X:1
T:Snow Storm [1], The
M:C
L:1/8
R:Air
Q:"Moderate'
S:O’Neill – Music of Ireland (1903), No. 493
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:G
D2 | G3A B2 AG | F>GAB c2 Bc | d>e=fe dcA^F | G3F D2 (3DEF |
~G3A B2 AG | F>GAB c2 Bc | d>e=fd cA^FA | G4 G2 || Bc |
dcde =f2 ef | dggf g2 de | =f2 ag fedB | {d}cBAG F2 (3DEF |
~G3 A B2 AG | F>GAB c2 Bc | d>e=fd cA^FA | G4 G2 ||
SNOW STORM [1], THE (An seignean sneacta). Irish, Air (4/4 time). G Major/Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. County Leitrim piper and fiddler Stephen Grier's untitled "Hornpipe (55)" is cognate in the first strain. There are some similarities with "Miss Lacey's Hornpipe," but probably only coincidental in nature. Fr. John Quinn sees O'Neill's "The Snow Storm" to be "an attempt to improve on a Petrie air," an untitled air obtained from collector P.W. Joyce (see Stanford/Petrie, 1905, No. 98).
Additional notes
Printed sources : - O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 493, p. 86.
