Annotation:My Name is Dick Kelly: Difference between revisions

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MY NAME IS DICK KELLY. Irish, Air (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The melody is a version, and presumed antecedent, of the what is known in America as the "Drunken Hiccups (1)" family of tunes, which includes "Rye Whiskey (1)," "Jack of Diamonds (3)," "Wagoner's Lad (The)," "Clinch Mountain," "Cuckoo (5) (The)," and others. In Scotland the melody goes by the titles "Johnnie Armstrong," "Robi Donadh Gorrach," "Toddlin' Hame/Todlin' Hame," "Bacach."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Murphy (Collection of Irish Airs and Jiggs...), Edinburgh, 1809; p. 38.

Recorded sources:

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-'''MY NAME IS DICK KELLY.''' Irish, Air (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The melody is a version, and presumed antecedent, of the what is known in America as the "Drunken Hiccups" family of tunes, which includes "[[Rye Whiskey (1)]]," "[[Jack of Diamonds (3)]]," "[[Wagoner's Lad (The)]]," "[[Clinch Mountain]]," "[[Cuckoo (5) (The)]]," and others. In Scotland the melody goes by the titles "[[Johnnie Armstrong]]," "[[Robi Donadh Gorrach]]," "[[Toddlin' Hame]]/[[Todlin' Hame]]," "[[Bacach]]."
+'''MY NAME IS DICK KELLY.''' Irish, Air (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The melody is a version, and presumed antecedent, of the what is known in America as the "[[Drunken Hiccups (1)]]" family of tunes, which includes "[[Rye Whiskey (1)]]," "[[Jack of Diamonds (3)]]," "[[Wagoner's Lad (The)]]," "[[Clinch Mountain]]," "[[Cuckoo (5) (The)]]," and others. In Scotland the melody goes by the titles "[[Johnnie Armstrong]]," "[[Robi Donadh Gorrach]]," "[[Toddlin' Hame]]/[[Todlin' Hame]]," "[[Bacach]]."
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