Breandán Breathnach (1 April 1912 – 6 November 1985) was an Irish music collector and Uilleann piper. He is best known for his Ceol Rince na hÉireann (Dance Music of Ireland) series.
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Recorded in Doolin, 1959. Some other items from this session were transcribed by Breandan Breathnach for his book Ceol Rince na hÉireann Vol. 2. The first hornpipe was published about a century ago by Francis Roche, in the key of F. In the syllabus for one of the early Feis Ceoil it is listed as a required tune for competitors in the fiddle competition, alongside much more prosaic items - Miss McLeod, Connaughtman's Rambles, et al. In the original setting the 5th bar of the first part contains arpeggios of quavers - cegc' bdgb/acea gbdg. Seamus or his father adapted the first three notes of each cluster of notes to triplets - 3)ceg c'(pause) 3)bdg b(pause) etc., to make the tune work on the chanter, as going straight from high C to low B is nigh impossible. Even so, this is an exceptionally difficult tune on the chanter. It was also recorded in the late 1920s on a 78 RPM record by Sligo fiddler James Morrison, in the original key of F.
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Recorded in Doolin, 1959. Some other items from this session were transcribed by Breandan Breathnach for his book Ceol Rince na hÉireann Vol. 2. The first hornpipe was published about a century ago by Francis Roche, in the key of F. In the syllabus for one of the early Feis Ceoil it is listed as a required tune for competitors in the fiddle competition, alongside much more prosaic items - Miss McLeod, Connaughtman's Rambles, et al. In the original setting the 5th bar of the first part contains arpeggios of quavers - cegc' bdgb/acea gbdg. Seamus or his father adapted the first three notes of each cluster of notes to triplets - 3)ceg c'(pause) 3)bdg b(pause) etc., to make the tune work on the chanter, as going straight from high C to low B is nigh impossible. Even so, this is an exceptionally difficult tune on the chanter. It was also recorded in the late 1920s on a 78 RPM record by Sligo fiddler James Morrison, in the original key of F.