{"id":3969,"date":"2018-12-06T16:21:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T21:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=3969"},"modified":"2018-12-06T16:24:16","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T21:24:16","slug":"tune-of-the-month-december-2018-the-curragh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=3969","title":{"rendered":"Tune of the Month December 2018: The Curragh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This jig, when played on accordion anyway, sounds like it comes right out of a Scottish country dance band repertoire. The last 3 notes of the first line need to be played an octave up from the original but I think it fits nicely. Paddy O&#8217;Brien was a famous accordion player and composer who died in 1991. A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paddyobrienbook.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">book of his compositions is for sale<\/a> which makes me hesitant to share the sheet music, though the dots can be had from thesession.org which is where I found them when researching a previous tune of the month: The Maid in the Cherry Tree which is also known as the Curragh Races; however, I don&#8217;t really have sympathy for composers&#8217; rights holders when they let their book fall out of print\/availability. Since the book seems to no longer be in print, until that&#8217;s rectified, I&#8217;ll post the sheet music here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/curragh.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Curragh<\/a>\u00a0&lt;- pdf of sheet music<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/curragh.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Curragh<\/a>\u00a0&lt;- mp3 on the highland bagpipe<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3969-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/curragh.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/curragh.mp3\">http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/curragh.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This jig, when played on accordion anyway, sounds like it comes right out of a Scottish country dance band repertoire. The last 3 notes of the first line need to be played an octave up from the original but I think it fits nicely. Paddy O&#8217;Brien was a famous accordion player and composer who died &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=3969\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tune of the Month December 2018: The Curragh<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tune-of-the-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3972,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969\/revisions\/3972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}