Nicholas McAuliffe’s (slide) on The Session

Also known as Dálaigh’s, Major McKee, McAuliffe’s, Nick McAuliffe’s, Nicky McAuliffe’s.

Two settings

X: 1
T: Nicholas McAuliffe's
R: slide

X: 2
T: Nicholas McAuliffe's
R: slide

M: 12/8
L: 1/8
K: Dmaj
ABc dcd B2e e2d|c2a a^ga f2e dcB|ABc dcd B2e e2d|1 cea gfe d3 dcB:|2 cea gfe d3 d2e|:
f2f fef g3g2f|efe ede f3f2e|ded def g2B e2d|1 cea gfe d3 d2e:|2 1cea gfe d3 dcB||

Twelve comments

Source:H. Hamilton, S. Creagh, C. O’Drisceoil. “It’s No Secret”
Transcription: Gian Marco Pietrasanta (craniota)

I’m starting to feel like the tune police. This tune is clearly in G major, so those c’s should be natural, not sharped. Or have I gone barking mad?

Ruf! ruf!

G

I think you’re right, though it’s easier to play it in the flute this way. 🙂

So what sound does a barking dog make in Gaelic? 🙂

Well, “tathfan” means the barking of dogs, but I expect that Irish dogs go “woof woof” like other dogs do. 🙂

P.S.

Ever heard the Worms’s song The Gaelic Song? Heow meow meow meow meow meow meow BARK meow….

Fixed

Okay, you can quit yer howling.

I’ve updated the sheetmusic and soundfile so that the Cs are natural.

In the partly Irish ceili(dh) band I play with, for the Cumberland Square Eight (an English/Scottish Country Dance), we play a tune called Major McKee, which is essentially the same tune as this slide (quinte a number of Kerry slides and polkas seem to have their origins in Scotland and elsewhere). It goes like this:

K:D
M:12/8
ABc dcd B2e e2d|c2a a^ga f2e dcB|ABc dcd B2e e2d|1cea gfe d3 dcB:|2cea gfe d3 d2e|:
f2f fef g3-g2f|efe ede f3-f2e|ded def g2B e2d|1cea gfe d3 d2e:|21cea gfe d3 dcB||

Major McKee

David, I don’t think Major McKee is the same as Nicolas McAuliffe’s . For me is another and different beautiful tune.
Why don’t you submit it as a new tune?

“Nicholas McAuliffe’s” / “McAuliffe’s”

“Nicholas McAuliffe’s” / “McAuliffe’s” / “Nicky McAuliffe’s”

Nicholas McAuliffe’s slide