Ben Hill (2)

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Theme code Index	1133 51H51
Also known as	Kathleen O'Shea's, New York Hornpipe
Composer/Core Source
Region	Ireland
Genre/Style	Irish
Meter/Rhythm	Hornpipe/Clog
Key/Tonic of	G
Accidental	1 sharp
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	4/4
History
Structure	AA'BB'
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Seamus Connolly & Laurel Martin
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Forget Me Not
Tune and/or Page number	pp. 52-53
Year of publication/Date of MS	2002
Artist	Biography:Maire O'Keeffe
Title of recording	Cóisir (House Party)
Record label/Catalogue nr.	Gael-Linn CEFCD 165
Year recorded	1993
Media
Score ()

BEN HILL [2]. AKA - "Kathleen O'Shea's." Irish, Hornpipe. G Major. Standard tuning. AA'BB'. Kathleen O'Shea-Maguire, referenced in the alternate title, is a former World Champion Irish step dancer, with whom the tune is associated. Séamus Connolly & Laurel Martin note that the famous Galway accordion player Joe Burke told Connolly the tune was discovered by Ballinakill, County Galway, fiddler Aggie White, who did not have a name for it. She and Burke decided to call it "Ben Hill" on the way to a performance in the 1960's, naming it after a small incline on the road near where Aggie and her husband Séamus Ryan lived.

Printed sources: Connolly & Martin (Forget Me Not), 2002; pp. 52-53.

Recorded source: Gael-Linn CEFCD 165, Maire O'Keeffe - "Cóisir (House Party)" (1993).

X: 1
T:Ben Hill [2]
R:Hornpipe
M:C|
L:1/8
K:G
GFGA ~B3c|dgge dBGB|cedc BGAB|cBAG FDEF|
GFGA ~B3c|dgge dBGB|cedc BAFG|1 AGGF G2 (3DEF:|2 AGGF GBdc||
|:~B3d gfed|c2cB c2cB|AFAf fedc|(3BcB Ac B2 (3DEF|
GFGA ~B3c|dgge dBGB|cedc BAFG|1 AGGF GBdc:|2 AGGF G4||