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|f_annotation='''SPORTING PITCHFORK, THE. '''Irish, Double Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was famously paired with “The Rambling Pitchfork” on the 1978 Paddy Glackin/Paddy Keenan album (''Doublin’''), the medley being known as ‘The Pitchforks’. ‘Pitchfork’ in the title refers to an itinerant farm laborer, called after his tool of trade in the same way that a gunman on a payroll in the American west was referred to as a ‘hired gun’. | |f_annotation='''SPORTING PITCHFORK, THE. '''Irish, Double Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Opinions vary on whether this jig should be categorized as in the key of D Mixolydian (as in the beginning of the tune) or G Major (as at the cadence). However, practically, accompanists seem to have an easier time with the ambiguous signature when instructed that it is a 'G' tune that begins on the fifth ('D' chord). The tune was famously paired with “The Rambling Pitchfork” on the 1978 Paddy Glackin/Paddy Keenan album (''Doublin’''), the medley being known as ‘The Pitchforks’. ‘Pitchfork’ in the title refers to an itinerant farm laborer, called after his tool of trade in the same way that a gunman on a payroll in the American west was referred to as a ‘hired gun’. | ||
|f_printed_sources=<span>Bulmer & Sharpley (</span>'''Music from Ireland'''<span>''' vol. 3'''), 1976; 56. Cranitch (</span>'''Irish Fiddle Book'''<span>), 1996; No. 18, p. 131. Cranitch (</span>'''Irish Session Tunes: Red Book'''<span>), 2000; 18.</span> | |f_printed_sources=<span>Bulmer & Sharpley (</span>'''Music from Ireland'''<span>''' vol. 3'''), 1976; 56. Cranitch (</span>'''Irish Fiddle Book'''<span>), 1996; No. 18, p. 131. Cranitch (</span>'''Irish Session Tunes: Red Book'''<span>), 2000; 18.</span> | ||
|f_recorded_sources=<span><span>ACM Records ACM CD 102, Mick O'Brien agus Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh - "Kitty Lie Over" (2003). <span>RBPOL RBPOL3,</span>Ronan Browne and Peter O'Loughlin, "The Legacy" (2015).</span>Tara 2007, Paddy Glackin and Paddy Keenan – “Doublin’” (1978).</span> | |f_recorded_sources=<span><span>ACM Records ACM CD 102, Mick O'Brien agus Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh - "Kitty Lie Over" (2003). <span>RBPOL RBPOL3,</span>Ronan Browne and Peter O'Loughlin, "The Legacy" (2015).</span>Tara 2007, Paddy Glackin and Paddy Keenan – “Doublin’” (1978).</span> | ||
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SPORTING PITCHFORK, THE. Irish, Double Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Opinions vary on whether this jig should be categorized as in the key of D Mixolydian (as in the beginning of the tune) or G Major (as at the cadence). However, practically, accompanists seem to have an easier time with the ambiguous signature when instructed that it is a 'G' tune that begins on the fifth ('D' chord). The tune was famously paired with “The Rambling Pitchfork” on the 1978 Paddy Glackin/Paddy Keenan album (Doublin’), the medley being known as ‘The Pitchforks’. ‘Pitchfork’ in the title refers to an itinerant farm laborer, called after his tool of trade in the same way that a gunman on a payroll in the American west was referred to as a ‘hired gun’.
