Queen Of The Fairies hornpipe

This is a lovely hornpipe that can be played slowly with some swing. It is on Bohola’s #4, tune #3. I play it on the fiddle. Not sure if I got the key right, though, I am not very good at that.

Holger

http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/Q.htm

Looks like A dorian

https://thesession.org/tunes/475
(King Of The Fairies )

Liz Carroll said at at New York concert in the 1980s that this was one of Larry Redican’s compositions.

I like this tune quite a bit, works well on uke. I added chords for those that want them, here’s the ABC:

X: 1
T: Queen Of The Fairies
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Gmaj
|: AG |“Am”E2 A2 AB cd |“C”e2a2“G”g3 d |“C” (3efe “G”d2 “C”(3cdc “G”B2 |“Am”ABAG E2 D2 |
“Am”E2 A2 AB cd |“C” e2a2 “G”g3 d |“C” e2 de “G”g2 de |1 “Am”B2 A2 A2 :|2 “Am”B2 A2 A2 AG ||
|:“Am” E2 A2 c2 A2 |“Am” e3 B cBAG | “C”E2 G2 “G”D2 G2 |“C” E2 DE “G”GEDB |
“Am”E2 A2 c2 A2 |“Am” e3 d cBAG | “C”E2 DE “G”G2 B2 |1 “Am”c2 A2 A2 AG :|2 “Am”c2 A2 A2 ||

Larry Redican can be heard playing this at the comhaltasarchives.org, very stately pace. I think he has 9 bars in the first part??? I’m terrible with notation so have a listen. His playing sounds “set dance” to me so perhaps that’s making me think the first part is >8 bars. I didn’t know he composed this one. It’s a beautiful melody.

The other important thing is that he plays the first few bars of the 2nd part in the 2nd/3rd octave, up to e‘’’. This is surprisingly easy on the fiddle, as these shifts up the neck go.

X:3 from a recording of Larry Redican, its putative composer. This, I repeat, is, from the sounds of things, a set dance in 4/4, not a hornpipe per se.