Kerry Fling

reel

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on April 26th 2003 by Tommy McCarty.

This tune has been added to 137 tunebooks.

Also known as "Cuz" Teahan's, Cus Teahan's, Cuz Teahan's, Cuz Teahan's Barndance, Cuz Teehan's, Cuz Tehan's, Cuz Tehans, The Glauntane Highland, The Kerry Fling, The Road To Glauntane, The Road To Glountane, The Road To Glounthane, Terry 'Cuz' Teehan's, Terry Teehan's, Winter Fling.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

4 by Bohola
Call The Tune: Music For The Sets Volume 4 by Various Artists
Cnoc Bui by Conal Ó'Gráda
Dochas by Dochas
Foinn Seisiun 2 by Ceoltóirí Cultúrlainne
Fused by Michael McGoldrick
Go For It by Deirin De
Heat Of The Moment by Pierre Schryer And Ian Clark
In Tandem by Kevin Burke And Ged Foley
In The Morning Early by Tulca Mor
Jamie Smith by Jamie Smith
Learning Irish Fiddle by Paul McNevin
Lunasa by Lunasa
May Morning Dew by Mick O' Brien
Meiteal by Seamus Begley And Stephen Cooney
Notes From The Heart by Mick, Louise And Michelle Mulcahy
Old Time Irish Music In America by Terry Teahan And Gene Kelly
On The Fly by Patrick Street
Out On The Ocean by Moher
Pick It Up by Enda Scahill
Providence by Providence
The Best Of Patrick Street by Patrick Street
The Celtic Harp by The Chieftains
The First Harvest by Iain MacDonald And Iain MacFarlane
The Killaville Sessions by Ceoltoiri Coleman
The Parish Platform by Rattle The Boards
The Windy Gap by Laurence Nugent
Trian by Trian
Tripping Down The Stairs by Spiral Seisiún
Tuned In by Johnny Murphy
Up At The Crack Of Noon by Ciúnas

Details ABC Sheetmusic Comments

Kerry Fling

'Day all! Well, I submitted a tune about a week ago now (An tSean Bhean Bhocht), maybe a bit longer, and it didn't quite work out. I was a bit sloppy with the ABC and ended up making a few mistakes, but I've ran through this one extensively to make sure it's just right. I got the tune from a recording by Matt Molloy on The Chieftains' "The Celtic Harp" (which, incidentally, I recently submitted in the Recordings section), where it was paired with an air, "The Parting of Friends". I have rendered the tune as closely as I could to Molloy and Moloney's arrangement of it. I like it quite a bit; I hope you will as well.

# Posted on April 26th 2003 by Tommy McCarty

Well done, Tommy.
My transcription of the same recording of the tune is a little bit different:
E2EF A2AB|ceec BAF2|f2 ec ABBA|ecBA FAAF|
E2EF ~A3B|ceec BAF2|f2 ec ABBA|1 ecBc A2AF:|2 ecBc A4||
|:e2ef a2 af|ecBA FAA2|cBAB cBBA|ceBA faaf|
e2ef ~a3f|ecBA FAA2|cBAB cBBA|1 ceBc A4:|2 ceBc A2AF||

# Posted on April 26th 2003 by gian marco

Is this also know as 'Cuz' Teehan's?

---Michael B.

# Posted on June 3rd 2003 by MichaelBolton

The Road To Glauntane (Terry Teahan's name for it)

K:A
|:AF|E2 EF A2 AB|c>ee>c B>A F2|(3fgf e>c A>Bc>A|e>cB>A F>AA>F|
E3 F A3 B|c2 e>c B>A A2|(3fgf e>c A>Bc>A|e>cB>c A2:|
|:(3agf |e2 e>f a2 a>f|e>cB>A F>AA>B|c>BB>A c>BB>A|c>eB>A F2 a>f|
1 e>ce>f a3 f|e>cB>A F>AA>B|c>BB>A c>BB>A|e>c (3BcB A2:|
2 E3 F A3 B|c2 e>c B>c A2|f2 e>c A>Bc>A|e>cB>c A2||

another slight variation...

# Posted on September 3rd 2004 by ceolachan

Terry Teahan playing the 'fling' of it - another transcription

From an old recording of Terry Teahan, very similar to Gian's notation except definitely a Fling with that skip rhythm, and it is played as 16 bars in length. However, he starts it in the usual 'dance' fasion with one extra A part, 8 bars to give the dancers the beat, what some folks call 'for nought' - only once for that introduction. He then continues to play it as a standard 16 bar Fling, AABB (each part being 4 bars in length):

|:E2 E>F A2 A>B|c>ee>c B>A F2|1 (3faf e>c A>Bc>d|e>cB>A F>AA>F:|
|2 a>fe>c A>Bc>d|ec (3BcB A2 A>F|
|:e3 f a2 a>f|e>cB>A F>A A2|c>BA>B c>BB>A|1 (3cec B>A F>A A2:|
|2 c>eB>c A2 A>F||

# Posted on September 3rd 2004 by ceolachan

Oops! - a mistake on that first 32 bar transcription - - -

Part 2, the 1st and 2nd endings which should have begun one bar earlier, or -

1 c>eB>A F2 a>f| e>ce>f a3 f|e>cB>A F>AA>B|c>BB>A c>BB>A|e>c (3BcB A2:|
2 c>eB>A F2 A>F| E3 F A3 B|c2 e>c B>c A2|f2 e>c A>Bc>A|e>cB>c A2||

# Posted on September 3rd 2004 by ceolachan

Daft sneeze head - 16 bar, not 32 bar, it's a fling, fling, fling...

# Posted on June 8th 2005 by ceolachan

Yeah, I know, get the ether, he's talkin' to himself again...

# Posted on June 8th 2005 by ceolachan

"The Road to Glauntane" ~ making restitution

K: A Major
A>F |
E2 E>F A2 A>B | c>ee>c B>A F2 | (3faf e>c A>Bc>A | e>cB>A F>AA>F |
E3 F A3 B | c2 e>c B>A A2 | (3faf e>c A>Bc>A | e>cB>c A2 ||
|: (3agf |
e2 e>f a2 a>f | e>cB>A F>AA>B | c>BB>A c>BB>A | c>eB>A F2 A>F |
E3 F A3 B | c2 e>c B>c A2 | f2 e>c A>Bc>A | e>cB>c A2 ||

K: G Major
(3GFE |
D2 D>E (3GGG G>A | B<dd>B A>G E2 | (3ege d>B G2 (3BAG | d>BA>G (3EGE G>E |
D3 E G3 A | (3BcB (3dcB A>G E2 | e2 d>B G>AB>G | d>B (3ABA G2- ||
G>e |
d>Bd>e g2 (3gfe | d2 B>G E2 G>A | (3BcB A>G B2 A>G | B>d (3BAG E>GG>E |
D3 E G>FG>A | (3BcB (3dcB A>G E2 | e2 d>B G>AB>G | d>B (3ABA G2 ||

# Posted on July 11th 2006 by ceolachan

This tune appears on "Skin and Bow" by Declan Folan and Junior Davey. The other tune in the set entitled "Molloy's Favourites" is Terry Teehan's other fling http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/444.

# Posted on March 10th 2007 by Dow

I think this tune works better as a 32-bar barndance than a 16-bar fling.

# Posted on March 19th 2007 by Dow

If one were to play this in a set, what would go good with it?

# Posted on March 27th 2007 by ltrane

Yeah, those held notes give it a very barndance / schottische feel to it, especially the opening bars, basically ~

| N2 N>N N2 N>N | ~ for example:

A-part ~ | E2 E>F A2 A>B | ~ & ~ B-part ~ | e2 e>f a2 a>f |

# Posted on March 27th 2007 by ceolachan

This tune is played on the BBC Virtual Session. It's listed as "Slow Barn Dance" and is played at a very moderate tempo.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/r2music/folk/sessions/

# Posted on April 16th 2007 by GraemeO

'twould be nice if the Details page listed the key as A major rather than D major.

# Posted on August 5th 2007 by csharpd

Dumb Dee Dee

This is in 2 sharps .... Honest.
The first two bars remind me of Flowers of Edinburgh
|A2AB d2de|fdfa gfed|

# Posted on December 3rd 2007 by geoffwright

Cuz

The tale went, he worked on the railway in Chicago and Irishmen were told to apply for a job and say they were his cousin.
So many cousins got jobs that he was know as Cuz.

# Posted on July 16th 2008 by geoffwright

A Major (###) & 16 bar fling

As far as dance, and my opinion, this works best for flings rather than as a barndance, but it can work there too. The melodic structure, like the differences between single and double reels, speaks to that as well.

csharpd ~ the transcription given here, the first one, is in A. Any crossing you would do picking up the G would be a G#... Here's a good example of doing just that, the lead-in given to start instead of in the last bar and the first 4 bars of the A-part. G natural would not work ~

# Posted on September 13th 2008 by ceolachan