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|f_annotation='''WILD SWANS AT COOLE, THE. '''Irish, Reel (cut time). D Major/Mixolydian/Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA’BB’. Composed by County Cavan/Philadelphia fiddler and composer Ed Reavy (1898-1988). The tune commemorates a poem by Yeats, a favorite of Reavy’s. | |f_annotation='''WILD SWANS AT COOLE, THE. '''Irish, Reel (cut time). D Major/Mixolydian/Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA’BB’. Composed by County Cavan/Philadelphia fiddler and composer Ed Reavy (1898-1988). The tune commemorates a poem by Yeats, a favorite of Reavy’s. | ||
|f_printed_sources=<span>Reavy (</span>'''The Collected Compositions of Ed Reavy'''<span>), No. 29, p. 31.</span> | |f_printed_sources=<span>Reavy (</span>'''The Collected Compositions of Ed Reavy'''<span>), No. 29, p. 31.</span> | ||
|f_recorded_sources=<span>Dawros Music DM002, The Kane Sisters - "Under the Diamond" (2004).</span> | |||
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WILD SWANS AT COOLE, THE. Irish, Reel (cut time). D Major/Mixolydian/Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA’BB’. Composed by County Cavan/Philadelphia fiddler and composer Ed Reavy (1898-1988). The tune commemorates a poem by Yeats, a favorite of Reavy’s.
