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 Theme code Index    
 Also known as    Argan Mór
 Composer/Core Source    
 Region    Ireland
 Genre/Style    Irish
 Meter/Rhythm    Air/Lament/Listening Piece
 Key/Tonic of    D
 Accidental    2 sharps
 Mode    Ionian (Major)
 Time signature    4/4
 History    
 Structure    One part
 Editor/Compiler    Biography:Donal O'Sullivan
 Book/Manuscript title    Book:Bunting Collection
 Tune and/or Page number    No. 155, p. 212
 Year of publication/Date of MS    1983
 Artist    Biography:Chieftains (The)
 Title of recording    Celtic Harp (The)
 Record label/Catalogue nr.    No. 155, pg. 212
 Year recorded    1993
 Media    
 Score   ()   


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BATTLE OF ARGAN MORE, THE. AKA - "Argan Mor." Irish, March or Air (4/4 time). D Dorian (?). Standard tuning. One part. A pentatonic tune. The melody appears in Edward Bunting's Ancient Music of Ireland, where it is described as an "Ossianic air", which he collected Murlough, Antrim, not far from the grave purported to be the bard Ossian's.

Source for notated version: the Irish collector Edward Bunting's MS notes indicate he was given the melody by "a Cushendall man in 1809, tenant to Dr. McDonnell."

Printed source: O'Sullivan/Bunting, 1983; No. 155, pg. 212. \

Recorded source: RCA 09026-61490-2, The Chieftains - "The Celtic Harp" (1993).

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