Boys of the Town (2) (The)

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 Theme code Index    1H5 51 32 16
 Also known as    Bobby Casey
 Composer/Core Source    
 Region    Ireland
 Genre/Style    Irish
 Meter/Rhythm    Jig/Quadrille
 Key/Tonic of    G
 Accidental    1 sharp
 Mode    Ionian (Major)
 Time signature    6/8
 History    
 Structure    AABB
 Editor/Compiler    Biography:Frank Roche
 Book/Manuscript title    Book:Collection of Traditional Irish Music vol. 1
 Tune and/or Page number    No. 188, p. 49
 Year of publication/Date of MS    1912
 Artist    Biography:Patrick Street
 Title of recording    Street Life
 Record label/Catalogue nr.    
 Year recorded    
 Media    
 Score   ()   


Tune annotations


X:1
T:The Boys of the Town [2]
M:6/8
L:1/8
R:Jig
K:G
ged B2A | BGE G2A | ~B3 ABA | GBd e2d |
ged B2A | BGE G2A | ~B3 AGA | BGF G3 :|
|:def gfg | eaa eaa | bag e2d | efg efg |
def gfg | afd efg | edB AGA | BGF G3 :||



BOYS OF THE TOWN [2], THE. Irish, Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The second part is similar in parts to "Boys of the Town [1]." Karen Tweed (1994) remarks the tune is a "firm favourite" at sessions in Leeds, England, in the early 1990's.

Sources for notated versions: fiddler John McKeown [Feldman & O'Doherty]; fiddler Sean Walker (Victor, New York) [Miller & Perron].

Recorded sources: Feldman & O'Doherty (The Northern Fiddler), 1978; p. 229. Mallinson (Enduring), 1995; No. 49, p. 21. Miller & Perron (Traditional Irish Fiddle Music), 1977; vol. 2, No. 8. Miller & Perron (Traditional Irish Fiddle Music, 2nd Edition), 2006; p. 15. Mulvihill (1st Collection), 1986; No. 23, p. 69. Peoples (50 Irish Fiddle Tunes), Roche Collection, 1912; vol. I, p. 49, #118. Taylor (Traditional Irish Music: Karen Tweed's Irish Choice), 1994; p. 6.

Recorded sources: Patrick Street - "Street Life." See also listings at: Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recording Index [1], Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [2]