Annotation:Supple Dancer (The)

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X:1 T:The Supple Dancer M:C| L:1/8 R:Hornpipe S:O'Neill's Music of Ireland. 1850 Melodies, 1903, p. 306, no. 1646 Z:François-Emmanuel de Wasseige K:G d>c|(3BdB G>B c>AF>A|a>fg>e d>cB>A|(3BdB G>B c>BA>G|F>Ad>f e>dc>A| (3BdB G>B c>AF>A|a>fg>e d>cB>A|(3BdB (3GAB c>AF>A|G2B2 G2:| |:B>c|d2g2 f2e2|(3ded (3cBA G2F2|Eedc BAGF|AGFE D2 B>c| d2g2 f2e2|(3ded (3cBA G2F2|Eedc BAGF|A2G2 G2:|]



SUPPLE DANCER, THE (An rinceoir luat). Irish, Hornpipe (cut time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. James O'Neill's researcher and biographer, Caoimhin Mac Aoidh, is of the opinion this tune was one of a few that James O'Neill himself composed and that it was perhaps named for his next-door neighbor, Chicago Police Sergeant Michael Hartnett (also the source for a few tunes in the O'Neill collections). Curiously, it was not included in Francis O'Neill's followup volume, Dance Music of Ireland (1907).


Additional notes
Source for notated version : - J. O'Neill [O'Neill]. Chicago police Sergeant James O'Neill was a musically literate fiddler originally from County Down. He served as Francis O'Neill's transcriber and collaborator on his early volumes.

Printed sources : - O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; p. 184. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 1646, p. 306.






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