The New Mown Meadow
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The New Mown Meadow", also known as "The New Mown Meadows", "Anderson's Reel",<br> "Miss Lane's Fancy", "Old Silver Spear", "The Threepenny Bit", "The Top of the Cliff",<br> "The Silver Tip", "My Love is on the Ocean", "The Silver Spear", "Holly Bush" or<br> "Joe Mháire Mhicilín" is an Irish reel in A Dorian, D Dorian {Joyce} or<br> E Dorian ('A' part) & A Mixolydian ('B' part). The parts are played AB (Joyce) or<br> AA'BB' (Moylan).<br> There are different versions of this tune, although generally it is played in either<br> the keys of A Dorian or E Dorian, less frequently heard in D Dorian. The tune is<br> often associated with<br> "The Silver Spear"<br> which it resembles, especially in the second strain. It is popular in County Clare<br> and has been a favorite of melodeon players.<br> P.W. Joyce, who collected in Munster in the mid-1800's and first published the tune<br> said that it was "written from memory". This is the same period (and, broadly, region) that<br> Church of Ireland cleric James Goodman (1828-1896), of Cork, collected in and he<br> included the melody twice in his manuscript collection, under the titles "The Top<br> of the Cliff" and "The Silver Top".<br> It was printed in Bulmer & Sharpley's Music from Ireland, vol. 2 (1974),<br> Joyce's Old Irish Folk Music and Songs (1909),<br> Moylan's Johnny O'Leary of Sliabh Luachra (1994) and<br> Songer & Clyde Curley's Portland Collection vol. 3 (2015).<br> It was recorded by Denis Murphy & Julia Clifford on The Rushy Mountain (1994),<br> Noel Hill & Tony MacMahon on I gCnoc Na Graí/In Knocknagree and<br> Christy Moore on The Iron Behind the Velve (1978).<br>
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