Thursday 12 November 2026
Tune of the Day: The Dusty Miller
Traditional slip jig
This 9/8-time jig was taken from Francis O'Neill's collection The Dance Music of Ireland, published in Chicago in 1907. It had previously been entered, in a very similar form, into the large mid-19th century music manuscript collection of Canon James Goodman, who collected from musicians in County Cork, Ireland.
At its core, however, this melody is much older, almost certainly having derived from a Scottish 6/8-time jig known as “Binny's Jig”, which is found in the Blaikie Manuscript of 1692.