Annotation:Coming Through the Fields
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COMING THROUGH THE FIELD(S). AKA - "Coming Thro' the Field." AKA and see "Miss Thornton’s Reel," "Thro the Fields (2)," "Boat Street Lasses (The)," "House on the Hill (4) (The)," "Maid of the Forest (The)," "Lady Ann Hope (1)," "Creeping Mouse (The)," "Down the Street," "Spike Island Lasses (2)," "Salamanca (2)," "O'Loughlin's Reel." Irish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune listed as having been commonly played at Orange County, New York country dances in the 1930's (Lettie Osborn. New York Folklore Quarterly, pp. 211-215). O'Neill's "Miss Thornton’s Reel" is a similar setting.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: P.M. Haverty (One Hundred Irish Airs vol. 2), 1858; No. 131, p. 60. Levey (First Collection of the Dance Music of Ireland), 1858; No. 47, p. 19.
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