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I travelled this country round and round,
From city to city and seaport town;
But of all the fine places that ever I did see,
Cork and sweet Munster, ochone, for me.
(Joyce)
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Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Song), 1909; No. 7, pg. 6.
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(1909)
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K:F
F/G/|A2 AA AGFG|{A}f2e2f2 ef|g2 fe
dcAc|dfed c2 AB|c2 d>c c2 Ac|dfe>g f4|
A2 AA A<c (3BGF|G2 F2 F3||
CORK HILL. Scottish, Jig. A Major. Standard. AABBCCDD. Martin (Ceol na Fidhle, Vol. 3), 1988; pg. 2.
CORK HORNPIPE [1], THE. AKA and see
"Cincinnati Hornpipe
[1]," "Dundee Hornpipe,"
"Fred Wilson's Clog,"
"Granny Will Your
Dog Bite?" (Pa.), "Harvest
Home [1],” "Higgin's Hornpipe,"
"Kephart's Clog" (Pa.),
"Kildare Fancy," "Snyder's Jig" (Pa.), "Standard Hornpipe," "Wilson's Clog [1]," "Zig-Zag Hornpipe/Clog." Irish,
Hornpipe. D Major. Standard. ABB’ (Moylan): AABB (Levey, Roche). The name
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DAFD DAFA | dfed dcBA | eAfA gAfA | (3efd (3cdB (3ABG (3FGE |
DAFA DAFA | dfed dcBA | efge aece | d2d2d2 z2 :: eAAA fAAA |
gAAA aAAA | eA fA gA aA | (3efd (3cdB (3ABG (3FGE |
DAFA
DAFA | dfed dcBA | dfaf bgec | d2d2d2 z2 :|
CORK LASSES, THE. AKA and see “Conolon’s Dream,” "The Little Pig
Lamenting the Empty Trough," "An Claimh i Laimh," "Sally on the Shore,” “The Sword in (the) Hand." Irish,
Reel. E Minor. Standard. AAB. See also “Cork Rambler.”
Kennedy (Traditional Dance Music
of
CORK RAMBLER, THE. AKA and see “The Rambler in Cork.” Irish, Reel. G
Major. Standard. AB. The name
CORKONIAN. AKA and see "The Boys of
the Lake [2]," "Collins
Reel [1]," "Emminence
Breakdown," "Ike
Forrester's Reel [1]," "Merry
Blacksmith," "Paddy
on the Railroad," "Peeler's
Jacket [1]," "The Police
Jacket," "The
Shepherd in/on the Gap," "The
Policeman's Reel/Peeler's Reel,"
"The Railroad [2]." Irish,
Reel. D Major. Standard tuning. AABB. See also the variant recorded by the
great
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M:2/4
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R:Reel
S:Ryan’s Mammoth Collection (1883)
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:D
(3A/B/c/ | d(d/A/) B/A/F/G/ |
A/d/c/d/ B/A/F/G/ | A/c/d/e/ f/d/e/d/ | B/e/e B/e/e |
d(d/c/) B/A/F/G/ | A/d/c/d/ B/A/F/G/
| A/c/d/e/ f/d/e/c/ | d/B/A/F/ D :|
|: (f/g/) | “tr”a2 “tr”f2 | .d(d/A/)
B/A/F/G/ | A/c/d/e/ f/d/e/d/ | B/e/e B/e/e |
.a(a/g/) .f(f/e/) | .d(d/A/)
B/A/F/G/ | A/c/d/e/ f/d/e/c/ | d/B/A/F/ D :|
CORLAIERNE. The title, perhaps "Coleraine" or "Killarney,"
appears in a medley of tunes performed by accordionist John J.
"Dutch" Kimmel for Edison Records in 1920.
CORMAC NA PAIDIREACA. AKA and see "Charley
the Prayermaster."
CORN BOY, THE. AKA and see “Johnny McGreevey’s Favorite.”
Irish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning. AABB. Source for notated version:
students of
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M: 4/4
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S: Luke O'Malley Volume 1
Z: Transcribed by Bill Black
R: Reel
K: D
D2 FA d2 cA | BE{F}ED EFGB | Adde dcAd | cAGE
{F}EDCA, |
DEFA (3dcB cA | BE{F}ED EFGB | A2 de dcAd | cAGE
{F}ED D2 :|
|: aged cded | =cBcd efge | aged cded | cAGE
{F}ED D2 |
ed
(3efg agec | dcAB =c2 dc | (3ABA GE DFAd | cAGE {F}EDCA, :|
CORN BUNTING. See "Tullochgorum/Tulloch
Gorm."
CORN CUTTER [1], THE. Scottish, Reel. C Major. Standard tuning.
AABB. Composition credited to "Mr. Bernard" by Kerr. Kerr (Merry Melodies), Vol. 2; No. 97, pg. 13.
CORN CUTTERS [2], THE. Scottish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning. AABB. A different tune than “Corn Cutter [1]." A note in McGlashan says “Danc’d by Aldridge.” Aldridge was a famous stage dancer of the later 18th century. McGlashan (Collection of Scots Measures), c. 1780; pg. 35.
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N:”Danc’d by Aldridge”
K:D
A4 BABc|dcBA GFED|GABA GFED| CDEF E4| A4 BABc |
dcBA GFED | GBAG FEDC | D2 D2 D4 :|
|:fdcB ^ABAB | ecBA ^GAGA | defe dcBA | ^GABA E4 | AEAc BEBd |
cAce
d3c | def^g aecA | BABc A4 :|
CORN HILL, THE (Cnoc an Arbhair). AKA – “The Cornhill.” Irish, Reel.
D Dorian. Standard tuning. ABC. See also the related “Green Groves of Erin.” Source for
notated version: fiddler Jimmie McKeirnan, 1966 (Mohill, Co.
CORN-HUSKERS, THE. Old‑Time, Breakdown.
CORN ON THE COB. AKA and see "Logger's
Breakdown." American, Reel/Breakdown.
CORN RIGGS (ARE BONNY).
AKA and see “New Corn Riggs,” “Northern Song [1].” Scottish (originally),
Irish, English; Reel.
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The
tune, a Scottish Measure, dates from the 17th century and has had currency in
both "old" and "new" sets. The new set has words written to
it by the Scottish national poet Robert Burns, and is still popular, while an
"old set" of the tune was printed in the Panmure 9454 MS, Seventy‑Seven Dances, Songs and Scots
Airs for the Violin (c. 1675). Munro wrote a variation sonata based on the
tune published in 1732 (Collection of
Scots Tunes) and it was his idea to combine the Scottish air‑jig form
with the Italian sonata da camera. The melody was ascribed to Robert McIntosh
by Mr. John Glen who added it in hand in his copy soon after it was published
(in the McLean Collection by James
Johnson in
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Chappell (1859) asserts that the melody was taken from an English tune called "Sawney was tall and of noble race," a song in Thomas D'Urfey's play The Virtuous Wife (1680), although there was no music printed with the text. The “Sawney” melody is printed by Playford in Choice Ayres (vol. iii, pg. 9) along with D’Urfey’s words as “A Northern Song,” without the name of the composer. Emmerson (1971) also suggests the prototype for "Corn Riggs" is the melody "Sawney," which he says can be found in John Playford's Appolo's Banquet (Fifth Ed., 1687). Similarly, it was the opinion of G. Farquhar Graham, writing in The Popular Songs and Melodies of Scotland (Glasgow 1893), that "...setting aside historical evidence, of which there is plenty, whoever will look at the air without prejudice, must see that it has no Scottish characteristics whatever, and that its flowing English style is apparent from the first bar to the last." John Glen in Early Scottish Melodies (1900, pg. 51), admits the tune is “somewhat of an English character,” but still maintains it could have been a Scot imitating English style (as certainly did English composers of the Scottish). Allan Ramsay is credited with the name “Corn riggs are bonny” for the melody, which appears in his Tea Table Miscellany. Stenhoue believed that a much older Scottish song of “Corn Rigs” to the tune predated Ramsay’s. Glen (1900) thought this correct, from the fact that an entirely different tune in the Blaikie Manuscript (1692) is called “New Cornriges” (No. 104).
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Along
with the previously mentioned sources, other stage works incorporated the
melody; it was used, for example, by
Ramsay in his ballad opera The Gentle
Shepherd (1725), which was published three years before Gay's Beggar's Opera made the genre famous.
Also in England the piece was used as a vehicle for a polka step in the North‑West
Morris tradition (Wade), and the title appears in Henry Robson's list of
popular Northumbrian song and dance tunes, which he published c. 1800. It is
one of the "missing tunes" from William Vickers' 1770 manuscript of
Northumbrian melodies. Corn Rigs is also
the name of a country dance frequently taught by country dance masters in
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Set as a march, the melody was employed by the former King’s Own Royal Regiment, the 4th of Foot, which David Murray (Music of the Scottish Regiments, Edinburgh, 1994, pg. 206) says was “one of the regiments originally raised to garrison Tangier, part of the dowry brought by Princess Catherine of Braganza when she married King Charles II in 1660.” In modern times “Corn Riggs” is part of the medley of tunes (along with “D’yer Ken John Peel,” and “The Lass o’ Gowrie”) played since 1959 as the march past of the King’s Own Royal Border Regiment.
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Barnes
(English Country Dance Tunes, vol. 2),
2005; pg. 22. Emmerson (Rantin’ Pipe and
Tremblin’ String), 1971; No. 22, pg. 126. Hall & Stafford (Charlton Memorial Tune Book), 1974; pg.
22. Jarman, Old Time Fiddlin' Tunes;
No. or pg. 20. Kennedy (Fiddlers Tune
Book), vol. 1, 1951; No. 14, pg. 7. Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 1; No. 1, pg. 24. Lerwick (Kilted Fiddler), 1985; pg. 9. McGibbon (Scots Tunes, Book 1), c. 1762; pg. 28.
Miller & Perron (101 Polkas),
1978; No. 92. Miller & Perron (New
England Fiddler’s Repertoire), 1983; No. 79. Northumbrian Pipers' Tune Book, Vol. 2; pg. 2. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; pg.
165. Stewart-Robertson
(The Athole Collection), 1884; pg.
148. Sweet (Fifer’s Delight),
1964/1981; pg. 63. Wade (Mally’s North
West Morris Book), 1988; pg. 19. Williamson (English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish Fiddle Tunes), 1976; pg. 47. Topic 12TS382, New Victory Band ‑ "One More Dance
and Then" (1978, learned from
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|:dc de f2 ed|cB cd e2 A2|dc de fg ef|d2a2a2 (3ABc|dc de f2 ed|cB cd e2A2|
Bc dB ed cB|A2d2d2 (3ABc:|
|:d2a2 fga2|cB cd ec A2|d2a2 fg ef|d2 ab a2 (3ABc|d2a2 ba gf|gf ed cd eA|
Bc dB ed cB|A2d2d2A2:|
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T:Corn Rigs
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R:Country Dance
B:Stewart-Robertson – The Athole Collection (1884)
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D|G3A cBAG|FEFG A2D2|G3A BcAB|G2de d2D2|G3A cBAG|
FEFG A2D2|EFGE AGFE|D2G2G3:|
D|G2d2 BcdG|FEFG A2D2|G2dc BcAB|G2de d2D|G2d2 edcB|
cBAG F2D2|EFGE AGFE|D2G2G3D|G2d2 BcdG|FEFG A2D2|
G2 dc BcAB|G2de d2ef|gfed edcB|cBAG GFED|EFGE AGFE| D2G2G3||
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Riggs are Bonny
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N:”Lively”
S:McGibbon
– Scots Tunes, Book 1 (c. 1762)
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K:A
E2 | A3B
({A/B/}c2) (BA) | “tr”(G>FG)A B2E2 | A3B c>dcB | A2 (e>f) e2E2 |
(AG)(AB) c2
“tr”(BA) | “tr”(G>FG)A B2 (AG) | (F>GA)F (BA)(GF) | E2 (A>B) A2 :|
|: E2 | A2
e2 (cd) e2 | “tr”G3A B2E2 | A2 (ed) c>dcB | A2 (e>f) e2E2 | A2e2 (fe)(dc)
|
(dc)”tr”(BA)
(G>AB)G | (F>GA)F (BA)”tr”(GF) | E2 (A>B) A2 :|
|: E2 |
AGAB ce (d/c/)(B/A/) | “tr”(G>FG)A GABE | (AG)(AB) c(e/d/ c/d/c/B/) |
A2 e>f
e2E2 | (AG)AB ce (d/c/)(B/A/) | “tr”(GFG)A B2 “tr”(AG) | FGAF (BA)(GF) |
E2
(A>B)A2 :: E2 | A2 e2 (c/B/c/d/) eA |(GFG)A GABE | A2 (ed) (c/B/c/d/)
(c/d/c/B/) |
A2(e>f)e2E2
| (A/B/c/d/) eA (gf)”tr”(BA) (G(F/G/A/ B)G | F/(E/F/G/ A)F (BA)”tr”(GF) | E2
(A>B) A2 :|
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T:Sawney
was tall
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L:1/8
S:Playford
(1687)
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
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c2 cde2
dc|B3A d3G|c3d (ef) ed|c2g2g2G2|c3d e2 (dc)|B3A d2 (cB)|A3G AB cA|G2c2 c3c||
cc gg ef
g2|B2d2d3d|c2g2e3d|(cd) (ef) g3c|c2 gg (ag)(fe)|(dc)(BA) B2 AG|A3G ABcA|G2c2
c4||
CORN STACK. THE. Irish,
Reel. Composed by the late
CORN
STALK FIDDLE (AND SHOESTRING BOW). Old‑Time, Breakdown.
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Corn stalk fiddle, shoe string bow,
All they played was "Cotten Eyed Joe."
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Mississippi Department
of Archives and History AH‑002, Frank Kittrell (
CORN WHISKEY. Old‑Time, Breakdown.
CORNA AN tSLIABI. AKA and see "Roll
Her on the Mountain."
CORNBREAD, MOLASSES,
SASSAFRAS TEA. Old‑time.
CORNCRAKE, THE. Irish, Slow Air (4/4 time). G Major. Standard
tuning. AB. The melody has irregular measures in both parts. Composed by County
Cavan/Philadelphia fiddler and composer Ed Reavy (1898-1988). Reavy (The Collected Compositions of Ed Reavy),
No. 127, pg. 141.
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T:Corne, La
M:6/8
L:1/8
S:Daubat – Cent Contredanses en Rond (1757), No. 46
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gdB G3 | gdB G3 | gfe dcB | cBA G3 | DFA d3 | DFA d3 | d^cB AGF | GFE D3 :|
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dfa afd | afd B3 | agf edc | c3B3 | dBG ecA | fdf g3 | ege faf | g3G3 :|
CORNELIA’S REEL. Canadian, Reel.
CORNELIUS CURTIN'S BIG
BALLOON (Balún Mór Chonchúir
Mhic Cruitín).
AKA and see “Captain Holmes,” “Hide and Go Seek.” Irish, Jig. E
Minor. Standard tuning. AAB. Fiddler Con Curtain ran a pub for many years in
Fulham, south
CORNER HOUSE [1], THE (An Teach ar an gCoirnéal). Irish, Reel. A Dorian. Standard
tuning. AABB (Breathnach): AABB’ (Mulvihill): AA’BB’ (Harker/Rafferty).
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See also listings at: Jane Keefer’s Folk
Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources
Alan Ng’s Irishtune.info |
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T:Corner House, The [1]
R:reel
C:Martin “Junior” Crehan?
(1908-1998)
Z:id:hn-reel-71
Z:transcribed by henrik.norbeck@mailbox.swipnet.se
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EAAG ABcd|e2dB cAAG|EGGF G2AB|cABG
AGED|
EAAG ABcd|e2af gedB|d2Bd efge|1 dBGB
A2AG:|2 dBGB A2Bd||
|:eaag a2ga|bgab gedB|d2Bd
edBd|(3efg fa gdBd|
eaag a2ga|bgab gedB|d2Bd efge|1 dBGB
A2Bd:|2 dBGB A2AG||
CORNERHOUSE [2], THE. AKA and see “Dinny O’Brien’s [2].” Irish, Reel. G
Major. Standard tuning. AA’BB’. A variant of Breathnach’s “The Corner House
[1]." Source for notated version: accordion player Johnny O’Leary (Sliabh
Luachra region of the Cork-Kerry border) [Moylan]. Moylan (Johnny O’Leary), 1994; No. 315 (a), pgs. 180-181 & No. 335, pg.
190.
CORNER HOUSE [3]. AKA and see “Trip to Birmingham.”
CORNEY
DREW'S HORNPIPE (Crannciuil Crotuir
Uí Draeda). AKA
and see “Fitzgerald’s
Hornpipe [2].” Irish, Hornpipe. G Major. Standard tuning. AABB (O’Neill):
AA’BB’ (Breathnach). This tune is associated with the blind Irish fiddle master
Corney Drew, of the Sliabh Luachra region of the Cork/Kerry border. Caoimhin
Mac Aoidh remarks that there is “strong evidence” that Drew learned from a
fiddle player named O’Grady who moved to the region from
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Source for
notated version: piper Liam Ó Floinn (Kildare) [Breathnach/Man & his Music]; “Hartnett,” probably referring to Chicago
Police Sergeant Michael Hartnett whom O’Neill identified in Irish Minstels
and Musicians as a dancer originally from the Sliabh Luachra region who "was
born and brought up within a radius of a dozen miles or so of where the
Counties of Kerry, Cork and Limerick come together" [O’Neill]. A variant of “Corney Drew’s
Hornpipe” appears in Joyce's Old Irish Folk Music and Songs under the
title "Dwyer's Hornpipe"
with the note: "This was a great favourite as a dance tune, and I learned
it in boyhood from pipers and fiddlers” (Joyce was born in 1827 in Glenosheen,
Limerick, near the Cork border). Breathnach (The Man & his
Music), 1996; No. 6, pg. 104. O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; pg. 200. O'Neill (Music
of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903/1979; No. 1713, pg. 313. O'Neill (Dance
Music of
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Drew’s Hornpipe
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R:Hornpipe
S:Breathnach
(1996)
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G2 GE GABd|edef (3gfe df|edef (3gfe dB|AGAB (3cBA GE|
G2 GE GABd|edef (3gfe d2|(3efg dc BGAF|1 G2 GF GEDE:|2
G2 GF G2||
|:Bd|g3b aaga|(3bag af gedg|edef (3gfe dB|1 BAAG A2 Bd|g3b aaga|
(3bag af ge d2|(3efg dc BGAF|G2 GF G2:|2 AGAB BAGE|
G3E GABd|edef (3gfe d2|(3efg dc BGAF|G2 GF GEDE||
CORNEY IS COMING (“Tá Crotuir Ag Teacd” or “Tá Cornaí ag Teacht). AKA and see "The Barrack St. Boys," "The Bride(s) to Bed," "Brides Away," "The British Naggon," "Cheese It," "Crawford's Reel [1]," "I Saw Her," "Kelly's Reel," "Knit the Pocky," "Merry Bits of Timber," "Miss Wilson," "My Love is in America," "My Love is in the House [1],"
"Shannon Breeze [2],"
"Six Mile Bridge,” "Tom Fitzmaurice's Reel."
Irish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning. AB (Harker/Rafferty, O'Neill): AA'B
(Breathnach, Mitchell): AABB (Taylor/Tweed). “Corney is Coming” is usually
associated with uilleann pipers in modern times, sometimes called “The
Honeymoon Reel.” Goodman gives the tune as “The Bride to Bed,” “Brides to Bed”
and “My Love is in
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See also listings at: Jane Keefer’s Folk Music Index: An
Index to Recorded Sources Alan Ng’s Irishtune.info |
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S:O’Neill – Dance Music of
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c|Addc defd|cAGF EFGE|Dddc defa|gece
fdec|Addc defd|
cAGF EFGE|Dddc defa|gecd edd||c|defg
afdB|cdef gecA|
defg agfa|gecd eddf|afdf afdf|gece
gfge|defg abaf|gecd edd||
CORNFLOWER WALTZ. American, Waltz. American Heritage Music
Corporation AH-4-1-4, Harold Allen – “Fiddling Around” (on the album Allen is credited
with composing the tune).
CORNHILL DANCE. English, Scottish. F Major. Standard tuning. ABB’. The tune appears in
a 1799 collection by Thomas Calvert, a musician from
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T:Cornhill Dance
M:4/4
L:1/8
B:Calvert Collection Page 12/13
N:Cornhill is a village in
N:bridge from Coldstream
Z:P Whittaker
K:F
B | A>Fc>Fd>Fc>F |
A>F d/2c/2B/2A/2 BGGB | A>Fc>Fd>Fc>F |
{A}B2 GcAF [A,CF] || c | f>gag fdcf
| {d}cdfa g>fga |1 f>gag fdcf
|
agfe f2 f :|2 a>gb>f
g>df>c | {A}B2 GcAF [A,CF] ||
CORNIN’S. AKA and see “O’Keefe’s Plow.”
Cornin is undoubtedly 'Cronin'.
CORNISH FLORAL DANCE. English (
CORNISH FOUR-HAND REEL. English, Reel.
CORNISH QUICKSTEP. English (
CORNPHÍOPA AN
BHREATHNAIGH. AKA and see "Walsh's Hornpipe."
CORNPHÍOPA AN DREOILIN. AKA and see "The Wren's
Hornpipe."
CORNPHÍOPA AN
FLAITHEARTAIGH. AKA and see "Flaherty's Hornpipe."
CORNPHÍOPA AN TIARNAWILSON. AKA and
see “Lord Wilson’s.”
CORNPHÍOPA AN TÍOGAIR. AKA and see “Tiger Hornpipe.”
CORNPHÍOPA GHRÉAGÓRA. AKA and see “Gregory’s
Hornpipe.”