Jenny's Gone To Linton

reel

Key signature: Amajor

Submitted on November 7th 2002 by lazyhound.

This tune has been added to 55 tunebooks.

Also known as Domhnall Beag An T-Siucair, High Road To Linton, The High Road To Linton, Jenny Goes To Linton, Kitty Got A Clinking.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

A Tune For Bill by Banchory Strathspey And Reel Society
A' Sireadh Spòrs by Dr. Angus MacDonald
Aly Bain And Young Champions by Aly Bain And Young Champions
Crashing Through The Trees by Warblefly
Echoes by Winnie Chafe
Echoes Of Erin by Comhaltas Tour Group 1984
Edge Of Reason by Face The West
Edinburgh Hogmany Party Mix by Keltik Elektrik
Fiddlers Five by Fiddlers Five
Foinn Seisiun 3 by Ennis/Dublin Session Group
Glackin by Paddy Glackin
Good Friends-Good Music by Boys Of The Lough
Leahy by Leahy
Live 01 by Feast Of Fiddles
Live From Gatineau, Quebec by Leahy
Made In Cape Breton by The Cottars
Man With The Wooden Flute by Chris Norman
Musiques Traditionnelles D'Irlande by The Crickard Brothers
New England Chestnuts Vol. 2 by Rodney Miller, Randy Miller And Friends
New England Chestnuts Volumes 1 and 2: Classic New England Contra Music by Various Artists
Return To Kintail by Alasdair Fraser With Tony McManus
Roaming by Jeremy Kittel
Soh It Is by Craobh Rua
Sounds From The Atlantic by Innisheer
Stepping On The Bridge by Hamish Moore
Stockton's Wing by Stockton's Wing
Take A Bow by Matt Cranitch
The Ale Is Dear by Clandestine
The Collection by Stockton's Wing
The Fiddler And His Art by School Of Scottish Studies, University Of Edinburgh
The Journey Home by Banish Misfortune
The Pipering Of Willie Clancy. Vol 2 by Willie Clancy
Tickled Pink by Savourna Stevenson
Turas by Turas
Year Of The Dog by Culann's Hounds

Details ABC Sheetmusic Comments

A single reel. Yet another episode in the life of the eponymous Jenny.

# Posted on November 7th 2002 by lazyhound

Jenny's Gone To Linton

I haven't heard of Jenny going to Linton before as this one is more familiar to me as "The High Road to Linton". However, there are so many great tunes associated this lady (Jenny Picking Cockles, Jenny's Wedding, Jenny's Chickens, etc, etc), maybe this pre-dates the High Road title??

# Posted on November 7th 2002 by Bannerman

Don't forget Jenny Meets Charlie!

# Posted on November 8th 2002 by lazyhound

High road to Linton

I didn't know either that it was Jennie who went to Linton.
There's a C and a D part usually played with this Scottish reel, if anyones interested, say here and I'll write the abc.

# Posted on November 9th 2002 by Kenn

OK, here's the C & D part, it's the C part especially that really gets the session swinging:

|:a2 a2 ef a2|ef ae fa ef|a2 a2 ef ae|fa ec B2 A2:|
|:c2 ec de fd|c2 ec Bc dB|c2 ec de fg|af ec B2 A2:||

# Posted on November 10th 2002 by Kenn

Parts C and D

Many thanks Kenn for parts C and D. They now really make the tune go, as you said. I always felt the two part tune was somehow incomplete, but my source didn't reveal any more. I wonder if there are a few more of these 2 x 4 reels which have lost parts.
-m

# Posted on November 10th 2002 by lazyhound

A lot of dance tunes and marches in the Great Highland Bagpipe repertoire have four parts (some of the 3rd and 4th parts are probably later additions to older 2-part tunes). Many of these tunes have filtered through into the Irish tradition, either berfore they acquired their additional pars, or losing them in the process. on the other hand, some tunes, such as Lord MacDonald's and The Mason's Apron, started off in Scotland as 2-part tunes, and gained more parts in Ireland.

# Posted on November 11th 2002 by granama

Another good 4 part reel which springs to mind is "The Brollum".
I would post it but it's Scottish again and I guess this is an Irish music site. I don't know of any Scottish sites anywhere near as good as this one when it comes to exchanging tunes (more's the pity), but I guess that it'll be in one of the databases somewhere.

# Posted on November 11th 2002 by Kenn

Over the centuries there has been so much cultural coming and going between Ireland and other parts of the British Isles (and America, and Canada, and ...) that the grey area between music that is of genuine Irish origin and music that isn't must be getting larger by the minute, and is irreversible. And now I discover that Jenny Goes To Linton aka The High Road To Linton is Scottish! I don't see how we can draw a clear line of demarcation, and in a large number of cases it is probably impossible to identify the origin of a tune.
Basically I'm inclined to accept anything that is celtic in origin - which I suppose would in theory exclude morris dances and other English country tunes. But then some of those must have migrated to Ireland at some stage and became accepted. And what about some French tunes which may have been brought back to Ireland by soldiers returning from the Napoleonic Wars? A lot of the donegal music is distinctly Scottish in feel - I've posted some recently. And then there's all that wonderful stuff coming from Shetland. I could go on, but you get the picture. I don't think it's possible to keep this site a strictly Irish site, although most people I'm sure try to keep it predominantly Irish.
I'm not sure whether ABC can cope with the non-diatonic notes in Scottish bagpipe tuning though.
Now that "Brollum" tune looks interesting ...
-m

# Posted on November 11th 2002 by lazyhound

High Road to Linton 4 parts

With most Scottish tunes (piobearachd, as they're called) they originated as a ONE part tune, and many have been evolved into 4 and 6 part tunes, with the other 3 or 5 parts being variations on the first, original part... not true with ALL, but by any means true for many.

# Posted on February 19th 2004 by Oranaiche

Puirt a Beul words to the 'High Road to Linton'

Part A |:Domhnall beag an t-siucair, an t-siucair, an t-siucar
Domhnall beag an t-siucair is duil aige posadh :|

Part B1 |:Ged a bhiodh na h-ubhlan, na h-ubhlan, na h-ubhlan
Ged a bhidh na h-ubhlan an culaibh a bhrogan :|

Part B2 |:Ged a bhiodh na ginidhean, na ginidhean, na ginidhean
Ged a bhiodh na ginidhean a' gliogadaich na phocaid :|

There's one more verse to it but it is the verse from hell...

# Posted on February 19th 2004 by Oranaiche

High Road to Linton

Oh, this is the tune Seamus Egan recorded on banjo: the very last one in "Cape Breton Set" on "A Week in January."

# Posted on October 24th 2004 by slainte

"New England Fiddler's Repertoire"

by Randy Miller and Jack Perron, first published in 1983.

http://www.randymillerprints.com/fiddletunebooks.htm

Page 58: "Jenny's Gone to Linton"

# Posted on March 10th 2006 by ceolachan

Yes! Thankyou thankyou thankyou Kenn for posting the third and fourth parts!

I simply adore this tune and when a bloke called Steve told me there were two more parts to it...i was desperate to find em!

# Posted on January 7th 2008 by D.J.F.

I play it like THIS

X: 1
T: Jenny's Gone To Linton
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Amaj
|:ce ef a2 ae|fe fg a2 e2|ce ef a2 ae|fa ec B2 A2:|
|:ce eg fd df|ec ce fB Bd|ce eg fd df|ec ac B2 A2:||
|:a2 a2 ef a2|ef ae fa ef|a2 a2 ef ae|fa ec B2 A2:|
|:c2 ec de fd|c2 ec Bc dB|c2 ec de fg|af ec B2 A2:||

# Posted on June 21st 2008 by D.J.F.

"The High Road To Linton" ~ another take here, 2 & 4 parts, check the ABCs too

Key signature: A Mixolydian
Submitted on January 28th 2005 by Will CPT.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/4161

# Posted on July 23rd 2008 by ceolachan

"The High Road To Linton" ~ rescued duplication

Key signature: A Major
Submitted on July 23rd 2008 by avavoss.
~ /tunes/display/8736

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# Posted on July 23rd 2008 by ceolachan