Annotation:Savourna Delight

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X:1 T:Savourna Delight M:C L:1/8 R:Air Q:"Slow" N:”A Favorite Irish Air” B:Gow – Fourth Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels (1800) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:D A|d2 d>e (dc) c>d|TB>A(B=c) ~B>AF>d|AGFE D2 FA|B>c Tc2 [F3d3] A| (df)ad (c/d/)e dc|TB>AB=c TB>AF>d|A>B (A/G/).F/.E/ D2 FA|B>c Tc2 [F3d3]:| |:A|d2 ~de f2 ef|Tg2 fe fdB>c|(df)ed (ce)dc|TBAB{d}c TBAF>a| a2 a/g/f/e/ d2 dc|TB>Afd Td>e {d/e/}f2 {e/d/c/B/}|A>B (A/G/)F/E/ D2 FA|B>c Tc2 [F3d3:]||

SAVOURNA DELIGHT ("Savourneen Dheelish" or "Sa Muirnin Dilis"). AKA – “Exile of Erin (2) (The).” Scottish, Irish (originally); Slow Air (4/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Gow): AB (Roche). A note in Gow states "A favorite Irish air." Samuel Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle, March to the Fife, 1981) observes it is essentially the same tune as "Tatter Jack Walsh," "Garden of Daisies (2) (The)," "Palatine's Daughter (The)," "So now my dear Johnny," and "Rough Heathy Little Hill (The)" (An {Garbh } Chnoicin Fraoigh). See also Petrie’s “Derry Brien.”

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Printed sources : - Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 555. Gow (Fourth Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels), 2nd ed., originally 1800; p. 10. Roche Collection of Traditional Irish Music, vol. 1); 1912; No. 47, p. 24.

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