The Fairies' Hornpipe
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Fairies’ Hornpipe" (Gaelic: "Crannciuil Na Siabraead/Sideog") is an<br> Irish, Hornpipe in G, also known as "An Leanbh Sidhe" and "The Faeries’".<br> Piper Seamus Ennis introduced the tune with a tale of a young man who learned<br> the tune from a fairy piper. The tune is derived not from the shee, but rather<br> from a duple-time air collected in the mid-19th century by Cork musicologist<br> P.W. Joyce called "Mór Chluana" (More of Cloyne). There is a connection with<br> fairies, however, since Mor was goddess of the fairy-folk around Cloyne,<br> County Cork.<br> It was printed in O'Neill's Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies (1903), O'Neill's<br> Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems (1907).<br> It was recorded by Seamus Ennis, Clannad, Mick Moloney, James Keane,<br> The Chieftains and others. Mick Moloney plays it in a medley with <br> "Alexander's Hornpipe".<br>
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