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|f_annotation='''TOM IS GONE TO THE FAIR. '''Irish, Hornpipe (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "From memory, as I heard it played in early days" (Joyce). | |f_annotation='''TOM IS GONE TO THE FAIR. '''Irish, Hornpipe (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Compare with the New Brunswick tune "[[Oscar's Hornpipe]]" AKA "[[Timber Tom]]." The tune is structurally similar and the first strains are somewhat distanced but cognate, while the second strains share less melodic correspondences but which are nevertheless similar in melodic contour. | ||
|f_printed_sources= Joyce ('''Old Irish Folk Music and Songs'''), 1909; No. 11, pp. 8‑9. | |f_source_for_notated_version="From memory, as I heard it played in early days" (Joyce). | ||
|f_printed_sources=Joyce ('''Old Irish Folk Music and Songs'''), 1909; No. 11, pp. 8‑9. | |||
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TOM IS GONE TO THE FAIR. Irish, Hornpipe (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Compare with the New Brunswick tune "Oscar's Hornpipe" AKA "Timber Tom." The tune is structurally similar and the first strains are somewhat distanced but cognate, while the second strains share less melodic correspondences but which are nevertheless similar in melodic contour.
