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