Annotation:Patrick O'Dermot
X:1 T:Patrick O Dermot M:C L:1/8 R:Reel B:Edward Riley – “Riley Flute Melodies vol. 2” (New York, 1817, No. 157, p. 46) F: https://archive.org/details/flutemelodies0000rile/page/n117/mode/2up Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G DGBG dGBG|DGBG cAAB|DGBG dGBG|ecBA BGGB:| |:~g2 dB|ecAc|~g2 bg faab|c’abg afge|dedc BGG2:|]
PATRICK O'DERMOT. American, Reel (cut time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. There is a “Favorite Irish Song” entitled “Patrick O’Dermot the Pride of Kildare” written and composed by William Thomas Parke (1762-1847), published by Bacon & Co., Philadelphia, in 1821, but it is in 6/8 time and musically unrelated. The reel "Patrick O'Dermot" was first printed in New York by Edward Riley in his Flute Melodies vol. 2 (1817). It was picked up by Boston music publisher Elias Howe in one of his early volumes, later reprinted by him under the pseudonym Patrick O'Flannagan, and marketed to the growing Irish population of greater Boston and New England.
