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'''KING'S FANCY'''. AKA and see "[[Blue Angel]]." AKA - "[[Liam King's]]," "[[King's Favorite]]." Irish, Jig. B Flat Major ('A' part) & G Minor ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Miller & Perron/2006): AABB (McGuire & Keegan, O'Malley): AABB' (McNulty, Miller & Perron/1977). The composition is credited (by Josephine Keegan) to the Liam King, a piano player who lived in Belfast and Dublin. Randy Miller notes the 'B' part is similar to the Cape Breton played jig "[[Champion Jig (The)]]."   
'''KING'S FANCY'''. AKA and see "[[Blue Angel]]." AKA - "[[Liam King's]]," "[[King's Favorite]]." Irish, Jig. B Flat Major ('A' part) & G Minor ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Miller & Perron/2006): AABB (McGuire & Keegan, O'Malley): AABB' (McNulty, Miller & Perron/1977). The composition is credited to Liam King, a piano player who lived in Belfast and Dublin, who titled it "[[Blue Angel]]". Randy Miller notes the 'B' part is similar to the Cape Breton played jig "[[Champion Jig (The)]]."   
See also listings at:
See also listings at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources   
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources   

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KING'S FANCY. AKA and see "Blue Angel." AKA - "Liam King's," "King's Favorite." Irish, Jig. B Flat Major ('A' part) & G Minor ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Miller & Perron/2006): AABB (McGuire & Keegan, O'Malley): AABB' (McNulty, Miller & Perron/1977). The composition is credited to Liam King, a piano player who lived in Belfast and Dublin, who titled it "Blue Angel". Randy Miller notes the 'B' part is similar to the Cape Breton played jig "Champion Jig (The)." See also listings at: Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources Alan Ng's Irishtune.info

Source for notated version: from a tape by fiddler Seán Maguire, as "Liam King's" [Luke O'Malley].

Printed sources: McGuire & Keegan (Irish Tunes by the 100, vol. 1), 1975; No. 8, p. 2. McNulty (Dance Music of Ireland), 1965; p. 19. Miller & Perron (Irish Traditional Fiddle Music), 1977; vol. 2, No. 17 (appears as "King's Favorite"). Miller & Perron (Irish Traditional Fiddle Music), 2nd Edition, 2006; p. 25. O'Malley (Luke O'Malley's Collection of Irish Music, vol. 1), 1976; No. 82, p. 41.

Recorded sources: Avoca 139, Seán Maguire (with the Four Star Quartet {Seán Maguire, William Power, Seán Cotter, Eileen Lane})--"Music of Ireland."

See also listings at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [2]




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