The Rock On The Clyde jig

Source: “Callan Bridge” by Niall And Cillian Vallely
Transcription: g.m.p.

Could someone please post the .abc text in here for the reel known as Brid Harper’s? The link from this tune listed on Verena Commins & Julie Langan’s recording “Fonnchaoi” incorrectly leads one to the jig of the same name…

Thanks.

A transcription of Brid Harper’s version in D minor.
K:Dmin
|:A|FDE F2G|Add cAc|dcA ~G3|AFD GEC|
FDE F2G|Add cAc|dcA GFG|AFD D2:|
|:e|~f3 edc|ded cAG|~F3 GFG|AFD DFD|
CA,C DFB|Aca fdc|dcA GFG|AFD D2:|

Correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems to me that Vinnie Kilduff (1990) plays that jig under the title “The Rock On The Clyde”

Compare the 1st part with Castletown Connors https://thesession.org/tunes/1433.

The Vallelys play this one in F on Callan Bridge, I think.

f.pellerin about the title - I just noticed that Philip Duffy also has it as “The Rock on the Clyde”.

The first setting above is pretty much the same as “The Rock on the Clyde” in the Bobby MacLeod book and marked as “Composed by Bobby MacLeod”.

Have a listen to https://open.spotify.com/album/4wgtFtAnJ1ItfNLwmLYwyp - it is definitely The Rock on the Clyde by Bobby MacLeod. Also a nice mandolin version on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er3dxTC_2PY

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Surely this tune should be listed under its own name, “The Rock on the Clyde”?
It’s not named Brid Harpers at all and is written by a well known composer

First tune in the set, named The Morne’s Jig, perhaps a name more common in the London area.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0Jp-zqBYIk

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I agree with Bogman, but hey, a lot of so-called “Irish” tunes come from a Scottish source, and it’s almost as though they need to be re-named so as to hide the fact that they’re Scottish. Don’t get me wrong: I love lots of Irish tunes, and I play mostly Irish tunes. I’m not biased either way as to Irish or Scots, but credit should be paid where it is due I feel. There is an increasing amount of back and forth between both countries in regard to music, so maybe we should just say “Celtic” rather than Irish or Scottish….and then there’s Breton, Galician, Nova Scotian etc. There’s plenty of these latter-mentioned tunes played in the Irish repertoire, and yet they (opposed to many Scots tunes) always get the credit that they are due, in relation to their origin. For some reason Scots tunes just can’t be Scots, can they? They are instead, “absorbed” into the Irish repertoire as being Irish. There’s no bitterness from me here, honestly… just a statement of something I’ve noticed.

If you’re 100% sure this is “The Rock On The Clyde” composed by Bobby McLeod, then no one can complain if you change the main title, and list “Brid Harper’s” as an alternative.

Basic transcription from the playing of Méabh O’Hare, Conor Byrne, Steve Cooney and Joe Csibi availabe here: https://www.facebook.com/540769124/posts/10158664658454125/ (second tune in the set Thompson’s Jig / The Rock on the Clyde / Father Fielding’s Favorite)