Hornpipe #14: Byrne's Hornpipe
Thanks to my friend Cathy, I have a camera for the next couple of days! I've been busy, trying to get a couple of tunes recorded so I can give her the camera back. Is that why my tempos were so fast tonight?
I don't know much about Byrne's hornpipe, historically speaking. I think of it as being a fairly well-known tune, so I was surprised to find that I had only two recordings of it. I learned a version at sessions (in Michigan or Chicago) which matched pretty well to written sources, but when I went to compare to recordings, I found that both Leo Rowsome and Donal Clancy agree on some phrases that are nothing like what I would have called the standard version. Most pointedly, the last two measures of the A&B phrases are high in the standard version (my first time through) and low in the Leo Rowsome version. (Did you know his 78's are on archive.org?)
I don't know much about Byrne's hornpipe, historically speaking. I think of it as being a fairly well-known tune, so I was surprised to find that I had only two recordings of it. I learned a version at sessions (in Michigan or Chicago) which matched pretty well to written sources, but when I went to compare to recordings, I found that both Leo Rowsome and Donal Clancy agree on some phrases that are nothing like what I would have called the standard version. Most pointedly, the last two measures of the A&B phrases are high in the standard version (my first time through) and low in the Leo Rowsome version. (Did you know his 78's are on archive.org?)
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