Annotation:Egan's Hornpipe
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EGAN'S HORNPIPE. AKA and see "Dublin Hornpipe (4)," "Rose of Drishane (The)." Irish, Hornpipe. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears in the music manuscript of Reynolds as "Dublin Hornpipe (4)," and in the Rice-Walsh manuscript as "Rose of Drishane (The)." The latter was printed by Chief Francis O'Neill in his Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody (1922).
Source for notated version: the Rice-Walsh manuscript, a collection of music from the repertoire of Jeremiah Breen, a blind fiddler from North Kerry, notated by his student [O'Neill].
Printed sources: O'Neill (Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody), 1922; No. 328.
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