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Origins: Devil's Delight

05 Feb 97 - 07:01 AM (#1921)
Subject: Devils delight..?
From: neil

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


05 Feb 97 - 06:26 PM (#1946)
Subject: RE: Devils delight..?
From: jamas@gil.com.au

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


06 Feb 97 - 04:40 AM (#1966)
Subject: RE: Devils delight..?
From: neil
hmm.. not sure,.. maybe u could hear it for yourself if you know the tune and let me know? :) thanks for the reply though.. i heard it at "the jordan-O'Connel celtic music archive"


06 Feb 97 - 07:00 AM (#1973)
Subject: RE: Devils delight..?
From: Bobby O'Brien

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.


06 Feb 97 - 04:51 PM (#1986)
Subject: RE: Devils delight..?
From:

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


13 Feb 97 - 09:00 AM (#2187)
Subject: RE: Devils delight..?
From: Kenneth

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


19 Feb 97 - 07:52 PM (#2403)
Subject: RE: Devils delight..?
From: Les Blank blank@wt.net

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


14 Apr 08 - 05:03 PM (#2315554)
Subject: RE: Devils delight..?
From: GUEST,strad

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.


14 Apr 08 - 05:46 PM (#2315593)
Subject: RE: Devils delight..?
From: GUEST,meself

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


14 Apr 08 - 06:44 PM (#2315644)
Subject: RE: Devils delight..?
From: GUEST,blagpipe

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


14 Apr 08 - 06:44 PM (#2315645)
Subject: RE: Devils delight..?
From: GUEST,blagpipe

devil's dream that is


14 Apr 08 - 06:59 PM (#2315662)
Subject: RE: Devils delight..?
From: GUEST

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


14 Apr 08 - 07:01 PM (#2315663)
Subject: RE: Devils delight..?
From: Sorcha

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


14 Apr 08 - 07:16 PM (#2315679)
Subject: RE: Devils delight..?
From: GUEST,blagpipe

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.


14 Apr 08 - 07:22 PM (#2315687)
Subject: RE: Devils delight..?
From: Melissa

"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/


14 Apr 08 - 07:24 PM (#2315693)
Subject: RE: Devils delight..?
From: Melissa

The Devil's Delight

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


14 Apr 08 - 07:46 PM (#2315710)
Subject: RE: Devils delight..?
From: Sorcha

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


14 Apr 08 - 07:54 PM (#2315714)
Subject: RE: Devils delight..?
From: Melissa

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..


15 Apr 08 - 06:26 PM (#2316732)
Subject: RE: Devils delight..?
From: GUEST,meself

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.


15 Apr 08 - 06:46 PM (#2316753)
Subject: RE: Origins: Devils delight..?
From: Jack Campin

The tune is published here:

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

Paul Cranford is well worth supporting.


16 Apr 08 - 11:07 AM (#2317306)
Subject: RE: Origins: Devils delight..?
From: GUEST,strad

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.


16 Apr 08 - 11:20 AM (#2317312)
Subject: RE: Origins: Devils delight..?
From: Mr Happy

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

Have you an alternative name for this tune?


16 Apr 08 - 11:22 AM (#2317315)
Subject: RE: Origins: Devils delight..?
From: Jack Campin

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.


16 Nov 09 - 10:58 PM (#2767515)
Subject: RE: Origins: Devils delight..?
From: GUEST

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