Dance Music of Willie Clancy on eBay

PJ · Post by PJ » Thu Dec 07, 2006 10:43 am

I believe that the DMWC is out of print.

KevinCorkery · Post by **KevinCorkery** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 2:27 pm

Thank you PJ. I had looked into this book just after the East Coast tionol. One of the teachers recommended it.

patrick Jacob · Post by **patrick Jacob** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 2:33 pm

Buy it !

It's a good book

PJ · Post by PJ » Thu Dec 07, 2006 3:54 pm

It's certainly worth a bid. Clancy played some very different versions of certain well known tunes - Paidin O'Reaffertaigh and the Lark in the Morning, to name but two - which are reproduced in this book.

bradhurley · Post by **bradhurley** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 3:57 pm

I bought mine in 1977 (first edition, second printing) and it seems they changed the cover at least once based on copies I've seen around since then (including the one on eBay now)... Is there anything in the later editions that wasn't in the first one?

Here's the cover of mine:

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 4:01 pm

bradhurley wrote:
Here's the cover of mine:

That's the same issue as my book which I purchased in 1988 I think.

KevinCorkery · Post by **KevinCorkery** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 5:34 pm

I already bid on it, I have the username of fiddlerosin on e-bay. too bad there wasn't a "buy it now"

KevinCorkery · Post by **KevinCorkery** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 6:03 pm

Damn, I've already been outbid!

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 6:10 pm

So, bid again.

Steampacket · Post by **Steampacket** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 2:40 am

At http://www.alibris.com/search/search.cfm
you'll find four copies of the book for sale - prices are between 38 & 78 US & A dollars. The copy at 78 US & A dollars has hard covers.

http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/Searc ... 3&sortby=3

Abe's books also has 4 copies of the book for sale, prehaps the same four copies as Alibris? Prices netween 16 and 39 British pounds.

So there's no need to go mental and bid a colossal over the top amount for the e-bay book

tommykleen · Post by **tommykleen** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 9:02 am

I have the new book (it's black, black, black!) and it has a bit of new material in it (mostly in the forward I think). I use it so much that I am just going to have it spiral bound to make it easier to use. It has most of Willie's dance music in it, I believe, but not all. I have heard some recordings of tunes of Willie (le Bobby Casey) that are not in the book.

T

Cayden · Post by **Cayden** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 12:19 pm

TK wrote:It has most of Willie's dance music in it

Many recordings emerged after the book was published. That aside, you can safely assume Willie had at least ten times the number of tunes in the book.

Kevin L. Rietmann · Post by **Kevin L. Rietmann** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 12:33 pm

The newer edition has an additional forward from Pat Mitchell, and a discography. Some names have been provided for previously nameless tunes like the Boys of Ballisodare.
A few transcriptions of Willie's playing have appeared in An Piobarie over the years - Ace and Deuce of Pipering, for instance. Willie had great versions of tunes like the Four Courts of Dublin and hopefully some scribe will write these out some day.

Cayden · Post by **Cayden** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 12:55 pm

Kevin L. Rietmann wrote:. Some names have been provided for previously nameless tunes like the Boys of Ballisodare.

I always had nr 53 down as Boys of Ballisodare, a similar two part version appears in the Rowsome collection as Daniel Markey's though.

Kevin L. Rietmann · Post by **Kevin L. Rietmann** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 10:13 pm

Ah, going by memory here. Forgive me if I can't recall which tunes were nameless in an earlier edition of a book I haven't seen in 8 years!