| Title | The Humors of Bantry | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alternate titles | The Humours of Bantry The Coach Road to Sligo Fire on the Mountain Fire in the Valley The Rose on the Mountain The Hare on the Mountain The Eagle's Nest Billy Patterson's Favorite Boys of Bockhill The Blackthorn Stick The Catholic Boys | |||
| Composer | Traditional Irish | |||
| Instrumentation | Flute solo |     | ||
| Key | G major | |||
| Range | D4–B5 | |||
| Time signature | 6/8 | |||
| Tempo | 92 BPM | |||
| Performance time | 0:45 | |||
| Difficulty level | easy | |||
| Download printable score | PDF Sheet Music (61 kB) (preview) | |||
| Download audio tracks | MIDI (change tempo/key) MP3 (352 kB) | |||
| Date added | 2021-09-11 | |||
| Last updated | 2021-09-11 | |||
| Download popularity index |  0.00 (no recent downloads) | |||
| Categories |
Jigs, Traditional/Folk | |||
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American musicologist Samuel Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle, March to the Fife, 1981) calls this tune a “thoroughly characteristic Irish jig, probably of no great age”. Its earliest known appearance is in Francis O'Neill's collection Music of Ireland, published in Chicago in 1903.
