Origins: Devil's Delight

Subject: Devils delight..?
From:
Date: 05 Feb 97 - 07:01 AM

heard this crazy tune and cant get it outta my head. does anyone know who wrote it?or is it an anomynous? hmm,..i cant seem to find it anywhere,. i heard it at "the jordan-O'Connel celtic music memorial archive", but theres no listing of the composer.

hope to hear more on this, Neil

Subject: RE: Devils delight..?
From:
Date: 05 Feb 97 - 06:26 PM

I don't know of Devils Delight - but would you be thinking of "Devil's Dream" - this is an old fiddle tune which is very popular in the Bluegrass scene?

Tony Hurley

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Subject: RE: Devils delight..?
From: Bobby O'Brien
Date: 06 Feb 97 - 07:00 AM

It's called "Devil's Dream" and can be found on the album "Paddy Noonan's Irish Party" (Catalogue #R-20,000) on cassette or CD. Rego Irish Records. 516-328-7800.

Subject: RE: Devils delight..?
From:
Date: 06 Feb 97 - 04:51 PM

THANKS a bunch for the info!!! im now going to get the sheet for if(if they print it) thanks again ,.. i hope more people get a chance to hear this delightful tune~ Neil

Subject: RE: Devils delight..?
From: Kenneth
Date: 13 Feb 97 - 09:00 AM

FYI, Mark Hanson has a nifty arrangement of Devil's Dream -- in guitar tab and standard notation -- in his Fingerpicking Solo Style book.

Subject: RE: Devils delight..?
From:
Date: 19 Feb 97 - 07:52 PM

Re: Devil's Delight or Devil's Dream

If you dig fiddle tunes played on the guitar (a la Doc Watson Check out the Jan-Feb version of Flatpicking Guitar magazine. URL is www.flatpick.com

Subject: RE: Devils delight..?
From: GUEST,strad
Date: 14 Apr 08 - 05:03 PM

I'm also looking for either ABC or the dots for The Devil's Delight which is a Dan R Macdonald tune. I already know The Devil's Dream which is a different tune.

Subject: RE: Devils delight..?
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 14 Apr 08 - 05:46 PM

Devil's Dream seems a variant of Deil in the Kitchen, a Scottish tune. FWIW.

Subject: RE: Devils delight..?
From: GUEST,blagpipe
Date: 14 Apr 08 - 06:44 PM

Can be found in O'Neill's Music of Ireland, currently in print.

Subject: RE: Devils delight..?
From: GUEST,blagpipe
Date: 14 Apr 08 - 06:44 PM

devil's dream that is

Subject: RE: Devils delight..?
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Apr 08 - 06:59 PM

sorry I really screwed up..the tune is found in Ryan's Mammoth Collection, formerly known as Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes.

Subject: RE: Devils delight..?
From: Sorcha
Date: 14 Apr 08 - 07:01 PM

I found no evidence of a tune called Devils Delight. Sorry.

Subject: RE: Devils delight..?
From: GUEST,blagpipe
Date: 14 Apr 08 - 07:16 PM

Devil's Dream is listed as a reel in Ryan's Mammoth Collection. I've played it on guitar...it's there. Go to Elderly Instruments to peruse contents if you do not have the book.

Subject: RE: Devils delight..?
From: Melissa
Date: 14 Apr 08 - 07:22 PM

"Devil's Delight. It's a reel composed by Dan R. MacDonald in Cape Breton. E flat to A major to B flat..."

http://comhaltas.ie/music/detail/comhaltaslive_207_3_tara_breen/

Subject: RE: Devils delight..?
From: Melissa
Date: 14 Apr 08 - 07:24 PM

The Devil's Delight

Campbell, Ken. Campbell Family. Champion Fiddlers, Fretless 101, LP (1977), trk# B.10

Subject: RE: Devils delight..?
From: Sorcha
Date: 14 Apr 08 - 07:46 PM

OK, so can we find sheet music for the Delight one? I HAVE Devils Dream and Coles.

Subject: RE: Devils delight..?
From: Melissa
Date: 14 Apr 08 - 07:54 PM

I didn't see anything that looked like sheet music or TAB (which is what I think the re-opening poster wants?) but it did look like there's possibly a recording at the link in my first post.

If you find out whether Devil's Delight is a different song or a rearrangement of Devil's Dream, I hope you'll come back here and let us know?
I'm kind of curious now..

Subject: RE: Devils delight..?
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 15 Apr 08 - 06:26 PM

If it's a Dan R. MacDonald tune - and it seems to me Dan R. did compose a tune of that name - it's a completely and utterly different piece.

Subject: RE: Origins: Devils delight..?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 15 Apr 08 - 06:46 PM

The tune is published here:

http://www.cranfordpub.com/books/HeatherHill.htm

Paul Cranford is well worth supporting.

Subject: RE: Origins: Devils delight..?
From: GUEST,strad
Date: 16 Apr 08 - 11:07 AM

Still looking for the notes that make up the tune so I can learn it to play for pleasure along with Trip to Windsor, and Mrs Norman Mackeegan as a set. Just thought someone might have the ABC of it.

Subject: RE: Origins: Devils delight..?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 16 Apr 08 - 11:20 AM

I've checked out the Session & JC's for your title - not found.

Have you an alternative name for this tune?

Subject: RE: Origins: Devils delight..?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 16 Apr 08 - 11:22 AM

Buy the book. If Dan's heirs had wanted it given away for free, the ABC would be on Paul Cranford's site (along with many other tunes where the owner of the rights doesn't mind).

Paul is doing something valuable and is worth supporting. Financially.

Subject: RE: Origins: Devils delight..?
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Nov 09 - 10:58 PM

this tune can be found in the book "winston fitzgerald :a collection of fiddle tunes". it was originally called "the dismal reel".