Sandy MacIntyre’s Trip To Boston reel

Hi everyone, I was kind of experimenting with putting this tune on here, if anyone who knows this tune already see’s any problems, I defintily wouldn’t mind hearing about it.
Bye,
Fairfeather

You did fine. The only typo is the F that should be lowercase f in the second to last bar of the first half. That’s easy to do (I’m guilty of it all the time).

Otherwise, here’s a convention I rely on to help organize the lead in or pick up notes of a tune.

You can show pick up notes and keep the ending bars intact (all four beats wholly represented) by watching where you put the repeat symbols. To show the pick up notes before the “official” start of the tune, try this:

AF|:E2 CEA,E….

Note that the colon ( : ) tells the tune to repeat _without_ the two pick up notes (AF).

At the other end of each half, you’ll need to account for this. Ending number one (to repeat the first half of the tune) would look like this:

|1 dfec A2 AF:|

and ending number 2 (to continue into the second half of the tune, with different lead in notes) would look like this:

|2 dfec A2 Af|

Note that the repeat symbol (colon) ends the first ending, but not the second. Your second half of the tune then starts with the repeat symbol inside the bar line:

|:eA (3cBA ecBc|….

Hope you don’t need a decoder ring to make sense of all this.

Great tune by the way, written by John Campbell.

Will

Sandy MacIntyre ~

http://www.northernjourney.com/
http://www.northernjourney.com/cdnfolk/
http://www.northernjourney.com/cdnfolk/artistwww.html
http://www.northernjourney.com/cdnfolk/book/artist/macintyre.sandy.html

“The son of two well-regarded Cape Breton fiddlers, Ronald and Cassie MacIntyre, Sandy MacIntyre inherited a great love of Cape Breton fiddling and has spent the past forty years performing this music as well as teaching fiddle and step-dancing in the city of Toronto. MacIntyre is a regular performer at Down East venues in Toronto such as The Bow & Arrow, The Stonecutters, Quigleys, and The Rose and Thorn. A congenial, gifted teacher, as well as performer, MacIntyre has devoted much of his career to nurturing and passing on the Cape Breton style.”

https://thesession.org/recordings/1606

http://www.gaeliccollege.edu/faculty.html

“Sandy MacIntyre formerly of Inverness NS now living in Toronto, has been the director of the Gaelic College in Cape Breton for the past 15 yrs. Specializing in traditional style of Cape Breton fiddling. He has performed internationally, teaches, conducts workshops in Canada, US and Scotland. Sandy has several recordings to his credit including his most recent “ Steeped In Tradition”.”


John Campbell ~

http://www.massculturalcouncil.org/services/pressroom/folkarts.html

“John Campbell is a fifth-generation Cape Breton Islander who came to the Boston-area in the 1960s and has remained a mainstay in the Canadian-American community. His career began in the dance halls with his father, a respected fiddler. Campbell is a repository of a great tradition of music, a noteworthy composer, and a powerful player. He is considered one of the few remaining practitioners of the Cape Breton style in the Boston scene today.”

“John Campbell: Cape Breton Violin Music”
Rounder 7003 ~ due out early 2006
http://www.rounder.com/series/nat/nat_new.html
http://www.rounder.com/series/nat/series.html

“A reissue of John’s influential first album supplemented by selections from John’s other long out of print LPs.”
- including his recording of this his tune:
“Sandy MacIntyre’s Trip to Boston”

“Timeless: John Campbell”
http://members.aol.com/deceilidh/campbell.html

Real Audio clips of John Campbell’s fiddling ~
http://www.tullochgorm.com/music/

Other sources for transcriptions of this tune, the transcription given above though not crediting it’s source is obviously from the first book, being identical but for one beat in the final bar of the first part ~
| dfec A/A/A A :|

“The Cape Breton Fiddler”
by Allister MacGillivray
College of Cape Breton Press, 1981
ISBN: 0-920336-12-4
page 91

“The Portland Collection”
Compiled by Susan Songer & Clyde Curley
ISBN: 0-9657476-0-3
page 174 & notes on page 273
http://www.theportlandcollection.com/

K: A Major
|: F |
(3EEE CE A,E (3CDE | Acef ec A2 | f3 a ec (3ABc | dB (3cBA BF (3FGA |
(3EFE CE A,ECE | Acef ecAe | f2 af ecBc | dfec (3AAA A ||
|: f |
eA c2 ecBc | ABce f2 af | eA c2 ecBc | dfec B3 f |
eAcA ec (3BBB | ABce f3 g | ag f2 fg (3agf | ecBc A3 :|

X: 2
T: Sandy MacIntyre’sTrip To Boston
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: AMaj
|: F |\
E/E/E CE A,E C/D/E | Acef ec A2 | f3 a ec A/B/c | dB c/B/A BF F/G/A |
E/F/E CE A,ECE | Acef ecAe | f2 af ecBc | dfec A/A/A A ||
|: f |\
eA c2 ecBc | ABce f2 af | eA c2 ecBc | dfec B3 f |
eAcA ec B/B/B | ABce f3 g | ag f2 fg a/g/f | ecBc A3 :|

Submitted on July 15th 2012 by iliketurtles.
~ /tunes/12065

X: 3
T: Sandy MacIntyre’s Trip To Boston
N: Submitted without the ‘a’ in Mac as “Sandy McIntyre’s Trip To Boston”
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: AMaj
|: AF |\
E2 CE A,ECE | Acef ecce | f2 af ecAc | dBcA BAFD |
E2 CE A,ECE | Acef ecce | f2 af ecAc | dfec A2 :|
|: Af |\
eA (3cBA ecBc | ABce f2 fa | eA (3AAA ecBc | efec B2 Bf |
eA (3cBA ecBc | ABce f2 fg | agfe fgaf | ecdB A2 :|

Nice reel learned from Ronan Martin’s CD

# Posted on July 15th 2012 by iliketurtles

Does anyone know if this tune is registered re: ‘mechanical licensing’? I can’t find it on SOCAN or ASCAP.

Or Harry Fox.

Sandy MacIntyre was my grandfather, thank you to anybody still playing this tune ❤️🎻