The Humours of Ballyconnell
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Humours of Ballyconnell", in Gaelic "Sugra Baile-Ata-Conaill" or<br> "Pléaráca Bhaile uí Chonaill", also known as "Humors of Ballyconnelly",<br> "Aldridge's Rant", "Captain Rock", "A Highland Reel", "McNeil's Maggot",<br> "Now is the Time Reel" and "O'Neill's Maggot" is an Irish reel in 4/4 time and<br> D Major. The parts are played ABC (Mulvihill), ABB'CC' (Moylan, Prior),<br> AABBCC (Boys of the Lough, Brody, Goodman, Kerr, Mallinson), AA'BB'CC'<br> (Harker/Rafferty).<br> The tune, titled "Humours of Bally Connell", first appears in the large mid-19th<br> century music manuscript collection of County Cork cleric and uilleann piper<br> Canon James Goodman. The tune is popularly known nowadays under the "Ballyconnell"<br> title, which was only a local Fermanagh name for the tune more commonly known as<br> "Captain Rock's" according to the Boys of the Lough.<br> The tune was first recorded on a Columbia 78 RPM (No. 33068) in New York in 1925<br> by renowned County Sligo fiddler Michael Coleman in a duet with flute player<br> Tom Morrison.<br> It was printed in Brody's Fiddler's Fakebook (1983),<br> Bulmer & Sharpley's Music from Ireland, vol. 1 (1974),<br> Harker's 300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty (2005),<br> Kerr's Merry Melodies, vol. 4 (c. 1880's),<br> Mallinson's 100 Essential (1995),<br> Moylan's Johnny O'Leary of Sliabh Luachra (1994),<br> Mulvihill's 1st Collection (1986),<br> Prior's Foinn Seisiún 2 (2003) and<br> Treoir, vol. 37, No. 3 (2005).<br> It was recorded by Michael Coleman & Tom Morrison (1925),<br> Tulla Ceili Band on Dance Tunes (1990),<br> Paddy Keenan on Paddy Keenan (1975),<br> Craob Rua on The More That's Said the Less the Better (1992),<br> Boys of the Lough on Piper's Broken Finger (1976) and<br> Arcady on Many Happy Returns (1995).<br>
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