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Theme code Index
1H51H3 1H52H3H
Also known as
Make Your Breakfast Early , Stay where you are , Shun the Corner
Composer/Core Source
Biography:Francis Reynolds
Region
Ireland
Genre/Style
Irish
Meter/Rhythm
Reel (single/double)
Key/Tonic of
D
Accidental
2 sharps
Mode
Ionian (Major)
Time signature
2/2
History
IRELAND(Connaught), IRELAND(Leinster)
Structure
AABB
Editor/Compiler
Book/Manuscript title
Tune and/or Page number
Year of publication/Date of MS
Artist
Title of recording
Record label/Catalogue nr.
Year recorded
Media
Score 1 )
X:1
T:Blue Breeches
B:Francis Reynolds (1862-1946) of Ballinamuck, Co Longford,
B:1885 music manuscript collection
M:C|
L:1/8
R:Reel
Z:Transcribed by Conor Ward
K:D
dA A/A/A (dA)FA|d2 (AB) (eg)fe|d2 AB d2 FD|GEED =c2 Bc:|
|:d2 fd ed^cA|d2 fd g2 fe|d2 fd edcA|GEED =c2 Bc:|
X:1
T:Blue Breeches
N:Submitted by fiddler Alex Sutherland (1874-1969) of Toome, Drumreilly, Co.
N:Leitrim, to the National Folklore Commission in 1959.
M:C|
L:1/8
R:Reel
K:D
(Bc)|d-A A/A/A dAFA|(dA) A/A/A g2 (fe)|dA A/A/A d-AFA|G(E{F}ED) c2:|
(Bc)|d2 f-d edcA|d2 f-d g2 f-e|d2 f-d edcA|B(E{F}ED) c2 (Bc)|
dfd (ed)cA|d2 fd g2 fe|dgfg edcA|B(E{F}ED) c2||
P:A'
B-c|d2 d-c dAFA|d2 d-c dgfe|dgfe dAFA|B(E{F}ED) c2 (Bc)|
d-dc BAFA|d2-dc defg|afge fdec|d(E{F}ED) c2||
