Annotation:Captain Higgins: Difference between revisions

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|f_annotation='''CAPTAIN HIGGINS'''. Irish, Air or Planxty (cut time - A & B parts, 6/8 time C & D parts). A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Thompson): ABCD (O'Sullivan). Composed by blind Irish harper Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738). Hardiman states that Captain Higgins was from County Mayo, and "a brave old soldier, well known in his day." O'Sullivan finds a William Higgins who rose to the rank of Captain in the Royal Irish Dragoons (d. 1759), who may be the person honored by the air.  

|f_source_for_notated_version=Broderip & Wilkinson ('''A Favourite Collection of the so much Admired old Irish Tunes, the Original & Genuine Compositions of Carolan the Celebrated Irish Bard'''), London, c. 1804; No. 14, p. 6 (jig).<ref>This appears to be a plagiarized reissue of Lee’s or Mulhollan's volumes, without the names of tunes, only numbers.  </ref>.  John Lee's '''A Favourite Collection of the som much admired old Irish Tunes, the original and genuine compositions of Carolan, the celebrated Irish Bard''' (Dublin, 1780) [O'Sullivan].

|f_printed_sources='''Complete Collection of Carolan's Irish Tunes''', 1984; No. 57, pp. 54-55. John Lee ('''A Favourite Collection of the so much admired old Irish Tunes, the original and genuine compositions of Carolan'''), Dublin, 1780; pp. 5-6.  O'Sullivan ('''Carolan: The Life, Times and Music of an Irish Harper'''), 1958, No. 57, p. 132. Samuel, Ann & Peter Thompson ('''The Hibernian Muse'''), 1787; No. 85, p. 53 [http://ks.imslp.net/files/imglnks/usimg/8/84/IMSLP74401-PMLP149181-Hibernian_Muse.pdf] (two parts).

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