Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on May 21st 2001 by Jeremy.
This tune has been added to 107 tunebooks.
Also known as The Dusty Millar, Johnny Docherty's.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Dusty Miller, The
M: 9/8
L: 1/8
R: slip jig
K: Gmaj
|:B2d d2A BAG|E2A A2B cBA|B2d d2A BAG|D2G G2A BAG:|
|:B2d e2f g2a|a2A A2B cBA|B2d e2f g2a|g2e d2c BAG:|
I originally learned this tune in A but I've transcribed it here in the more popular key of G. Still, don't be surprised at sessions if someone starts playing this tune a whole tone higher than you. In the key of A, this tune has an even brighter, up-beat sound.
# Posted on June 1st 2001 by Jeremy
Tune type
I believe this is actually a single-jig or slide.
# Posted on March 19th 2004 by reelymcneely
Slip Jig
No, I'm pretty sure it's a slip jig. I can't see how it could be played in anything other than 9/8 time.
# Posted on March 20th 2004 by Jeremy
It's a hop jig.
# Posted on May 9th 2006 by Dow
Does anyone know
are there any words to it?
# Posted on September 29th 2006 by birlibirdie
A
I also know it in A, it does sound brighter.
M: 9/8
L: 1/8
R: slip jig
K: Amaj
|:c2e e2B cBA|F2B B2c dcB|c2e e2B cBA|E2A A2B cBA:|
|:c2e f2g aga|b2B B2c dcB|c2e f2g a2b|a2f e2d cBA:|
# Posted on February 9th 2007 by gravelwalks
Alternative name ?
God I'm sick of these tunes in the same time sig with the same name !! It's different if it's a Paddy Fahy's or Ed Reavy's, named after the composer. I mean there are so many it don't matter.
Hasn't someone got a ' The Ballykissangel' or "James Sharkey's" et al for this one ?
# Posted on May 19th 2007 by Fliúiteadóir
Dusty Miller 3/2 hornpipe
Here's the 3/2 hornpipe version (from the manuscript "John of the Greeny Cheshire Way")
M:3/2
L:1/8
K:G
B3 c d2 B2 A2 G2 | F2 A2 A2 B2 c2 A2 |
B3 c d2 B2 A2 G2 | D2 G2 G2 B2 A2 G2 :|
B2 c2 d2 e2 f2 g2 | a2 A2 A2 c2 B2 A2 |
B2 c2 d2 e2 f2 a2 | g2 G2 G2 B2 A2 G2 :|
Chris
# Posted on July 2nd 2007 by spindizzy
The Dusty Miller
The tune is a slip jig 9/8 sig: and is from O'Neill's 1001 gems of Dance Music of Ireland. It's a nice tune to play in G then lift it to A. It is also an excellent tune to play for a dancer dancing a 'Slip Jig' . Somehow they seem to relate to it.
# Posted on July 8th 2007 by Free Reed
The Dusty Miller
I learned this piece as a reel.
# Posted on July 22nd 2007 by crazy4music
3rd part?
Where's the third part I've heard so many times? The Comhaltas members who have heard me play it say it's rather pretty...
# Posted on July 22nd 2007 by vonnieestes
You play a 3rd part, well, where is it, and where did you get it?? For the umpteenth time I've gone searching for a third part in collections, 3/2, 9/8 ~ and even 6/8, and all are just two parts in total, not one showed a 3rd part. So, you've had my interest and it is holding, let's see your third part, with something about its origins... I'd love to give it a try, or any other 3rd part someone might have out there?
# Posted on July 22nd 2007 by ceolachan
The ONeill collections and Bremner's Collections of 1757 ~ just 2 parts...
However, more to follow ~
# Posted on July 22nd 2007 by ceolachan
"The Dusty Miller" ~ the 3rd
X: ~
T: The Dusty Miller
M: 9/8
L: 1/8
R: slip jig
K: G Major
|: B2 d d2 A B2 G | E2 A A2 B c2 A | B2 d d2 A B2 G | D2 G G2 A B2 G :|
|: B2 d e2 f g3 | a2 A A2 B c2 A | B2 d e2 f g2 a | g2 e d2 c B2 G :|
|: B3 B2 A G2 A | E2 A A2 B c2 A | B3 B2 A G2 A | D2 G G2 A B2 G :|
X: ~
T: The Dusty Miller
M: 9/8
L: 1/8
R: slip jig
K: A Major
|: c2 e e2 B cBA | F2 B B2 c dcB | c2 e e2 B cBA | E2 A A2 B cBA :|
|: c2 e f2 g aga | b2 B B2 c dcB | c2 e f2 g a2 b | a2 f e2 d cBA :|
|: c3 c2 B AGA | F2 B B2 c dcB | c3 c2 B AGA | E2 A A2 B cBA :|
# Posted on July 22nd 2007 by ceolachan
No, I as yet haven't found a clue as to where I got that particular 3rd part. What's given was pulled out of memory. I haven't yet gone fishing through my own notes...
Does this bear any resemblance to what you know and play Vonnie? ~ or anyone else?
# Posted on July 22nd 2007 by ceolachan
Always knew it as a 3 parter
I don't remember where I first heard this tune at least 30 years ago, but it always had the three parts as far as I can remember. It probably is quite the same as your abc version in G. Years ago I took a copy for my "little black book" (actually a tome) that's listed as #60 from JC's Tunefinder. If you can't find it there e-mail me again and maybe I can send you the dots.
# Posted on July 25th 2007 by vonnieestes
Ps
Actually I just peeked over at JC's and found it as version #160 submitted by marlboro college's mahoney as an RR tune. Does that mean Richard Robinson's version in computereez? Anyway, that's the version I have saved in my notebook.
# Posted on July 25th 2007 by vonnieestes
"The Dusty Miller" ~ Richard Robinson's Tunebook
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/info/RRTuneBk/
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/info/RRTuneBk/gettune/00000948.html
X: 6 (311)
T: The Dusty Miller
M: 9/8
O: Ireland
R: Slip Jig
Z: Richard Robinson
K: G
|: B2 d c2 A B2 G | E2 A A2 B cBA | B2 d cBA G2 F | D2 G G2 A B2 G :|
|: B2 d def g3 | a2 A A2 B cBA | B2 d e2 f gfe | d2 B G2 A B2 G :|
|: D3 G2 A BAG | E3 A2 B cBA | B2 d cBA G2 F | D2 G G2 A B2 G :|
& as 3/2, a triple hornpipe in G, 2-parts:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/info/RRTuneBk/gettune/000002f0.html
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/info/RRTuneBk/gettune/000004e6.html
# Posted on November 29th 2007 by ceolachan