Annotation:Highway to Dublin (The)

HIGHWAY TO DUBLIN [1], THE (An Bóthar Mór go Baile Átha Cliath). AKA - "High Way to Dublin." AKA and see "Draught of Ale (A)," "Farrell's Pipes," "Fourpenny Girl (The)," "Grania's Welcome Home (2)," "Langstrom's Pony," "Priest's Leap (2) (The)," "Right Way to Dublin," "Saddle the Pony (3)," "Sweet Tibby Dunbar." Irish, Scottish; Double Jig. A Mixolydian (Cole, Gow, O'Neill/Krassen & 1001, 1915, Skye): A Major (O'Neill/1850). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was entered into American musician Giles Gibbs' 1777 American flute manuscript as "Right Way to Dublin." The first strain is similar to the Irish melody “Langstrom's Pony.”

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Printed sources : - Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 1), 1782; No. 43, p. 15. Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 494. Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 64. Gow (Complete Repository, Part 2), 1802; p. 27. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 177. O'Neill (O'Neill's Irish Music), 1915; No. 199, p. 107. O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; p. 72. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 713, p. 133. O'Neill (Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems), 1907; No. 15, p. 19. Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 94.

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