Knocknagow Jig
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Knocknagow Jig", in Gaelic "Cnoc-Na-Gaba" or "Cnoc na nGaibhne" is an Irish<br> double jig in A Dorian ('A', 'B', and 'C' parts) and A Major ('D' part).<br> The parts are played AABB (Breathnach) or AABBCCDD (Carlin, O'Neill).<br> Breathnach prints "Knocknagow" as two separate tunes, versus O'Neill's four part tune.<br> The modern version, probably popularized by accordion player Joe Burke, differs from<br> O'Neill toward a more dorian mode setting.<br> Knocknagow was the name of an imaginary place by County Tipperary author Charles<br> Kickham (1826-82), an Irish Nationalist and Fenian. "Knocknagow,” or “The Homes of<br> Tipperary” was thought by O’Sullivan to be one of the finest tales of peasant life<br> ever written and Yeats described it as "The most honest of Irish novels".<br> It was printed in<br> Breathnach's Ceol Rince na hÉireann III (1985),<br> Bulmer & Sharpley's Music from Ireland, vol. 4 (1976),<br> Carlin's Master Collection (1984) (appears as "Baile Na Finne") and<br> Krassen's O'Neill's Music of Ireland (1976) and<br> O'Neill's Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies (1903).<br>
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