Bantry Bay Hornpipe
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Bantry Bay", in Gaelic "Cuain Beantraige", also known "James McKenney's Hornpipe",<br> "Little Stack of Wheat" or "Union Hornpipe" is an Irish hornpipe in cut time and G Major.<br> The parts are played ABB (Miller & Perron, Moylan) or AABB (Allan's, Miller & Perron/2006,<br> O'Neill, Tubridy).<br> Collector and compiler Captain Francis O'Neill was quite taken by the tune, calling it<br> "one of the most delightful traditional hornpipes in existence".<br> The name Bantry is derived from the Gaelic ben, meaning 'horn' and refers to mountains;<br> thus, Bantry is 'the peaks by the sea shore.' Bantry Bay is<br> off the west coast of Ireland, at County Galway. The tune closely shares melodic<br> material with "An TSeanbhean Bhocht" and "Tomeen O'Dea's Reel," with which it is paired<br> in the Tubridy book.<br> Perhaps the earliest appearances of the melody are in the music manuscript collections<br> of Lake District (Cumbria) musician William Irwin (c. 1838) as "James McKenney's<br> Hornpipe" and County Cork Church of Ireland cleric James Goodman's mid-19th century<br> manuscripts, under the title "Union Hornpipe".<br> It was printed in McDermott's Allan's Irish Fiddler (c. 1920's),<br> Miller & Perron's Irish Traditional Fiddle Music (1977) and<br> Irish Traditional Fiddle Music, 2nd Edition (2006),<br> Moylan's Johnny O'Leary of Sliabh Luachra (1994),<br> O'Neill's O'Neill's Irish Music (1915),<br> Krassen's O'Neill's Music of Ireland (1976),<br> O'Neill's Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies (1903),<br> O'Neill's Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems (1907),<br> Phillips' Fiddle Case Tunebook: British Isles (1989) and<br> Tubridy's Irish Traditional Music, vol. 1 (1999).<br> It was recorded by Michael Coleman & P.J. Dolan (1927) (78 RPM),<br> Dexter et al on Over the Water (1993),<br> Michael Coleman (1934) (78 RPM),<br> Frank Ferrel on Yankee Dreams: Wicked Good Fiddling from New England (1991),<br> Martin Byrnes on Martin Byrnes (1969),<br> The West Orrtanna String Band on An Orrtanna Home Companion (1978),<br> Michael Coleman & P.J. Dolan et al on Round the House and Mind the Dresser: Irish<br> Country-House Dance Music.<br> <br>
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