Annotation:Humors of Dublin (2) (The)

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HUMOURS OF DUBLIN [2]. AKA and see "Carolan's Favorite Jig," "Horse in the Pound," "Mary O'Neill (1)," "Rutland Jig (The)." Irish, Scottish; Jig. D Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDD (McGlashan): AA'BB'CC'DD' (Gow). As "Mary O'Neill (1)," it appears in O'Sullivan's tome Carolan: The Life, Times and Music of an Irish Harper (1958), No. 137, attributed to the blind Irish harper Turlough O'Carolan, who lived from 1670-1738. The tune is also known in Ireland under the titles "The Horse in the Pound" (Goodman, vol. iv, p. 1), "Carolan's Favorite Jig" (Stanford Petrie, 1905, No. 981) and "Rutland Jig (The)" (a County Leitrim name). Mid-19th century Anglican cleric and uilleann piper James Goodman (County Cork) attributed the melody to the 18th century gentleman piper Walker 'Piper' Jackson, of the townland of Lisdaun, parish of Ballingarry, Aughrim, County Limerick. A version of the melody was entered into the large 1840 music manuscript collection of multi-instrumentalist John Rook, of Waverton, near Wigton, Cumbria.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Gow (Complete Repository), Part 1, 1799; p. 36. McGlashan (Collection of Scots Measures), c. 1780; p. 31.

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