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The Trip To Durrow

reel

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on August 13th 2002 by SPeak.

This tune has been added to 256 tunebooks.

Also known as A Trip To Durrow, Trip To Durrow.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

An Buachaill Dreoite by Joe Ryan
An Toilean Aerach by Johnny Connolly
Ar An Bhfidil by Oisin MacDiarmada
At Home by Rosie Shipley And Matt Mulqueen
Best Of Irish Ceili Music by Various Artists
Between The Sets by Barefield Ceili Band
Blowing Through The Reeds by Steve Shaw And Martin Cole
Bridgetown by Johnny B. Connolly
Call The Tune: Music For The Sets Volume 4 by Various Artists
Chappell Recorded Music Library - National Ireland by The Chieftains
Citternalia by Joseph Sobol
Dance Music Of Ireland: Volume 4 by Matt Cunningham
Echoes Of Erin by Comhaltas Tour Group 1984
Foinn Seisiun 2 by Ceoltóirí Cultúrlainne
In Season by Wild Asparagus
In The Smoke by Various Artists
Ireland's Best Session Tunes CD 1 by Waltons Recording
Irish Traditional Music Of County Clare by Bernard O'Sullivan And Tommy McMahon
Live At Trinity Hall by Trinity Hall Session Players
Live From The Powerhouse by Mozaik
Maiden Voyage by Various Artists
Memories Of Galway by Seamus Walshe
Michelle O Brien, Aogan Lynch And Gavin Ralston by Michelle O Brien, Aogan Lynch And Gavin Ralston
Myriad by Gerry O'Connor
Na Draiodoiri by Na Draiodoiri
On Oiche Go Maidin by O'aces
Over The Edge by Moher
River Reel by Begley,Glackin And O'Brien
Rogha Órdha by Various Artists
Sean Keane by Sean Keane
Set Dances Of Ireland, Volume IV by Various Artists
Songs, Jigs, Reels by Glenside And Kilfenora Ceili Bands
The Blue CD by Irish Session Tunes
The Drones And The Chanters by Various Artists
The Irish Concertina by Noel Hill
The Lark In The Clear Air by Various Artists
The Stone In The Field by Tommy Reck
Traditional Irish Music (traditional Music Session From Belfast) by Various Artists
Traditional Irish Music Played On The Fiddle by Tommy Peoples

Details ABC Sheetmusic Comments

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I couldn't believe this great tune wasn't on the site yet!

# Posted on August 13th 2002 by SPeak

How do people play this one where everyone else is? I've heard that Trip is also commonly played with the first part single, and sometimes with the B and C double.

Zina

# Posted on August 13th 2002 by Zina Lee

For a dance, you would play AAB. There actually is no C part to this tune.

# Posted on August 13th 2002 by SPeak

Trip to Durrow

I disagree with the last comment in that the final 8 bars are sufficiently different to be considered as a distinct C part. Most sessions I've been to play it as AABCBC. Although this may seem unconventional it sounds infinitely better than if played the predictable way of AABBCC - one of those anomalous tunes like the Sailor's Bonnet reel (ABBABB) ! Many thanks for posting it; it's a great tune.

# Posted on August 13th 2002 by Bannerman

Sorry, I should have said -- round here, we play it AABCBC as well, although I haven't heard this at every session in the city. But I have heard some players say that in "other places" it's played AABBCC, which I'm not really sure I like, but perhaps that's because I learned it the other way first. And lots of people don't treat the C part as a separate part from the B, I know, since they learned the thing aurally and have never seen the C part written as a different part...

zls

# Posted on August 13th 2002 by Zina Lee

Certainly, the AABCBC version seems to be the 'standard', but I've been in sessions where one or two musicians have been thrown off by the structure, probably because they are used to playing it another way. I have heard it played AABC and AABBCC, mostly by musicians form areas of Ireland which haven't been touched by the sort of pan-Irishism which dominates many sessions outside Ireland.

# Posted on August 13th 2002 by granama

It's not a matter of opinion i

# Posted on August 14th 2002 by SPeak

Please disregard my last comment. My computer has been playing games. What I mean to say is that all the collections I've seen list this tune with an A and B part only. The "Portland Collection" lists the tune with an A and B part. Regardless of how it is played, the tunebooks speak for themselves. I've actually never heard this played with a so called C part.

# Posted on August 14th 2002 by SPeak

Well, I've never been at any sessions where Trip is played AABBCC either, but I do know that there are places in Ireland where the tune is played that way, and almost all of the more experienced players that I've heard talking about this tune mention that it *can* be played with the third part uncoupled from the second.

Tunebooks are a relatively new thing to Irish music (as are pub sessions, the "traditional" Daughter of Erin stepdancing costume, and the guitar as an accompaniment instrument, and the bodhran as well for good measure), and they usually only embody the settings of a tune that one person or a small group of people use for a tune, so I shouldn't place *too* much trust in them as fonts of all knowledge where the tunes are concerned...

Zina

# Posted on August 14th 2002 by Zina Lee

Tunebooks, in general, possess the body of a tune without all the lacings. In my opinion, this is the best way to learn. I don't mean learning from a tunebook. But I do mean learning a straightforward version of the tune. If you have someone who plays it the "Dublin" way and then you have someone who plays it the "Clare" way, that just adds for interesting conversation. If you have the brunt of the tune as "commonly" played, well, I've found this to be the "best" way.

# Posted on August 14th 2002 by SPeak

Noel Hill is the only person I've ever heard play this tune AABBCC.

# Posted on August 15th 2002 by milesnagopaleen

This version is from Noel Hill's "The Irish Concertina". Notice it is played AABB. I still maintain there is no C part. Although, I don't deny that it can played with one.

# Posted on August 15th 2002 by SPeak

Noel Hill

I wasn't talking about Noel Hill's album. I heard Noel playing this AABBCC in Ollie Conway's bar in Mullagh.

# Posted on August 16th 2002 by milesnagopaleen

We often play this after Saint Anne's (listed on the session), and usually play CABCBC AABCBC AABCBC which gives a lovely changeover from Saint Anne's - Try it !

# Posted on August 18th 2002 by Enob

I like following it up with Earl's Chair.

Zina

# Posted on September 11th 2002 by Zina Lee

Trip to Durrow

Thanks to Will Harman for letting me know the name of this tune that I've called "Reel in D" for years (Discussions, 11th sep02).
As regards the C part, I always treated it as a variation of the A part played only when the tune is repeated as in AABB:CABB etc. I like it that way 'cos it kind of brings the tune back full circle in a less predictable way.
I originally learned it this way from Sid Cassidy (of Wexford) in a Carlisle session and have played it like that ever since. Maybe I just heard it wrong (horrors) and have been mucking it up since then! I haven't noticed too many frowning faces mind you (maybe Scotsmen aren't expected to know).
Anyway, seems to me that it just feels like a variation that can be treated as the player pleases and that whatever session will have a way they do it.
Does the AABB:CABB thing make sense to anyone else?

# Posted on September 11th 2002 by Kenn

Is the second part played once or twice?

# Posted on September 12th 2002 by Eimear

I would say, given the foregoing discussions, Eimear, that the answer is "yes". No, seriously, check with a muso at your local to see how they play it there. The way I've heard it most often is AABCBC (the way SPeak has it written, AABB), but obviously players play it differently.

Zina

# Posted on September 12th 2002 by Zina Lee

You're right Zina, I'm liking it AABCBC now, only thing is it doesn't slide nicely into over the moors to Maggie any more.
Guess I'll have to find another tune, maybe A Cup of Tea....

# Posted on September 13th 2002 by Kenn

James Kelly

James plays it AABBCC. I'ver heard him play it that way anyway. I like it that way better myself. Everybody else around here plays it AABCBC so i just switch when i'm playing with another melody player.

# Posted on April 19th 2003 by pchaffee

Tunebooks are Good Sources

PS Irish Trad. tune collections have been around for much longer than anyone now living or any recording--they're perfectly good sources for tune validation, but like dictionaries, they don't necessarily determine what is correct. But even if they hadn't been around that long, i don't see why they wouldn't be just as valid a source as any player.

# Posted on April 19th 2003 by pchaffee

Well, I tend to think of them as basically *being* another player, pchaffee! As said above, tune collections have to come from somewhere, somebody obviously put them together. Tune collections just tending to be seen as having more permanence and sometimes even more authority than a player sitting next to you saying, "well, we play it like *this*...". (Castle Kelly always catches me out at new sessions -- first part single or repeated? -- and last night I discovered that some players play Bunker Hill as a single reel, which I'd never heard before.)

# Posted on April 20th 2003 by Zina Lee

"The Trip to Durrow" ~ double, single and hornpipe

Well, I first learned this as notated here in Dublin and played it that way at a number of sessions around town in the 70's, including The Culturlann in Monkstown, CCE's heaquarters, but that don't make it necessarily 'official'. Latter I came across it also as a hornpipe. Then, playing with some other folks in the countryside I found it being played as a 'sing'e reel', meaning as given here but without the repeats. If you take it as folks are breaking it up and calling it A-B-C, instead of AABCBC or AABBCC, we played it just ABC... So, more grist for the mill, and not forgetting it as a hornpipe...

# Posted on February 25th 2006 by ceolachan

"The Trip to Durrow" ~ Swung

Unsure where the cut off is for 'different', I'm putting this in the 'comments', where I've resided since losing trust in my own assumptions. Anyway, I tried to remember this as I'd learned it as what I was thinking and had noted 'hornpipe', probably just in reference to it being swung, because now that I play it that way again it feels more like a set dance, what with the 8 bar A-part and 16 bar B-part. Anyway, here it is in that form, with some few variations given. You could also use the notes as given in the original reel versions available. So, for your fun and enjoyment, hopefully, here it is swung in the style of a hornpipe or set dance. I also play it without the 'lead-ins', just laying on a final 'D' in each final measure ~ F>D D2 :| ~

# Posted on February 26th 2006 by ceolachan

I've heard the second bar (and 6th and 22nd) played like:
|defd B3c|
instead of:
|dfed B3c|
I like it better.

# Posted on April 6th 2007 by Pere

Composer

There is a known composer to this tune according to Eddie Mongey from annaliviafm's "Bothar a tsleibhte". It was composed by an Offaly musician (I think from Tullamore) and his name escapes me at the moment. He played with the Ballinamere Ceili Band and he was a fiddler and piper. It was something like Denis Carey (but its not because he is a piano with the Brock Maguire band). If anyone can shoot names out I could confirm.

# Posted on October 6th 2007 by PaddyCmusic