Annotation:Around the World for Sport (3)
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(A)ROUND THE WORLD FOR SPORT [3]. Irish, March (6/8 time) or Single Jig. G Major/E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Stanford/Petrie): AABB (Joyce, O’Neill). A 6/8 variant of "Around the World for Sport (1)." O’Neill’s version is nearly identical to that printed earlier by Howe and Joyce.
Source for notated version: “Taken down in 1850 from Ned Goggin of Glenosheen, in the county Limerick” [P.W. Joyce]; “Set from Edward Goggin, Glenosheen. (From the Irish collector) Mr. Joyce” [Stanford/Petrie].
Printed sources: Howe (1000 Jigs and Reels), c. 1867; p. 19.
Hughes (Gems from the Emerald Isle), 1867; No. 25, p. 7.
Joyce (Ancient Irish Music), 1873; No. 70, p. 71.
Stanford/Petrie (Complete Collection), 1905; No. 958, p. 241.
O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 1828, p. 343.
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