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Aggie Whyte's

reel

Key signature: Gmajor

Submitted on August 13th 2003 by Kenny.

This tune has been added to 49 tunebooks.

Also known as Aggie Whyte's Chattering Magpies.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

Happy To Meet And Sorry To Part by Joe Burke, Michael Cooney And Terry Coleman
Irish Traditional Music by Kevin Taylor
My Love Is In America by Various Artists
Reed Only by Tim Collins/Brian McNamara
The Dangerous Reel by Mike And Mary Rafferty
The Humours Of Derrybeha by Pat O'Connor

Details ABC Sheetmusic Comments

X: 1
T: Aggie Whyte's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
|: BGAF DG G2 | ABcA defg | afge f2 fe | dfed cAdc |
BGAF DG G2 | ABcA defg | afge f2 fe |1 dcAF G3 A :|2 dcAF G3 B ||
|: defg a2 fa | gfde dcAc | defg ad d2 | adfa gagf |
defg abag | fgec dcAG | FDFG Adfe |1 dcAF G3 A :|2 dcAF G4 ||

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Aggie Whyte

Aggie Whyte was a fiddle-player, I think from Co. Galway. She was a member of the Tulla Ceili Band, and also (I think) , the Balinakill Ceili Band. I first heard this reel played by Frankie Kennedy and others at a Willie Week sessions some years back. Frankie used to play it with the fs natural in the 7th bar of the second part - a nice touch, but no-one else seems to play it that way.
This setting comes from Brendan McGlinchey, who taught it to a fiddle class in Dundee for the local Comhaltas branch about 4 years ago. I was teaching the whistle class and overheard the fiddlers playing it, so was able to get the name of the tune from Brendan, who also gave me a copy of the dots.

# Posted on August 14th 2003 by Kenny

Aggie Whyte's

Apparently this is a Paddy Kelly composition.

# Posted on April 21st 2004 by Dow

I've heard this tune pop up in sessions lately, including this weekend. Right now I'm learning it off of the Mulcahy Family CD. Louise plays a lovely flute setting she learned from Eamonn Cotter. He calls it Father Kelly's. According to the album notes it was composed by Father Kelly of Galway. She plays Belles of Tipperary after it which makes a lovely set.

Joyce

# Posted on November 2nd 2004 by JMH

Composer ?

Finbarr Dwyer recorded this, and called it "Father Kelly's" - seems to be some confusion about the Kellys, and I've no idea who is right.

# Posted on February 10th 2007 by Kenny

Hear Aggie White play Aggie Whyte's Chattering Magpies.

You can hear Aggie White (or Whyte) play this tune and Whelan's jig in a recording made in 1946 by Seamus Ennis and Caoimhín Ó Danachair for the Irish Folklore Commission.

http://www.ucd.ie/folklore/english_html/folkmusic.htm

I think her playing is just fantastic, a wild, lonely sound. I would love to hear more of it, solo like this. I wonder if there are more recordings of her in the Irish National Folklore Collection. I will ask them.

# Posted on April 20th 2007 by Bernie 29

But this tune isn't Aggie Whyte's Chattering Magpies.

At least it's not the same as the one I linked to.

# Posted on April 20th 2007 by Bernie 29

http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1045

The above is "Chattering Magpies". I never said that the tune I posted as "Aggie Whyte's" was "Chattering Magpies". Someone else added the name, but 'twasn't me.

# Posted on April 20th 2007 by Kenny

Thanks Kenny

Yes, that one (aka the Gun in the Thatch) is what is on the Folklore website.

# Posted on April 20th 2007 by Bernie 29