Annotation:Nancy Cooper (1)

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NANCY COOPER [1]. AKA – "Miss Coooper of Mercury [i.e. Markree], County Sligo." Irish, Planxty (3/4 time). A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Composed by Turlough O'Carolan. See note for "Nancy Cooper (2)" for more on the subject of the air and song.

Source for notated version: Bunting remarked: "from Paddy Quin, County Armagh. Near the Blue Stone."

Printed sources: Complete Collection of Carolan's Irish Tunes, 1984; No. 16, p. 16. O'Sullivan (The Life, Times, and Music of an Irish Harper), 1958; No. 16, p. 112.

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