Annotation:May Day (2)

Back to May Day (2)

MAY DAY [2] (Bealltaine). AKA and see "Bealltaine," "Broadway (The)," "Dinny O'Brien's Hornpipe," "Five Miles from Town (2)," "Mullingar Races (3)," "Phil Durkin's Favorite," "Shaskeen (The)." Irish, Hornpipe. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Dublin uilleann piper William Andrews recorded the hornpipe under the "May Day" title in London in 1928. In addition to the uilleann pipes, Andrews played the Irish Warpipes (Greatpipes).

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: Parlophone E3576 (78 RPM), William Andrews (1928). Topic Records 12T262, William Andrews - "Classics Of Irish Piping Volume 2" (1976).

See also listing at:
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [1]