Belfast Mountain

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Theme code Index	6655 1166
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Composer/Core Source
Region	Ireland
Genre/Style	Irish
Meter/Rhythm	Air/Lament/Listening Piece
Key/Tonic of	E
Accidental	3 flats
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	4/4
History	IRELAND(Ulster)
Structure	One part
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Charles Villiers Stanford
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Complete Collection of Petrie's Irish Airs
Tune and/or Page number	No. 588, p. 141
Year of publication/Date of MS	1905
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BELFAST MOUNTAIN. Irish, Air (4/4 time). E Flat Major. Standard tuning. One part. The name Belfast means 'crossing place by a sandbank'. A variant of the air is claimed by one authority as a Sussex song, however it is a variant of the popular air "Banks of the Claudy." "Belfast Mountain", written by P.J. MacColl (who wrote "Boulavogue"), commemorates a Presbyterian-born leader of the Society of United Irishmen in Ulster during the 1798 rebellion, Henry Joy McCracken (1767-1798).

It was on Belfast Mountain I heard a maid complain,
And she vexed the sweet June evening with her heartbroken strain;
Crying, 'Woe is me, life's anguish is more than I can dream,
Since Henry Joy McCracken died on the gallows tree.

Source for notated version: "From Mr. P. MacDowell R.A., March, 1859" [Stanford/Petrie].

Printed source: Stanford/Petrie (Complete Collection), 1905; No. 558, p. 141.

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