Annotation:Hare in the Corn (3)

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 HARE IN THE CORN [3], THE (An Giorria San Arbhar). AKA and see "Absent Minded Man (The)," "Fhiach an Mhada Rua," "Hare in the Corner," "House in the Corner (The)," "Hunt of the Hound and the Hare (The)," "Little House Around the Corner (1) (The)," "O As I Was Kiss'd Yestreen (2)," "Royal Irish Jig (The)." Irish, Double Jig. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB' : AABBCC (Kennedy, O'Farrell). O'Neill's names for the tune are "Absent Minded Man (The)," "House in the Corner (The)," "Little House Around the Corner (The)," "Royal Irish Jig (The)" and "O As I Was Kissed Yestreen." R.M. Levey also gives it as "House in the Corner (The)." Brendan Breathnach identifies the tune as the jig in the set piece "Hunt of the Hound and Hare (The)" in Feldman & O'Doherty's Northern Fiddler. He also remarks that Seamus Ennis employed a version of "Hare in the Corn" as an overture to programmatic piece "Foxhunt (The)." O'Neill (1922) remarks: "A rather florid setting of 'The Hare in the Corn', procured 'from a piper in 1800" is printed in Bunting's Ancient Music of Ireland, published in 1840, with notation 'Author and date unknown'. The name is not indexed in any of the Petrie or Joyce Collections. The setting X:1 below was taken from Galwegian publisher James Aird's Selections of Scotch, English, Irish, and Foreign Airs, vol. 5 (1797). Identical to Aird's version is the one contained in the John Rook (Wigton area, Cumbria) manuscript, 1840. American versions of the tune can be found in print and in manuscript collections. In America, the jig appears in the music manuscript collection of flute player Henry Beck (1786), John Gaylord Jr. (Conn., 1816), Luther Kingsley (Mansfield, Conn., 1755), and Whittier Perkins (Mass., 1790). It also appears in the c. 1785 music manuscript collection of 'pastoral' piper John Sutherland, of Aberdeenshire (the pastoral pipes were a precursor to the smallpipes). The jig is also known as 'The Hare in the Corner.'" Miller prints a variant with a different 'B' part.   Source for notated version: fiddler Paddy Glackin (Donegal, Ireland) [Breathnach].   Printed sources: Breathnach (CRÉ III), 1985; No. 19, p. 10. Kennedy (Traditional Dance Music of Britain: Jigs & Quicksteps, Trips & Humours), 1997; No. 55, p. 14. Miller (Fiddler's Throne), 2004; No. 54, p. 43. O'Farrell (Pocket Companion, vol. 1); c. 1805; p. 77. O'Neill (Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody), 1922; No. 171 {reprinted from Aird}.   Recorded sources: Gael-Linn Records CEF 060, Paddy Glackin - "Ceol ar an bhFidil" (1977). Gael-Linn CEF060, "Paddy Glackin."

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