Annotation:Geordie Affleck
X:1 T:Geordie Afflick M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel B:William Morrison - Collection of Highland music, consisting of B:strathspeys, reels, marches, waltzes & slow airs (c. 1813, p. 34) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Eb E|GABG E/E/E EG|FB,DF BAGF|GABG E/E/E EG|FB,DF TE2E:| B|GABG edcB|=AFAc fedc|defd B/B/B Bd|cF=Ac {c}TB2 Bd| e_d BG Acde|fedc BAGF|GABG|E/E/E TE2 {DE}|FB,DF E2E||
GEORDIE AFFLECK. AKA - "Geordie Afflick," "George Affleck's Reel." " AKA and see "Eammon Coyne's Reel," "Mint in the Corn (The)." Scottish, Reel. E Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Geordie Affleck" is a later name for the tune originally composed in the key of E Flat by fiddler-composer William Marshall (1748-1833), and published on a single-sheet in Edinburgh by John Hamilton, paired with Marshall's "Marchioness of Cornwallis' Strathspey (The)." It was included in the c. 1805 second collection of fiddler-composer John Pringle as "Miss Maxwell Gordon's Reel." Marshall was employed by the Gordon's as Steward and Factor, and composed numerous tunes for various members of the family, but it is not known if "Miss Maxwell Gordon" was his title for the tune or not. There is no composer attribution in Pringle's collection.
Two settings of the reel, not identical and set in 'Eb' and 'G' major, were entered into the huge 19th century music manuscript collection[1] of dairy farmer, miller, sometime printer and bookbinder, and fiddler James Barry (1819-1906) of Six Mile Brook, Pictou County, northern Nova Scotia, under the title "George Affleck's Reel" (see No. 98, p. 25 in Eb, and No. 1533, p. 463 in G).
The reel is known among older fiddlers in County Donegal, Ireland, as "Mint in the Corn (The)"<div class="mw-ext-score noresize" data-midi="/w/images/lilypond/o/z/oz5kqh67jq0e0k6ka96i91ib535c3bf/oz5kqh67.midi"><img src="/w/images/lilypond/o/z/oz5kqh67jq0e0k6ka96i91ib535c3bf/oz5kqh67.png" width="637" height="73" alt="
X: 1
T: the Mint in the Corn
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: G
BcdB GABG | AD (3DDD cA FA | BcdB GABG | ADEF G3A |
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played variously in the key of D Major (Francie Dearg & Mickey ban O Beirn) or A Major (John Doherty & Danny O'Donnell). It is also called "Eamonn Coyne's Reel" after the Irish fiddler from Liverpool.
