Annotation:Egan's Hornpipe

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EGAN'S HORNPIPE. AKA and see "Dublin Hornpipe (4)," "Rose of Drishane (The)." Irish, Hornpipe. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears in the c. 1885 music manuscript of Francis Reynolds of County Longford as "Dublin Hornpipe (4)." Although Francis O'Neill printed the Rice-Walsh version in his 1922 Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody, he had earlier printed a version of the tune in Music of Ireland (1903) as "Rose of Drishane (The)."

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - the Rice-Walsh manuscript, a collection of music from the repertoire of Jeremiah Breen, a blind fiddler from North Kerry, notated by his student [O'Neill].

Printed sources : - Abeyta, MacUileagóid, Guerin, de Grae, Dalton (Drawing from the Well: A Selection of Music from the North Kerry Tradition), 2010; p. 28. O'Neill (Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody), 1922; No. 328.

Recorded sources: -



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