Annotation:May Day (2)

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MAY DAY [2] (Bealltaine). AKA and see "Bealltaine," "Five Miles from Town (2)," "Mullingar Races (2) (The)." Irish, Hornpipe. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB.

Source for notated version: "From Mr. P. Joyce, Learnt from his father" (presumably when P.W. Joyce was a boy, in Limerick 1840's) [Stanford/Petrie].

Printed sources: Joyce (Ancient Irish Music), 1873; No. 32. Petrie-Stanford (Complete Collection), 1903-06; No. 919 (appears as untitled hornpipe).

Recorded sources:

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