Annotation:Gallagher's Frolic (1)

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 GALLAGHER'S FROLIC [1]. AKA and see "Frieze Breeches (1)," "Gallagher's Lament," "Golliher's Frolic," "O'Gallagher's Frolics." Irish, Jig. D Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BBCCDDE. A variant of the well-known jig "Frieze Breeches (1)." "I have several settings of this fine tune (though not published), but none so good as this and the following version, which were both written by the same hand in the MS." (Joyce). O'Neill (Irish Folk Music) finds a third variant, a single jig setting, in Joyce's collection under the title "Breestheen Mira." Darley & McCall print a slow-air version in their Feis Ceoil Collection of Irish Airs (1914) as "Gallagher's Lament."  Source for notated version: unknown Limerick fiddler's manuscript, via Joyce.  Printed sources: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 350, pp. 160-161.  Recorded sources:

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