Brendan's Fancy

BRENDAN'S FANCY. Irish, Hornpipe. G Major. Standard tuning. AABB. Paul de Grae finds the tune in O'Neill's Music of Ireland (1903, No. 1682) as "The Bath Road Hornpipe." Evidently not having a new, Martin Mulvihill titled it after his source, his son Brendan. It was recorded as the "Concertina Hornpipe [2]" by Seattle fiddler Randal Bays.

Source for notated version: Brendan Mulvihill (Baltimore, Md.) [Mulvihill].

Printed source: Mulvihill (1st Collection), 1986; No. 44, p. 102.

Recorded source: Randal Bays - "Out of the Woods."

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Theme code Index	1357 1H531
Also known as	Bath Road 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	AABB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Martin Mulvihill
Book/Manuscript title	Book:1st Collection
Tune and/or Page number	No. 44, p. 102
Year of publication/Date of MS	1986
Artist	Biography:Randal Bays
Title of recording	Out of the Woods
Record label/Catalogue nr.
Year recorded
Media
Score ()

X: 1
T: Brendan's Fancy
S:M. Mulvihill, First Collection of Traditional Irish Music
Z: B. Black
L: 1/8
M: C|
R: hornpipe
K: G
D/F/|GABc defa|(3gag dc BG (3GFG|FGAB cedc|BGAG (3FGF D2|
GABc defa|(3gag dc BG (3GFG|FGAB cAGF|DGGF G3 :|
|:B/c/|d2 dc dcBc|defa gedB|c2 cB cBAG|FGAB cAFA|
d2 dc dcBc|defa gedc|Bdgd cAGF|DGGF G3 :|