Alexander's Hornpipe
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Alexander's Hornpipe", also known as "Alexander's Favourite",<br> "Byrne's Hornpipe", "Byth Ar Y Sul", "Goswick Kirn", <br> "Prunoble’s" and "The Sandlark" is an Irish hornpipe in D.<br> The tune appears as "Byrne's Hornpipe" in the Feis Ceoil Collection of<br> Traditional Irish Music (1914). O'Neill printed it in 1903 in his<br> Music of Ireland, but omitted it from his 1907 Dance Music of Ireland.<br> An early version of the hornpipe can be found in the music manuscript<br> copybook of fiddler John Burks under the title "Prunoble's Hornpipe".<br> I can't find any reference to who Alexander was.<br> It was printed in McDermott's Allan's Irish Fiddler (c. 1920's) as<br> "Alexander's Favourite", Moylan's Johnny O'Leary of Sliabh Luachra (1994),<br> O'Neill's Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies (1903), Ryan's Mammoth<br> Collection (1883) and Sing Out, vol. 34, no. 4, Fall 1989. <br> It is an interesting and distinctive tune with lots of triplets. They make it<br> a bit challenging but it's worth the effort. Some versions begin with<br> an ascending triplet ABc instead of the descending gfe.<br> It was recorded by Tommy Reck, Sláinte, Paddy Reynolds, John McKenna,<br> Seamus Ennis, Boys Of The Lough, Mick Maloney and others.<br> I learned it from Mick Maloney on his album Mick Maloney with Eugene O'Donnell.<br> They play it in a medley with "The Fairies Hornpipe".<br>
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