Annotation:Timothy Downing
X:1 T:Timothy Downing M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel B:O'Neill's Music of Ireland. 1850 Melodies, 1903, p. 249, no. 1334 Z:François-Emmanuel de Wasseige K:Amin c2(Bc) (AB)G2|cde^f {a}gede|c2(Bc) (AB)G2|ea{b}ag efde| (3cdc (3BcB (3ABA G2|cde^f {a}gede|(3cdc (3BcB (3ABA G2|ea{b}ag (3efe d2|| aede g2(ag)|ed^cd efge|aede g2(ag)|ea{b}ag efde| aede g2(ag)|ed^cd e^fge|c2 cc d2 dd|ea{b}ag efde!D.C.!|]
TIMOTHY DOWNING (Teige Ua Donnaig). AKA and see "Downing's Reel," ," "First House in Connaught (The)," “Mama's Pet (2),” "Mamma's Pet," "Paddy's Pet," "Peata Mamai (1)." Irish, Reel. A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (O'Neill/1850): AABB' (O'Neill/Krassen). A version of "Mama's Pet (2)." See also the related "Downing's Reel." O'Neill's title honors Timothy Downing, a gentleman farmer and neighbour to Francis O’Neill when he was a boy in County Cork. Downing taught O’Neill the rudiments of playing the flute. Griffith's Valuation records that Downing owned two houses he let to tenants[1].
- ↑ Michael O'Malley, The Beat Cop:Chicago's Chief O'Neill and the Creation of Irish Music, Univ. of Chicago Press, 2022, Note 36, p. 292.