The Galway Hornpipe
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Galway Hornpipe", also known as "The Baldheaded Bachelor", "Dan Lowry's", "McDermott's Hornpipe",<br> "McDanaugh's Clog" or "McDonaugh's Clog" is an Irish hornpipe in D Major.<br> The parts are played AABB (Allan, Bain, Cranitch, Mallinson) or AABB' (Mulvihill).<br> "The Baldheaded Bachelor" is very similar to this tune but it is in G Major, not D Major.<br> The tune appears as the first two parts of a four-part hornpipe recorded under the title "McDermott's"<br> in New York in 1922 by County Sligo fiddler Michael Coleman.<br> The hornpipe has been absorbed into the contra dance and Cape Breton repertoires.<br> Coleman recorded the tune for OKeh records, an unusual issue for the company who specialized in jazz<br> and popular music (as well as early country music).<br> It was printed in Allan's Irish Fiddler,<br> Bain's 50 Fiddle Solos (1989),<br> Brody's Fiddler's Fakebook (1983),<br> Cranitch's The Irish Fiddle Book (1996),<br> Mallinson's 100 Enduring (1995),<br> Miller & Perron's Irish Traditional Fiddle Music (1977, 2006),<br> Mulvihill's 1st Collection (1986) and<br> Phillips' Fiddle Case Tunebook: British Isles (1989) (as "McDermott's Hornpipe").<br> It was recorded by Fennig's All Stars on The Hammered Dulcimer,<br> Cherish the Ladies on The Back Door (1992),<br> Jean Carignan on Jean Carignan Plays Coleman, Morrison, and Skinner and<br> Andy McGann and Paul Brady on It's A Hard Road to Travel.<br>
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