The Morning Star
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Morning Star" (in Gaelic "An Maidineog", "Réalt na Maidine") also known as<br> "The Belles of Omagh" is an Irish, English and American reel in G Major (most versions) or<br> F Major (Martin Hayes). The parts are played AA' (Harker/Rafferty), AB (Allan, Flaherty,<br> Tubridy), AAB (Kennedy, Miller & Perron, O'Neill/1850 & 1001, Raven, Stanford/Petrie, Tolman),<br> AA'BB (O'Neill/Krassen).<br> I found this in Krassen's edition of O'Neill some time ago and wrote is down on staff paper,<br> then got distracted and forgot about it. I rediscovered my copy and tracked it down.<br> The version given here is pretty close to Krassen's.<br> The reel is common to Irish repertory, but has been widely disseminated. It appears in the<br> large mid-19th century music manuscript collection of County Cork cleric and uilleann piper<br> Canon James Goodman as “The Morning Star”.<br> Variety stage performer and uilleann pipe master Patrick "Patsy" Touhey (1865-1923) made the<br> first sound recording of the reel in 1907. <br> It was printed in Flaherty's Trip to Sligo (1990), Harker's 300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty<br> (2005), Kennedy's Fiddlers Tune Book (1951), Kennedy's Traditional Dance Music of Britain<br> and Ireland: Reels and Rants (1997), McDermott's Allan's Irish Fiddler (c.1920’s),<br> Miller & Perron's New England Fiddler's Repertoire (1983), O'Neill's Music of Ireland: 1850<br> Melodies (1903), O'Neill's Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems (1907),<br> O'Neill (Krassen) (1976), Raven's English Country Dance Tunes (1984), Stanford/Petrie's<br> Complete Collection (1905), Tolman's Nelson Music Collection (1969), Tubridy's Irish<br> Traditional Music, Book Two (1999).<br> It was recorded by The Chieftains on The Chieftains (1978), Rodney Miller's Airdance (2000),<br> Martin Hayes (1993), Patsy Touhey on The Piping of Patsy Touhey (2005), Patsy Touhey on<br> Wheels of the World (1976), Aiden O'Rourke on Heat the Hoose (1998). <br>
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