Conversation about music for dancing and types of dances / Patsy Judge & Bride Judge 54075 Judge, Patsy, speech in English, lilting ; Judge, Bride, speech in English O'Hara, Aidan [1975] Irish Traditional Music Archive Performer and Aidan O'Hara Newfoundland: Dance music [Patrick's Cove, Placentia Bay, Newfoundland, Canada] English 895-ITMA-REEL Aidan O'Hara Collection

Patsy Judge performs several examples of “cheek” or “gob” music (i.e., dance music performed with the voice only), simultaneously explaining where these tunes were most likely to appear within the set dance. 

The examples appear in the following order: “There was an old woman” (jig), “Tatter Jack Walsh” (jig), “All the way to Connickmore” (single), “Haste to the wedding” (jig), “The girl I left behind me” (single), “Girls in the salthouse” (single), “Mother wouldn’t beat him” (single), “Irishman’s shanty” (single), “Pop goes the weasel” (jig), “Green grow the rushes-o” (reel).

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