X:1
T:Donald McDonald
M:9/8
L:1/8
R:Slip Jig
B:Patrick McGahon music manuscript collection (1817)
N:McGahon was a scribe of Irish language literature who lived in
N:Dungooley, County Louth, on the Armagh border. He was a
N:teacher with The Irish Society in the early 19th century, but little
N:else is known about him. A few tunes in the ms. are written in other hands.
B:Pádraigín Ní UIallacháin – “A Hidden Ulster” (2003, p. 445)
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:G
g|d2c BAB G2A|Bcd dgB d2g|edc BAB GAB|E2e ef^d e2:|
|:g|def gag fed|Bcd dgB d2g|def gag fed|B2e ef^d e2g|
def gag fed|Bcd gdB d2g|edc Bcd GAB|E2e ef^d|e2||
PATRICK McDONALD. Irish, Slip Jig (9/8 time). G Major/E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Petrie): AAB (McGahon). The tune appears under the title "Patrick McDonald" in the 1817 music manuscript collection of Patrick McGahon, a scribe of Irish language literature who lived in Dungooley, County Louth, on the Armagh border. He was a teacher with The Irish Society in the early 19th century, but little else is known about him. A few tunes in the ms. are written in other hands.
Printed sources : - Charles Villiers Stanford (Complete Collection of Petrie's Irish Music), 1905; No. 975, p. 249 (appears as untitled jig). Pádraigín Ní UIallacháin (A Hidden Ulster), 2003; p. 445.
