Annotation:Cailtlín Ní Uallacháin
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CAILTLÍN NÍ UALLACHÁIN (Kitty/Katty Nowlan). Irish, Air (3/4 time) D Minor (Bunting): D Major (Goodman). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Goodman, Stanford/Petrie): AABB (O'Sullivan/Bunting). Petrie's Music of Ireland (1892, p. 8) contains two variants of this tune along with six verses and notes.
Sources for notated versions: the Irish collector Edward Bunting noted the tune from the harper Charles Byrne (Co. Leitrim) in 1806; "From P. Coneely," the Galway piper [Stanford/Petrie]; James Goodman music manuscript collection [1] (County Cork, mid-19th cent.) [Shields].
Printed sources: O'Sullivan/Bunting, 1983; No. 97, p. 141. Shields (Tunes of the Munster Pipers, vol. 1), 1999; No. 14, p. 9. Stanford/Petrie (Complete Collection), 1905; No. 481, p. 121.
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