Annotation:Rambler from Clare (1) (The)

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RAMBLER FROM CLARE [1], THE (An Triallaire Ua Tuat-Mumain). AKA and see "Humors of Ballinafad (3)." Irish, Double Jig (6/8 time). A Minor/Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A member of a rather insubstantial Irish tune family with the most common names (usually floaters) given above, which tunes sometimes have stronger resemblance to each other in the first, second, or both parts, according to Bayard (1981). Canon James Goodman's "Humors of Ballinafad (3)" is a good case in point, with both strains being cognate with "Rambler from Clare [1]" (the second strains more noticeably cognate) but not a duplication. There are several more or less related Irish jigs that bear comparison, including “Old John's Jig," "Young Tom Ennis," "Banshee's Wail Over the Mangle Pit (The)," and "Kilkenny Jig (The).” Samuel Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle, March to the Fife, 1981, note to "Kitty in the Fog") thinks the tune belongs to a rather ethereal and unnamed, but originally Irish tune family whose members include "Young Tom Ennis," "Banks of Lough Gowna," "Stonecutter's Jig (The)," "One Bottle More (2)," "Rambler from Clare (1) (The)," "Mug of Brown Ale (2) (The)," "Ball of Ballynafeidh (The)/Humors of Ballynafeidh," and others, usually floating, titles. The sets of the family usually stray in either the first or second parts and "always seem to be diverging off into other pieces" (p. 530).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 58. Miller (Fiddler’s Throne), 2004; No. 90, p. 64. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 1009, p. 188. O'Neill (Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems), 1907; No. 223, p. 51. Ryan’s Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 88.

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