Annotation:Ewe with the Crooked Horn (3) (The)

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 EWE WITH THE CROOKED HORN [3]. Irish, Reel. Ireland, County Cork. A Minor (O'Farrell, Cowdery): A Dorian (Stanford/Petrie). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Stanford/Petrie): AAB (Cowdery). A variant of the melody that appears to have a Scottish provenance, originally as a strathspey, It is, asserts Cowdery (1990), a development of that air usually set to the old Irish ballad "Boyne Water (1)." It appears in c. 1804-10 in piper O'Farrell's collection (London) and in O'Neill as "Flowers of Limerick (1) (The)" a reel. Petrie added a penciled note, "Hornpipe" in his manuscript.  Source for notated version: "From P. Carew's MS" [Stanford/Petrie].  Printed sources: Cowdery (The Melodic Tradition of Ireland), 1990; Ex. 46, p. 118. O'Farrell, 1804-10; p. 131. Stanford/Petrie (Complete Collection), 1905; No. 918, p. 233.  Recorded sources:  See also listing at: Alan Ng's Irishtune.info

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