Conchubhar Mhac Coiréibhe

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Also known as	Conor Macareavy, Girls have you seen George?, A chilini an bhfaca sibh Seoirse?, Sgaruint na gCompanach, Parting of Friends (The)
Composer/Core Source
Region	Ireland
Genre/Style	Irish
Meter/Rhythm	Air/Lament/Listening Piece
Key/Tonic of	B
Accidental	2 sharps
Mode	Aeolian (minor)
Time signature	4/4
History
Structure	AA'B
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Donal O'Sullivan with Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Bunting's Ancient Music of Ireland
Tune and/or Page number	No. 11, pp. 16-17
Year of publication/Date of MS	1983
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CONCHUBHAR MHAC COIRÉIBHE (Conor Macareavy). AKA and see "Girls, have you seen George?" (A chilini, an bhfaca sibh Seoirse?," "Sgaruint na gCompanach" (The Parting of Friends). Irish, Air (4/4 time). B Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'B. Composition of the melody has been credited to Lyons, in 1700. The tune is also found, states O'Sullivan (1983), in Neals Celebrated Irish Tunes (c. 1726, p. 18) and Mulholland's Ancient Irish Airs (c. 1810, No. 36). One of O'Carolan's best poems, the elegy on the death of his wife, Mary Maguire, is said to have been set to this tune. Source for notated version: Bunting noted the tune from harper Denis Hempson at Magilligan in 1792.

O'Sullivan/Bunting, 1983; No. 11, pp. 16-17.

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B:Bunting - Ancient Music of Ireland (1840)
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