Genre Categories | Hornpipes; Dances; For treble instrument; |
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Work Title | Fiddlers Contest |
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Alternative. Title | The Fiddler's Conquest |
Composer | O'Neill, Francis |
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. | IFO 18 |
Key | A major |
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period | Romantic |
Piece Style | Romantic |
Instrumentation | treble instrument |
Extra Information | Published in Irish Folk Music (No.1711), collected from Edward Cronin Tune Archive Researcher Fr. John Quinn finds "The Fiddler's Contest" to be the first and third strains of American minstrel and variety performer George H. Coes' (1828-1897) composition "Crooked Leg Reel," printed in his Coes Album of Jigs and Reels (New York, 1876, p. 38). |