Fairy Dance
X:1 T:Fairy Dance M:2/4 L:1/8 S:W.M. Cahusac's Annual Collection of 24 Country Dances for 1809, No 4 (London, 1809) N:"With proper Directions to each Dance as they are performed at N:Court, Bath, and all Public Assemblys." Z:Transcribed and edited by Fynn Titford-Mock, 2007 Z:abc's:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:G B2 BG|B2 BG|B2 BG|FDAF|B2 BG|cBAG|FDEF|G4:| |:d2 dB|e2 ed|c2 cA|d2 dc|B2 BG|E2 cA|FDEF|G2 G2:||
X:2
T:Fairy Dance
C:G. Swaine Buckley
M:2/4
L:1/8
B:Buckley’s New Banjo Method (1860, p. 21)
N:A minstrel banjo setting of Gow’s “Largo’s Fairy Dance”
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:A
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X:1
T:Fairy Dance, The
M:C
L:1/8
R:Reel
B:Stephen Grier music manuscript collection (Book 2, c. 1883, No. 118, p. 26)
B: http://grier.itma.ie/book-two#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=25&z=-147.4342%2C278.5367%2C2838.9907%2C1152.0833
N:Stephen Grier (c. 1824-1894) was a piper and fiddler from
N:Newpark, Bohey, Gortletteragh, south Co. Leitrim.
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:D
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X:3
T:Fairy Dance
M:C|
L:1/8
R:Reel
B:Stewart-Robertson - The Athole Collection (1884)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:D
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X:4
T:Fairy Dance, The
L:1/8
M:C
S:Joyce - Old Irish Folk Music and Songs (1909)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:D
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X:5
T:Fairy Dance, The
M:C
L:1/8
R:Reel
S:Rev. Luke Donnellan – “Oriel Songs and Dances",
S:Journal of the County Louth Archaeological Society (vol. II, No. 2, 1909; No. 23)
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:D
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X:1
T:Fairy Dance
M:2/4
L:1/8
R:Reel
B:Galwey - Old Irish Croonauns (1910, No. 4, p. 2)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:D
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X:6
T:Fairy Dance, The
M:2/4
L:1/16
R:Country Dance
B:T. Westrop's 120 Country Dances, Jigs, Reels, Hornpipes, Strathspeys, Spanish
B:Waltz etc. for the Violin, n.d. (c.1923), no. 49
Z:R. Greig 2010
K:D
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X:7
T:Fairy Reel, The (Irish version)
R:reel
Z:Philippe Varlet
M:C
L:1/8
K:G
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