Sheet Music: Humors of Clare

TitleHumors of Clare
Alternate titlesThe Humours of Clare
Old Clare Jig
The Cat's Bagpipes
Jackson's Rolling Jig
Jackson's Roller
Jackson's Rowling Pin
ComposerTraditional Irish
InstrumentationFlute solo
KeyD major
RangeC♮4–D5
Time signature6/8
Tempo100 BPM
Performance time1:00
Difficulty leveleasy
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Date added2025-08-01
Last updated2025-08-01
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Jigs, Traditional/Folk

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Friday 1 August 2025

Tune of the Day: Humors of Clare

Traditional Irish jig

The earliest version of this tune can be found in Bartholomew Cooke's Collection of Favourite Country Dances for 1797 (Dublin, 1797), under the title “Jackson's Rowling Pin”. It had evolved into “Humors of Clare” by the time it was included in Francis O'Neill's collection The Dance Music of Ireland (Chicago, 1907). Patrick Weston Joyce printed a four-part version of the same tune in his Old Irish Folk Music and Songs (London and Dublin, 1909) as “The Cat's Bagpipes”.

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