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|f_annotation='''LADY OF THE DESERT, THE'''. Irish, Air (3/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCDEFGHIJK (O'Neill): AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJKKLL (Bowie).  A version of the tune titled "'''The Lady in the Desert''', By O’Conilan & improved by Lyons," can be found in the MacLean-Clephane ms. (Trinity College Dublin MS 10615), 1816, p.10, set for harp or pianoforte in a section of tunes with the note" "The foregoing airs are all taken from the playing of O’Kain by Mr. MacDonald".  Harper and and researcher Simon Chadwick<ref>Simon Chadwick, "The Coolin, or Lady of the Desert," Blog, 6th August 2022 [https://simonchadwick.net/2022/08/coolin-or-lady-of-the-desert.html]</ref> also finds variants of the tune in the Edward Bunting manuscripts: one c. 1796 that appears to transcribed by Bunting from the harp playing of Denis O’Hampsey, albeit with extensive overwriting by Bunting, and another that does not have the tune but rather some of the variations found in the Bowie setting.  
|f_annotation='''LADY OF THE DESERT, THE'''. Irish, Air (3/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCDEFGHIJK (O'Neill): AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJKKLL (Bowie).  A version of the tune titled "'''The Lady in the Desert''', By O’Conilan & improved by Lyons," can be found in the MacLean-Clephane ms. (Trinity College Dublin MS 10615), 1816, p.10, set for harp or pianoforte in a section of tunes with the note" "The foregoing airs are all taken from the playing of O’Kain by Mr. MacDonald".  Harper and and researcher Simon Chadwick<ref>Simon Chadwick, "The Coolin, or Lady of the Desert," Blog, 6th August 2022 [https://simonchadwick.net/2022/08/coolin-or-lady-of-the-desert.html]</ref> also finds variants of the tune in the Edward Bunting manuscripts: one c. 1796 that appears to transcribed by Bunting from the harp playing of Denis O’Hampsey, albeit with extensive overwriting by Bunting, and another that does not have the tune but rather some of the variations found in the Bowie setting. Bunting also has several published and unpublished versions of the melody under the title "Coolin/[[Coolun (The)]]."
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|f_printed_sources=John Bowie ('''Collection of strathspey reels & country dances &c.'''), Edinburgh, c. 1789; pp. 30-31. Manson ('''Hamilton's Universal Tune Book, vol. 1'''), 1844; p. 33. O'Neill ('''O'Neill's Irish Music'''), 1915; No. 47, pp. 31-32.
|f_printed_sources=John Bowie ('''Collection of strathspey reels & country dances &c.'''), Edinburgh, c. 1789; pp. 30-31. Manson ('''Hamilton's Universal Tune Book, vol. 1'''), 1844; p. 33. O'Neill ('''O'Neill's Irish Music'''), 1915; No. 47, pp. 31-32.

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LADY OF THE DESERT, THE. Irish, Air (3/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCDEFGHIJK (O'Neill): AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJKKLL (Bowie). A version of the tune titled "The Lady in the Desert, By O’Conilan & improved by Lyons," can be found in the MacLean-Clephane ms. (Trinity College Dublin MS 10615), 1816, p.10, set for harp or pianoforte in a section of tunes with the note" "The foregoing airs are all taken from the playing of O’Kain by Mr. MacDonald". Harper and and researcher Simon Chadwick[1] also finds variants of the tune in the Edward Bunting manuscripts: one c. 1796 that appears to transcribed by Bunting from the harp playing of Denis O’Hampsey, albeit with extensive overwriting by Bunting, and another that does not have the tune but rather some of the variations found in the Bowie setting. Bunting also has several published and unpublished versions of the melody under the title "Coolin/Coolun (The)."


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Printed sources : - John Bowie (Collection of strathspey reels & country dances &c.), Edinburgh, c. 1789; pp. 30-31. Manson (Hamilton's Universal Tune Book, vol. 1), 1844; p. 33. O'Neill (O'Neill's Irish Music), 1915; No. 47, pp. 31-32.






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  1. Simon Chadwick, "The Coolin, or Lady of the Desert," Blog, 6th August 2022 [1]