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'''RAMBLING BOY.''' AKA - "I'm/I am a poor Rambling Boy" ("Is buachaill goidhaisteach me" or "Is Buacaill Boct Fanac Me"). AKA and see "[[There was a young lady]]". Irish, Air (3/4 time, "plaintive"). A Aeolian (Bunting): G Minor (O'Neill, Stanford/Petrie). Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. Petrie (1855) remarks Bunting’s version is | '''RAMBLING BOY.''' AKA - "I'm/I am a poor Rambling Boy" ("Is buachaill goidhaisteach me" or "Is Buacaill Boct Fanac Me"). AKA and see "[[There was a young lady]]". Irish, Air (3/4 time, "plaintive"). A Aeolian (Bunting): G Minor (O'Neill, Stanford/Petrie). Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. Petrie (1855) remarks Bunting’s version is "badly set", while O'Neill (1903) simply repeats Bunting's setting without alteration. | ||
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''Printed sources'': Bunting ('''Ancient Music of Ireland'''), 1840; No. 96, p. 71. O'Neill ('''Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies'''), 1903; No. 144, | ''Printed sources'': Bunting ('''Ancient Music of Ireland'''), 1840; No. 96, p. 71. O'Neill ('''Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies'''), 1903; No. 144, p. 25. O'Sullivan/Bunting, 1983; No. 96, pp. 140-141. Stanford/Petrie ('''Complete Collection'''), 1905; No. 668, p. 167. | ||
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RAMBLING BOY. AKA - "I'm/I am a poor Rambling Boy" ("Is buachaill goidhaisteach me" or "Is Buacaill Boct Fanac Me"). AKA and see "There was a young lady". Irish, Air (3/4 time, "plaintive"). A Aeolian (Bunting): G Minor (O'Neill, Stanford/Petrie). Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. Petrie (1855) remarks Bunting’s version is "badly set", while O'Neill (1903) simply repeats Bunting's setting without alteration.
Source for notated version: the Irish collector Edward Bunting gives two sources for this tune; in the index to his 1840 collection he states it was obtained from "W. Sloane, Esq., Belfast, 1799," while his MS version gives a his source the elderly harper Charles Byrne.
Printed sources: Bunting (Ancient Music of Ireland), 1840; No. 96, p. 71. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 144, p. 25. O'Sullivan/Bunting, 1983; No. 96, pp. 140-141. Stanford/Petrie (Complete Collection), 1905; No. 668, p. 167.
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