Annotation:Reilly of the White Hill

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REILLY OF THE WHITE HILL. Irish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Miller): AA’BB’ (Reavy). Composed by County Cavan/Philadelphia fiddler and composer Ed Reavy (1898-1988). Reilly was one of the “White Hill people” from the region north of the Reavy family farmland in Cavan. Though his first name is not remembered, he himself had a reputation as a wild volitile man, wont to cheat at cards.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Miller (Fiddler’s Throne), 2004; No. 240, p. 146. Reavy (The Collected Compositions of Ed Reavy), No. 20, p. 21.

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