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A programatic piece replete with 'horns' and the 'cry of the hounds', 'death of the fox', and winds up with "Foxhunter's Jig (1) (The)."

Some sections are variously in 3/4, 6/8 and 9/8 time. This "Fox Chase" was composed around 1799 by celebrated blind Co. Tipperary piper Edward Keating Hyland (1780-1845), who once received a set of expensive pipes from King George IV of England (who heard the piper while visiting Dublin in 1821) as a mark of recognition for his performance, according to Irish antiquarian Gratten Flood.

It is the model for the Scottish "Hunting of the Fox (The)," but Hyland based his piece on an older (though short, eight-bar) song called "Maidrin Ruadh (An)" (Modhereen rua), which is based on a dialogue between a farmer and a fox which he had detected "with the goods" on him in the form of "a fine fat goose."

The piper's piece concludes with the well-known slip jig "Foxhunter's Jig (1) (The)." Hyland's version, the first full version, appears in O'Farrell's Pocket Companion of the Irish or Union Pipes (vol. 1, book 2, c. 1806) {under the title "Irish Fox Hunt (The)"}. Hyland was no simple country piper, but an individual who studied harmony under Thomas Moore’s musical collaborator, Sir John Stevenson.

O'Neill (1913) also prints two MS versions of the tune, one from Henry Hudson, c. 1841, and the other from Prof. P.H. Griffith of Dublin--the latter being a Tipperary version. Knowles (1995) finds parts of "The Fox Chase" in an anonymous 18th century English manuscript, in which it is entitled "Foxhunter Hornpipe (The)," and calls it "certainly the oldest known version" of the tune.

...more at: The Fox Chase - full Score(s) and Annotations

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