Byrne's Hornpipe
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Byrne's Hornpipe" (in Gaelic "Cornphíopa Uí Bhrion" or "Crannciuil Ui Broin"), also<br> known as "Bryant's Favorite Hornpipe" or "Tommy Hill's Favorite" is an Irish hornpipe<br> in D Major or D Mixolydian. The parts are played AABB.<br> The alternate title "Bryant's<br> Favorite" comes from early recordings by New York accordion player John J. Kimmel.<br> Renowned County Sligo fiddler Michael Coleman (1891-1945) recorded the tune in New York<br> in 1927, the first tune in a medley with "Tommy Hill's Favourite" by which name it is<br> sometimes (erroneously) called. It was also recorded on a 78RPM by the old Ballinakill<br> Ceili Band of Galway in the early 1930's. Flute player Mike Rafferty says that Byrne was<br> from the same east County Galway parish as were the Rafferty family. <br> The reel was collected in the Slieve Gullion region of south County Armagh by the<br> Rev. Luke Donnellan (1878-1952), a rector at Dromintee, who published a collection of<br> over 100 tunes, mostly reels, in 1909 in an article entitled "Oriel Songs and Dances" in<br> The Journal of the County Louth Archaeological Society vol. II, No. 2.<br> It was printed in Anderson's Anderson's Budget of Strathspeys, Reels & Country Dances (1820)<br> (as "Birnes Hornpipe"), Kerr's Merry Melodies vol. 3 and Williamson's English, Welsh,<br> Scottish and Irish Fiddle Tunes (1976). <br>
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