Annotation:Man from Gleanntán
X:1 T:Man from Glountane, The S:Terry Teahan, whose title honors his music teacher Pádraig O'Keeffe. M:C| L:1/8 R:Hornpipe K:D AG|FDFA dAFA|(3Bcd ed cBAG|FDFA dAFA|(3Bcd AF E2 AG| FDFA dAFA|(3Bcd ed cBAG|FDFA BGEC|D2 DD D2:| |:(3Bcd|e2 ed e2f2|eaaa gedB|(3cBA FA dAFA|(3Bcd AF E2 AG| FDFA dAFA|(3Bcd ed cBAG|FDFA BGEC|D2 DD D2:|
MAN FROM GLEANNTÁN. AKA "Man from Glountane (The)." Irish, Hornpipe. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Man from Glountane" was composed by Terry 'Cuz' Teahan (1905–1989), originally from Castleisland, County Kerry, but who loved much of his life in Chicago. Before he left Ireland he was a pupil of Sliabh Luachra fiddle teacher Pádraig O'Keeffe (1887–1963); he wrote this tune in honor of the anniversary of O'Keeffe's birthday, October 8th, 1972. However, the tune is quite close (and structurally identical) to "Cupido Hornpipe," printed in Ryan's Mammoth Collection in 1883, save for the first four measures of the second strain. It may be that Teahan's tune is derivative of the older melody, consciously produced or not.
