The New Broom barndance

Written by Vincent Broderick, it can be heard on Cherish the Ladies “New Day Dawning”.

Goes well when played after “Around the Fairy Fort” (also composed by Vincent Broderick).

Key signature: D Major
Submitted on November 21st 2003 by Conway.
https://thesession.org/tunes/2177

Key signature: G Major
Submitted on November 23rd 2005 by the wounded hussar.
https://thesession.org/tunes/5227

~ or just plain potty… Here’s a bit of fun with this one, first repeating the transcription here and then dancing through two takes, the next reductionary and then the last contrary to that ~ 😎

X: 1
T: The New Broom
C: Vincent Broderick
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: barndance
K: G Major
|: (3DEF |
G3 B d2 Bd | e/g/e dB d2 BA | GFGA B2 AG | A2 E2 E2 (3DEF |
G3 B d2 Bd | e/g/e dB d2 Bd | edge dBAc | B2 G2 G2 :|
|: ga |
b2 ba g3 a | bgag e/g/e d2 | edge dBGA |
1 BAAG A2 ga | b2 ba g3 a | bgag e/g/e d2 | edge dBAc | B2 G2 G2 :|
2 BAAG AcBA | G3 B d2 Bd | e/g/e dB d2Bd| edge dBAc | B2 G2 G2 ||

X: 2
T: The New Broom
C: Vincent Broderick
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: barndance
K: G Major
|: G2 G2 d2 B>d | e2 d>B d2 B>A | G2 G>A B2 A>G | A2 E2 E4 |
G2 G>B (3ded (3Bcd | e2 d>B d2 (3Bcd | e>dg>e d>BA>d | B2 G2 G4 :|
|: b2 b2 g3 a | b>ga>g e2 d2 | e2 e2 d>BG>A | B2 A2 A4 |
[1 b2 b>a (3gag (3fga | b>ga>g (3ege (3def | g3 e d>BA>d | B2 G2 G4 :|
[2 G2 G2 d2 B>d | e2 d>B d4 | e2 g>e d>BA>d | B2 G2 G4 |]

X: 3
T: The New Broom
C: Vincent Broderick
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: barndance
K: G Major
|: (3DEF |
G>D (3GAB d2 (3Bcd | (3ege d>B d>gB>A | G>D (3FGA B>GA>G | A>BE>D (3EGE (3DEF |
G>DG>B d>GB>d | e>Gd>B d>GB>d | g>f (3gfe d>BA>d | B>G (3GGG G2 :|
|: (3Bdg |
b>^ab>=a (3gbg (3fga | b>g (3agf (3ege d>G | e>Gg>G d>GG>A |
[1 B>AA>^G (3ABA (3Bd=g | b2 b>a g>fg>a | b2 a>g e>g (3def | g>e (3gfe d>BA>d | B>G (3GGG G2 :|
2 B>A (3AAA A2 (3cBA | G>DG>B (3dgd (3Bcd | (3ege d>^c d2 e>f | g>f (3gfe d>BA>d | B>GG>F G2 ||

Here’s a YouTube link of the man himself playing The New Broom and The Mountain Stream. Vincent passed away in 2008.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOjwCXhzVYw

play video

“Buy a Broom” - not sure if this is same tune? There are a few similarities. Please excuse any errors in transcribing.

aka “Buy a Broom”. May be a quite different tune, but I can see vague similarities…

Completely different tune.

Kenny, you’re most prob. right, the “broom” title made me think they might be connected The tune I put in Abc was to do with a “broom”?… Am pretty sure tune I posted is Irish.

Doesn’t matter. It’s not the barndance composed by Vincent Broderick which has been here for 17 years.. “Probably” doesn’t come in to it. It’s up to you as the person posting the tune to check whether or not what you’re posting is a “setting” of a tune already here, or a different tune altogether.

Is it even a barndance? Somehow it made me think of the mazurka discussed a year ago:
https://thesession.org/discussions/44586

“The Turoe Stone - A collection of traditional tunes composed by the renowned Galway Fluter, Vincent Broderick” :
“The New Broom” - “Barndance” - second tune on page 14.

I was of course commenting on whatever Susan posted.

I agree about that mazurka similarity, it’s the first thing I thought when I heard the opening bars. Susan’s tune certainly doesn’t belong here, but I’m not even sure where I’d put it!

I’ll see if I can find out its actual title, Gobby. Have a good day. Still snow in Glasgow, so radiators have to be on..

“Oh it’s BUY A BROOM, I said so above, had forgotten. I’m not a good cut and paster for a new tune.

I love the full phrase that the title of this tune references: “The new broom sweeps clean, but the old broom knows the corners…”