The Trip to the Cottage
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Trip to the Cottage", in Gaelic "Turas go di'n iosdan", also known as "The Self",<br> or "Turas 'un Tí" is an Irish and English double jig in G Major (most versions) or<br> A Major (Carlin). The parts are played AABB (most versions), AABB' (Phillips) or<br> AABA (Trim).<br> The title appears in a list of tunes in his repertoire brought by Philip Goodman,<br> the last professional and traditional piper in Farney, Louth, to the Feis Ceoil in<br> Belfast in 1898 (Breathnach, 1997). One of the earliest recordings of the melody was<br> in 1909 when Cecil Sharp waxed it on a cylinder from the playing of John Locke (in<br> the key of ‘A’), whom he described as a "gipsy fiddler". <br> Early commercial recordings were by Brooklyn accordion player John "Dutch" Kimmel<br> (1929) and Dublin native uilleann- and war-piper William Andrews. Francis O'Neill<br> has a biographical sketch and a photograph of Andrews in his Irish Minstrels and<br> Musicians (1913). "Trip to the Cottage" is the name of a ceili dance, popular in<br> South Armagh (Keegan). <br> It was printed in Ashman's The Ironbridge Hornpipe (1991),<br> Bayard's Dance to the Fiddle (1981),<br> Carlin's Master Collection (1984),<br> Cole's1000 Fiddle Tunes (1940),<br> Harding’s Harding’s All Round Collection (1905),<br> Keegan's The Keegan Tunes (2002),<br> Kennedy's Fiddlers Tune Book, vol. 1 (1951),<br> Mallinson's 100 Enduring (1995),<br> McDermott's Allan's Irish Fiddler (c. 1920’s),<br> Moylan's Johnny O’Leary (1994),<br> O'Neill (Krassen) (1976),<br> O'Neill's Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems (1907),<br> O’Neill's O’Neill’s Irish Music (1915),<br> Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2 (1995),<br> Raven's English Country Dance Tunes (1984) (appears as "The Self"),<br> Roche's Collection of Traditional Irish Music, vol. 1 (1912),<br> Ryan’s Mammoth Collection (1883),<br> Trim's The Musical Legacy of Thomas Hardy (1990)(appears as "A Trip to My Cottage")<br> and Tubridy's Irish Traditional Music, Book Two (1999).<br> It was recorded by John H. “Dutch” Kimmel (1929),<br> William Andrews on Oldtime Records, vol. 3: Piping Rarities,<br> Joe Burke with Charlie Lennon on Traditional Music of Ireland (1973),<br> Kevin Burke and Jackie Daly on Eavesdropper (1979),<br> Charlie Lennon on Turning the Tune (2007).<br>
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