Buckley's Fancy

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Theme code Index	1353 2465
Also known as	Roga Ui Buacalla, Buckley's Favourite (1), After the Sun Goes Down, Albany Beef, Lord St. Clair's Reel
Composer/Core Source
Region	Ireland, United States
Genre/Style	Contra, Irish
Meter/Rhythm	Reel (single/double)
Key/Tonic of	G
Accidental	1 sharp
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	4/4
History
Structure	AABB
Editor/Compiler	Elias Howe
Book/Manuscript title	Book:1000 Jigs and Reels
Tune and/or Page number	p. 90
Year of publication/Date of MS	c. 1867
Artist	Biography:Martin Mulhaire, Biography:Séamus Connolly, Biography:Jack Coen
Title of recording	Warming Up
Record label/Catalogue nr.	Green Linnet GLCD 1135
Year recorded	1993
Media
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BUCKLEY'S FANCY (Roga Ui Buacalla). AKA - "Buckley's Favourite (1)." AKA and see "After the Sun Goes Down," "Albany Beef," "Lord St. Clair's Reel." O'Neill's "After the Sun Goes Down" is a related reel, fairly close in melodic contour, as is Roche's "Lord St. Clair's Reel." "Albany Beef" shares a part with "Buckley's Fancy." Some similarities to "Atlantic Wave." American, Irish, Canadian; Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB.

It may be that the tune name is a nod to the Buckley family of black-face minstrel entertainers (see note for "Dar's Sugar in the Gourd"). The minstrel connection is shown by the fact that when Dan Emmett's "I Wish I Was in Dixie's Land" ("Written and Composed expressly for Bryant's Minstrels") was published in 1860 (Firth, Pond & Co., New York, and P.P. Werlein, New Orleans), the sheet music ("arranged for the pianoforte by W.L. Hobbs") included the melody of "Buckley's Fancy" as a tag ending for dancing. This publication predates the first under the "Buckley'" name in Elias Howe's 1000 Jigs and Reels (c. 1867), which includes contra-dance directions along with the tune. The tune may have entered the minstrel repertoire from Ireland but is possibly an example of "reverse migration" from America to Ireland. O'Neill, in his 1903 collection, credited Mayo and Chicago fiddler John McFadden, whose setting is quite similar to those in Howe's earlier books. Buckley is, however, a common Irish name. There was a James Buckley, for example, a Limerick piper who was mentioned in O'Neill's Irish Minstrels and Musicians (1913) and who was P.W. Joyce's source for several tunes in his Old Irish Folk Music and Songs (1909)."

Sources for notated versions: Lorin Simmons (Prince Edward Island, collected in 1930's) [Bayard]; Joseph Doucette (b. 1910, West Prince County, Prince Edward Island) [Perlman]; fiddler Fred Finn (1919-1986, Kiltycreen, Kilavil, County Sligo, Ireland) [Flaherty]; New Jersey flute player Mike Rafferty, born in Ballinakill, Co. Galway, in 1926 [Harker].

Printed sources: Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; Appendix No. 10, p. 576. Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 14 (appears as "Buckley's Favorite"). Flaherty (Trip to Sligo), 1990; p. 80. Harker (300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty), 2005; No. 82, p. 26. Howe (1000 Jigs and Reels), c. 1867; p. 90 (appears as "Buckley's Favorite Reel"). O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; p. 97. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 1211, p. 228. O'Neill (Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems), 1907; No. 487, p. 93. O'Neill (O'Neill's Irish Music), 1915; No. 283, p. 143. Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 43. White's Unique Collection, 1896; No. 83, p. 15.

Recorded sources:

See also listings at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
\Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [2]

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