View source for Annotation:Thompson's Reel (1)


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|f_annotation='''THOMPSON'S REEL [1]''' (Seisd/Cor Mic Tomais). AKA and see "[[Spirvin's Fancy]]." Irish, Reel. G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). O'Neill/1915): AA'B (O'Neill/1850 & 1001): AA'BB' (O'Neill/Krassen). "Thompson's Reel [1]" was first printed in George H. Coes '''Coes Album of Jigs and Reels''' (1876). O'Neill kept the title "Thompson's Reel" in his '''Music of Ireland''' (1903), bypassing the tune under the title "[[Spirvin's Fancy]]", as it appears in '''Ryan's Mammoth Collection''' (1883).  Paul de Grae finds "[[Zeek Backus Reel]]" in Boston music publisher Elias Howe's collections to be a very similar tune, as is "[[Thompson's Hornpipe]]." Some consider "Thompson's Reel [1]" a composite tune, with the first part being a version of  "[[Girl that Broke My Heart (1) (The)]]," and the second part a version of the 'B' part of "[[Paddy Lynn's Delight]]." 
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|f_printed_sources=George H. Coes ('''Coes Album of Jigs and Reels, something new, for professional and amateur violinists, leaders of orchestras, quadrille bands, and clog, reel and jig dancers; consisting of a Grand Collection of entirely New and Original Clog-Hornpipes, Reels, jigs, Scotch Reels, Irish Reels and Jigs, Waltzes, Walk-Arounds, etc.'''), 1876; p. 27. O'Neill ('''O'Neill's Irish Music'''), 1915; No. 240, p. 127. O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; p. 121. O'Neill ('''Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies'''), 1903; No. 1337, p. 250. O'Neill ('''Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems'''), 1907; No. 593, p. 108.
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