Annotation:Spirvin's Fancy
X:1 T:Spirvin's Fancy M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Reel S:Ryan’s Mammoth Collection (1883) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G Minor (d/c/)||B/G/F/D/ DC/C/|D/G/G/^F/ G/A/B/c/|d/B/c/A/ B/G/F/A/|C/G/G/^F/ G/A/d/c/| B/G/F/D/ DC/C/|D/G/G/^F/ G/A/B/c/|d/B/c/A/ B/G/F/A/|D/G/G/^F/ G|| Bd/f/ b/d/f/d/|Bd/f/ g/d/f/d/|Bd/f/ b/d/f/d/|c/=B/c/d/ _B/G/G| Bd/f/ b/d/f/d/|Bd/f/ f/d/f/d/|b/d/b/d/ f/d/f/d/|c/=B/c/d/ _B/G/G/B/||
SPIRVIN'S FANCY. AKA and see "Thompson's Hornpipe," "Thompson's Reel (1)," "Zeek Backus Reel." Irish, Reel. G Minor (Cole, Ryan, Tolman): E Minor (Miller). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Cole, Ryan, Tolman): AABB (Miller). "Spirvin's Fancy" is the title under which the tune appeared in William Bradbury Ryan's Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883), with cognate versions printed in Köhler's Violin Repository vol. 3 (1885) as "Thompson's Hornpipe" and in Francis O'Neill's Music of Ireland (1903) as "Thompson's Reel (1)." See also the associated first strain of the Irish reel “Girl that Broke My Heart (1) (The).”
