Annotation:Frost and Snow

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 FROST AND SNOW (Sioc agus Sneacd). AKA and see "In comes great Bonaparte with Forty Thousand Men." Irish, Hornpipe. A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody was employed as an air in "In comes great Bonaparte with Forty Thousand Men," which George Petrie (1790-1866) obtained from a younger collector, P.W. Joyce (1827-1914).  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; p. 196. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 1695, p. 315.  Recorded sources:

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