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X:1 T:Round the World for Sport. Irish. T:Around the World for Sport [3] M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig B:Robert Petrie – Third Collection of Strathspey Reels (1802, p. 23) N:Dedicated to Francis Garden Esq. Junior of Troup by N:Robert Petrie at Kirkmichael. Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Emin E/F/|G2G GFG|A2A AGA|BcB BAG|B2E E2F| G2G GFG|A2A AGA|BcB BAG|F2D D2:| |:f|g2e e2f|g2e e2f|g2e a2g|f2d d2f| gfe agf|gfe dcB|ABc BAB|G2E E2:|


(A)ROUND THE WORLD FOR SPORT [3]. AKA - "Round the World for Sport." Irish, March (6/8 time) or Single Jig. E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Stanford/Petrie): AABB (Joyce, O’Neill, Robbins). A 6/8 variant of "Around the World for Sport (1)." O’Neill’s version is nearly identical to that printed earlier by Howe and Joyce. The march or jig dates to at least the beginning of the 19th century and was contained in The Buttery Manuscript (c. 1784-1820, No. 534), the music manuscript collection of John Buttery (1784-1854) who joined the 34th Regiment in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, in 1797 and served as a fifer until discharged in 1814. His large ms. copybook contains marches, duty calls, dance tunes and airs.


Additional notes
Source for notated version : - “Taken down in 1850 from Ned Goggin of Glenosheen, in the county Limerick” [P.W. Joyce]. Goggin was P.W. Joyce's neighbor at the time, "the professional fiddle player of Glenosheen in the County Limerick from the time of my childhood to the present day" [approx. 1830's-1870][1]; “Set from Edward Goggin, Glenosheen. (From the Irish collector) Mr. Joyce” [Stanford/Petrie].

Printed sources : - Howe (1000 Jigs and Reels), c. 1867; p. 19. Elias Howe (Howe’s 500 Irish Melodies Ancient and Modern), Boston, c. 1880; p. 501 (a collection of “Irish” tunes from previous Howe publications, plus 200 tunes from P.M. Joyce’s 1873 Ancient Irish Music). Hughes (Gems from the Emerald Isle), 1867; No. 25, p. 7. Joyce (Ancient Irish Music), 1873; No. 70, p. 71. Robert Petrie (Third Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances), 1802; p. 23. Robbins Music Corp. (The Robbins collection of 200 jigs, reels and country dances), New York, 1933; No. 52, p. 17. Stanford/Petrie (Complete Collection), 1905; No. 958, p. 241. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 1828, p. 343.





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  1. ↑ P.W. Joyce, Ancient Irish Music (1873), comment with reel No. 51, p. 51.
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