X:1
T:Bucks of Wesmeath [1] [sic]
M:6/8
L:1/8
R:Jig & Country Dance
B:Morris/Maurice Hime – Forty Eight Original Irish Dances never Before Printed
B:with Basses for the Piano-Forte (Dublin,1804, No. 21)
F:http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b90673324/f16.image
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:F
d|c3 AcA|F2G A2B|c3 AcA|BGA B2d|
c3 AcA|F2G A2c|fed cBA|G2A B2:|
|:c|~fef cBA|~fef cBA|~fef cBA|G2A B2d|
fef gab|agf efg|fed cBA|G3 A B2:|
|:d|cAF F2d|cAF F2d|cAF F2A|G2A B2d|
cAF F2A|cAF F2A|fed cBA|G2A B2:|]
BUCKS OF WESTMEATH [1], THE (Oganaig iarinide). Irish, Single Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. The tune appears, with directions for a country dance, in Morris/Maurice Hime's Forty Eight Original Irish Dances printed in Dublin in 1804.Barney Delaney
Additional notes Source for notated version : - "Delaney" [O'Neill]. O'Neill refers to 'quiet and unassuming' uilleann piper Bernard "Barney" Delaney, originally from Tullamore, who emigrated in 1880. Delaney purchased a set of pipes made by the great Philadelphia, Pa., pipemaker Billy Taylor, where the former worked prior to moving to Chicago. After 24 years service Delaney retired in 1912 with a pension to a home at Ocean Springs, Mississippi, on the Gulf of Mexico.
Printed sources : - Hime (Forty Eight Original Irish Dances Never Before Printed with Basses), 1804; No. 21.
Hughes (Gems from the Emerald Isle), c. 1860's?; No. 15, p. 5.
Levey (First Collection of the Dance Music of Ireland), 1858; No. 16, p. 7.
O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 979, p. 182.
O'Neill (Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems), 1907; No. 383, p. 77.
