Bicycle (1) (The)

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Theme code Index	513b1 5142
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Composer/Core Source
Region	Ireland
Genre/Style	Irish
Meter/Rhythm	Slide
Key/Tonic of	E
Accidental	1 sharp
Mode	Aeolian (minor)
Time signature	12/8
History	IRELAND(Munster)
Structure	AABB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Terry Moylan
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Johnny O'Leary of Sliabh Luachra
Tune and/or Page number	No. 15, p. 10
Year of publication/Date of MS	1994
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BICYCLE [1], THE. Irish, Slide. Ireland, Sliabh Luachra region of the Cork-Kerry border. E Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. A kind of slip-slide local to Sliabh Luachra, often performed for dancing by Johnny O'Leary. O'Leary remarks that the tune is "kind of slip slide, if you like"--similarities to a slip jig and a slide. He remembers that the associated dance had a double wheel at the end:

If they were slow dancers they wouldn't be able to do it then,
do you see. They'd be falling around the house. They couldn't get the double wheel at all. They'd be hitting against each other. The one that could double could do it now, you could do the double, swinging easy, like. But the one that couldn't
do that is caught in that slide, if you play it fast.

(Moylan)

O'Leary associates the tune with a particular figure of the Sliabh Luachra set, and usually reserves it for the fifth figure and regards only fairly competent dancers can cope with it.

Source for notated version: recorded February, 1973, in Ballydesmond from the playing of accordion player Johnny O'Leary (Sliabh Luachra), who had the tune from Mickin Dálaigh [Moylan].

Printed source: Moylan (Johnny O'Leary) 1994; No. 15, p. 10.

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