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'''LIGHTLY TRIPPING.''' Irish, Set Dance (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. A 'square' set dance tune--eight measures in each part. | |f_annotation='''LIGHTLY TRIPPING.''' Irish, Set Dance (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. A 'square' set dance tune--eight measures in each part. | ||
|f_source_for_notated_version="Taken down from [[biography:Ned Goggin|Ned Goggin]], the professional fiddler of Glenosheen Co. Limerick, about 1848" [Joyce]. Irish collector and antiquarian Patrick Weston Joyce (1827-1914) collected a number of tunes and airs from Goggin in his home area of Limerick around the time of the Great Famine; he was one of Joyce's primary informants in the years 1844-50, and Joyce knew him from childhood. Joyce later in life wrote: | |||
<blockquote> | |||
''As a curious illustration of how some of these old Irish airs'' | |||
''were captured, I will instance the air called 'The Orangeman' '' | |||
''published in my '''Old Irish Folk Music and Songs''', p. 4.'' | |||
<blockquote> | ''There are still some old people to the fore who, like myself,'' | ||
''As a curious illustration of how some of these old Irish airs'' | ''can recall the great snow and wind storm of the 15th of February,'' | ||
''were captured, I will instance the air called 'The Orangeman' '' | ''1838. It began in the morning, and continued coming down in'' | ||
''published in my '''Old Irish Folk Music and Songs''', p. 4 | ''volumes without intermission all that day and night. About eleven'' | ||
''There are still some old people to the fore who, like myself,'' | ''o'clock that morning, Ned Goggin, on his way to his home up in'' | ||
''can recall the great snow and wind storm of the 15th of February,'' | ''the mountain gap, called at our hime for shelter till the snow'' | ||
''1838. It began in the morning, and continued coming down in'' | ''should cease. He sat by the kitchen fire till he was well thawed,'' | ||
''volumes without intermission all that day and night. About eleven'' | ''and then, to our great delight, he drew out his fiddle from its'' | ||
''o'clock that morning, Ned Goggin, on his way to his home up in'' | ''case, and began to play. Tune followed tune, till at last he'' | ||
''the mountain gap, called at our hime for shelter till the snow'' | ''struck up the 'Orangeman', at which we were delighted, for the'' | ||
''should cease. He sat by the kitchen fire till he was well thawed,'' | ''air is a beautiful minor one, and Ned played it well. I was then'' | ||
''and then, to our great delight, he drew out his fiddle from its'' | ''only eleven years old, and of course, could not write music; but'' | ||
''case, and began to play. Tune followed tune, till at last he'' | ''he played it over and over again till I learned it perfectly.'' | ||
''struck up the 'Orangeman', at which we were delighted, for the'' | ''Years passed by; I was in Dublin, and was diligently recalling'' | ||
''air is a beautiful minor one, and Ned played it well. I was then'' | ''all my tunes for Dr. Petrie, as I have said, but the 'Orangeman' '' | ||
''only eleven years old, and of course, could not write music; but'' | ''had not yet come forward, and it might have been forgotten and'' | ||
''he played it over and over again till I learned it perfectly.'' | ''lost, but for a dream. In the middle of one winter night, the'' | ||
''Years passed by; I was in Dublin, and was diligently recalling'' | ''great snow with Ned goggin and his music passed before me–tremnel,'' | ||
''all my tunes for Dr. Petrie, as I have said, but the 'Orangeman' '' | ''as the Irish song-writers would say–through my dream,'' | ||
''had not yet come forward, and it might have been forgotten and'' | ''and I woke up actually whistling the tune. Greatly delighted, I'' | ||
''lost, but for a dream. In the middle of one winter night, the'' | ''started up–a light, a pencil, and a bit of paper, and there was'' | ||
''great snow with Ned goggin and his music passed before | ''the first bar securely captured; the bird was, as it were, caught'' | ||
'' | ''and held by the tail.'' | ||
''and I woke up actually whistling the tune. Greatly delighted, I'' | |||
''started | |||
''the first bar securely captured; the bird was, as it were, caught'' | |||
''and held by the tail.'' | |||
</blockquote> | </blockquote> | ||
|f_printed_sources=Joyce ('''Old Irish Folk Music and Songs'''), 1909; No. 17, p. 11. Miller ('''Fiddler's Throne'''), 2004; No. 70, p. 52. | |||
|f_recorded_sources=Shanachie 79054, Kevin Carroll & Liz Carroll – "Fathers and Daughters" (1985). | |||
|f_see_also_listing= | |||
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LIGHTLY TRIPPING. Irish, Set Dance (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. A 'square' set dance tune--eight measures in each part.
