The Cook In The Kitchen jig

Another bread & butter tune, the F naturals in the first part give this tune a lift. A good jig to pair with tunes like “Petticoat Loose” or “High Part of the Road” This tune is also good to practice your Fnats on flute whistle if you don’t have them down yet.

I hope you have a keyed flute. 🙂

I’ve heard this one played with the first F in bars 2 and 6 played as an F# - probably arising from pipers, and flute players with keyless flutes being unable to half-hole quick enough to get in the Fnatural.

It goes nicely before Tatter Jack Walsh.

I like to play this tune followed by Seamus Cooleys and then Jim Wards jigs. I’m guilty of playing those F#’s after a year of hit or miss with the F naturals. Someday when I have a keyed flute, that will change : )
Joyce

Here’s a version I got from Ayelet Hacohen in Israel. She says that Amir, a guitar and mandoline player, transcribed it following a Dubliners interpretation.
I like this version (which is not a plain transposition of the standard one in G - and does not have any difficult flute/whistle fingerings!) and find that it sits nicely after “Dusty Windowsills” in Ador.


T: Cook In The Kitchen, The
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmaj
|:dAd ded|cAB =c3|dAd dcd|eaa ged|
dAd ded|cAB =c2a|ged cde|1 fdd d3:|2 fdd d2e||
|:f2f fed|e2e e3|Add dcd|eaa ged|
f2f fed|e2e e2a|ged cde|fdd d3:|
|:A2B c2d|e2d cBA|GED CDE|FDD GEE|
A2B c2d|e2d cBA|GED CDE|FDD D3:|

I just noticed that in O’Neill’s Music Of Ireland Tune 1042, the F’s are all sharps - no naturals at all. Anybody know anything abut when they came in? Or did he get it wrong?

Z: transcribed from version at Natalie MacMaster’s website
Z: http://www.nataliemacmaster.com/recordings/sheetmusic.htm

See: https://thesession.org/tunes/8246

I could be wrong… but is this not just a different version of this: https://thesession.org/tunes/808

Yes!!! 😏

Key signature: G Mixolydian
Submitted on February 9th 2008 by Horse Badorties.
~ /tunes/8246

X: 3
T: Northside Kitchen
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: G Mixolydian
|: E |\
DGG GAG | FDE {G}FDC | DGG ABc | dgg ^fdc |
{c}BAB G^FG | FDE F2 d | {d} cAG ^FGA | BGG G2 :|
|: A |\
{D}G2 g def | {d}cAF FGA | {D}G2 g def | ~edc de^f |
{a}g^fg BAB | ~A2 G FGA | {c}BAB {d}cA^F | GAG G2 :|

Variation: A-part, bars 3 & 4
~ | {c} BAB {e}cBc | def gdc | ~

Variation: B-part, bars 4 & 5
~ | efc de^f | ~a3 B2 G | ~

Here’s where I got this tune

Z: transcribed from version at Natalie MacMaster’s website
Z: http://www.nataliemacmaster.com/recordings/sheetmusic.htm

# Posted on February 9th 2008 by Horse Badorties

I’ve only just realized this is a direct rip-off from Natalie’s site, note for note, not a wise or considerate move…

This is not only a duplication, it’s a direct note-for-note rip-off from Natalie MacMaster’s website ~ definitely not considerate. Linking to another transcription in the ‘comments’ is OK, but to grab her transcription off of her site, right down to the ornaments and variations, is a bit tacky…

https://thesession.org/tunes/8246
https://thesession.org/tunes/8246/comments

~ because the second part is different the above entry remains…

It seems that the ‘rip-off’ of this chimera jig, which I recognize as a collision between two jigs, but haven’t managed to find the B-part yet, is an exact copy, including variations, of a transcription by Paul Cranford as given here ~

“Brenda Stubbert’s Collection of Fiddle Tunes”
Edited by Paul Stewart Cranford
Cranford Publications
ISBN: 0-9691181-4-7
http://www.cranfordpub.com/
http://www.cranfordpub.com/books/stubbert.htm

Page 41: “Norside Kitchen” ~ exactly as given here, including the variations… The name coined by Paul Cranford…

Note-for-note, ornament-for-ornament, including variations ~ this transcription was made by Paul Stewart Cranford for the following:

“Brenda Stubbert’s Collection of Fiddle Tunes”
Edited by Paul Stewart Cranford
Cranford Publications
ISBN: 0-9691181-4-7
http://www.cranfordpub.com/
http://www.cranfordpub.com/books/stubbert.htm

Page 41: “Norside Kitchen” ~ exactly as given here, including the variations… The name was coined by Paul. Here are the notes from that entry ~

This setting of an old Irish jig came from a long line (at least four generations of Northside Irish fiddlers) starting with Henry Fortune > Joe Confiant > Robert Stubbert > Brenda. Henry was gone long before my time and Old Joe was about 80 when I met him. Joe, Robert and Brenda all have slightly different variations (Joe varied almost all of his tunes with each repetition), so I included a couple of extra twists from those sources.

Although previously an untitled traditional jig, the first turn of ‘Northside Kitchen’ is closely related to another well-known Irish jig, ‘The Cook in the Kitchen’, so I came up with the above title. First appearing in ‘O’Neill’s Music of Ireland (1903), ‘The Cook in the Kitchen’ is a traditional 3-part jig which came from uillean piper James Early. ~ Paul Stewart Cranford

Chimera ~ I recognize both parts, the A-part from “The Cook in the Kitchen” and the B-part from another, but I haven’t yet been able to shake the name out for that other jig… Maybe slainte or someone else will remember. I guess, because it is two parts thrown together over time and renamed by Paul Cranford, this one remains, despite it all…

I’ve been playing this tune since I learnt it in the Fifties, and it was only yesterday that I discovered the F was usually played as a F Natural. Proves that you never stop learning this music.

X: 1
T: Cook In The Kitchen (“Klappenversion”)
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Gmaj
Z: Steffen Gabriel Workshop Langgöns 02/2011
G2|: E | DGG GAG | =FDE =F2E | DGG GFG | A2 d cAG |
DGG GAG | =FDE =F2 d | cAG FGA |BGF G2:|
|: A | ~B3 BAG | ~A3 AGF | ~G3 GFG | A dd cAG |
~B3 BAG | ~A3 A2 d | cAG FGA | BGF G2 :|
|: B | d2 e f2g | ^gag fed | cAG FGA | BGB AFA |
D2E F2 g | ^gag fed | cAG FGA |1 BGF G2 :|2 B_BA G2||

Piping jig.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8qmaqCypCk

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Tommy Reck plays it in Bb (so two tones lower)

Thanks “swisspiper” for a possible answer to something I’d been curious about :

https://thesession.org/recordings/4347

Perhaps there are too many Cooks in this Kitchen, but this is one way that I’ve been playing it.

Taken from ‘A Fine Selection of Over 200 Irish Traditional Tunes for Sessions’, compiled by David Speers with a Forward by Matt Cranitch. This setting doesn’t have the F naturals and seems to be the one from Sgt. Early in O’Neill’s Music of Ireland. One for you whistlers and fluters!

….. and I meant to add, this setting is also a test of session etiquette - the F naturals and sharps don’t exactly sit well together!!

Two-part Newfoundland variant, called “Cook In The Galley”. Also played down in Dmaj.

Harry Hibbs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaUz9_IRe8c

play video

Pickachune, first tune:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcEw_9K3EIg

play video

From the playing of Romano Di Nillo, Aaron Collis, Matt Grover, Angela Pickett, & Duane Andrews.

From the playing of Pickachune.

I play it at the end of a set that starts with “Jimmy Ward’s” goes into “ Blarney Pilgrim” and then “Cook in the Kitchen” . The F natural gave me fits on the whistle at first but it’s all good now.

If 14 settings are insufficient, play just the first two parts (from DMI say) up in D, without the C naturals and you more or less have “Cock of the Roost” from Crowley’s Collection of Music for the Highland or Irish Bagpipes Book 1(#28) , minus the piping decorations.

How I’ve played it for many years.

https://youtu.be/hzABCUrUdSg?t=9645

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