The Doon reel

The Doon reel goes well into The Congress Reel as a set.

Hey you guys, the Doon Reel on John William’s recording is different than the one on the CD I believe. (I don’t have my copy) Does anyone have the abcs of John’s version of the tune? I think its also called “Glenn Owen”.

We always play the Cameronian before this tune. Don’t know if that’s one of those standard combination of tunes or not, but it seems to work well for us regardless.

Link to the other one: https://thesession.org/tunes/5440

Ah, posting the link. Good idea. Thanks for picking me up on my “Comments” fumble. 😉

Shall I do it for you?

Yeah, it seems I can’t read. I had posted comments today on both the pages for the Cameronian and the Doon. When I saw you had linked to a tune, I didn’t read your header and for some reason forgot what tune’s comment page I was on. Long story short, I thought you were posting the link to the Cameronian, the tune I had mentioned. Oy it’s been a long day.

I get bored with this tune when played double. I prefer it as a single:

X: 1
T: The Doon
T: Leather Buttons
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: D
DFAF BFAF|DFAF E2FE|D2FA BAFA|1 (3Bcd ec dBAF:|2 (3Bcd ec d3A||
d2fd Adfd|Adfd BABc|d2fd Adfb|afea fddA|
d2fd Adfd|Adfd ~e3f|gfec dcBA|(3Bcd ec dBAF||

Submitted on September 10, 2003 by gian marco.
https://thesession.org/tunes/1964

Submitted on May 25th 2006 by ceolachan.
https://thesession.org/tunes/5796

I also think this tune has the structure of a single reel instead of a double, and that it works better that way…

Agree with all that’s been said about playing this tune single. It’s a bit like the Mountain Road (another great tune) which is totally ruined when played double.

It goes well before the Mountain Top also.

single reels like this one are a nice entrée en matière, a nice introductory tune, to a session; say, a laid back one on a sunny afternoon… (hwen thengs are lookin oop, not doon!)

In E, from about 6:00 in, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Piwn-AkkQCk

play video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ4kkGAkAEs

play video

Below is what I transcribed that I can play along on the flute with.

X: 1
T: The Doon
R: reel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Dmaj
DFAF BFAF | DFAF E2FE | DFAF BFAF |B/c/.d ec dBAF |
DFAF BFAF | DFAF E2FE | DFAF BFAF |1 B/c/d ec d2AF :|2 B/c/d ec d2Bc ||
d2fd Adfd | defd BABc | d2fd Adfa | afed B2AB |
d2fd Adfd | defd e2-ef | gfec dcBA |1 B/c/d ec dBAB :|2 B/c/d ec dBAF ||

Josephine Keegan includes a version of this tune as Reel #13 in her 2004 tunebook “A Drop in the Ocean”. However, as often for settings in her book, she gives it a new title — in this case The Cavan Reel.

A version was collected as ‘A Galway Reel’ from Stephen Ruane, piper, Galway, at the Feis Ceóil sometime between 1897 and 1913. It is number 30 in the Darley and McCall collection (from where I got this info.)

Transcribed from recording: Pádraig O’Keeffe and Denis Murphy — Lyons’ Bar, 1961, the second tune.

https://rushymountain.com/2019/11/16/padraig-okeeffe-and-denis-murphy-lyons-bar-1961/

Fairly different rhythm to the the others here but definite echoes!

This is another Sliabh Luachra setting based on Johnny O’Leary’s playing, recorded and transcribed by Pat Slattery in the mid 70s in Knocknagree. Pat was given an excellent name for it: “Mists of Sliabh Luachra”. However there is a similar reel with that name, and I’m not sure it is ever used for this Doon Reel.
Not surprisingly this version is similar to JamesA’s posting from POK’s playing, but developed to give 16 bars to each part. There’s another POK version from the ITMA collection, which again is close to X:5 -
https://www.itma.ie/digital-library/score/padraig_okeeffe_oconnell_ms_108 ITMA has titles Cronin’s Reel / O’Keeffe’s Favourite, but it is not clear if these were on the original manuscript.