My latest obsession is Dennis Ryan's...
I can't find much info on this tune. Does anyone know if it's traditional or modern? From where did it come & is it attributed to any composer, group, or region? I'm mad about it for some reason & curious as to why it seems so obscure. Here's a youtube version - but watch out you'll be hooked!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-qYK0Z6Ucs
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Dennis Ryan's slipjig - any background info appreciated
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Re: Dennis Ryan's slipjig - any background info appreciated
There's this:
http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/CO_COLL ... ND_THE_HEN
But it's in Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883). I first learned it as a Donegal setting "Doodly Doodly Dank" from fiddler Larry Sanger, in B minor (I think).
http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/CO_COLL ... ND_THE_HEN
Could be both.deisman wrote:Does anyone know if it's traditional or modern?
But it's in Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883). I first learned it as a Donegal setting "Doodly Doodly Dank" from fiddler Larry Sanger, in B minor (I think).Vivat diabolus in musica! MTGuru's (old) GG Clips / Blackbird Clips
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MTGuru beat me to it. I was about to post that Andrew Kuntz's Fiddler's Companion should be your first call for any similar question. He doesn't get nearly enough credit for his sterling work, IMO.
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Re: Dennis Ryan's slipjig - any background info appreciated
Question for those who play this in a set of slippery jigs. I've recently learned The Whinney Hills of Leitrim, and I've been following that with the F# minor version of Dennis Ryan's. Only fitting tune I could think of to follow is Hardiman the Fiddler. Any thoughts for a finisher?
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(By the way Dale, if you're reading... The new set-up is awesome, I like it anyway)
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Re: Dennis Ryan's slipjig - any background info appreciated
Good info - thanks folks! Doodly, Doodly, Dank we go....
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Re: Dennis Ryan's slipjig - any background info appreciated
Great tune. I love this forum as I am slowly learning the names of the tunes I know!!! I learned this tune from the box playing of Charlie Heymann and never got a name of it off him.
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Re: Dennis Ryan's slipjig - any background info appreciated
Great tune. I learned it a few years ago in Galway in F# minor, in the middle of a set between Slieve Russell (double jig) and Minor Slip (http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/988).
Lately, I tend to leave off Slieve Russell and I've started to tack on The Night Before Larry Was Stretched (http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/4712) only starting on a D (B-minor?). Makes for a nice progression, imho.
Lately, I tend to leave off Slieve Russell and I've started to tack on The Night Before Larry Was Stretched (http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/4712) only starting on a D (B-minor?). Makes for a nice progression, imho.