Annotation:Pleasant Rocks (The)
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PLEASANT ROCKS, THE (Carraig an Aoibhnis). Irish, Air (3/4 time). G Major : B Flat (O'Flannagan). Standard tuning (fiddle). ABB. "The Pleasant Rocks" was one of the melodies Thomas Moore employed for a song in his Irish Melodies, vol. 1 (1817).
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Bunting (General Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland), 1796; No. 22, p. 12. Clinton (Gems of Ireland: 200 Airs), 1841; No. 158, p. 80. O'Flannagan (The Hibernia Collection), 1860; p. 32.
Recorded sources: Gael-Linn CEF 047, Ceoltoiri Laighean - "Star of Munster" (1975). Gael Linn Records, Éamon de Buitléar & Ceoltóirí Laighean - "Cnuas" (2010).