"The Fiddle Music of Donegal" 1 - tunes played slow and fast
Tunes learned from "The Fiddle Music of Donegal, Volume 1" published by Cairdeas na bhFidiléirí. From Martin McGinley: Con Cassidy’s Waltz - slow 1:42 medium 9:14 The Speaking Waltz - slow 4:35 medium 11:03 From Mick Brown: An t-Eas (aka The Waterfall; hornpipe) - slow 16:40 medium 22:57 McCahill’s (hornpipe) - slow 20:13 medium 24:47 Con Cassidy’s (highland) - slow 27:01 medium 29:46 fast 32:39 John Glackin’s (highland) - slow 28:05 medium 31:08 fast 34:04 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E86009GDlYE
More tunes from the Pauls, McGrattan and O’Shaughnessy. The first is from the latter’s mother and so might have a Donegal provenance. The second is a common tune but the lesser of two tunes called by this name. The third is a tune version of a very old song, if what I seem to have learned is correct. I learned the last from Bulmer and Sharpley’s Music of Ireland, but their source was unnamed Dubliners, and the setting is awfully similar to what the Pauls play, so...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTn6CVquZnM
The first two are reels from Josephine Keegan, titled "Ronnie Cooper" and "The Gates of Mullagh." I still don't know what the names of the jigs are (anyone? Brid??).
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vmt0AMTV_4
Uses a series of examples to introduce (for young children) the concepts of scientific explanation and cause and effect. Examples include giraffes, illness, gravity, and stalactites.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E06yO0kPtis
A great old reel from Donegal. Probably learned it from the playing of these gents: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlpIhMwQU-w and I think Paul O'Shaughnessy too.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07rgnu4yNdo
Tunes learned from Mickey Doherty's three-CD "Garvan Hill." Tunes learned from CD 3.
Clare's Dragoons (march/song) - med 0:03
National March - med 2:23
The Jaunting Car (single? jig) - slow 7:44 med 11:00 fast 11:43
Off She Goes (single? jig) - slow 9:20 med 11:54 fast 14:56
The Fermoy Lasses - slow 16:55 med 18:14 fast 19:30
The Wild Irishman - slow 22:04 med 23:02 fast 24:33 very fast with Mickey 26:45 (I might not be totally in tune with him...)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zHZcMlDWDY
Reels: Yellow Tinker/Lady Montgomery/The Merry Harriers
Single jig: Con Cassidy’s / Slip jig: Dusty Miller
Learned from Altan’s “The Red Crow”
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3igVPkRPRE
My little boy reading at age 2 and then later at ages 3 and 4. He reads the First Amendment at 2:47 (age 3 years, 10 months). For explanation, see my free book-length essay, "How and Why I Taught My Toddler to Read." Find it at larrysanger.org/reading.html together with free educational tools I developed. I am now working on this stuff thanks to support by the Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi.
UPDATE: for a video showing my #2 son is reading at age 3 1/2, go here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wmlOkiOo08
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIu8BGFqMm4