Annotation:Young Bridget

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YOUNG BRIDGET (Brigid Og Na gCiabh). AKA and see "Bridget Cruise" (4). Irish, Slow Air or Planxty (3/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. The composition is often attributed to blind Irish harper Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738), although not by Belfast collector Edward Bunting.

Source for notated version: Edward Bunting noted the melody in 1792 from "an old man at Deel Castle."

Printed sources: O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; p. 231. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 640, p. 115. O'Sullivan/Bunting, 1983; No. 111, pp. 159-160.

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