Annotation:Road to Glountane (The)

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X:1 T:Cuz Tehan's Slow Reel T:Road to Glountane M: 4/4 Q: 325 L: 1/8 R:Highland C: Cuz Tehan D: The Windy Gap - Laurence Nugent Z: David Dahl K:G E | D3 E G3 A | ABdB AGed | e2 dB GABe | d2 BG (3ABA GE | DB,DE G3 A | ABdB AGed | e2 dB GABe |1 d2 AB G3 :|2 d2 AB g3 || e | dBde g2 (3gfe | dBAG EGGA | B2 AD BAAD | BAAG EGGe | dBde g2 (3gfe | dBAG EGGA | B2 AD BAAG |1 BdAB g3 :|2 BdAB G4 ||

ROAD TO GLOUNTANE, THE. AKA- “Road to Glauntaune.” AKA – “Cuz Teahan's (2).” AKA and see "Joe Bane's," “Kerry Fling.” Irish, Fling (4/4 time) or Highland. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The Highland called “Road to Glountane” was composed in 1964 by Terry “Cuz” Teahan, originally from County Kerry, who lived in Boston, Mass., for many years. The tune has also been played as a “slow reel” and as a “barn dance.” Glountane was the home of Sliabh Luachra fiddle master Padraig O’Keeffe. The melody appears in Teahan’s self-composed collection The Road to Glountane (n.d., p. 71), wherein he said it was his favourite tune in the book. It has proved popular and has been recorded frequently.

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Source for notated version: -

Printed sources : - Miller (Fiddler’s Throne), 2004; No. 307, p. 181. Songer (The Portland Collection, vol. 2), 2005; p. 169. Taylor (Where’s the Crack?), 1989; . Tehan (Road to Glountane), n.d.; p. 71.

Recorded sources: - RCA 61490, Chieftains – “The Celtic Harp” (appears as “Kerry Fling”). Enda Scahill.

See also listing at:
Alan Ng’s Irishtune.info [1]