Miss Galvin's

hornpipe

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on March 29th 2002 by Mad Baloney.

This tune has been added to 53 tunebooks.

Also known as Garrai Na Saileog, Mary Bergin's, Miss Galvin, Miss Galvin's, Miss Galvin's Highland Fling, Mrs Galvin, Mrs. Galvin's, Mrs. Galvin's Highland Fling, Woodford Fling.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

40th Anniversary 1946 - 1986 by The Tulla Ceili Band
A Flick Of The Wrist by Brendan Larrissey
A Tribute To Joe Cooley by Frankie Gavin, Paul Brock, Charlie Lennon
An Tobar Gl�é by Neil Mulligan
Cuisle by Angela Deane
Dublin Banjos by Sully And John Keenan
Feadoga Stain by Mary Bergin
From Leitrim To London by Brian Rooney
Hand-Me-Downs by Mary Rafferty
Handed Down by Cathal Hayden
Happy To Meet And Sorry To Part by Joe Burke, Michael Cooney And Terry Coleman
Irish Traditional Concertina Styles by Lynn Saoirse
Melodeon by John Gannon
On Oiche Go Maidin by O'aces
Riverdance And Other Famous Irish Songs And Dances by Lynn Saoirse
Sean Keane by Sean Keane
Sean Reid's Favourite by Jimmy O'Brien-Moran
Seoda Ceoil by Lynn Saoirse
Set Dances Of Ireland, Volume II by Lynn Saoirse
Spirit by Dervish
The Music Makers: Celebrating 35 Years Of Comhaltas In Leeds by Leeds CCE
The Nervous Man by Mícheál O' Raghallaigh
The Thing Itself by Maeve Donnelly And Peadar O'Loughlin
Three's Company by Martin Meehan
Traditional Flute Music In The Sligo-Roscommon Style by Catherine McEvoy With Felix Dolan
Up In The Air by Danu
Within A Mile Of Dublin by Paul O'Shaughnessy And Paul McGrattan

Details ABC Sheetmusic Comments

Miss Galvin's

A nice little hornpipe, not very hard & you can get your teeth into it.

# Posted on March 29th 2002 by Mad Baloney

PS watch out for those pesky C naturals in the ends of the high bar.

# Posted on March 29th 2002 by Mad Baloney

I play it a bit differently, without the c-naturals - I may just hae misremembered it, as I don't hear it played very often. It is a lovely tune, and unusual among hornpipes in that it only has 8 bars per strain, like a single reel, as opposed to the usual 16 bars.Less is more.

# Posted on March 30th 2002 by granama

Those C naturals are 6 of each & a half dozen of the other, I often forego them & play it with C#'s. This is the setting I got of it & thought it was nice.

# Posted on April 4th 2002 by Mad Baloney

I picked this setting up from a soundfile of Cincinnate (Ohio) flute player Tim Benson. (He called it Miss Thornton's.) I really like the c nats and also the little fAeA downhill run in the second half. I also prefer to play this smoothed out as a slow-ish reel, rather than hornpipey.

# Posted on September 1st 2003 by Will CPT

And here's a setting from my local session:
|:d2cA GEFE|D2FA DAFA|d2cA GE~E2|1 (3Bcd eg fdef:|2 (3Bcd ec d3e||
faaf ~d3e|faaf ~g3a|fgaf dcA2|(3Bcd ef g2ag|
faaf dcde|fzaf g2ag|fAeA dcA2|(3Bcd ef g2fe||

# Posted on September 1st 2003 by Dow

FLING - HIGHLAND - HIGHLAND FLING = 16 BARS

Well, what can I say. No, the second part doesn't repeat; no, it isn't a hornpipe; yes, there are specific dances that accompany this form; and yes, I've no doubt that these are being dumped under 'hornpipes'. Since there's no place for the form, the nearest thing would probably be 'barndance', though the deserve their own category.

Damn dog, get up will you and do some howling. Where did all these maggots come from and these damn bot flies?

# Posted on July 30th 2004 by ceolachan

Click my name for a clear apology -

Apologies: I hadn't meant 'SHOUTING' in the use of capitals, my inexperience. Rereading this one it sounds pretty judgemental, but my mind set wasn't there, again apologies if it was taken that way. I can see how this one would be. I now know and will curb this tendency to capitalize headers and the like, and will watch my tendency toward bluntness. The capitalized header was part of an experiment that didn't work, trying with three examples of highlands to find some way to search out that tune form on site, that might help others who would like to see them under the 'collective' term. They make damned nice 'single reels' too, and better that they survive that way or in whatever form someone makes of them, than that they die out all together...

# Posted on July 31st 2004 by ceolachan

Garrai Na Saileog (highland)

The alternative title of the tune should be *Mrs.* Galvin's. According to Pat Mitchell, she was Thade Carthy's sister and her maiden name was Nell McCarthy.

# Posted on June 7th 2005 by slainte

"Mrs. Galvin's Hornpipe" ~ married & different

Key signature: D Major
Submitted on December 21st 2002 by quirl.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/1234

# Posted on December 9th 2005 by ceolachan

This is the first of "Two Woodford Flings" Jack and Charlie Coen recorded on "The Branch Line."

# Posted on September 23rd 2006 by slainte

Also recorded by Andrew MacNamara, who calls it "Mary Bergin's".

# Posted on September 24th 2006 by GaryAMartin

"Mrs. Galvin's Highland Fling"

X: 1134
T: Mrs. Galvin's Highland Fling
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: highland fling
K: D Major
|: (3edc |
(3ddd c>A G>EF>E | D2 F>A D>A (3FGA |
d2 c>A G>E (3EEE |[1 (3Bcd e>g f>d :|[2 (3Bcd e>c d3 A ||
f>g (3agf dcdA | f>ga>f g>ba>g |
f>ga>f d2 d>A | (3Bcd e>f g2 (3gfe |
f>ga>f (3ddd d>A | f>ga>f g2 (3bag |
f>d (3edc d>BA>d | (3Bcd e>f g2 |]

# Posted on June 2nd 2007 by ceolachan