Annotation:McElligott's Fancy

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McELLIGOTT'S FANCY (Roga Mic Elligott). AKA and see "Buck From the Mountain (The)," "Minstrel's Fancy," "Pioneer Clog," "Hanover Hornpipe." Irish, Hornpipe. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Also appears as an untitled Pennsylvania-collected clog in Bayard, 1981; No. 416, pp. 395-396.

The Irish Music Club, c. 1903. John McElligott is at the beginning of the 2nd row, extreme left (Father Dollard's hand is resting on his shoulder). Capt. Francis O'Neill is in the top row, 4th from the left.

Source for notated version: "McElligott" [O'Neill]. The source is not named in O'Neill's Irish Minstrels and Musicians (1913). However, fiddler John McElligott appears in a picture of the Irish Music Club of Chicago in the first years of the 20th century.

Printed sources: O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 1778, p. 331.

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