The Reaper Of Glenree
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Reaper of Glanree" is an Irish set dance in 4/4 time and E minor.<br> The title (as “Reaper of Dunree”) appears in a list of tunes in his<br> repertoire brought by Philip Goodman, the last professional and traditional piper in<br> Farney, Louth, to the Feis Ceoil in Belfast in 1898. While mostly traditional in his<br> repertoire, Goodman regularly played several novelty or ‘popular’ tunes.<br> It is not known whether Bulmer & Sharpley's tune is the same as the one<br> Goodman played and there may have been other tunes by this name. A notice with the set<br> dance in thesession.com attributes the tune to North Belfast violinist, dancer, teacher<br> and choreographer Patricia Mulholland (1915-1992). <br> The melody is similar to "Dunmore Lasses".<br> The A part has the standard eight measures but the B part has a very unusual twenty measures.<br> "The Reaper of Glanree" is also the name of an Irish nationalist poem by John Keegan Casey<br> which was published in 1866.<br> It was printed in Bulmer & Sharpley's Music from Ireland, vol. 2 (1974). <br> It was recorded by Ensemble Galilei on Music in the Great Hall (1992). <br>
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