Farewell To The Troubles Of The World jig

I picked this tune up at a session in Oregon many years ago, and then lost it. Luckily I kept the dots around and recently reconstructed it.

I like it not too fast, to savor the flux between c sharps and naturals.

Great tune, Will.
There are other possibilities for the C / Csharp.
I think it’s an old pipe tune in Dmix with some modern Dmaj add-ons.
Nice variation is to play F nat instaed of E in the first triplet in bar 7 / 15

Great tune, thanks will!

This is in O’Neill’s, but does anyone know of any recordings with it on? It seems like a neglected tune.

Tonight my friend put 3 tunes in front of me. One of them I know, another I have heard.
The 3rd tune I have not heard in session. Will Harmon posted the tune on site.
There are no known recordings. Would be nice to hear it played by someone who knows the tune.

“ Farewell to the Troubles of the World “ aka “ O’Connell’s Welcome to Parliament “

Actually I lied. I don’t have the dots. I would like to hear it before I try to suss it out.
Thanks in advance.

I wish there was a better way to find the answer.

Close but no cigar. Still no recording of this tune. Thanks leoj for the mp3.
Fiddlers’ Companion listed an alternate title for this tune;
http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/FAR_FARE.htm#FAREWELL_TO_THE_TROUBLES_OF_THE_WORLD
“Farewell … “ (Slan agus Beannacht le Buaidhreamh an tSaoghail). AKA … “O’Connell’s Welcome {to Parilament}.

There is a completely different jig with the same title (or alternate title)
https://thesession.org/tunes/1071
“ Rafferty’s “
October 23rd 2002 by Brad Maloney.

https://thesession.org/recordings/1028
Round The House: Music For The Sets Volume 1
Various Artists
May 26th 2004 by kjlowe.
14. O’Connell’s Welcome To Parliament/The Humours Of Ballymore

Thanks again for the mp3. But I’m still hoping to hear something of the other “O’Connell’s Welcome to Parliament”

This tune is included as as a set dance in Bulmer & Sharpley’s “Music of Ireland” (book 2, tune #85) under the title ‘Fiddler Round the Fairy Tree’.

A set dance in jig style that I’ve performed for dancers at various feisianna.

“Farewell To The Troubles Of The World”
https://thesession.org/tunes/1967

This is a tune I keep going back to and it is one of my favourites. I’ve had it in my collection for over 25 years, have never heard it played by anyone but immediately on playing it from the music I wanted to play it slowly. My version, as found, is virtually identical with the first one here but for a few bars, particularly bar 4 of the ‘A’ music and bar 1 in the ‘B’ music. I like to ‘savour’ the progression of notes leading up to the ‘c’. The value of the notes suggested slowing the tune down in order to make as much of the musicality of the tune as possible. For me this is not a jig in the normal sense as it has “airy” qualities. After playing the ‘B’ music for the second time I return to the ‘A’ music without a lead-in note, going straight to ‘d’ in bar 1. I hope that all makes sense. Recently I’ve been following it with a very slow “the Cat in the Corner” and a very steady “Up Sligo”

Another version, almost identical to the 2nd setting, was published by Joyce in his Ancient Music of Ireland (Dublin, 1873), nr 33.
Joyce wrote that this tune was “taken down from the whistling of Joseph Martin, a native of the county Limerick.”

Setting in G major.

Quite simple setting. There is no ornamentation, only quavers and crochets.

But the thing is that I see if this tune is played in D, it is not possible to play the low C# because it falls out of the range. That is why I transposed it to G and this is what I’m going to try to learn.

I got to know this tune thanks to this video published today by Kyle Borley where he plays a wonderful version:

https://youtu.be/F1AcUlt6sc8

play video

This is the setting from Francis O’NeilL:“The Dance Music of Ireland” (1907). I took it directly from Tunepal.

I find it interesting to see that crochet in c# in the fourth bar of the first part.