Annotation:Smash the Windows (2)

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X:1 T:Smash the Windows (2) R:Reel M:2/4 L:1/16 B:O'Neill's Music of Ireland. 1850 Melodies, 1903, p. 257, no. 1382 Z:François-Emmanuel de Wasseige K:D D2|DFED F2A2|defd ecAF|G2T(GE) F2T(FD)|E2(EF) GFEF| DFED F2A2|d2(fd) ecAd|f2(fd) gece|d2dd d2|| (fg)|a2f2 defg|f2g2 agfa|g2e2 cdef|e2f2 gfeg| (3fgf ed (3gag fe|(3aba gf (3gag fe|(3fgf ed gece|d2dd d2|]

SMASH THE WINDOWS [2] (Bris na fuinneogide). Irish, Reel (whole time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (O’Neill): AA’BB’ (Miller). The tune is perhaps a fling. It has a general melodic contour suggestive of the famous jig “Smash the Windows (1).

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Printed sources : - Miller (Fiddler’s Throne), 2004; No. 248, p. 150. O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; p. 129. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 1382, p. 257.

Recorded sources - Green Linnet SIF 1016, The Irish Tradition (with fiddler Brendan Mulvihill) – “The Corner House” (1978). Ossian OSS CD 130, Sliabh Notes – “Along Blackwater’s Banks” (2002. Learned by Dónal Murphy in a session in Miltown Malbay during Willie Week, 2001).

See also listings at: : - Alan Ng’s Irishtune.info [1]

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