The Wee Rabbit hornpipe

Lovely hornpipe composed by Rosie Mulholland of Deanta. On Deanta’s CD “Ready for the Storm”. I first head this on the CD “Kennedy’s Kitchen” http://cdbaby.com/cd/kennedyskitchen
Here’s a mp3 clip http://cdbaby.com/mp3lofi/kennedyskitchen-01.m3u
They play it in the key of D which I like, although it requires going up to the 3rd position on the fiddle. Deanta plays it in the key of C.

Deanta plays this in the key of Bflat - even worse (for me).

Funny, I always reckones this one to be in jig time! Great tune, thanks from a rabbit fan.

that should have been ‘reckoned’ of course.

This is one of those tunes that straddles the line between jig and hornpipe. In Deanta’s version, at least, there’s a stronger 6-pulse than there is a four… if you were going to annotate their version in 4/4, as is done here, all of those dotted-eighth/sixteenths would really be triplets.

If you consider it a hornpipe, Deanta plays it as literally the slowest hornpipe I have in my music collection. (Or, at least, of the ones labeled ‘hornpipe’ in my iTunes library.)

Hornpipe/Jig?

Sounds like a slide to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xvDIwKi0uQ

play video

a setting from the “Ready for the Storm” album by Déanta

The setting doesn’t match the time signature.

Any information about the tune and or its source?

It’s the Wee Rabbit, composed by Rosie Mulholland, recorded by Déanta. It has already been posted here - https://thesession.org/tunes/4608 . None of those transcriptions does the job either. It’s too slow for a hornpipe feel, not really a jig either…. Slow slide?

Irishtune.info has it listed as a single jig:
https://www.irishtune.info/tune/6434/

However, it is mentioned that Josephine Keegan has included it in a tunebook as a hornpipe. A very slow and bouncy hornpipe, or a slide/single jig with parts twice as long?