Annotation:I'm a Silly Old Man: Difference between revisions

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I'M A SILLY OLD MAN (Is Seanduine Saob Me). AKA and see "Bunch of Currents (1)," "Bunch of Roses (3)," "Christmas Comes but Once a Year," "Greensleeves (4)," "I've got one daughter to marry," "Little Bogtrotter," "Shady Lane," "Spring in the Air." Irish, Single Jig. G Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Irish violinist R.M. Levey's "Bunch of Currents (1)" is a major mode setting of the tunej, and appears in his first collection of 1858. The melody is quite old and widespread in the British Isles and Ireland; see note for the English and Scottish "annotation:Greensleeves (4)" for more.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: O'Neill (Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems), 1907; No. 404, p. 80.

Recorded sources:

See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [2]

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-'''I'M A SILLY OLD MAN''' (Is Seanduine Saob Me). AKA and see "[[Bunch of Currents (1)]]," "[[Bunch of Roses (3)]]," "[[Christmas Comes but Once a Year]]," "[[Greensleeves (4)]]," "[[I've got one daughter to marry]]," "[[Little Bogtrotter]]," "[[Shady Lane]]," "[[Spring in the Air]]." Irish, Single Jig. G Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Irish violinist R.M. Levey's "[[Bunch of Currents (1)]]" is a major mode setting of the tunej, and appears in his first collection of 1858.
+'''I'M A SILLY OLD MAN''' (Is Seanduine Saob Me). AKA and see "[[Bunch of Currents (1)]]," "[[Bunch of Roses (3)]]," "[[Christmas Comes but Once a Year]]," "[[Greensleeves (4)]]," "[[I've got one daughter to marry]]," "[[Little Bogtrotter]]," "[[Shady Lane]]," "[[Spring in the Air]]." Irish, Single Jig. G Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Irish violinist R.M. Levey's "[[Bunch of Currents (1)]]" is a major mode setting of the tunej, and appears in his first collection of 1858. The melody is quite old and widespread in the British Isles and Ireland; see note for the English and Scottish "[[annotation:Greensleeves (4)]]" for more.
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