Katherine Brennan’s Favourite (hornpipe) on The Session

Also known as Katherine Brennan’s, Katherine Brennan’s Favourite, Katherine Brennen’s, Katherine Brennen’s Favourite, Katherine Brennan’s Favorite.

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X: 1
T: Katherine Brennan's Favourite
R: hornpipe

X: 2
T: Katherine Brennan's Favourite
R: hornpipe

X: 3
T: Katherine Brennan's Favourite
R: hornpipe

Sixteen comments

“Katherine Brennan’s Favorite Hornpipe” ~ yes, Yes, YES!!! I know…

“Swinging on a/the Gate” ~ the reel
Key signature: G Major ( & A & D & C & ~ )
Submitted on August 13th 2001 by Mad Baloney.
https://thesession.org/tunes/236

“Katherine Brennan’s Favorite Hornpipe” ~ sans the ‘>’, and slightly different

“Katherine Brennan’s Favorite Hornpipe”

Andy McGann recorded this on the album “Andy McGann and Paul Brady”, a Shanachie LP, #29009, and a transcription of this hornpipe was included in the booklet that came with the album. McGann says that he learned it from his fiddle teacher Katherine Brennan, and it was a ‘favorite’ of hers… Since at the time they hadn’t a name for it, it was christened appropriately “Kahterin Brennan’s Favorite”…

“Andy McGann And Paul Brady: It’s A Hard Road To Travel”

Submitted on September 13th 2001 by biggus dave.
https://thesession.org/recordings/41

This is the CD release, and all but one track remains. Track 3 has changed from the album:

3.) “The Gaelic League March” / “Katherine Brennen’s Favorite Hornpipe”

~ to this on the CD:

3.) “The Gold Ring” / “Carmen’s Amber”

“Andy McGann and Paul Brady”
Shanachie LP 29009, 1977

“Andy McGann and Paul Brady: It’s A Hard Road to Travel”
Shanachie CD 34011, 1995

Wow, didn’t realise there was a hornpipe version.

You know what though: I think it makes a better reel 😉

Nah, I don’t necessarily know that. I quite like this as a hornpipe, especially in the key of D 😎 ~ but I only know of it ever being recorded in G, as far as I know. Also, but I haven’t been able to verify it, supposedly “The Bridge Céilí Band” played this one, and also recorded it somewhere, but, as said, I haven’t confirmed that rumour…

Bah, and I thought you had taste in hornpipes with all your raving on about Willy Taylor’s Shining Pool 🙂

Stop p*ssin’ around, Willy’s Shining Pool? 😏

I think I’m tempted to load up the blunderbus of rhythm with schott and blow the schottische out of this one Dow… You’d better just step aside, there, just in front of the melody, I don’t want to be tempted to miss… Do you know any hornpipey type steps lad? Heh, heh, heh…, I mean, heh>hehheh>heh heh2 heh2… 😎

“Kath Brennan’s Schottische”

I can cope with that a bit better but you tripletted the living daylights out of it there, didn’t you? You’d better get the mess cleaned up before J gets back from school - she’ll be horrified. Did you do that on a concertina or what? Where’s all that diarrhoea squirting out from? The end of your whistle?

Too much black horse hair…

“Favorite” as opposed to “Favourite”

Dow wanted me to explain myself. The only recordings or transcripts for this I’ve ever seen were the other side of the Atlantic, where they have the old spelling before French influenced the English to start adding ‘u’ to everything, like color and colour, the latter what we tend to do over here. Since those were the only sources and recordings, and they all spelled it with just an ‘o’, I’ve given that as the title and added ‘ou’ as alternate titles…

Dow thinks Americans truncated the spellings… It is his research project, but anyone else who wants to try to convince him otherwise, I’ve tried but you know how he is with me ~ please go ahead and pester him with history… 😎

Latin ~ only ‘o’…

Re: Katherine Brennan’s Favorite

Hornpipe version of the reel Swinging on a Gate: https://thesession.org/tunes/236, all the same notes with a few extra triplets and dotted rhythm in some settings.

Katherine Brennan’s Favourite hornpipe