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| | |f_tune_annotation_title= https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Farmer's_Reel_(1) > |
| |f_artwork=Ward.jpg
| | |f_annotation='''FARMER'S REEL [1]'''. AKA - "The Farmer." AKA and see "[[Boys from Scart (The)]]," "[[Coquette (1)]]," "[[Delaware Hornpipe]]," "[[Ottawa Valley Reel (1) (The)]]." Canadian, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The second strain is cognate with the first three alternate titles, and both strains are cognate with "[[Ottawa Valley Reel (1) (The)]]." See note for "[[annotation:Ottawa Valley Reel (1) (The)|Ottawa Valley Reel]]" for more. |
| |f_tune_name=Pat Ward's Jig
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| |f_track_title=Pat Ward's Jig
| | |f_printed_sources=Corfield ('''Tunes from New Brunswick'''), 2024; p. 41. Messer ('''Way Down East'''), 1948; No. 14. Messer ('''Anthology of Favorite Fiddle Tunes'''), 1980; p. 55. |
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| |f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/oisinmcauley Oisín McAuley]
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| |f_notes= Pat Ward (1847-1928)
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| |f_caption=His first lesson in writhing music...was not unattended with difficulties. Having neither pen nor ink, he was told by his teacher, "a dark man," to burn a furze stick and write with its calcined end. This expedient served fairly well. From that day to his he says that whenever he takes a pen in his hand to write music his mind reverts to "The Flogging Reel", which was the first tune set down in the manner mentioned. | |
| |f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/oisinmcauley/ask-my-father-pat-wards-jig Soundcloud]
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| |f_article=[[Pat Ward's Jig| '''Pat Ward's Jig''']]
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| There is a brief biographical sketch and a photograph of Ward in Francis O'Neill's '''Irish Minstrels and Musicians''' (1913, pp. 317-319), giving his date of birth as 1847 in the Parish of Drumconrath, County Meath, remarking that he "had attained considerable command of the fiddle before commencing the practice of the Union pipes."
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| ''His first lesson in writhing music...was not unattended with difficulties. Having neither pen nor ink, he was told by''
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| ''his teacher, "a dark man," to burn a furze stick and write with its calcined end. This expedient served fairly well.''
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| ''From that day to his he says that whenever he takes a pen in his hand to write music his mind reverts to''
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| "[[Flogging Reel (The)]]", ''which was the first tune set down in the manner mentioned.'' <br> | |
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| ''In his repertory are many tunes seemingly peculiar to the County Louth. He had played at several Feis Ceoil and Oirachtas''
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| ''for the last ten years and has been awarded several prizes. At the Oireachtas in 1907 he won second prize, the first''
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| ''going to George McCarthy, and in 1911 he again captured second honors. Taking into consideration that Ward is not a''
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| ''professional piper, but a plowman since early manhood, his execution on the double changer is indeed remarkable.'' [p. 319].
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| </blockquote>
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| Seamus Ennis, in liner notes to his album "The Pure Drop," remarks:
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| ''As a child, I remember Pat Ward. He was a native of Drogheda, an old man with a crescent shaped beard. He played a double'' ''changer--two reeds, two bores and two stop holes for each finger, as compared to the usual single piece. I would compare his'' ''tone with that of a very mellow concertina, to the best of my recollection, for I was but a child when he was tragically killed'' ''by a motor-bus near his house. My father learned this tune from him and as he had no name for it we referred to it as above at'' ''all times. Notice that the accepted performing rhythm of the single jig is nearly identical with that of a hornpipe--a'' | |
| '' 'common' tune simulated by the four threes of 12/8.'' | |
| </blockquote>
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X: 1
T:Farmer's Reel [1], The
R:Reel
M:4/4
L:1/8
Z:Transcribed by Bruce Osborne
K:G
d>c|BGBd BGBd|gfge dBGB|ecdB cABG|E2A2 A2dc|
BGBd BGBd|gfge dBGB|ecdB cABG|D2G2 G2:|
|:g2|dgBg dgBg|dgba gfed|ea^ca ea^ca|e2ag fed^c|
dgBg dgBg|dgba gfed|faba gfef|g2g2 g2:|
|:B>c|dBgB dgBg|ecgc egce|dBgB dgBd|AGFE D2Bc|
dBgB dgBd|ecgc egce|dBGB cAFA|G2B2 G2:||
Additional notes
Printed sources : - Corfield (Tunes from New Brunswick), 2024; p. 41. Messer (Way Down East), 1948; No. 14. Messer (Anthology of Favorite Fiddle Tunes), 1980; p. 55.
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