Annotation:Twopenny Jig (The)
X:1 T:Two-penny Jigg, The M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig B:Henry Hudson - The Dublin Magazine, August, 1842 Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:Gdor GFD B2c|dBG GFD|G2A B2c|eBG G2B| BFD B2c|dBG AGA|FAc fed|1 cAF FGA:|2 cAF F2c|| dfd cdc |BdB {B}AGF|G2A B2c|dBG G2c| dfd cfc|BdB AGA|FAc fed|cAF FAc| did cdc|BdB {B}AGF |G2A B2c|dBG G2B| dBd fed|cdB AGA|FAc fed|cAF FAc||
TWOPENNY JIG, THE (Port na-da-pingine). AKA - "Two-penny Jigg (The)." Irish, Double Jig (6/8 time). G Dorian (Dublin Magazine, Haverty, Kerr, O'Neill/1001 & Krassen): G Minor (O'Neill/1850 & 1915). Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'B (Dublin Magazine, Haverty, O'Neill/1915): AA'BB (Kerr): AA'BB' (O'Neill/1001, 1850 & Krassen). Dublin dentist and collector biography:Henry Hudson (1798-1889) remarked in the Dublin Magazine:
A merry pipe-tune, for which we are indebted to Paddy Coneely. One of its many rustic names
may be said to be “The Two-penny Jig.” When we see a tune genuinely belonging to this class,
we always desire to have a drone in the bass, even when arranging it for the piano-forte.
Notwithstanding that O'Neill's tune is identical to Hudson's in every way, O'Neill obtained it from a music manuscript collection given to him by Phillp O'Reilly, a native of County Cavan.
