X: 330
T: the Scholar
B: O'Neill's "Waifs and Strays" #330 p.171
R: hornpipe
%S: s:8 b:26(6+6+6+6)
S: John Kelly, San Francisco
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: D
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V: 1 staves=2
(3ABc |\
(df)af (gf)eg | (fd)AG (FG)Ac | BGBG E2 (ef) | (gfe)c dcBA || defa (g2 fg) | ecAG (FG)Ac |
BGBG E2 ef | gfec d2 :: A2 | dfaf dfaf | db (3bbb bagf | gfed cded | cded cABc ||
dfaf dfaf | db (3bbb bagf | gfef gbag | (3fga ec d2 :: fa | (3aaa fd Adfa | (3aaa fa bafa |
(3ggg ec A2 (eg) | (3ggg eg bafa || (3aaa (fd) Adfa | (3aaa (fa) bafa | gfef (gb)ag | (3fga (ec) d2 :|
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% Voice 2 preserves the staff layout in the book.
Z: 2022 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu> [V:2]
V:2 clef=bass middle=d
z2 |\
[d2D2][d'2f2] e2[c'2a2] | d2[a2f2] A2[a2f2] |\
G2[b2g2] a2[c'2a2] | e2[c'2a2] [g2G2][b2g2] ||\
[d2D2][d'2f2] e2[c'2a2] | d2[a2f2] A2[a2f2] |
G2[b2g2] a2[c'2a2] | e2[c'2a2] [d'2d2] :: z2 |\
[d2D2][d'2f2] A2[d'2f2] | G2[b2g2] d2[b2g2] |\
A2[c'2a2] e2[c'2a2] | A2[c'2a2] e2[c'2a2] ||
[d2D2][d'2f2] A2[d'2f2] | G2[b2g2] d2[b2g2] |\
A2[c'2a2] e2[c'2a2] | A2[c'2a2] [d'2d2]  :: z2 |\
[d2D2][a2f2] d2[a2f2] | [d2D2][a2f2] d2[a2f2] |
A2[c'2a2] e2[c'2a2] | A2[c'2a2] e2[c'2a2] ||\
[d2D2][a2f2] d2[a2f2] | [d2D2][a2f2] d2[a2f2] |\
a2[c'2a2] e2[c'2a2] | a2[c'2a2] [d'2d2] :|
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%% Long before I had any idea of publishing a work of this character,
%% the fame of John Kelly, and Joseph P. Tamony, as phenomenal
%% fiddlers, had reached Chicago. The measured score of their tunes,
%% for which I am indebted to our mutual friend Francis E. Walsh of
%% San Francisco, is incapable of doing justice to the spirit and
%% excellence of their execution, for all gifted Irish musicians
%% instinctively embellish their performance with peculiar trills, turns
%% and graces, more easily recognized than described.
%%endtext
%%begintext align
%%    "The Scholar" was first printed in Levey's Dance Music of
%% Ireland, Vol.1, London 1858; and not since then until the publication
%% of the O'Neill Collections in recent years. The tune seems to have=
%% been a favorite with fiddlers and pipers of Longford, Leitrim and
%% Roscommon, as early as the second quarter of the 19th Century;
%% and, by the way, our talented contributor Mr Kelly hails from the
%% latter county.
%%endtext