View source for Annotation:I'll Make My Love a Breast of Glass

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|f_annotation='''I'LL MAKE MY LOVE A BREAST OF GLASS''' (Deanfaim brollac gloine dom grad). Irish, Air (3/4 time). G Major (O'Neill): F Minor (Haverty, Stanford/Petrie): G Minor (Howe). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Note the difference in tonalities between Howe/Petrie and O'Neill. Paul de Grae remarks that Howe and Petrie's minor mode versions are exact transpositions of one another, while O'Neill's setting is a duplicate of Howe's, but in a major mode (from G minor to G major). "Whether a mistake or creative misreading," writes Paul, "the result is a perfectly idiomatic melody"<ref>Paul de Grae, "The Rambles of the Pitchfork: evidence for "creative misreading " of traditional tunes", July, 2015.</ref>.  
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The air is associated with a song known under various names throughout the English-speaking world. One version of the relevant verse (from the Arkansas song "Breast O'Glass"):
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''I wish my breast was made of glass,''<br>
''Wherein you might behold ''<br>
''Your name engraved upon my heart,''<br>
''With letters lined with gold.''<br>
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|f_source_for_notated_version="From Bet Skilling" [Stanford/Petrie]. 
|f_printed_sources=P.M. Haverty ('''One Hundred Irish Airs vol. 2'''), 1858; No. 159, p. 72. Howe ('''1000 Jigs and Reels'''), c. 1867; p. 98. O'Neill ('''Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies'''), 1903; No. 518, p. 90. Stanford/Petrie ('''Complete Collection'''), 1905; No. 622, p. 156. 
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