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O'Neill - Irish Minstrels and Musicians, Volume 1, Issue 1, Page 67

O'Neill - Irish Minstrels and Musicians, Volume 1, Issue 1, Page 67
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Regan Printing House, Chicago, 1913
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O'Neill - Irish Minstrels and Musicians
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1
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Irish Minstrels and ivlusicians132Fagamaoid sud mar ata se. l iv 110 means a rare melody, two settings of itbeing in the Coin plete Petric Collection, Dr. Joyce, who includes a version of itin his Ancient Irish Music, says: Several songs, both English and Irish, aresung to this air which is well known all over the Munster counties. Many willremember that Darby OLeary, or The Galballv Farmer, was one of them.A comparison of the air which is in sixeight time, with the hornpipe incommon time, will show that they are identical in strain and differ only in arrange-ment. Plainly enough, the hornpipe was evolved from the old -air, as in manysimilar instances.Fainaojcl szd mar ata saLET US LEAVE THAT AS IT ISGai1y . .4. _ t -.; L;THE FIRST OF MAY (HORNPIPE)Rodneys GloryNot the least popular of tile Long dance tunes of a generation or so ago,was Rodneys Glory. In this form it is simply an adaptation from the song ofthat name composed in honor of Lord Rodney, the Enghsh admiral who won somesignal victories over the Spanish and French fleets in 1780 and 1782 respectively.The melody, no doubt much older, was also called My Name is Moll Mackeyand The Praises of Limerick. Following is the air of Rodneys Glory as sungby my father:RODNEy GLQff y : QNG)RODNEYS ( LOBY (LONG-DANCE),t JThe Development of Traditional Irish Music 133TIlE GARDEN OF DAISIESSimilarly this once popular Long dance tulle, of which there are severalversions, was evolved from a slow song air, which the present writer often heardin boyhood days. From the drift of one line rememberedMy hook began toglitter, and my flail it was in orderit would appear that the song was of thenarrative class, describing tile adventures of one of those who migrate annuallyto engage in harvest work in more fertile fields.YOUNG ROGEI WAS A Prouoi-mnoyThis old air taken from Dr. Joyces Ancient Irish ATnsic will serve to illustratehow readily a strain so simple may be converted into a typical Irish hornpipe.YOUNG ROGER WAS A PLOWBOY (AIR)ALA - -rROGER WAS A PLOWBOY (IIORNPIPE)No tunes have enjoyed greater popularity for many generations than the abovenamed. The Campbel!s are Coming, or An Scan dome. as it is called inIreland, was printed as early as 1750, aIld it is historically certain tilat MissMcLeods Reel was one of six tunes played by the Galwav pipers in 1779, for theentertainment of Beranger, the French traveler. Tile antiquity of both tunes istherefore beyond question, and ordinarily one would not suspect tileir closerelationship.Any discriminating musician who will examine their structure and comparetheir similarity of strain cannot escape the conviction that both tunes had acommon origin or that Miss McLeods Reel was derived from The Campbellsare Coming, or its Irish equivalent An Seanduinc.JIGS DERIVED FROM MARCHESIn stating that most if not all traditional Irish jig tunes were originallymarches or song airs, we Ilave tile authority of tile illustrious Dr. Petrie. Obvi-ously Jacksons compositions. published in ilis lifetime, are not of tllis class. Somehave come down to us but little altered from their most ancient settings; whilenot a few others have been so disguised in the process of evolution as to almostlose their identity.For instance, who would question tile antiquity of a jig so generally knownas The Rakes of Kihdare? Yet when Conlparedl with Get Up Early, anancient march melody which Bunting obtained in 1802 from R. Stanton at West-port. county of Mayo, it is plainly evident that tile march is tile parent tune.Very ancient author and date unknow l, is Buntings notation n the hatter.THE CAMPBELLS ARE CoMINo, and Miss MCLEUDS REEL
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1
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67
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O'Neill, Capt. Francis
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1913-01-01T00:00:00
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