Annotation:Maidin Bheag Aoibhinn

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MAIDIN BHEAG AOIBHINN ("Pleasant Early Morning" or "Soft Mild Morning"). Irish, Air (3/8 time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA.

Source for notated version: the Irish collector Edward Bunting noted the tune from the harper Denis Hempson at Magilligan, County Kerry, in 1796. It was only published in 1840, however, in Bunting's third volume of Ancient Music of Ireland, with the note that it was "very ancient, author and date unknown." Hempson was the only harper Bunting heard who played in the ancient style, with long curved fingernails plucking brass strings.

Printed sources: O'Sullivan/Bunting, 1983; No. 78, pp. 121-122.

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