Annotation:Ballemonny Races
X:1 T:Ballemonny Races M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel B:Alexander Mackay – A Collection of Reels, Strathspeys and Slow Tunes… B:Chiefly composed by Alexander Mackay, Musician Islay (c. 1822, p. 14) B: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/104487947 N:Dedicated to the Right Hon. Lady Elinor Campbell of Islay and Shawfield. N:Mackay was born c. 1775 and was a fiddler-composer from Islay. Many of his N:tune titles are reflect Islay settings. N:Printed in Glasgow by J. MacFadyen, 30 Wilson St. Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G G2 BG E2 BE|G2 BG EGFD|G2 BG E2 BG|cedB AGFD:| G3g gdBG|A3a agfd|efge agfd|efge dcBA| G3g gdBG|A3a agfd|efge agfd|egfa g2G2||
BALLEMONNY RACES. Scottish, Reel (cut time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Ballemonny Races" appears in Islay fiddler-composer biography:Alexander Mackay's Collection of Reels, Strathspeys and Slow Tunes (Glasgow, c. 1822). The title presumably references the small County Antrim town ofBallymoney, twenty miles across the sea from Islay, but indicative of the communication (commercially and musically) between the two regions.
