View source for Annotation:Dark Girl Dressed in Blue (3) (The)

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|f_annotation='''DARK GIRL DRESSED IN BLUE [3], THE''' (An Cailín Dubh i bhFeisteas Gorm). AKA and see "[[This is No My Ain Lassie (2)]]." Irish, Polka (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. This polka is from the northern Irish tradition (i.e. Sligo/Roscommon/Leitrim) rather than the southern Kerry polkas that are more frequently heard. A odd version by Ontario fiddle Dawson Girdwood was set in the key of 'E' Major. See also note for "[[annotation:This is No My Ain Lassie (2)]]" for more on this polka family.
|f_printed_sources=Bégin ('''Fiddle Music in the Ottawa Valley: Dawson Girdwood'''), 1985; No. 74, p. 84 (appears as "The Girl Dressed in Blue").
Breathnach ('''CRÉ 3'''), 1985; No. 75, p. 36.
Bulmer & Sharpley ('''Music from Ireland, vol. 3'''), 1974; No. 82.
Cranitch ('''The Irish Fiddle Book'''), p. 116.
Paul Deloughery ('''Sliabh Luachra on Parade'''), 1980; No. 69. 
Harker ('''300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty'''), 2005; No. 286, p. 92.
Mallinson ('''100 Irish Polkas'''), 1997; No. 5, p. 3.
Miller & Perron ('''Irish Traditional Fiddle Music'''), 1977; vol. 3, addenda (appears as "The Dark Girl").
Miller & Perron ('''Irish Traditional Fiddle Music'''), 2nd Edition, 2006; p. 128.
Moylan ('''Johnny O'Leary of Sliabh Luachra'''), 1994; No. 56, p. 33.
Taylor ('''Music for the Sets: Blue Book'''), 1995; p. 23.
Tubridy ('''Irish Traditional Music, vol. 1'''), 1999; p. 11.
|f_recorded_sources=Claddagh CC5, Denis Murphy & Julia Clifford – "The Star Above the Garter" (appears as "The Dark Girl").
Folktrax-074, John Doherty – "The Pedlar's Pack."
Shanachie 33004, "The Pure Genius of James Morrison" (1978).
Frankie Gavin – "Croch Suas E/Up and Away."
|f_see_also_listing=Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [https://www.irishtune.info/tune/464/]<br />
|f_tune_annotation_title=https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Dark_Girl_Dressed_in_Blue_(3)>
|f_sources_for_notated_versions=a flute duet by James Morrison (County Sligo, Ireland) and John McKenna [Breathnach]; accordion player Johnny O'Leary (Sliabh Luarchra region of the Cork-Kerry border), recorded in recital at Na Píobairí Uileann, February, 1981 [Moylan]; set dance music recorded at Na Píobairí Uilleann, late 1980's [Taylor]; Patsy Hanly [Bulmer & Sharpley]; fiddler Dawson Girdwood (Perth, Ottawa Valley, Ontario) [Bégin]; New Jersey flute player Mike Rafferty, born in Ballinakill, Co. Galway, in 1926 [Harker].
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