Miss Thornton's Reel

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X:1 T:Miss Thornton’s Reel M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel S:Michael B. Shanahan S:P.D. Reidy music manuscript collection, London, 1890’s (No. 29) N:”Professor” Patrick Reidy of Castleisland was a dancing N:master engaged by the Gaelic League in London to teach N:dance classes. He introduced “Siege of Ennis” and “Walls N:of Limerick” ceili dances and wrote a treatise on dancing. N:Reidy told O’Neill that his source, Shanahan was a “celebrated N:violinist”, the son of a piper born in Kilrush, Co. Clare, with a N:great reputation in Kerry and Limerick in the 1860’s. It is unclear N:where Shanahan was in relation to his acquaintance with Reidy N:(i.e. in London or Ireland). F: http://rarebooks.library.nd.edu/digital/bookreader/MSE_1434-1/#page/1/mode/1up Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G [G2g2] [Bg]f gdBd|cBAB cedc|BcBA GBdg|ecAF GBdf| gagf gdBd|cBAB Bedc|BcBA GBdg|ecAF G2 Bd|| b2 ag b2 ag|egdg egdg|b2 ag b2 ag|egfa g2 ga| b2 ag b2 ag|egdg egdg|bagf gfed|egfa gdef||

X:1 T:Miss Thornton’s Reel L:1/8 M:C| R:Reel S:O’Neill – Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems (1907), No. 534 Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G D2|G2 Bd gdBd|cBAB cedc|BGAF GBdg|ecAF GFED| G2 Bd gdBd|cBAB cedc|BGAF GBdg|ecAF G2|| b2 ag b2 ag|egdg egdg|b2 ag b2 ag|gfga| bgag bgag|egdg egdg|bgaf gfed|egfa bedB||