Conor O'Reilly

Conor O'Reilly Click on the tune title to see or modify Conor O'Reilly's annotations. If the link is red you can create them using the form provided.Browse Properties <br/>Special:Browse/:Conor O'Reilly Query the Archive
Theme code Index	5154 47bL21
Also known as
Composer/Core Source	Turlough O'Carolan
Region	Ireland
Genre/Style	Irish
Meter/Rhythm	Air/Lament/Listening Piece
Key/Tonic of	A
Accidental	1 sharp
Mode	Dorian
Time signature	6/8
History
Structure	AABB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Donal O'Sullivan
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Carolan: The Life Times and Music of an Irish Harper
Tune and/or Page number	No. 139, p. 176.
Year of publication/Date of MS	1958
Artist
Title of recording
Record label/Catalogue nr.
Year recorded
Media
Score ()

CONOR O'REILLY. Irish, Planxty (6/8 time). A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed by blind Irish harper Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738). Sources derived from the Pigot and the Hudson manuscripts. Hudson himself collected the melody from Edward O'Reilly and printed it in 1841, notes O'Sullivan (1958), who traces the person of the title to Conor O'Reilly of Ballinlough, County Westmeath. O'Carolan perhaps met him at the wedding of Katherine O'More of Ballyna an d Charles O'Donnell, where O'Reilly gave away his neice, the bride. The harper also composed a planxty honoring Katherine (see "Katherine O'More" or "The Hawk of Ballyshannon") in which Conor O'Reilly is mentioned in verse:

Here is a gift of the fairest of women
From Conor O'Reilly to the mailey hills

Printed sources: Complete Collection of Carolan's Irish Tunes, 1984; No. 139, p. 98. O'Sullivan (Carolan: The Life, Times, and Music of an Irish Harper), 1958; No. 139, p. 176.

X: 1
T:Conor O'Reilly
M:6/8
L:1/8
C:O'Carolan (1670-1738)
R:Dbl. Jig
K:G
d| eAA ABd|ef/2e/2d dBg|dBB/2A/2 GAB|BAA A2:||
d|ga/2g/2f ged|ef/2e/2d dBg|ga/2g/2f ged|eaa a2 b|\
ga/2b/2a ged|ef/2e/2d BAf/2a/2| gee dBA| BAA A2||