The Battering Ram
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Battering Ram", in Gaelic "An Reithe Toghla" is also known as "Mary O'Hara" is an Irish<br> double jig in 6/8 time and D Mixolydian. The parts are played ABC (Flaherty),<br> AABBCC (most versions) or ABCD (Miller).<br> 'Battering', in the context of Irish music and dance, signifyies the production<br> of rhythm to the beat of the music. John Kerr explains:<br> "Battering", in relation to dancing of Irish country sets (e.g. Caledonian, Lancers, etc.),<br> is the pounding out of rhythm with the feet that is done by the dancers as they execute the<br> figures of the set. Traditionally, battering was typically done by the male dancers and often<br> in the old house dancing days a flagstone was specially placed with no earth underneath it in<br> front of the fireplace so as to better pick up the rhythms pounded out by the dancer at the<br> top of the set.<br> It was printed in Brody's Fiddler's Fakebook (1983),<br> Bulmer & Sharpley's Music from Ireland, vol. 1 (1974),<br> Flaherty's Trip to Sligo (1990),<br> Harker's 300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty (2005),<br> Mallinson's Essential (1995),<br> Miller & Perron's Irish Traditional Fiddle Music (1977) and<br> Irish Traditional Fiddle Music, 2nd Edition (2006),<br> Mulvihill's 1st Collection (1986),<br> O'Malley's Luke O'Malley's Collection of Irish Music (1976),<br> Brian Prior's Foinn Seisiún 2 (2001),<br> Russell's The Piper's Chair (1989),<br> Sullivan's Session Tunes, vol. 2 and<br> Tubridy's Irish Traditional Music, vol. 1 (1999).<br> It was recorded by How To Change a Flat Tire on A Point of Departure (1977),<br> Chieftains on Chieftains #1 (1964) and<br> Jimmy Power, Lucy Farr & Andy O'Boyle on Paddy in the Smoke: Irish Dance Music from a London Pub<br> (1968).<br>
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