Blackbird (6)

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 Theme code Index    3341 1H3H1H5
 Also known as    Old Blackbird (The)
 Composer/Core Source    
 Region    
 Genre/Style    
 Meter/Rhythm    Hornpipe/Clog
 Key/Tonic of    D
 Accidental    2 sharps
 Mode    Ionian (Major)
 Time signature    4/4
 History    
 Structure    AABB
 Editor/Compiler    Biography:David Taylor
 Book/Manuscript title    Book:Music for the Sets: Blue Book
 Tune and/or Page number    p. 19
 Year of publication/Date of MS    1995
 Artist    
 Title of recording    
 Record label/Catalogue nr.    
 Year recorded    
 Media    
 Score   ()   


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BLACKBIRD [6], THE. AKA - "The Old Blackbird." Irish, Hornpipe. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB.

Source for notated version: set dance music recorded at Na Píobairí Uilleann, late 1980's [Taylor].

Printed sources: Connolly & Martin (Forget Me Not), 2002; pp. 84-85. Taylor (Music for the Sets: Blue Book), 1995; p. 19.

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