Lough Mountain reel

This one starts off the Eb reels on the Flatfish album, followed up by the West Clare reel and Lexy McAskill’s.

~B3E FEFA|Bdef dB~B2|ABAF DEFB|ABdf edAd|
~B3E FEFA|(3Bcd ef dB~B2|ABde f2fe|1dBAd BEFA:|2dBAd BE(3Bcd|:
~e3f ed(3Bcd|(3efg fd edBc|d3B ADFA|d2fd ed(3Bcd|
~e3f ed(3Bcd|(3efg fd edBc|d2(3Bcd effe|dBAd BE(3Bcd|
~e3f ed(3Bcd|(3efg fd edBc|d3B ADFA|df~f2 ABdf|
~e3f ed(3Bcd|(3efg fd edBc|d2(3Bcd effe|dBAd BEFA|

is anyonhe able to provide flook’s harmonies for this one….

its quite entoxicating…

Why? some might ask. Well, I am always intrigued by differences, including in how we listen, what we percieve through that sense, and I quite enjoyed the 3-3-2 perception that the contributor had on this, and their very different transcription, as compared to what is already here. I also gave it a Balkan treatment and enjoyed that, if slightly different note wise. So, for others to check it out, and not meant to embarrass the contributor, here it is…

Tuatha De Danann (Flook’s)
Key signature: E Dorian
Submitted on August 4th 2008 by Sacrenouille.
https://thesession.org/tunes/8780

X: 3
T: Blink
T: Tuatha De Danann
M: 8/8
L: 1/16
R: reel
K: Edor
|: B3 EGE GA | B e2 d z2 BA | FAA GFD DF | Adf fed BA |
FAB EGE GA | B e2 d z2 BA | ABd efe df |[1 edB ABE EE :|[2 edB A B2 cd ||
|: eee dcB cd | egf ded BG | d3 AAD AB | dfe dBA GB |
dee dcA cd | egf dee eB | ddd d2 e fe |[1 dBA FBE EE :|[2 dBA F B2- B2 |]

& Sacrenouille’s transcription straightened out into groups of 4 ~

X: 3
T: Blink
T: Tuatha De Danann
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Edor
|:B3 E GEGA | Be-ed z2 BA | FAAG FDDF | Adff edBA |
FABE GEGA | Be-ed z2 BA | ABde fedf |[1 edBA BEEE :|[2 edBA B2cd ||
|: eeed cBcd | egfd edBG | d3 A ADAB | dfed BAGB |
deed cAcd | egfd eeeB | dddd- defe |[1 dBAF BEEE :|2 dBAF B4 |]

Notes from this contribution to follow…

Hi, this is my transcription of “Tuatha De Danann”, a tune performed by the Flook band, which you can hear on the “Excalibur II” CD. Which means this is NOT a reel, but the site would not let me enter anything else. The beat is 3 + 3 + 2 ( = 8 ).

The original tune is played on a Eb whistle, so it should be F dorian, but I wrote it there in E dorian so that it is easily readable, just read & play it on a Eb whistle like if you were holding a D whistle in your hands.

There’s some mistakes for sure in there, and plenty of ornementations to insert. The tempo is quite fast; if you play in ( 1/16 ) it’s something like 123.

Hope you enjoy.

# Posted on August 4th 2008 by Sacrenouille

Do you mean this tune (the first one):

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=x7s7qEL0KlM&feature=related ?

play video

If so (and I think you do), then it’s definitely a reel, albeit cool and syncopated and everything, and it’s already up here as Lough Mountain (this original transcription)

# Posted on August 4th 2008 by Joe CSS
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Duplicated and misnamed ~ You’re right, Joe. This is definitely a reel, and someone has already posted a better transcription of it. And I doubt “Tuatha Dé Danann” is the correct title of the tune. Possibly the title of the track on which they play? Flook actually recorded the tune as “Blink” on their album “Flatfish”:

https://thesession.org/recordings/116

# Posted on August 4th 2008 by slainte
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Indeed, you’re correct, that’s the tune I meant. Sorry, I only heard it on a CD were it was named “Tuatha Dé Danann” ~

http://fp.nightfall.fr/index_1322_alan-simon-excalibur.html

3rd song, sorry it’s a french page. Anyway thank you for the link, the correct name and the more proper transcription…

# Posted on August 4th 2008 by Sacrenouille
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Is this a Trad tune as such or a Finnegan/Flook composition? Having been out playin choons on Sat discovered an annoying habit of learning new compositions recently.

and i agree with the previous poster. This choon is entoxicating. The Eb reel set in general

This was recorded by the Co.Clare group “Fisherstreet” in 1991. “Flatfish” came out in 1999. Suggests to me that it is a traditional tune - I’ll check the “Fisherstreet” recording credits - and not a “Flook/Finnegan” original.

Listed on the “Fisherstreet” cassette insert as “Trad”, but then compositions by Ed Reavy, Paddy O’Brien and Paddy Fahy, are also listed as “Trad”, with no credits to composers. Really annoys me, that does.

Yes, that annoys me too. Reavy and co should not be taken for granted. This tune is down as trad on the Flook album but strangely they’ve named it ‘Blink’.

“Loughmountain” is the name given in Treoir and the composer as being Eddie O’Donnell. Anyone have any more information?

It’s a superb tune, cracking beginning to it.

Regards
David

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhFidTzxKtc

play video

This is a nice setting from Eoin O’Niell’s In Session recording entitled, “Lough Mountain”. Not terribly different but I think nice enough to include since I was learning it anyway,

Flook’s version from Flatfish.

Eddie O’Donnell Jnr tells the story that this was transcribed by a chap as payment in return for the favour of being transported over to Ireland by Eddie O’Donnell Snr so that he had his tune on paper.

@jacknotmaster: would that be the Eddies O’Donnell living in the Nottingham UK area in the 1970s?

From https://thesession.org/recordings/6041

I’ve heard it played with the following small, but very effective, variation in the last line:
e3d BABd|egfd edBc|A3c defe|dBAF FE~E2|