| Title | The Swallow's Tail | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alternate titles | Miss Wright's Reel Molly's Nightcap The Swallow Tail Coat The Swallowtail The Triumphant Puppy The Steeplechase Take your Hand Away | |||
| Composer | Traditional Irish | |||
| Instrumentation | Flute solo |     | ||
| Key | A minor | |||
| Range | G4–B5 | |||
| Time signature | 2/2 | |||
| Tempo | 84 BPM | |||
| Performance time | 0:45 | |||
| Difficulty level | intermediate | |||
| Download printable score | PDF Sheet Music (47 kB) (preview) | |||
| Download audio tracks | MIDI (change tempo/key) MP3 (383 kB) | |||
| Date added | 2015-01-17 | |||
| Last updated | 2015-01-17 | |||
| Download popularity index |   0.4 (below average) | |||
| Categories |
Celtic Music, Reels, Traditional/Folk | |||
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This reel is known under many different titles, including “The Steeplechase”, “Take your Hand Away” and “Molly's Nightcap”. In his book Between the Jigs and the Reels (1994), Caoimhin Mac Aoidh states the tune is more correctly called in County Donegal the “Swallow's Tail Coat”, named after the long split-tail coats dancing masters wore.
This reel is often paired with “The Green Fields of America”.
