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 Theme code Index    51H65 3H5H3H1H
 Also known as    
 Composer/Core Source    
 Region    Ireland
 Genre/Style    Irish
 Meter/Rhythm    Reel (single/double)
 Key/Tonic of    C
 Accidental    NONE
 Mode    Ionian (Major)
 Time signature    4/4
 History    
 Structure    AABB'
 Editor/Compiler    Biography:David Taylor & Karen Tweed
 Book/Manuscript title    Book:Traditional Irish Music: Karen Tweed's Irish Choice
 Tune and/or Page number    p. 24
 Year of publication/Date of MS    1994
 Artist    
 Title of recording    
 Record label/Catalogue nr.    
 Year recorded    
 Media    
 Score   ()   


BRID HARPER'S. Irish, Reel. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. Fiddler Brid Harper Rafferty, originally from Castlefin, Donegal, now lives in Tyrone. In an interesting journey, the tune was learned by Harper in the 1980's in a session in Ottawa from the playing of Denis Lanctot, originally from Quebec. As a result it has been ascribed French-Canadian origins. It is a Canadian tune, albeit composed by western Canadian fiddler Grant Lamb, who plays in a Canadian "old-tyme" style. There is a hornpipe version of the tune ("Dermot Byrne's") also travelling in Irish trad. circles.

Source for notated version: fiddler Brid Harper (Donegal) [Taylor/Tweed].

Printed source: Taylor (Traditional Irish Music: Karen Tweed's Irish Choice), 1994; p. 24.


X: 1
T: Brid Harper's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: C
EF|:Gc c/c/c AcGc|ecgc egce|fedc BGAB|cdea g2 EF|
|GcBc AcGc|ecgc (3efg ce|fedc BGAB|1 dcBd cAEF:|2 dcBd cAGE :|
|:CDEC A,CG,A,|CEGc AGEG|cAGE AFDC|B,CDE ~F3D|
|CDEC A,CG,A,|CEGc AGEG|cAGE AFDC|1 B,CDB, C2 G,A,B, :|2 B,CDB, CDEF ||


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