Annotation:Morning Thrush (The)

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MORNING THRUSH, THE (Fuiseog na maidine). AKA - "The Thrush in the Morning." Irish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BBCC'. Composed by James Ennis (1885-1965), father of famed piper Séamus Ennis, in 1913. According to Séamus his father's inspiration was a thrush that sang outside his bedroom window each morning. It won first prize for James in the 1913 Feis Ceoil competition in Dublin for newly composed tunes.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources:

Recorded sources: Drumlin Records, Brain McNamara - "A Piper's Dream." RTÉ RTECD 199, Séamus Ennis - "The Return from Fingal" (1997. An archived recording from 1980).

See also listing at:
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [1]



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