The Threepenny Bit
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Threepenny Bit", in Gaelic "Cionog Tri-Pingin" or "Bonn Leat-Real", also known as<br> "Anderson's Reel", "Five Mile Chase", "Miss Lane's Fancy”, “My Love is on the Ocean",<br> "The New Mown Meadows", "Old Silver Spear", "The Silver Tip", "The Silver Spear",<br> "The Silver Top", "Sliabh Bána" or "The Top of the Cliff" is an Irish reel in<br> D Mixolydian. The parts are played AB (O'Neill/1850 & 1001) or AA'B (O'Neill/Krassen).<br> From the 16th to the 19th centuries a common term for a small piece of money,<br> especially the lowest denomination of silver coin, was ‘bit’.<br> A threepenny bit, or, in British English' "thrupenny bit" is a twelve-sided British<br> coin of nickel-brass, valued at three old pence, obsolete since 1971.<br> Despite the similarity in titles, this tune is not at all like<br> "The Tenpenny Bit"<br> which is a jig while this tune is a reel.<br> The tune is better known today as "The New Mown Meadows", a similar setting to that<br> printed by Francis O'Neill (1848-1936).<br> It was printed in Krassen's O'Neill's Music of Ireland (1976),<br> O'Neill's Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies (1903) and<br> O'Neill's Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems (1907).<br>
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