Annotation:Caoine (An)

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CAOINE, AN (The Lament). AKA and see "Irish Cry," "Goll (The)," "Little Lamentation (The)," "Great Lamentation (The)," "Second Goll and Half Chorus," "Half Chorus of Sighs and Tears." Irish, Air (3/4 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. The index to Bunting's 1840 collection gives the source as "O'Neill, harper and from the hired mourners or keeners at Armagh; and from a MS. above 100 years old." A melody with the title "An Irish Cry" can be found in Thompson's Hibernian Muse of 1786, followed by its jig.

Source for notated version: harper Arthur O'Neill, via Edward Bunting (1840, p. 59) [O'Sullivan].

Printed sources: O'Sullivan/Bunting, 1983; No. 81, pp. 124-125.

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Tune properties and standard notation