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The West Clare reel

By Peadar Ó Riada

The West Clare has been added to 4 tune sets.

The West Clare has been added to 7 tunebooks.

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Three settings

1
X: 1
T: The West Clare
R: reel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Dmin
DE|F2DE FA{=B/}AA|AEGF DCA,2|F2DE FA{=B/}AA|AEGF D3E|
F2DE FA{=B/}AA|AEGF DCA,2|d/d/cAG FGAB|AEGF D3|
|:d|dcAG F/F/GAd|dcAG F/F/GE2|fgef dcAB|AEGF D3:|
2
X: 2
T: The West Clare
R: reel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Emin
EF|G2EF GBBB|BFAG EDBA|G2EF GBBB|BFAG E3F|
G2EF GBBB|BFAG EDBd|edBA GABc|BFAG E3|
e|edBA GABe|edBA GAF2|edBA GABc|BFAG E3|
edBA GABe|edBA GAF2|gafg edBc|BFAG E3|
3
X: 3
T: The West Clare
R: reel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Dmin
DE|F2DE FA{=B/}A2|AEGF DCA,E|F2DE FA{=B/}AA|AEGF D3E|
F2DE FA{=B/}AA|AEGF DCA,d|{e/}dcAG FGAB|AEGF D3d||
{e/}dcAG FGAd|{e/}dcAG FGE2|{e/}dcAG FGAB|AEGF D3d|
{e/}dcAG FGAd|{e/}dcAG FGE2|fgef dcAB|AEGF D2||["al fine"!fermata!D2||

Five comments

The West Clare

This is presented by Martin Hayes on his Patreon site as tune #6 for free "Play Along". He gave the name of the composer, which I can’t spell, and said this tune is in line with many West Clare tunes.

Re: The West Clare

The composer is Peadar Ó Riada
https://youtu.be/021-98R4Tfs


@RannaC: Your transcription would be easier to read if you made your bars twice as long, as is the convention in notating reels (i.e. you need to merge adjacent bars by removing every second barline). As it stands, there is a mismatch between the time signature and the bar length.

Re: The West Clare

The West Clare, X:3

Based on the transcription #1 by RannaC but with bars 3 and 4 of the B part closer to the playing of Martin Hayes.