, late 1980’s [Taylor].

Printed sources : - Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 61. Giblin (Collection of Traditional Irish Dance Music), 1928; 65. Kennedy (Fiddler’s Tune-Book: Slip Jigs and Waltzes), 1999; No. 67, p. 15. O'Neill (O’Neill’s Irish Music), 1915; No. 221, p. 118. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 1158, p. 218. O'Neill (Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems), 1907; No. 453, p. 88. Ryan’s Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 92. Taylor ('Music for the Sets: Blue Book), 1995; p. 18.

Recorded sources: - Green Linnet SIF 1015, Eugene O'Donnell - "Slow Airs and Set Dances" (1978, as "Ride a Mile"). Green Linnet GLCD 1184, Patrick Street – “Made in Cork” (1997. Learned from fiddler Andy McGann). Shanachie 78033, Connie O’Connell – “Ceol Cill na Martra/Music from Cill na Martra” (2000).

See also listings at:
Jane Keefer’s Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
Alan Ng’s Irishtune.info [2]