Annotation:Gardiner's Favourite (1)
Tune properties and standard notation
GARDINER'S FAVOURITE [1]. AKA and see "Bloom of Youth (The)," "Doctor Taylor," "Downshire Reel (The)," "Flying Column (2)," "Lucky in Love," "Seamus Tansey's," "Sunny Banks (The)," "Tansey's Favourite (1)." Irish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune is also similar in contour to Mulvihill's "J. J. Gardiners."
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: McNulty (Dance Music of Ireland), 1965; p. 8.
Recorded sources: Coleman Music Center CHC 009, Charlie Higgins & Jack Dolan - "The Coleman Archive, vol. 2: The Home Place" (2005. Various artists. Higgins and Dolan, originally from the Drumkeeran area of County Leitrim, knew the tune under the title "Streams in the Valley". Both emigrated to America in 1948).
See also listing at:
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [1]