Annotation:Twilight Star (The)
X:1 T:Twilight Star, The M:2/4 L:1/16 R:Hornpipe B:O'Neill's Music of Ireland. 1850 Melodies, 1903, p. 305, no. 1641 Z:François-Emmanuel de Wasseige K:G D2|GBAF GDB,D|GBec d2ef|gfed cBAG|FGAB ADEF| GBAF GDB,D|GBec d2ef|gfgd ecAF|G2G2 G2:| |:(Bc)|d2dB g2gd|e2ec a2ag|f2fe (dc)BA|Bed^c d2B=c| d2dB g2gd|e2ec a2ag|fgfe dcBA|G2G2 G2:|]
TWILIGHT STAR, THE (Realt an clapsolais). AKA and see "Silver Star Hornpipe," "Star Hornpipe (4) (The)." Irish, Hornpipe (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was earlier printed in Boston by William Bradbury Ryan under the title "Silver Star Hornpipe." Paul de Grae notes, "The second part, or at least the first part of it, is like that of 'Goodnatured Man (The)'"[1].
