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YELLOW GARRON, THE (An Garran Buide). Irish, Air (2/4 time, "with spirit"). A Mixolydian/D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Two setting of the air were originally published by Edward Bunting as "Gearan Budhe--Yellow Horse," and O'Neill's is nearly exactly a copy of the second version, save that the seventh's are flat (i.e. mixolydian mode) in Bunting.

Source for notated version: "J. O'Neill" [O'Neill]. The tune was contibuted by Chicago Police Sergeant James O'Neill, a fiddler originally from County Down. James served as Francis O'Neill's transcriber and colloborator on the latter's early volumes of Irish music.

Printed sources: O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 405, p. 70.

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-'''YELLOW GARRON, THE''' (An Garran Buide). Irish, Air (2/4 time, "with spirit"). A Mixolydian/D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB.
+'''YELLOW GARRON, THE''' (An Garran Buide). Irish, Air (2/4 time, "with spirit"). A Mixolydian/D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Two setting of the air were originally published by Edward Bunting as "Gearan Budhe--Yellow Horse," and O'Neill's is nearly exactly a copy of the second version, save that the seventh's are flat (i.e. mixolydian mode) in Bunting.
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+''Source for notated version'': "J. O'Neill" [O'Neill]. The tune was contibuted by Chicago Police Sergeant James O'Neill, a fiddler originally from County Down. James served as Francis O'Neill's transcriber and colloborator on the latter's early volumes of Irish music.
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