Friday 27 May 2016
Tune of the Day: Dromey's Fancy
Traditional Irish jig
This E-minor jig is taken from Francis O'Neill's collection Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody, published in 1922, in which it is referred to as “a superior variant of ‛The Dancing Master’”. The tune is also closely related to “The Swallowtail Jig”, but while the two “A” parts are almost identical, “Dromey's Fancy” offers what many consider a more interesting “B” part.