Annotation:Tap the Barrel

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TAP THE BARREL (Bearnaigh an bairille). AKA and see "Ferry Banks (The)," “Glorious Return to Milltown (The),” “Return to Milltown,” “Tommy Peoples Reel (6).” Irish, Reel (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Caoimhin Mac Aoidh believes County Kerry fiddler Julia Clifford learned the tune from her teacher, Padraig O’Keeffe, the renowned Sliabh Luachra fiddler and teacher. He believes O’Keeffe sourced the tune from Frank Roche's Collection of Traditional Irish Music vol. 1 (1912). See also the “Tap Room” family of tunes. A setting of the reel with some melodic differences, but still unmistakably cognate, is associated with Donegal fiddlers John Doherty and Tommy Peoples (see "Glorious Return to Milltown (The)/Return to Milltown"). Henrik Norbeck points out the similarity in structure between “Tap the Barrel" and the first two parts of “College Grove (The),” but, unlike "Return to Milltown", the relationship does not seem cognate^[1].

Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Kerry fiddler Julia Clifford, who had no name for it, but whose version was very close to the one printed in the Roche Collection [Breathnach].

Printed sources : - Breathnach (Coel Rince na hÉirreann vol. II), 1976; No. 266. Bulmer & Sharpley (Music from Ireland vol. 2), 1974; No. 30 (appears as untitled reel). Flaherty (Trip to Sligo), 1990; p. 36 (appears as unknown reel). Hardebeck (A Collection of Jigs and Reels vol. 1), Dublin, 1921; pp. 2-3. Kennedy (Traditional Dance Music of Britain and Ireland: Reels and Rants), 1997; No. 189, p. 44. Roche (Collection of Traditional Irish Music, vol. 1), 1912; No. 145, p. 58.

Recorded sources : - Topic 12TS311, John & Julia Clifford - "The Humours of Lisheen: Music from Sliabh Luachra vol. 3" (1977). MJM001, Matt Cranitch & Jackie Daly - "The Living Stream" (2010).

See also listing at :
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [1]

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↑ The is enough of a similarity in the first two parts of each to be noticeable, however; certainly structurally, and harmonically, save for the movement to the ii chord in the second measure of the first strain of "College Grove."

[1] The is enough of a similarity in the first two parts of each to be noticeable, however; certainly structurally, and harmonically, save for the movement to the ii chord in the second measure of the first strain of "College Grove."

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