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|f_annotation='''ALL AROUND THE ROOM.''' AKA and see "[[Lady Douglas's Reel]]." Irish, Reel (4/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears in publisher James Alexander's '''Alexander's 50 New Scotch & Irish Reels & Hornpipes''' (c. 1826) as "[[Lady Douglas's Reel]]" attributed to the mysterious "W.J." who is credited with a half-dozen tunes in publisher James Alexander's '''Alexander's 50 New Scotch & Irish Reels & Hornpipes''' (c. 1826). The volume was edited by a "professional musician," who is presumably "W.J." himself. County Leitrim musician [[biography:Stephen Grier]] (c. 1824-1894) entered the tune into his 1883 music manuscript collection (Book 1, No. 23). Grier was a fiddler and uilleann piper originally from north Longford, but who moved around 1852 to Newpark, Bohey, Gortletteragh, south Leitrim. | |f_annotation='''ALL AROUND THE ROOM.''' AKA and see "[[Lady Douglas's Reel]]," "[[Light Horseman's Reel (The)]]," "[[Shropshire Reel]]." Irish, Reel (4/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears in publisher James Alexander's '''Alexander's 50 New Scotch & Irish Reels & Hornpipes''' (c. 1826) as "[[Lady Douglas's Reel]]" attributed to the mysterious "W.J." who is credited with a half-dozen tunes in publisher James Alexander's '''Alexander's 50 New Scotch & Irish Reels & Hornpipes''' (c. 1826). The volume was edited by a "professional musician," who is presumably "W.J." himself. County Leitrim musician [[biography:Stephen Grier|Stephen Grier]] (c. 1824-1894) entered the tune into his 1883 music manuscript collection (Book 1, No. 23). Grier was a fiddler and uilleann piper originally from north Longford, but who moved around 1852 to Newpark, Bohey, Gortletteragh, south Leitrim. | ||
|f_source_for_notated_version=fiddler and uilleann piper Stephen Grier (Farnaght, Co. Leitrim), who wrote his manuscripts in the 1880's [Breathnach]. Breathnach states that Grier has another setting in the key of D with the note "All Around the Room, Reel for Pipes." | |f_source_for_notated_version=fiddler and uilleann piper Stephen Grier (Farnaght, Co. Leitrim), who wrote his manuscripts in the 1880's [Breathnach]. Breathnach states that Grier has another setting in the key of D with the note "All Around the Room, Reel for Pipes." | ||
|f_printed_sources=Breathnach ('''Ceol Rince na hEirreann vol. 4'''), 1996; No. 106. | |f_printed_sources=Breathnach ('''Ceol Rince na hEirreann vol. 4'''), 1996; No. 106. | ||
Revision as of 22:43, 2 May 2024
ALL AROUND THE ROOM. AKA and see "Lady Douglas's Reel," "Light Horseman's Reel (The)," "Shropshire Reel." Irish, Reel (4/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears in publisher James Alexander's Alexander's 50 New Scotch & Irish Reels & Hornpipes (c. 1826) as "Lady Douglas's Reel" attributed to the mysterious "W.J." who is credited with a half-dozen tunes in publisher James Alexander's Alexander's 50 New Scotch & Irish Reels & Hornpipes (c. 1826). The volume was edited by a "professional musician," who is presumably "W.J." himself. County Leitrim musician Stephen Grier (c. 1824-1894) entered the tune into his 1883 music manuscript collection (Book 1, No. 23). Grier was a fiddler and uilleann piper originally from north Longford, but who moved around 1852 to Newpark, Bohey, Gortletteragh, south Leitrim.
